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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…
Embarking on a Drift to the Unknown

Antinomy Company: Embarking on a Drift to the Unknown

Nexus Arts Lion Arts Centre, 68 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Adelaide, SA, Australia
In 1957, a woman crossed the sea and vanished into an arranged marriage. Decades later, her granddaughter retells the story in an intimate, audio-immersive solo performance merging soundscapes, fragmented memory, archival media and carried through wireless headphones. Guided by “Zi Wei Dou Shu” (紫微斗數), a Chinese astrological system, the work…

Backstage Music: Unbound

East Sydney Community and Arts Centre 34 Burton St,, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
Curated by Ria Andriani and Lamorna Nightingale "Unbound" defies artistic boundaries, presenting a night of profound personal expression. Witness Ria Andriani's soul-stirring vocals performing Molly Joyce's compositions, followed by Melanie Eden's experimental fusion of vocals and accordion, where spiritual depth meets powerful social advocacy. Sonnet Curé, drawing from their "Headliners"…

Embarking on a Drift to the Unknown

Antinomy Company: Embarking on a Drift to the Unknown

Nexus Arts Lion Arts Centre, 68 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Adelaide, SA, Australia
In 1957, a woman crossed the sea and vanished into an arranged marriage. Decades later, her granddaughter retells the story in an intimate, audio-immersive solo performance merging soundscapes, fragmented memory, archival media and carried through wireless headphones. Guided by “Zi Wei Dou Shu” (紫微斗數), a Chinese astrological system, the work…

Melbourne Recital Centre: Tangles

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
TANGLES – Explorations in new modular music unites some of Melbourne/Naarm's most compelling and innovative musicians for one night of modular synthesis exploration. Internationally acclaimed audiovisual artist and Melbourne Recital Centre's Artist in Residence for 2025, Robin Fox, presents a rare sound-only performance alongside modular mind-bender Mat Watson, supersonic explorer…

Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival: The Cloud Maker

Paddington Town Hall 249 Oxford St, Paddington, NSW, Australia
The Cloud Maker’s music celebrates goddesses from each of the five female master musician’s cultures. Channelling ancient tales of fierce battles, shaman dances, journeys to the after-life, and a moth goddess singing the most beautiful song of all time. Featuring Taonga Pūoro (Maori singing treasures), Bass clarinet, Harmonic flutes, Cello,…

Topology: The Third Space

The Princess Theatre, Brisbane 8 Annerly Rd, Woollongabba, QLD, Australia
A Sacred place, A cultural meeting place. Ceremony and Musical conversations that challenge the boundaries. A journey that flows unbroken. A powerful cross-cultural collaboration with ancient traditions of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander storytelling. Cultural songlines and music converge in a moment of transformation and journey through the pacific to the…
Opera for the Dead

OzAsia Festival: Opera for the Dead

Odeon Theatre, Norwood 57a Queen St, Norwood, SA, Australia
A contemporary Chinese cyber-opera that reimagines the connection between life and death. Inspired by Chinese mourning rituals, Opera for the Dead 祭歌 is an immersive, multi-artform performance combining live musicians and singers with electronic processing, mobile stages, ambisonic sound, and 3D animation. Move freely through the shifting performance space as…
Opera for the Dead

OzAsia Festival: Opera for the Dead

Odeon Theatre, Norwood 57a Queen St, Norwood, SA, Australia
A contemporary Chinese cyber-opera that reimagines the connection between life and death. Inspired by Chinese mourning rituals, Opera for the Dead 祭歌 is an immersive, multi-artform performance combining live musicians and singers with electronic processing, mobile stages, ambisonic sound, and 3D animation. Move freely through the shifting performance space as…

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