The latest from Sydney’s music scene.

APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre (AMC) are thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 Art Music Awards, to be held on Thursday 21 August at the City Recital Hall in Sydney.

Australian flautist Derek Jones’ Flute Perspectives 4, the fourth volume in his celebrated series of music for the flute is now available on MOVE Records.

The Australian National Choral Association will run workshops in Vocal Pedagogy and Rehearsal Techniques nationally in June and July 2025.

The Australian Music Centre (AMC), in conjunction with Music Australia proudly announces a major initiative, the MOMENTUM Plus program which seeks to perpetuate contemporary Australian orchestral music in recordings.

Twelve-year-old pianist Stefania Robu from Melbourne, Victoria, has been selected to perform a concerto movement with the SYO’s Peter Seymour Orchestra at Piano Plus Australia’s Autumn Piano School.

Skye McIntosh takes up a Creative Residency at the State Library of NSW ahead of its bicentenary in 2026.

Entries are open for the triennial Paul Lowin Orchestral and Song Cycle Prizes 2025, one of Australia’s richest prizes in music composition.

The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra releases its newest album Midsummer Dreams on 27 March featuring popular Romantic works by Beethoven and Mendelssohn played on period instruments.

Set for release on March 2025, Halcyon has a new recording How Far We’ve Come Together… devoted to just one instrumental combination of voice and cello.