• Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Spirit of the Violin: Gold Coast

    HOTA Home of the Arts 135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia
    Beauty, brilliance, and music that dances Led by conductor Jessica Gethin and featuring Principal First Violin Johnny van Gend, this concert is a celebration of elegance and remarkable virtuosity. Waxman’s Carmen Fantasie and Tchaikovsky’s sparkling Valse-Scherzo offer thrilling moments for solo violin, before Glazunov’s Scènes de ballet closes the concert…

    Monash Peforming Arts Centres: Crumb’s Lyre

    The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Renowned pianist Sonya Lifschitz and vocalist and performance artist Christine Johnston come together for a bold reinterpretation of George Crumb’s Makrokosmos, Book 1. Blending recital, cabaret and performance art, this critically acclaimed work places Crumb’s zodiac inspired pieces within an imaginative Antipodean sound world. As Lifschitz conjures extraordinary sounds from…

    Ensemble Mania: String Quartet #1 Project | Series 4

    Peacock Theatre 77 Salamanca Place, Nipaluna/Hobart, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
    This concert, featuring Melbourne's Cedar Collective, is the fourth in the String Quartet #1 Project which aims to showcase first string quartets from Australian composers. This instalment in the series will explore the multitudinous connotations in the music of Tasmanian convict composer Alexander Laing (1792-1868), with performances of Laing's fiddle…

    Coady Green: Meta Cohen and Olivier Messiaen – Prophecy and Eternity

    fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    What does it mean to hear a prophecy and not be believed? This striking program brings together two visionary sound worlds across time. At its centre is Olivier Messiaen’s monumental 'Visions de l’Amen', performed by Coady Green and Marc Peloquin on two pianos, a vast, ecstatic meditation on creation, love,…
  • Editor's Choice Interwoven

    Canberra International Music Festival: Interwoven

    Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia 30 Parkes Pl E, Parkes, ACT, Australia
    This program of vivid contrasts is anchored by Elizabeth Younan’s Interwoven, a recent work exploring connection and expression. Haydn’s String Quartet in A major – part of his revolutionary Sun series – brings wit and invention, while Prokofiev’s wartime Second Quartet in F major draws on Caucasian folk idioms. Clara Schumann’s Variations,…
    Editor's Choice

    Canberra International Music Festival: Folías de España

    Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia 30 Parkes Pl E, Parkes, ACT, Australia
    Artistic Director Eugene Ughetti’s 2026 program is deeply rooted in place, from site-specific bell works at Parliament House and the National Carillon to chamber and choral premieres. Anna-Louise Cole sings Wagner Lieder and Strauss’s Four Last Songs, the Australian String Quartet surveys British music from Purcell to Britten and Rebecca…

    Austral Harmony: 10th Remember Bachfest

    New England Conservatorium of Music Faulkner St, Armidale, NSW, Australia
    Austral Harmony's 10th Remember Bachfest takes place in Armidale opening with a Dance with Bach concert highlighting Johann Sebastian Bach’s encapsulation of the essential features of various baroque dance types found in his iconic works for instrumental solo.
    Beethoven, Mozart & Boccherini

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven, Mozart & Boccherini

    Berry Uniting Church Hall 71-77 Albert St, Berry, NSW, Australia
    How does that one go again? Neglected even amongst Beethoven’s even-numbered “B-side” symphonies, No. 4 in B flat can be a little slow to spring to mind, but once that effervescent first subject banishes the portent of the mock-gloomy introduction, the delights of this work come flooding back. Really remarkable…
    Howl

    Omega Ensemble: Howl

    ACO on the Pier Suite 3/13A Hickson Rd, Dawes Point NSW 2000, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
    Howl presents a performance of musical defiance and untamed brilliance. Best known as the musical mind behind Tim Burton's dark cinematic worlds, Danny Elfman’s mischievous Piano Quartet is a rare and revealing gem, written with the same sardonic humour and manic intensity that define his film scores. Celebrating the strange…

    Austral Harmony: 10th Remember Bachfest

    New England Conservatorium of Music Faulkner St, Armidale, NSW, Australia
    Austral Harmony host a Diversity of the Dance in-depth music workshop exploring the individual character and expression of popular C18th dances of different nationalities and styles. Tutors offer guidance on how to perform the music for various dance types, treating melody, rhythm, movement and metre from an historically inspired perspective.
    Beethoven, Mozart & Boccherini

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven, Mozart & Boccherini

    Bowral Memorial Hall 16-24 Bendooley St,, Bowral, NSW
    How does that one go again? Neglected even amongst Beethoven’s even-numbered “B-side” symphonies, No. 4 in B flat can be a little slow to spring to mind, but once that effervescent first subject banishes the portent of the mock-gloomy introduction, the delights of this work come flooding back. Really remarkable…

    UKARIA: Leonkoro Quartet | Role Models

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    ‘It is not only the Leonkoro Quartet’s insight into the longings and distortions of human desire, but also their outstanding ability to shape these insights into sound that leaves us stunned.’ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The Berlin-based Leonkoro Quartet has been making waves on the international chamber music scene since…