• 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…
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    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…
    The Infinite Quality of Nature

    Ronan Apcar: The Infinite Quality of Nature

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    Long before and long after our time on Earth, nature follows its never-ending course. The plants never stop growing, the seasons never stop changing, and the universe and its planets are forever in motion. Nature operates on a scale of time so large and simultaneously so small, we can't fathom…
  • Arioso Chamber Ensemble: Conversations in Counterpoint

    Cooroy Memorial Hall 23 Maple Street, Cooroy, QLD, Australia
    This concert showcases a rich tapestry of music for violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord by Telemann, JS Bach and Buxtehude, where the viola da gamba takes an equal and expressive role in the musical dialogue. The concert also features Purcell’s sublime aria Music for a While, alongside Vivaldi’s radiant…
    20th Anniversary Concert

    Fremantle Chamber Orchestra: 20th Anniversary Concert

    Fremantle Town Hall 8 William St, Fremantle, WA, Australia
    Mozart’s Great G minor symphony No 40, his most popular, opens the concert. This is a truly grand work, one of Mozart’s last and 1 of only 2 in a minor key. Charles Rosen called it “a work of passion, violence, and grief.” Arvo Pärt’s Da Pacem Domine (Give Peace,…