Canberra conductor Leonard "Lenny" Weiss was on Thursday judged co-winner, with Argentine-Italian conductor Fernando Oscar Gaggini, of the 21st Khachaturian International Competition, held in the Armenian capital, Yerevan.
When the curtain rose on the new Canberra Theatre on June 24, 1965, a crowd of VIPs crammed in to see Minister for the Interior Doug Anthony launch Australia's first multi-purpose theatre centre, reports HELEN MUSA.
From modest beginnings when a bunch of ANU students got together, Luminescence singers have catapulted on to the wider Australian music scene as a respected professional six-voice ensemble, writes HELEN MUSA.
A 19-year-old Canberra jazz singer is well on her way to success, with a scholarship and a place at the noted Eastman School of Music in upstate New York, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
A planned changing of the guard at the Cultural Facilities Corporation has seen a swag of exceptionally high-profile appointments to its board, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Turkish-Australian soprano Ayşe Göknur Shanal is returning to Canberra on Sunday with a passion project, a concert of all-Cuban music simply titled, Cuba.
Luminescence is turning 10 with a gala concert and Canberra Rep's staging a sequel to a notorious play lead the arts news in HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
Opening night for this provoking play about what humanity is doing to the planet was cut short when a cast member was taken ill, but the second night saw a solid audience with returnees wanting to see how this epic was going to finish.