Join us for this powerful commemorative concert to mark the declaration of peace in the Pacific 80 years ago. This nationally significant cultural event will remember those who served abroad and those who supported the effort at home. ‘Greater Love’ will commemorate this historic anniversary with an epic concert that will describe through music, paintings, images and narrations these defining events.

With over two and a half hours of music, the concert will be narrated by Australia’s greatest theatre actor, John Bell AO OBE FRSN, performed by the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and the Australian Defence Force’s finest musicians with soloists William Barton, didjeridu; Simon Tedeschi and Edward Neeman, piano; Alice Giles, harp; Dong Ma, erhu; Andrew Goodwin, tenor; Rachel Mink, soprano; Brisbane Chamber Choir, Flowers of Peace Chorus and the Luminescence Children’s Choir. With a history of producing concerts that tell the story of the nation’s conflicts from WWI onwards, the audience reaction says it all: