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This recording shines a light on Australian compositions for the soprano saxophone, combined with piano and at times joined by cello, violin and percussion. HD Duo (Michael Duke and David Howie) perform this selection of featured compositions by Edwards, Hindson and Broadstock.

Songstress and double bassist, Lauren White was awarded our 2024 Ken Weatherley Jazz Scholarship. And in late last year, she...

The decision to choose 13 February as World Radio Day (WRD) coincides with the day that the UNESCO established its own ‘United Nations Radio’ in 1946. The objectives of WRD are to raise awareness amongst the public and the media regarding the importance of radio. It’s also intended to encourage decision makers to establish and provide access to information through radio, as well as to enhance networking and international cooperation among broadcasters.

The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra reinvigorates two of Mozart’s best-known works in its brand-new recording Heavenly Mozart with conductor Rachael Beesley and fortepiano soloist Neal Peres Da Costa.

They’re two of Mozart’s most familiar works – the Jupiter Symphony No.41 and Piano Concerto No.23. Hear ARCO re-illuminate this music with a historically informed performance that’s closer than ever to how Mozart himself heard it.

Fine Music Showcase returns this Sunday from 3pm. Recorded in our Founders' Studio, this program features performances by Graham Jesse and Michael Bartolomei, Justin Wang, Isobel Archer and The Fabulous Baker Boys.
Sunday 11 February at 3pm.

Classics from Asia presents the music of Asian civilisations, including practices with their roots in literati, court, folk, and early modern cosmopolitan music-making. Listen Live on Sunday 11th Feb at 6:00pm.

Chances are that you’ve heard Len Vorster. Born in South Africa, he has been resident in Australia for the last 40 years, and is a pianist, accompanist, and teacher. He has achieved recognition for his recordings of de Falla (with Merlyn Quaife) and a two-piano version of Holst’s The Planets (with Robert Chamberlain) and has also recorded with Deborah de Graaff and Lauris Elms.

Starting this February, the first Monday of each month at 1pm, will feature a one hour program highlighting Australian composers and performers.

As the title of pianist and composer Mike Nock’s newest recording indicates, it is all about the facility of perceiving sounds. More pertinently, interpreting them in a particular way.

Jane Irving’s’ ability to navigate the many sides of the jazz vocal genre is confirmed by this album of eleven engagingly diverse songs, some of which display her accomplished pianism and others, her superbly refined scatting skill.