"Recorder virtuoso Alicia Crossley performed the music of seven Australian female composers in a concert that explored the musicality, versatility and virtuosity of the bass recorder," writes reviewer ROB KENNEDY.
A Canberra writer has made it to the top three nominations for Britain’s most admired award for historical military history writing, the Templer Medal.
Fred Smith and band will present his song cycle on Australia’s involvement in Afghanistan as an Anzac-eve special, reports HELEN MUSA in today's "Artsday" column.
An intensive week-long music residency at the ANU to help First Nations musicians, audio engineers, producers and other industry professionals, has been launched today.
In a hip-hop theatre performance, one of Australia’s coolest performance poets, Luka Lesson, is coming to the National Museum with his show “Agapi & Other Kinds of Love”.
DIRECTOR of the Canberra International Music Festival Roland Peelman is known as a canny programmer, but he’s outdone himself this time with the festive title of “Pole to Pole”, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Blessed with almost perfect Canberra autumn weather, the National Folk Festival has gone ahead this weekend with optimistic crowds flooding into Exhibition Park visibly relieved to be, at last, joining in a favourite community event.
Canberra conductor Leonard Weiss – Lenny to most people here – has just graduated to the title of “maestro” with his appointment to the role of NZ’s national assistant conductor-in-residence.