• Mountain

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Mountain

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    After more than a decade of producing films, the ACO premiered Mountain in 2017 as one of its boldest explorations of music and nature. Only three centuries ago, the idea scarcely existed that wild landscapes might hold any sort of attraction. Mountains were places of peril, not beauty. An upper world…
    Bleak Squad

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Bleak Squad

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Bleak Squad is a new Melbourne four-piece comprised of true Australian art-rock royalty. Featuring Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Mess Esque), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, The Birthday Party), Adalita (Magic Dirt) and Marty Brown (Art of Fighting), the unlikely quartet unite for the first time on…
    Beethoven’s World

    Australian National Academy of Music: Immortal Beloved

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    In the final concert of the Beethoven's World series, ANAM musicians delve into Beethoven's heart and his yearning for an intimate connection. This longing, poignantly captured in his 1812 letter to the mysterious 'Immortal Beloved', reflects a love that remained unfulfilled, likely aimed at the unattainable Antonie Brentano. This concert features…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: The Cloud Maker

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Taking to the stage like a revelation, The Cloud Maker—five extraordinary female musicians—conjure something culturally transcendent. Born on the snow-capped peaks of Canada and refined in the Adelaide Hills, The Cloud Maker's music reimagines powerful goddess mythologies through an intoxicating instrumental palette: Te Kahureremoa Taumata's ancestral Maori Tāonga Pūoro (including…
    Beethoven’s Eighth

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven’s Eighth

    Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia 30 Parkes Pl E, Parkes, ACT, Australia
    Ah, those summer nights in Eastern Europe, 1812. A week after Napoleon invades Russia, Ludwig van Beethoven almost certainly says “Yes, tonight Josephine” to the love of his life, the unhappily married and recently jilted but socially impossible match, Countess Jozefina Brunszvik. Three days later he pours forth - with…
    Convergence Concert Series by Hamed Sadeghi

    Hamed Sadeghi: Convergence Concert Series by Hamed Sadeghi

    Paddington Uniting Church 395 Oxford Street, Paddington, NSW, Australia
    Multi-award-winning tar player and composer, Hamed Sadeghi, presents the Convergence concert series. The series of three acts featuring renowned and emerging musicians will take place at the stage of the Paddington Uniting Church on 24, 30, and 31 October. Standing individually, all three acts make up a clearer image of…
    Editor's Choice

    Penrith Conservatorium of Music: Chopin – A Stranger In Paris

    Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre Penrith, NSW, Australia
    Following a recital in Adelaide on 26 October, French-British pianist Emmanuel Despax joins the Richard Bonynge Ensemble to explore themes of exile, memory and identity. From Chopin’s shimmering Berceuse to the Sonata No. 2 and a rare chamber arrangement of his Piano Concerto No. 1, this is the portrait of…
    Mountain

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Mountain

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    After more than a decade of producing films, the ACO premiered Mountain in 2017 as one of its boldest explorations of music and nature. Only three centuries ago, the idea scarcely existed that wild landscapes might hold any sort of attraction. Mountains were places of peril, not beauty. An upper world…

    Elder Conservatorium: Lunchtime Concert – French Guise

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Works by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Henri Desmarets, André Campra, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and Barbara Strozzi capture a musical expression of the life and times of Julie d’Aubigny, the 17th-century French sword-fighting opera singer. Today’s concert also includes the premiere of She Who Sings Strange Songs – a new song cycle by…
    Beethoven’s Eighth

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven’s Eighth

    Berry Uniting Church Hall 71-77 Albert St, Berry, NSW, Australia
    Ah, those summer nights in Eastern Europe, 1812. A week after Napoleon invades Russia, Ludwig van Beethoven almost certainly says “Yes, tonight Josephine” to the love of his life, the unhappily married and recently jilted but socially impossible match, Countess Jozefina Brunszvik. Three days later he pours forth - with…
    Convergence Concert Series by Hamed Sadeghi

    Hamed Sadeghi: Convergence Concert Series by Hamed Sadeghi

    Paddington Uniting Church 395 Oxford Street, Paddington, NSW, Australia
    Multi-award-winning tar player and composer, Hamed Sadeghi, presents the Convergence concert series. The series of three acts featuring renowned and emerging musicians will take place at the stage of the Paddington Uniting Church on 24, 30, and 31 October. Standing individually, all three acts make up a clearer image of…