Our 2026 Closing Gala strikes at the glowing core of what causes our human nature to gravitate to the superhuman.

From the birth of the expression of our shared humanity – in the Baroque worlds of Jean-Féry Rebel & Jean-Philippe Rameau, and in the awe-inspiring expression of millennia of culture in the music of William Barton, sung in language by our entire massed Festival Chorus — to the world premiere of new music collaboratively composed by local school children together with Stefan Cassomenos, a structured improvisation sono-kinetically conducted by Aaron Choulai, Artistic Director of the Australian Art Orchestra, and underpinned throughout with an electronic soundscape performed live by Thomas Green – Synergetic brings together a star-studded cast of magnificent minds, expert instrumentalists and impassioned choristers from South West Victoria, Melbourne, and all around the country, in a triumphant acclamation of our truly limitless shared potential to achieve the superhuman.