AYO Chamber Players

Australian Youth Orchestra: AYO Chamber Players – Concert I

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Take a front-row seat and experience the wonderful world of chamber music with Australia's rising musical stars. From wind quintets to brass ensembles and string quartets, this is your chance to get up close and personal with the instruments of the orchestra. The program features a deeply moving new work…
AYO Chamber Players

Australian Youth Orchestra: AYO Chamber Players – Concert II

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Take a front-row seat and experience the wonderful world of chamber music with Australia's rising musical stars. From wind quintets to brass ensembles and string quartets, this is your chance to get up close and personal with the instruments of the orchestra. The program features a deeply moving new work…

Van Diemen’s Band: Where Everything is Music

Brisbane Powerhouse 119 Lamington St, New Farm, QLD, Australia
Van Diemen’s Band invites listeners to experience a stunning blend of two distinct musical worlds. Created for MONA FOMA 2023 and performed to sold-out audiences, this cross-cultural collaboration with Ensemble Kaboul features musicians Khaled Arman (rubab) and Siar Hashimi (tablā and vocals). Embodying artistry and advocacy, this performance preserves and…

Phoenix Central Park: Bhairavi Raman x Nanthesh Sivarajah

Phoenix Central Park NSW
Bhairavi Raman is an Indian-Australian violinist. Classically trained in Western and Carnatic forms, she merges concepts and techniques to express her bicultural identity. She uses sound in a dynamic way, blending concepts and techniques developed through her decades of training and expertise in Carnatic (South Indian Classical) and Western Classical…
Editor's Choice Trio Isimsiz

Musica Viva Australia: Trio Isimsiz

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Trio Isimsiz (‘anonymous’ in Turkish) was formed in 2008 by pianist Erdem Mısırlıoğlu, violinist Pablo Hernán Benedí and cellist Edvard Pogossian after meeting at the Guildhall School in London. Celebrated from the Aldeburgh Festival to Copenhagen’s Tivoli Concert Hall, they now embark on their first national tour with Schubert’s Piano Trio…

Salamanca Arts Centre: Villa Lobos & Ginastera

Salamanca Arts Centre 77 Salamanca Pl, Battery Point, TAS, Australia
In this concert of works by two Brazilian composers; Villa-Lobos and Albert Ginastera, the quartet will also perform the world premiere of a new String Quartet by Tasmanian composer, Tom Misson, as well as ‘Movement for String Quartet’ by Tasmanian composer Gary Wain.
Editor's Choice Trio Isimsiz

Musica Viva Australia: Trio Isimsiz

Newcastle City Hall Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Trio Isimsiz (‘anonymous’ in Turkish) was formed in 2008 by pianist Erdem Mısırlıoğlu, violinist Pablo Hernán Benedí and cellist Edvard Pogossian after meeting at the Guildhall School in London. Celebrated from the Aldeburgh Festival to Copenhagen’s Tivoli Concert Hall, they now embark on their first national tour with Schubert’s Piano Trio…

Elder Conservatorium: Lunchtime Concert – The Trout

Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
This special collaboration sees three of our faculty members team up with two very distinguished colleagues from overseas. Described by the Los Angeles Times as an ‘extraordinary musician’, Mark Menzies is a member of the LA Philharmonic, and is currently violin and viola professor at the Californian Institute of Arts. The German-born,…

Australia Baroque: Extravagant Mozart

Government House Ballroom, Perth 13 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
Join us in the elegant Ballroom of Government House for an all-Mozart program played on period instruments. Mozart’s spectacular and rarely heard concerto for three fortepianos round off this dazzling program, with fortepiano soloists Dr Geoffrey Lancaster AO, James Huntingford and Jake Smith.  

Music at the Basilica: Then, Now

Basilica of St Mary of the Angels Yarra Street, Geelong, VIC, Australia
An immersion of soul and space, from 12th century chant to recent Australian works. Featuring Miranda Brockman (cello), Vicki Hallett (clarinet), Tom Healey (baritone), Philip Healey  (violin), Brighid Mantelli (flute), Laura Tanata (harp) and Frank De Rosso (organ).
Reflections on Gubaidulina

Ronan Apcar: Reflections on Gubaidulina

Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-2025) emerged from the Soviet Union as an innovative composer to keep an eye on. She proved herself to be one of the most foremost composers not just from Russia but internationally. Gubaidulina was a composer who fully committed herself to music of emotional intensity. To step into…
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Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Kawai Opening Gala – Mosaic

Reardon Theatre 35 Bank St, Port Fairy, VIC, Australia
Curators Monica Curro and Stefan Cassomenos have set out to examine our heritage and bloodlines, and to rejoice in “the miracle of how millions of notes in the hands of master musicians are crafted into stunning sonic stories,” all the while paying homage to the Ancient Greek mosaic and the…

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