Behind the great music are great musicians. Each week, we have several programs that bring you conversations with studio guests, from the classical genre and from the world of jazz. Our dedicated conversation programs are In Conversation and A Jazz Hour, with frequent interviews on Fine Music Breakfast. Scroll down to see some of our recent conversations.
Recent Conversations
| Fine Music Breakfast | In Conversation | Fine Music Breakfast | Fine Music Breakfast | Fine Music Breakfast | A Jazz Hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 24 Andrew Kennedy | Wed 25 Andrey Gugnin | Thu 26 Li-Wei Qin | Fri 27 Zoe Hauptman | ||
| Tue 17 Sagar Nagaraj | Wed 18 Louise Herron | Thur 19 Paul Kildea | Fri 20 Ellen Kirkwood | ||
| Tue 10 David Cook | Wed 11 Tahlia Petrosian | Fri 13 David Campbell | |||
Tue Oct 3 Andrea Lam | Wed Oct 4 Nancye Hayes | Thur Oct 5 Sarah-Grace Williams | Fri Oct 6 Christopher Watson | Fri Oct 6 Dan Tepfer | |
Wed 27 Florian Willeitner | Thu 28 Yanshen Huang | Fri 22 Michael Mear | |||
Tue 19 Alma Moodle | Wed 20 Daniel Rojas | Wed 20 Sam Allchurch | Thu 21 Octavia Barron Martin | Fri 22 Rosie Gallagher | Fri 22 Heather Prowse & John Harkins |
Tue 5 Vladimir Fanshil | Wed 7 Théotime Langlois de Swarte | Thu 7 Tamara-Anna Cislowska | Fri 8 Richard Charlton | Fri 9 Sean Coffin | |
Tue 29 Rob Hao | Wed 30 Emily Sun | Thu 31 Hilary Bell | Fri 1 Sep Mirusia | Fri 1 Sep Simone Wadell | |
Tue 22 Bridget Bolliger | Wed 23 Claude-Michel Schönberg | Thu 24 Samantha Wolf | Fri 25 Patrick Togher | Fri 25 Sam Gill | |
Tue 15 Jeanell Carrigan & George Palmer | Wed 16 Rohan Browne | Fri 18 Jack Stephens and Brianna Louwen | Fri 18 Jenna Cave | ||
Tue 8 Tom Blomfield | Wed 9 Heather Shannon | Wed 9 Nathen Henshaw | Thur 10 Damien Ryan | Fri 11 Peter Coleman-Wright | Fri 11 Nadje Noordhuis |
Tue 1 Aug Andrián Pertout | Wed 2 Katy Woolley | Thu 3 Tahlia Petrosian | Fri 4 Alistair Johnson | ||
Tue 25 Andrew Wilson | Wed 26 Morgan Pearse | Thu 27 Jeonghwan Kim | Fri 28  Klaus-Jurgen Etzold | Fri 28 Steve Barry | |
Tue 18 Steven Hillinger | Wed 19 Belinda Giblin | Wed 19 Keyna Wilkins | Fri 21 David Butts | Fri 21 Alister Spence | |
Tue 11 Estivo Trio | Wed 12 Ray Chen | Thu 13 Natalie Aroyan | Fri 15 Paul Grabowsky | ||
Wed 5 July Tanya Bannister | Thu 6 July Jayde Westaby | Fri 7 | |||
Wed 28 Jessica Pratt | Thu 29 Mark Kilmurry | Fri 30 Frances Madden | |||
Wed 21 Liisa Pallandi | Thu 22  Ruth Strutt | Fri 23 Casey Golden | |||
Tue 13 Tom Conroy | Wed 14 Thomas Gould | Thu 15 Ryley Gillen | Fri 16 Tom Avgenicos | ||
Tue 6 Jack Symonds | Wed 7 Masaaki Suzuki | Thu 8 Brett Weymark | Fri 9 David Rowden | Fri 9 Chris Cody | |
Tue 23 Anton Berezin | Wed 24  Ross Edwards | Thu 25 Daniel Yeadon | Fri 26 James Valentine | ||
Tue 16 Maija Kovalevska | Wed 17 Nicolas Fleury | Wed 17 Ralph Devlin | Fri 19 Raffaele Marcellino | Fri 19 Andrew Robson | |
| Tue 9 May Steven Hillinger & Daniel Rojas | Wed 10 Kara Lane | Fri 12 Hamed Sadeghi | |||
| Mon 8 | |||||
Tue 2 May Georgina Hobson | Wed 3  Umberto Clerici | Thu 4 Erin Helyard | Fri 5 Steve Barry | ||
Tue 25 Paco Lara | Wed 26 Timothy RIdout | Thu 27 Casey Green | Fri 28 Casper Tromp | ||
Tue 18 Maria Linsday | Wed 19 Tom Donald | Thur 20 Jack Liebeck | Fri 21 Lucy Kiely | ||
Tue 11 Vladimir Fanshil | Wed 12 Alexander Gavrylyuk | Fri 14 Hetty Kate | |||
Wed 5 Apr Andrew O’Connor | Wed 5 Sian Sharp | Fri 7 Paul Grabowsky | |||
Tue 28 Fabien Russell | Wed 29 Roland Peelman | Thu 30 Piers Lane | Fri 31 Bonnie Stewart | ||
Tue 21 Toby Thatcher | Wed 22 David Williamson | Thu 23 Gerard Willems | |||
Fri 17 Philip Quast | |||||
Tue 14 Anna Fraser | Wed 15 Jay James-Moody | Thu 16  Madeleine Easton | Fri 17 Amy Moore | Fri 17 Matt Keegan | |
Tue 7 Kathryn Selby | Wed 8 Alexandre da Costa | Thr 9  Iain Henderson | Fri 10 Matthew Manchester | Fri 10 Sandy Evans | |
Tue 28 Peter Rutherford | Wed 1 Marie-Ange Nguci | Thu 2 Carmel Rodriguez | Fri 3 Hamish Stuart | ||
Tue 21 Vladimir Gorbach | Wed 22 Elinor Frey | Thu 23 Brett Weymark | Fri 24 Penelope Sai | ||
Tue 14 Sarah Penicka-Smith | Wed 15 Slava Grigoryan | Thu 16 Karin Schaupp | Fri 17 Joshua Breakstone | ||
Wed 8 Ilya Gringolts | Fri 10 Tim Bruer | ||||
Tue 31 Rami Khalifé | Wed 1  Rami Khalifé | Thu 2 Clifford Plumpton | Fri 3 Frances Madden | ||
Tue 24 Margaret Brandman | Wed 25 Shaun Rennie | Thu 26 Charlie Chan | |||
Thu 19 Rachel Scott | |||||
Thu 12 Esther Song | |||||
Wed 14 Dec Jack Liebeck | Thu 15 Dec Rachael Beck | Fri 16 Dec Mark Isaacs | |||
Tue 6 Dec Thomas Wilson | Wed 7 Dec Roger Woodward | Thu 8 Dec Rebecca Gulinello | Fri 9 Dec Lachy Hamilton | ||
| Tue 29 Nov Roger Woodward | Wed 30 Nov Chad Kelly | Thur 1 Dec Morgan Pearse | Fri 2 Dec Chris Cody | ||
Fri 2 Dec Damian Whitely | |||||
Tue 22 Nov Stephanie McCallum | Wed 23 Nov Nicholas Hammond | Thu 24 Nov Peter Coleman-Wright | Fri 25 Nov Aaron Blakey | ||
Fri 25 Nov Ben Adler | |||||
Tue 15 Nov Sally Melhuish | Wed 16 Nov Jonathan Biggins | Thu 17 Nov Sarah-Grace Williams | Fri 18 Nov Alister Spence | ||
Wed 9 Nov Liesel Badorrek | Thu 10 Nov Sam Allchurch | Fri 11 Nov Tomas Ford | |||
Tue 1 Nov Christopher Bowen & Pamela Traynor | Wed 2 Nov Jonas Zschenderlein | Thu 3 Nov Paulina Quinteros & Wesley Stormer | Fri 4 Nov Jo Fabro | ||
Fri 4 Nov Guy Noble | |||||
Tue 25th Georgia Lowe | Wed 26th David Malouf | Thu 27th Andrew Haveron | Fri 28th Dan Tepfer | ||
Wed 19th Alexander Gadjiev | Thu 20th Eleanor Betts | Fri 21st Chris Cody | |||
Wed 12th Paul Kildea | Wed 12th Geraldine Turner | Thur 13th Joshua Han | Fri 14th Lee McIver | ||
Tues 4th Roger Benedict | Wed 5th Cheryl Barker | ||||
Tues 27th Werner Ruecker | Wed 28th Avi Avital | Thu 29th Graham Pushee | Fri 30th Dan Barnett | ||
Tue 20th Steven Hillinger | Wed 21st Charmian Gadd | Fri 23rd Emma Pask | |||
| Wed 3rd Jack Liebeck | Fri 5th Laurence Pike | ||||
Wed 27th Simon Bourke | Wed 28th Maria Lindsay | Wed 29th Barry Diester | |||
Wed 20th Hayden Tee | Thu 21st Andrew Bain | Fri 22nd Kate Wadey | |||
Wed 13th Simon Tedeschi | Thu 14th Australian Youth Orchestra | Fri 15th Andrew Robertson | |||
Wed 6th William Barton | Thu 7th Warwick Doddrell | Fri 8th Justine Bradley | |||
| Tue 28th Gerard Willems | Wed 29th Leah Crocetto | Fri 30th Julie Lea Goodwin | Fri 1st Jonathan Zwartz | ||
Tue 21st Paul Terracini | Wed 22nd Philippe Klaus | Thu 23rd Josh Piterman | Fri 24th Michael Galeazzi | ||
Tue 14th Sydney Cello Quartet | Wed 15th Timo-Veikko Valve | Fri 17th Paul Grabowsky | |||
Tue 7th Vov Dylan | Wed 8th David Rowden | Fri 10th Tom Avgenicos | |||
Tue 31st Kathryn Selby | Wed 1st James Back | Fri 3rd Emma Stephenson | |||
Wed 25th Harry Bennetts | Wed 25th Julia Fredersdorff | Fri 27th Steve Fitzmaurice | |||
Wed18th Anne Wood | Thur 19th Brett Weymark | Fri 20th Ryan Grogan | |||
Wed 11th Anna Byrne | Thur 12th Giuseppe Zangari | Fri 13th Lachy Hamilton | |||
Wed 4th Leah Purcell | Thu 5th Simon Tedeschi | Fri 6th Kate Wadey | |||
Tues 26th Andrew Wilson | Wed 27th Francesca Hiew | Fri 29th Julian Curwin | |||
Tues 19th Teije Hylkema | Wed 20th Sky McIntosh | Thu 21st Guy Simpson | |||
Tues 12th Matthew Wilke | Wed 13th Dene Olding | Wed 13th Benjamin Krapton | Fri 15th Barry Diester | ||
Tues 5th Fabian Russell | Wed 6th John Bell | Thu 7th Brendan Joyce | Fri 8th Jeremy Sawkins | ||
Tues 22nd Frances Madden | Wed 23rd Leaonard Weiss | Thu 24th Vatche Jambazian | Fri 25th Matthew Ottignon | ||
Tue 15th, 8:00am Katthy Selby | Wed 16th, 1:00pm Callum Francis | Thu 17th, 8:00am James Back | Fri 18th, midday Steve Barry | ||
Tue 8th, 8:00am Susannah Lawergren | Wed 9th, 1:00pm Emily Granger | Fri 11th, midday Emily-Rose Sarkova | |||
Tue 1st, 8:00am Bernadette Harvey | Wed 2nd, 1:00pm Con Costi | Thu 3rd, 8:00am Chloe Lankshear | Fri 4th, midday Justine Bradley | ||
Tue 22nd, 7:00am Tipi Valve | Wed 23rd, 1:00pm Amber McMahon | Thu 24th, 8:00am Kristian Winther | Fri 25th, midday Jonathan Zwartz | ||
Tue 15th, 8:05am Luke Spicer | Wed 16th, 1:00pm Vladimir Fanshil | Thu 17th, 8:00am Dale Bartrop | Fri 18th, midday Zela Margossian | ||
Tue 8th, 8:05am Lachlan Massey | Wed 9th, 1:00pm Jeanell Carrigan | Fri 11th, 8:00am Madeleine Easton | Fri 11th, midday Casey Golden | ||