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Canberra International Music Festival (CIMF) is delighted to announce that acclaimed composer, performer, conductor and di...

The 2023 National Luminary Award - Individual - winner is Festival Artistic Director Roland Peelman AM fo...

Music / CIMF, Concert 20: “Finale”, Kirrah Amosa, Aron Ottignon and Lisa Oduor-Noah. At Fitters’ Workshop, May 7. Revi...

Music / “So Much Myself”, Sonya Lifschitz. At the Fairfax Theatre, National Gallery of Australia, May 7. Reviewed...

Music / CIMF, Concert 18, “A Candle For Ukraine”. At Fitters’ Workshop, May 6. Reviewed by LEN POWER.

Dunera Mass provides a rare and welcome opportunity to hear music rescued fortuitously from the debris of war.

Music / CIMF, Concert 16, “The Dunera Mass”. At Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Braddon, May 6. Review...

Music / CIMF, Concert 15: “Magic Eight”. At Fitters’ Workshop, May 5. Reviewed by FELIX HUBER. 

Music / CIMF, Concert 14, “High Stakes”. At the High Court of Australia, May 5. Reviewed by Graham McDonald....

Music / “Classic Hour”, Quatuor Van Kuijk and Alma Moodie Quartet. At Juliet Room, Verity Lane Market, May 4. Rev...

Music / CIMF, Concert 9, “Of Fairies and Fools”. At Fitters’ Workshop, May 2. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY.

ANU's School of Art and Design Gallery a perfect setting for an exploration of works by György Ligeti, a giant of 20th...

CIMF Concert 6: “Bach Barton Brodsky”. At Fitters’ Workshop, April 30. Reviewed by HELEN MUSA.

Playing together for the first time, Bill Barton and Britain's Brodskys brought their A-game to a B-themed program.

CIMF, Concert 4 / “From Little Things”. At Fitters’ Workshop, April 29. Reviewed by CASSIDY RICHENS.

CIMF, Concert 2 / “The Mozarts, The Haydns & The Bear”. At Fitters’ Workshop, April 28. Reviewed by IAN MCLEA...

The Australian Haydn Ensemble launches this year's Canberra International Music Festival in captivating style.

CIMF, Concert 1 / “Seeds Of Life”. At the National Arboretum, April 28. Reviewed by HELEN MUSA.

Music / “Theme & Variations Recital” CIMF. At Drill Hall Gallery, April 27. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for being here – our dearest friends, some of the people who have made it possible to ...

Photos by Peter Hislop. Tony Lee Rec...

ABC Radio National's The Music Show with Robbie Buck recently interviewed the four members of the Brodsky...

Krysia Osostowicz, Ian Belton, Paul Cassidy and Jacqueline Thomas form the Brodsky Quartet, an innovative and lasting ...

Alexander Gavrylyuk will headline the Canberra International Music Festival in May. Photo: Marco Borggreve.

The pianist talks about her upcoming collaboration with composer Robert Davidson, a work weaving in the voices of pion...

Marloo's Blues feature...

The National Arboretum has become one of Canberra’...

Forget booking a flight overseas in 2023—the Canberra International Music Festival is back to transport you aro...

Festival launch at Verity Lane Market The 2023 Festival program was lau...

All photos by Peter Hislop.

SPANISH medieval music to a masterpiece of post-Stalin Soviet optimism and on to ’80s New York minimalism, this Ca...

Wide-ranging program perfectly reflects Canberra Festival's overarching theme, even if one did have to work to see the lin...

THIS was the main concert for Monday at the Canberra International Music Festival, again in the wonderful acoustic...

GEMMA Peacocke’s song cycle “Waves & Lines”, a look into the lives of Afghan women through a stunning and...

UNIQUELY combining string-quartet culture with the ancient sounds of Māori instruments, the NZ String Quartet with...

IN the centre of Parliament House, directly underneath the flagpole, is a square atrium space known as the...

A FULL audience eagerly awaited the keyboard music of the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn and his contemp...

THERE is a certain joy in finding beauty in the absurd. ...

THUNDEROUS joy best describes Joseph Haydn’s greatest oratorio, The Creation. The music at the opening concert of ...

THE Canberra International Music Festival has kicked off with the exquisite “Tree of Life” concert.

Australia's first-ever period-instrument presentation of The Creation revealed the fresh vitality and range of colours in ...

The experience of While You Sleep is total, inescapable. It is mesmerizing, perplexing, captivating and frustrating, just ...

Photo by Sitthixay Ditthawong We recently caught up with Kim...

With a plethora of talented and acclaimed musicians set to perform at the 2022 Festival, we recently caught up with Polish...

With a plethora of talented and acclaimed musicians set to perform at the 20...

Are you thinking of planning a trip across the Tasman? For the 2022 C...

Our colleagues at Sydney Festival have needed good luck and fortitude to weather a political storm (-in-a-teacup) as well ...

Presented in two separate parts this concert provided not only a rare and extraordinary glimpse into the music-making of o...

FITTINGLY, to end the 2021 Canberra International Music Festival, Gustav Mahler’s “Song of the Earth”, which accor...

It was a much anticipated event that, this year, represented relief, gratitude and revelation. ...