Editor's Choice Event Series Margaret and the Grey Mare

Sydney Festival: Margaret and the Grey Mare

Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 1 Powerhouse Rd, Casula, NSW, Australia
Looking for something different? Try this one-hour immersive video opera created by visual artist Katy B Plummer and composer Sally Whitwell, with a little help from artificial intelligence programmed to speak in verse like an oracular Celtic spirit. The story, with video by filmmaker Kuba Dorabialski, evokes 17th-century European witch…
Editor's Choice Event Series Margaret and the Grey Mare

Sydney Festival: Margaret and the Grey Mare

Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 1 Powerhouse Rd, Casula, NSW, Australia
Looking for something different? Try this one-hour immersive video opera created by visual artist Katy B Plummer and composer Sally Whitwell, with a little help from artificial intelligence programmed to speak in verse like an oracular Celtic spirit. The story, with video by filmmaker Kuba Dorabialski, evokes 17th-century European witch…

Ensemble Offspring: Avant Gardens I

Private Home in Glebe Glebe, NSW, Australia
Read the Limelight review. Back by popular demand, Avant Gardens presents living music in living spaces. The series pairs genre-bending classics with Australian premieres in stunning ‘house concerts’ throughout Sydney. Enjoy chamber music as intended: up close, in a relaxed atmosphere, and surrounded by friendly faces – your safe space to…

Ensemble Offspring: Avant Gardens I

Private Home in Alexandria Alexandria, NSW, Australia
Read the Limelight review. Back by popular demand, Avant Gardens presents living music in living spaces. The series pairs genre-bending classics with Australian premieres in stunning ‘house concerts’ throughout Sydney. Enjoy chamber music as intended: up close, in a relaxed atmosphere, and surrounded by friendly faces – your safe space to…
Editor's Choice Event Series Canberra International Music Festival

Canberra International Music Festival: Verity Solo Session 1

Verity Lane Market 50 Northbourne Avenue, Canberra, ACT, Australia
In his final year as Artistic Director, Roland Peelman has chosen to open the festival with William Barton, Persian tar player Hamed Sadeghi and Belgian jazz pianist Bram De Looze, as well as Lior and Nigel Westlake’s Compassion. Guitar virtuoso Pavel Ralev, violist Florian Peelman, France’s Trio Karénine and Dudok Quartet…

Editor's Choice Event Series Canberra International Music Festival

Canberra International Music Festival: Verity Solo Session 3

Verity Lane Market 50 Northbourne Avenue, Canberra, ACT, Australia
In his final year as Artistic Director, Roland Peelman has chosen to open the festival with William Barton, Persian tar player Hamed Sadeghi and Belgian jazz pianist Bram De Looze, as well as Lior and Nigel Westlake’s Compassion. Guitar virtuoso Pavel Ralev, violist Florian Peelman, France’s Trio Karénine and Dudok Quartet…
Editor's Choice Event Series Canberra International Music Festival

Canberra International Music Festival: Red Dirt Hymns

National Museum of Australia Lawson Crescent, Acton, ACT, Australia
In his final year as Artistic Director, Roland Peelman has chosen to open the festival with William Barton, Persian tar player Hamed Sadeghi and Belgian jazz pianist Bram De Looze, as well as Lior and Nigel Westlake’s Compassion. Guitar virtuoso Pavel Ralev, violist Florian Peelman, France’s Trio Karénine and Dudok Quartet…
Event Series ANAM at Elgee Park: Autumn 2024

Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM at Elgee Park

Elgee Park 310 Wallaces Rd, Dromana, VIC, Australia
In an exciting new multi-year adventure for ANAM, ANAM musicians and faculty will perform in two chamber concerts at the beautiful Elgee Park on the Mornington Peninsula. Enjoy music surrounded by the beautiful Wayne Eager exhibition within the Elgee Park Gallery. Both Autumn and Spring concerts in this delightful venue…
Event Series ANAM at Elgee Park: Autumn 2024

Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM at Elgee Park

Elgee Park 310 Wallaces Rd, Dromana, VIC, Australia
In an exciting new multi-year adventure for ANAM, ANAM musicians and faculty will perform in two chamber concerts at the beautiful Elgee Park on the Mornington Peninsula. Enjoy music surrounded by the beautiful Wayne Eager exhibition within the Elgee Park Gallery. Both Autumn and Spring concerts in this delightful venue…

Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM at St Silas 1

St Silas Anglican Church 99 Bridport Street, Albert Park, VIC, Australia
These two concerts provide golden opportunities for ANAM musicians to create concert programs reflecting their musical passions and dazzling performance skills. The Anglican Parish of the Parks is a warm, welcoming space with a superb acoustic for chamber music. And getting there is easy: the church is about a minute’s…

Dots + Loops: Vessel

Nickson Room, Zelman Cowen Building University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Dots+Loops Co-Director Flora Wong joins with ceramic artist Ruby Yu-Lu Yeh in this special FREE concert presented as part of the University of Queensland School of Music Lunchtime Concert Series. VESSEL sees violinist Flora Wong and ceramic artist Ruby Yu-Lu Yeh perform a sonic exploration of the process of creating…

Luminescence Chamber Singers: Of the Body

Hume Conservatorium 160 Bourke St, Goulburn NSW 2580, Goulburn, NSW
Human dissection transformed our understanding of anatomy, and the body became the subject of scientific and artistic fixation. Of The Body marries a major new song cycle by Dan Walker with some of the most rabelaisian examples of Renaissance repertoire. Drawing on Buxtehude’s masterpiece, ‘Membra Jesu Nostri’, each movement of…

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