2MBS Fine Music Sydney

2MBS Fine Music Sydney A radio station created by music lovers for lovers of music. Classical, Jazz, contemporary and everything in between.

Find us on 102.5FM, Digital DAB+ and online at 2mbsfinemusicsydney.com

22/12/2025

This Christmas, share the season with us on 2MBS Fine Music Sydney 🎄
From Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, enjoy a beautifully curated journey through jazz, classical treasures and global sounds. Expect festive jazz favourites, adventurous world Christmas music and luminous late-night classics. Join our presenters for music that comforts, surprises and delights, wherever you are.

Musical trivia: who wrote the most symphonies in the 20th century?Answer: Alan Hovhaness, an astonishing 67. Born in Ma...
22/12/2025

Musical trivia: who wrote the most symphonies in the 20th century?
Answer: Alan Hovhaness, an astonishing 67. Born in Massachusetts to Armenian and Scottish heritage, Hovhaness followed his own spiritual, multicultural path, drawing on ancient traditions from Armenia to Asia. Long overlooked, his music is now being rediscovered.🎧 Listen on demand: The Life of a Composer

For the final program of 2025, Simon Moore was invited into the home of a trailblazer of early music performance – not j...
17/12/2025

For the final program of 2025, Simon Moore was invited into the home of a trailblazer of early music performance – not just in Australia, but also in the wider world. Winsome Evans founded The Renaissance Players in 1959, and quickly became a leader in the field. She appears on 33 albums, and has the aptitude to have taught herself to play that many instruments too. She’s also a composer, having written and arranged music for radio, film and TV, and for half a century at Sydney University she taught and inspired generations of our musicians.

🎧 Listen on air at 1pm or anytime on the free 2MBS App, search “In Conversation Winsome Evans” in your podcast app or find it at the links below. 👇

This conversation tracks Winsome’s early life from childhood to the formation, development and success of The Renaissance Players, as well as her life-long academic career. We hear about the music she has loved to perform, and the people she loved to perform it with, plus the instruments she has found, restored and played.

Jane Austen was a diligent but private pianist, practising daily on her pianoforte, yet never seeking the spotlight. For...
16/12/2025

Jane Austen was a diligent but private pianist, practising daily on her pianoforte, yet never seeking the spotlight. For Austen and her Georgian world, music was an intimate, domestic art, a polite accomplishment, not emotional display. Woven gently through her novels, it reveals character, manners and society, offering another lens on her subtle, enduring genius. Listen on demand Sunday Special: Jane Austen on

Mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital returns with Song of the Birds, his ninth recording and a rich follow-up with the Between W...
16/12/2025

Mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital returns with Song of the Birds, his ninth recording and a rich follow-up with the Between Worlds Ensemble. Drawing on folk traditions from Southern Italy, Iberia and the Black Sea, the album blends mandolin with voices, strings and percussion. Heartfelt selections reflect Avital’s heritage, studies and life journey, featuring flamenco, Georgian choir and Ladino songs.

A feast for music and food lovers! 🍽️🎶The Opera Cooks Book features 70 handwritten recipes from opera stars across 28 co...
16/12/2025

A feast for music and food lovers! 🍽️🎶The Opera Cooks Book features 70 handwritten recipes from opera stars across 28 countries. Discover global culinary traditions through 700+ photos, kitchen secrets, eating habits and wine tips from some of the world’s great singers. 2MBS Fine Music Sydney subscribers have an exclusive chance to win a copy of this unique book.

Singer-songwriter Bonnie J Jensen releases her acclaimed fifth studio album, Rise. Featuring inspired standards and fres...
15/12/2025

Singer-songwriter Bonnie J Jensen releases her acclaimed fifth studio album, Rise. Featuring inspired standards and fresh arrangements of pop and soul classics, performed by Australia’s leading instrumentalists, Rise showcases Jensen’s artistry. Out now on all streaming platforms, with CDs at Birdland Records. 2MBS Fine Music Sydney subscribers can win a copy, enter now.

12/12/2025

The irrepressible Brett Weymark and Mitchell Butel speaking with Simon Moore this week on Fine Music Breakfast, giving us a little preview of what is lining up to be a spectacular Carols at the House! 12-14 December in the Concert Hall of the Opera House. One not to miss!
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2MBS Fine Music Sydney’s 2025 Jazz Performance Partner, Tony Barnard, unveils The Barnard Brothers Christmas Jazz, a fes...
10/12/2025

2MBS Fine Music Sydney’s 2025 Jazz Performance Partner, Tony Barnard, unveils The Barnard Brothers Christmas Jazz, a festive release recorded in our Founders Studio. Joined by his brother Adam Barnard on percussion and legendary bassist Dave Seidel, the trio delivers a swinging, sophisticated tribute to Christmas favourites. From smooth ballads to spirited swing, this Australian jazz dynasty brings warmth, elegance and festive joy to the season.

Violist Katie Yap unveils her debut album Multitudes, four evocative, collaboratively crafted tracks inspired by Judith ...
10/12/2025

Violist Katie Yap unveils her debut album Multitudes, four evocative, collaboratively crafted tracks inspired by Judith Wright’s bird poetry and created through her 2022 Freedman Fellowship. Rich, diverse and beautifully expansive, the album reflects Katie’s response to the breakdowns in connection she sees in our complex world. 2MBS Fine Music Sydney subscribers have an exclusive chance to win a copy of Multitudes!

Sydney doesn’t put away its party hats after the New Year is rung in, because from January 8 the city comes alive once a...
10/12/2025

Sydney doesn’t put away its party hats after the New Year is rung in, because from January 8 the city comes alive once again for the Sydney Festival. Simon Moore sat down with new Festival Director Kris Nelson to provide some highlights of the upcoming festival and revealing his hopes and ambitions for it as it reaches half a century.

🎧 Listen on air at 1pm Wednesday or anytime on the free 2MBS app or the links below 👇

Festivals are very much in Kris Nelson’s blood, having just finished a six-and-a-half year stint as Director of the London International Festival of Theatre, and prior to that having a long run as Director of the Dublin Fringe Festival. Kris traces his personal and professional journey, from growing up in Saskatoon, Canada, through grassroots theatre and festivals, to leadership roles in Montreal and beyond. He reflects on the energy of fringe culture, and the joys of presenting unique shows that find the festival environment as their homes.

The Sydney Festival runs from 8 to 25 January.

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Fine Music Sydney (formerly known as 2MBS FM and Fine Music 102.5) is Australia’s first stereo FM radio station. The station was officially opened on 1 February 1975 and we have now been on-air for over 37 years. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, we broadcast a wide range of fine music. Renowned composers, orchestras, ensembles and soloists are featured in programs of classical and jazz music. Australia’s most talented composers and performers are also featured regularly in our broadcasts. In addition, Fine Music Sydney is dedicated to fostering young Australian talent through the several annual youth engagement programs such as the Young Performers Award and Young Composers Award. To complement our fine listening, we also publish digitally Fine Music, a monthly magazine featuring interviews, previews, opinions, news, arts calendar and CD reviews. Fine Music has the complete listings of Fine Music Sydney airplay. Fine Music Sydney also has a professional recording studio for lease, which is used by some of Australia’s leading musicians for CD recordings. We also have a record catalogue featuring over 30 titles. Fine Music Sydney is owned and operated by the Music Broadcasting Society of New South Wales Co-operative Limited. We are a member of the NSW Public Broadcasting Association and the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. Apart from a small number of staff members, the station is entirely operated by hundreds of music lovers who generously volunteer their time and talents to organise and administer our extensive activities.