• Musica Viva Australia: Partridge String Quartet

    The Concourse, Chatswood 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood, NSW, Australia
    Welcome back Musica Viva Australia FutureMakers, the Partridge String Quartet, when it performs an irresistible program featuring Debussy's eloquent String Quartet and the Australian premiere of Holly Harrison's small but powerful Fluro Electric.

    Australian National Academy of Music: Lutosławski Quartet – Leaves of an Unwritten Diary

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    In their final concert at ANAM, the Lutosławski Quartet unites with ANAM’s string cohort for a whirlwind of Polish works – from the legendary Lutosławski and Krzysztof Penderecki to contemporary voices Paweł Mykietyn and Marcin Markowicz. This performance crowns a week of masterclasses, concerts and deep engagement with the breadth…
    Editor's Choice Stravinsky’s The Firebird

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky’s The Firebird

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Former Music & Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Andrey Boreyko conducts a program of elemental drama and orchestral colour. Grounded in the traditions that shaped Stravinsky, Liadov’s Kikimora is followed (on 12 & 13 June) by Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto, performed here by ECHO Klassik-winning cellist Maximilian Hornung in…

    Bach Akademie Australia: Collegium Musicum

    Mosman Art Gallery 1 Art Gallery Way, Mosman, NSW, Australia
    An atmosphere of musical and scientific enlightenment. In 1702 in Leipzig, Bach’s great friend and colleague Telemann recognised the need for an environment in which his students could perform in public and where musical and academic pursuits could be fostered. The Collegium Musicum was born. When Bach arrived in 1723,…
    Editor's Choice Stravinsky’s The Firebird

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky’s The Firebird

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Former Music & Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Andrey Boreyko conducts a program of elemental drama and orchestral colour. Grounded in the traditions that shaped Stravinsky, Liadov’s Kikimora is followed (on 12 & 13 June) by Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto, performed here by ECHO Klassik-winning cellist Maximilian Hornung in…
    Bohemian Rhapsody

    Salut! Baroque: Bohemian Rhapsody

    Wesley Uniting Church Forrest 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
    “If the Bohemians had the advantages enjoyed by the Italians they would surpass them. They are perhaps the most musical race in all Europe”. Charles Burney (1773) The celebrations for the crowning of Charles VI as King of Bohemia in Prague in 1723 included an opera performance by 200 musicians…
    Queer Nights at Nightingale

    Nightingale Gallery: Temporality – Queer Nights at Nightingale #2

    Nightingale Gallery 909A High St, Armadale, VIC, Australia
    Curated by composer Meta Cohen, Temporality is an evening of music exploring queer historical imagination, ecstatic memory and temporal dislocation. Featuring internationally celebrated artists Jessica Aszodi (mezzo-soprano), Rachael Joyce (soprano) and Coady Green (piano), this program slips between centuries, moving through fractured timelines and imagined encounters with the past. At…
    Editor's Choice Stravinsky’s The Firebird

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky’s The Firebird

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Former Music & Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Andrey Boreyko conducts a program of elemental drama and orchestral colour. Grounded in the traditions that shaped Stravinsky, Liadov’s Kikimora is followed (on 12 & 13 June) by Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto, performed here by ECHO Klassik-winning cellist Maximilian Hornung in…

    Bowerbird Collective: Emily Granger | A Thing of Beauty

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    Emily Granger, Principal Harp of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, performs her new album, 'A Thing of Beauty', at the UKARIA Cultural Centre. This new album from harpist Emily Granger brings together music that lingers — works by Australian women composers, alongside new commissions and a series of deeply personal transcriptions.…

    Australian Chamber Choir: Great Romantic Voices

    Stirling Place Community Centre 14 Sterling St, Dunkeld, VIC, Australia
    Dunkeld In the hands of Romantics like Bruckner and Brahms, music became increasingly expressive, harmonically inventive, passionate and theatrical. In the twentieth century, composers like Herbert Howells, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Amy Beach and Samuel Barber resisted the atonality and serialism embraced by their contemporaries and continued to explore the rich…
    The Unbroken Thread

    Arafura Music Collective: The Unbroken Thread

    Gray Community Hall Corner of Essington Avenue and Victoria Drive, Gray, NT, Australia
    Follow the thread with us, as we enter a space of unfolding beauty and imagination in The Unbroken Thread: a musical labyrinth of Myth, Identity and Culture. This dynamic concert weaves music inspired by Greek heritage into a shimmering tapestry shaped by myth, history, philosophy and memory. Featuring works by…

    HIP Company: Festa Italiana

    Victoria Hall 179 High St, Fremantle, WA, Australia
    Be transported to 17th-century Italy as HIP Company explores music for dancing and celebrating by some of Italy's great early composers. Set in Fremantle's historic Victoria Hall, experience a veritable feast of glorious repertoire from Monteverdi, Corelli, Frescobaldi, Strozzi, and more. Featuring Bonnie de la Hunty (soprano), Sarah Papadopoulos and…