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Orange Chamber Music Festival: Ensemble Offspring— Songbirds

Tonic Restaurant 6 Pym Street, Millthorpe
This year’s festival plays every corner of the Central West. Lior and Nomad String Quartet open at the Banksia Pavilion with Compassion and selections from The Blue Parade; Gryphon Baryton Trio performs Haydn in original instrumentation at Boree Cabonne Historic Homestead; tenor Andrew Goodwin and pianist Simon Tedeschi fill Orange…

The Devil’s Violin

Australian Chamber Orchestra: The Devil’s Violin

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank
The devil played the violin for Tartini in a dream. The music was charismatic, electrifying, fiendishly difficult and utterly transfixing. Tartini awoke and transcribed the melody, penning the Devil’s Trill sonata. It can only be played by someone astounding. Ilya Gringolts is that player, returning with his dazzling virtuosity and commanding stage presence for…

: Fremantle Chamber Orchestra & Kashtany Duo & Ukrainian Roztiazhka Cossack Dancers

Government House Ballroom, 13 St George’s Tce, Perth Government House Ballroom, 13 St George’s Terrace, Perth
Locatelli’s Il pianto d’Arianna (the weeping of Ariadne) uses the fragment of a lost Monteverdi opera telling of Theseus’s abandonment of Ariadne. A solo violin sobs on Ariadne’s behalf. The final Largo, strewn with silences, eventually twists into the hopeful smile of a major key. Mozart and Beethoven contemporary Leopold…

Wesley Music Centre: Harmonic Curves –‘Mystic’ with David Pereira

Wesley Music Centre 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest
Australian cello favourite David Pereira joins Alice Giles (harp) and Arnan Wiesel (piano) for two world premieres: Larry Sitsky’s “Four Worlds of the Kabbalah”, and Pereira’s own “Still Dancing”.