• Long Listen: Migrating Bird

    Palmwoods Memorial Hall 1 Main Street, Palmwoods, QLD, Australia
    Long Listen Festival 2025 opens with an evocative and immersive concert experience, Migrating Bird, led by acclaimed violinist and singer-songwriter Véronique Serret (Sydney). Known for her fearless blend of classical, contemporary, and experimental sounds, Serret takes audiences on a journey into the heart of the natural world through music that…

    Long Listen: Horizons New Art Music with Cerulean Collective

    Palmwoods Memorial Hall 1 Main Street, Palmwoods, QLD, Australia
    Discover the next wave of Australian classical music with Cerulean Collective, a Brisbane-based ensemble of composer-performers. Violinist Abigail Lui, cellist Emily Winter, pianist Alexandra Mison, and violist Bridget Wegner present Horizons, a program drawn from their debut album of the same name. Featuring music by Sophia Mackson, Alexandra Mison, and…

    Taikoz: In Full Flight

    Taikoz Ultimo Studio Level W4-0, 42-46 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW, Australia
    For the past 28 years, Taikoz has wowed audiences throughout Australia and internationally. Today, we hear the ensemble in its home - our beloved Ultimo dojo. One of the advantages of performing in the dojo is that all our instruments are right there - no trucks, stairs or lifts to…

    Boroondara Arts: Darcy Gilkerson

    Kew Court House 188 High Street, Kew, VIC, Australia
    Darcy Gilkerson is a Melbourne-based cellist and composer with a passion for contemporary classical and improvisatory chamber music. Performing in venues across the country and touring with various orchestras and ensembles, Darcy has found a home on the stage. As a composer, Darcy is inspired by the lyricism, playfulness and…

    Backstage Music: Entangled Labours

    Woodburn Creatives 82 Cope St, Waterloo, NSW, Australia
    Curated by James Hazel and Lamorna Nightingale Who gets to make art in Australia, and on what terms? Entangled Labours looks at the rich lives and experiences of working-class people in so-called Sydney. Including the premiere of a new film by the Class Actions Collective about the selling off of…
    Editor's Choice Percussion, Conversation, Degustation

    Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Percussion, Conversation, Degustation

    St Patrick's Hall, Port Fairy 9/11 William St, Port Fairy, VIC, Australia
    Curators Monica Curro and Stefan Cassomenos have set out to examine our heritage and bloodlines, and to rejoice in “the miracle of how millions of notes in the hands of master musicians are crafted into stunning sonic stories,” all the while paying homage to the Ancient Greek mosaic and the…
    Editor's Choice Percussion, Conversation, Degustation

    Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Percussion, Conversation, Degustation

    St Patrick's Hall, Port Fairy 9/11 William St, Port Fairy, VIC, Australia
    Curators Monica Curro and Stefan Cassomenos have set out to examine our heritage and bloodlines, and to rejoice in “the miracle of how millions of notes in the hands of master musicians are crafted into stunning sonic stories,” all the while paying homage to the Ancient Greek mosaic and the…

    Ensemble Offspring: Ngarra-Burria

    Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC 689 Harris St,, Ultimo, NSW, Australia
    Each year, Ngarra-Burria: First Peoples Composers – our award-winning collaborative First Nations artist development program – brings exciting new artistic voices into the spotlight - you can discover them for yourself in this free concert at the Eugene Goossens Hall (Sydney) and The Street (Canberra). Hear new instrumental works from…

    Ensemble Offspring: Ngarra-Burria

    The Street Theatre 15 Childers St, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Each year, Ngarra-Burria: First Peoples Composers – our award-winning collaborative First Nations artist development program – brings exciting new artistic voices into the spotlight - you can discover them for yourself in this free concert at the Eugene Goossens Hall (Sydney) and The Street (Canberra). Hear new instrumental works from…

    Melbourne International Jazz Festival: Adam Manning

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Composer, percussionist, painter, educator and proud Kamilaroi man Adam Manning brings First Rhythms to life - an evocative exploration of rhythm as a bridge between culture, Country and contemporary performance, featuring members of the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO). Commissioned and presented by the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, the AAO and…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Marshall McGuire Emerging Composer Commissions

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Step into a world of exploration and witness the future of Australian composition. Partnered with exciting art music ensemble Rubiks Collective, UoM alumni composers Moses Kington-Walberg and Lilijana Matičevska will have the world premiere of their works in the intimacy of the Primrose Potter Salon. Elevating a long running partnership…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: The Cloud Maker

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Taking to the stage like a revelation, The Cloud Maker—five extraordinary female musicians—conjure something culturally transcendent. Born on the snow-capped peaks of Canada and refined in the Adelaide Hills, The Cloud Maker's music reimagines powerful goddess mythologies through an intoxicating instrumental palette: Te Kahureremoa Taumata's ancestral Maori Tāonga Pūoro (including…