Australian Accent – May 2026
Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month.
Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month.
This month features new music from Huw Watkins and Bernadette Harvey, old music by Dowland and Zelenka and blockbusters care of Alkan, Bizet and Lise Davidsen.
Calum Builder explains how he created his extraordinary, dismantled organ, using pipes salvaged from churches across Northern Denmark.
Hamed Sadeghi brings musical traditions into a timely conversation. "Maybe we can focus on what we share instead of what divides us."
Cameron Lam’s Australian Art Music playlist focuses on Classical, Jazz, and Sound Art made outside of our capital cities this month.
Percussion supremo Claire Edwardes reaches a watershed moment.
Awesome virtuosity adds to the intrigue of Alkan’s quirky music.
Unreleased recordings, mostly in concert, from a reticent piano genius.
A childhood dream led Dutch musician Jörgen van Rijen to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. But first, he had to grow into his instrument.
This month mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately rediscovers the remarkable Madeleine Dring, plus contemporary works by Kalevi Aho, Daniel Bjarnason and Dan Walker, and operas by Lully and Vivaldi.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
This month, Cameron Lam’s Australian Art Music playlist showcases the latest Bandcamp releases across local Classical, Jazz, and Sound Art.
This month features Elsa Dreisig, a soprano of prodigious talents, Allan Clayton singing Winterreise and orchestral music, some familiar, most not.