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Selby & Friends: The Living Tradition

Bowral Memorial Hall 16-24 Bendooley St,, Bowral
The 20th Season of Selby & Friends in its current format opens with a return of two special guests who wowed audiences two years ago – Alexandra Osborne and Clancy Newman. This dynamic duo joins Kathy for a concert comprising two works that pay tribute to an earlier popular tune…

Brisbane Music Festival: Inhaltations

FourthWall Arts Suite 4, 540 Queen St, Brisbane City
Recorder virtuoso Alicia Crossley makes her Brisbane Music Festival debut with an all-Australian program of works for recorder and electronics. Lisa Cheney - Before You Mark Oliveiro - Calliphora Alice Chance - Inhaltations Robert Davidson - Melody for Alicia Anne Cawrse - Kairos Nat Bartsch - Stellaria

Brisbane Music Festival: Grit

FourthWall Arts Suite 4, 540 Queen St, Brisbane City
Rebecca Lloyd-Jones and Alex Raineri share a captivating array of works for percussion and piano, including the World Premiere of a new work by Imogen Ferdinando. Betsy Jolas | Music for Joan (Australian Premiere) Imogen Ferdinando | New World (World Premiere) Theocharis Papatrechas | Grit (Australian Premiere) Hannah Barnes |…

Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

Australian Chamber Orchestra: Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank
Schubert composed like an oil painter, drawing from a rich palette of melodic and harmonic colours. With a divine lyricism at its heart, his music is imbued with an intimacy and intensity that taps into the full range of human emotion. Richard Tognetti’s affinity for Schubert is evident in every…

Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Maestro 3: Rachmaninov & Shostakovich

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank
Two deeply personal Russian masterworks, worlds apart yet intimately connected. Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2 is an enduring testament to lyrical beauty and heartfelt longing. In sharp contrast, Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony is an intense declaration of survival, composed under Stalin’s oppressive gaze. Though triumphant on its surface, this symphony vibrates with…

Brisbane Music Festival: Flight

FourthWall Arts Suite 4, 540 Queen St, Brisbane City
Guitarist Libby Myers presents a program of new Australian music that reimagines the contemporary identity of the classical guitar through works depicting flight and the open sky. The program features the World Premiere of Frankie Dyson-Reilly's 'Of Least Concern' - a suite dedicated to Australia's endangered birdlife. Blending specially commissioned…

Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

Australian Chamber Orchestra: Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank
Schubert composed like an oil painter, drawing from a rich palette of melodic and harmonic colours. With a divine lyricism at its heart, his music is imbued with an intimacy and intensity that taps into the full range of human emotion. Richard Tognetti’s affinity for Schubert is evident in every…