World's Biggest Orchestra is your chance to make history playing live with Artistic Director and internationally renowned musician James Morrison in this official GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS challenge.

CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES Closing deadline for all entries is Friday 7 June 2013.

Aladdin. Ali Baba. Sinbad. The names are as well-known as the stories behind them. They resonate down through the ages and across vast oceans.

Piano lessons will take the audience inside a musicians journey through a unique real-life performance. Concert pianist Anna Goldsworthy’s deeply-felt memoir Piano Lessons comes to glorious musical life in this performance which was originally premiered at Queensland Music Festival 2011. Goldsworthy’s award-winning book, which recounts her musical awakening as a young girl, struck a deep chord with critics, readers and music lovers on its 2009 release.

As twilight fades and the city's lights ignite, master percussionist, David Jones harmonises with Brisbane’s pulse, setting the beat.

Over two grand evenings, Australia's finest singers and musicians will gather to celebrate an extraordinary songbook.

The most awarded vocal group in history makes their Australian debut. With ten Grammys to their name, Take 6 is the quintessential a capella group and model for vocal genius. Six virtuosic voices unite in crystal clear harmony against a backdrop of syncopated rhythms, innovative arrangements and funky grooves that bubble into an intoxicating brew of gospel, jazz, R&B and pop.

The Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Queensland Music Festival have jointly commissioned Australian composer Matthew Dewey to write an exhilarating work for Morrison (trumpet) and Bliss (clarinet).

Queensland Music Festival 2013 makes this imagined beauty a reality once again with festival favourite, Opera at Jimbour, where good food, wine and incredible song abound.

Queensland Music Festival is partnering with the state government to present Rise & Shine - a musical tour for flood affected regions. This series of free community events will feature a range of family activities, a free BBQ and live entertainment program with some of Australia’s favourite performers.