Sydney pianist Emma Stephenson has won the 2017 Freedman Jazz Fellowship thanks to her striking flare for composing.

A 60th birthday is often seen as one of those events that it is better to quietly skate over, perhaps with only a small celebration involving close friends or a partner. But in the case of Elena Kats-Chernin, one of Australia's most eminent composers, that particular milestone was never going to be allowed to slip by unnoticed.

The Brisbane musician took four years between records so he could 'get my day-to-day life right', he tells Nathanael Cooper.

Janine Jansen's performance of Sibelius' Violin Concerto was spellbinding from the first note to the final D major flourish.

Anticipation hung heavily as the crowd a waited the arrival of Australian metalcore heavyweights Northlane.

Here was an old-time ABC orchestral program comprising overture, concerto and big symphony rounding off the night's experience

The night started with the crowd entertaining the band, as Bernard Fanning and the Black Fins sat backstage laughing at an impromptu singalong to Starship's We Built This City.

The music of a revolutionary genius is still crammed with mystery and magic

The full orchestra triumphed in a Melbourne-only concert.

Anna Netrebko performed with a splendidly energised voice of rich colour and dramatic strength.

Marilyn Manson will no longer perform with his longtime bassist Twiggy Ramirez.

Fats Domino, one of the most influential rock and roll performers of the 1950s and 60s, has died aged 89.

Veteran Australian rock music promoter Michael Coppel signed on for Pink's first Australian tour off the plan.

New Zealand's High Court has awarded Eminem $535,000 in damages after the country's National party was found to have breached the US rapper's copyright.

Last night Opera Australia's much-loved production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly was wheeled out for its final season. Since its premiere in 1997 at the Sydney Opera House the poetic simplicity and bold lines of NIDA graduates Peter England and Russell Cohen have been the setting for many a triumph.

The band has reached a "this will be great" phase.

The veteran English DJ and broadcaster has given the classic sounds of Ibiza a new purpose with the help of a 65-piece band and orchestra.

The announcement of a day-long outdoor music event featuring 30 international acts suggests that the appetite for genre-crossing festivals might be returning.

When the Brisbane-turned-Sydney band quietly called time in 1999, many thought it was a premature end for an indie act destined for bigger things. Not so, says frontman Dave McCormack.

Bach's uncharacteristically silly Coffee Cantata will form one part of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra's concert series, Bittersweet Obsessions.

Grace Jones is coming to Australia in February next year. 

Gregory Porter's Nat King Cole & Me, Beck's Colors, Julien Baker's Turn Out the Lights, Ecca Vandal's Ecca Vandal, Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus and My Name Is Nobody's My Name Is Nobody.

This Belgian composer masters the rare and airy art of lacing rhythm with melody

Mirroring the stylish milieu of the Parisian salon, pianist Bernadette Harvey will showcase the works of three emerging female composers in the audience-broadening Sonata Project.