• Editor's Choice The Oracle

    Ensemble Offspring: The Oracle

    The Street Theatre 15 Childers St, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Conducted by Clark Rundell, Ensemble Offspring showcases its commitment to expanding the repertoire with four Australian premiere co-commissions including Tobias Broström’s Dream Variations, Tansy Davies’ Lost Science and two works by Kate Moore – Rose of roses, flower of flowers, first heard in New York in 2025 and now presented for co-commissioner…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Lutosławski Quartet – Polish Violin

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    The Lutosławski Quartet's Melbourne debut brings the world-renowned Polish ensemble to the Abbotsford Convent for a week of intensive music-making. Taking its name from 20th-century master Witold Lutosławski, the ensemble was founded in 2007 and is now one of Poland’s leading string quartets. Renowned for its focus on 20th and…
    Queer Nights at Nightingale

    Coady Green: Voice, Body, Witness – Queer Nights at Nightingale #1

    Nightingale Gallery 909A High St, Armadale, VIC, Australia
    Opening the festival, pianist Coady Green presents a program tracing a journey from creation to voice, and from stillness to urgent expression. With evocative works by Inti Figgis-Vizueta and Nico Muhly, and sublime meditations by John Cage, the program also features Bryn Renard’s queer being, queer being, a deeply personal…

    Queensland Youth Orchestras: Queensland Youth Orchestras’ 60th anniversary celebrations

    The Old Museum 480 Gregory Tce, Bowen Hills, QLD, Australia
    The Queensland Youth Orchestras (QYO) train the state's best young orchestral musicians, aged 8 to 25 years. On Saturday 6 June, the QYO turns 60 and it's inviting all of Brisbane to come join the party at The Old Museum, Bowen Hills. Brisbane music lovers will be welcomed into the…

    Allegri Ensemble: Echoes of Venice

    St. Mary's Cathedral, Hobart 180 Harrington St, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Allegri Ensemble are excited to announce this performance of renaissance masterpieces, often for not one, not two, but up to three choirs simultaneously! This programme is a homage to a particular style of multi-choir composition – exemplified in the music of Giovanni Gabrieli – which made dramatic use of the…

    Bundanon: Sunny Kim’s Ensemble Ochaye – Water Song

    Boyd Education Centre, Bundanon 170 Riversdale Rd, Illaroo, NSW, Australia
    Transcending cultural boundaries through bold re-imaginings of musical traditions, Water Song promises something entirely new; a sonically mesmerising collaboration inspired by water. Water Song invites listeners to honour the stories water holds and the deep bonds it creates across time, space, and cultures. This rare cross-cultural collaboration is led by…

    Bowerbird Collective: Where Song Began

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The Bowerbird Collective's debut performance in Melbourne in the stunning Elizabeth Murdoch Hall, in celebration of BirdLife Australia's 125th Birthday. Described as 'spectacular' by Limelight Magazine in a 5-star review, Where Song Began is an iconic celebration of songbirds. The mesmerising program of music spans 300 years, from Bach and…

    Courtenay Cleary, Connor D’Netto: Reminiscence

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    Violinist Courtenay Cleary performs works from her debut album "Reminiscence", joined by Connor D’Netto on synth/electronics. Featuring works by Stephen Chin, Connor D'Netto, Elena Kats-Chernin, Missy Mazzoli, Chris Perren, and Katherine Rawlings.

    Therese Milanovic: Hilary Kleinig and Emily Granger – Alone : Together

    Plant Empire 15/55 Lofter St Tennyson, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    ALONE : TOGETHER is the debut solo album by award-winning cellist / composer, Hilary Kleinig. Hilary Kleinig's album explores the sonic possibilities of the cello - bowed, plucked, harmonic and percussive - played alone but together with looping layers and echoes of self. Fusing influences of folk, classical, EDM and…

    Woodend Winter Arts Festival: 1001 Nights!

    St Ambrose Catholic Church, Woodend 47 Urquhart St, Woodend, VIC, Australia
    Step into a world of magic, adventure and mystery as Scheherazade begins her incredible tales from the 1001 Nights. Inventi Ensemble brings these famous stories to life with dazzling music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, arranged especially for their six instruments. From brave heroes and clever princesses to sea voyages and secret treasures, each piece…

    Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Musical Offering

    St Ambrose Catholic Church, Woodend 47 Urquhart St, Woodend, VIC, Australia
    Musical Offering was the lasting outcome of a visit by Bach to the court of Frederick II of Prussia, subsequently known as Frederick the Great. During the visit the king gave Bach a theme and asked him to improvise upon it. Upon his return home, Bach decided to write a series…

    Tempo Rubato: Anna da Silva Chen – Obsession

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    Mostly unknown yet strangely familiar gems from three centuries of solo violin music, featuring composers whose voices are too singular to be ignored. Works by Nicola Matteis Jr, Thomas Green, Max Reger, Johann Georg Pisendel and Eugène Ysaÿe. Anna da Silva Chen is widely regarded as one of Australia’s most…