• Beethoven’s Eighth

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven’s Eighth

    Glasshouse, Port Macquarie Corner of Clarence and Hay Streets, Port Macquarie, 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…
    Opera for the Dead

    OzAsia Festival: Opera for the Dead

    Odeon Theatre, Norwood 57a Queen St, Norwood, SA, Australia
    A contemporary Chinese cyber-opera that reimagines the connection between life and death. Inspired by Chinese mourning rituals, Opera for the Dead 祭歌 is an immersive, multi-artform performance combining live musicians and singers with electronic processing, mobile stages, ambisonic sound, and 3D animation. Move freely through the shifting performance space as…
    Affinity Quartet – Incantation

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Affinity Quartet – Incantation

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Considered a groundbreaking work from the moment it premiered in 1893, Debussy’s only string quartet, with its shimmering textures and innovative harmonies, transports audiences to an impressionistic world. A defining moment in chamber music, Debussy left an undeniable mark on future composers including French-born Héloïse Werner. Described as ‘a composer…

    Adelaide Cantata Band: Hope and Triumph

    Bethlehem Lutheran Church 170 Flinders St, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Join Adelaide Cantata Band in an evening of stunning 18th-century Bach masterworks at Bethlehem Lutheran Church this November. Indulge in a sublime melting-pot of emotion and intellect, expressed through some of the most stunning music ever written for voices and instruments – Bach’s iconic cantatas, Wachet auf, ruft uns die…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Karina Filipi

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Karina Filipi (ANAM Faculty, Tuba) has built an outstanding international career, with her studies taking her from the Elder and Sydney Conservatoriums to the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Switzerland. Alongside her performances with prestigious orchestras, Karina is deeply committed to nurturing the next generation of musicians. "From heralding fanfares…
    Affinity Quartet – Incantation

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Affinity Quartet – Incantation

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Considered a groundbreaking work from the moment it premiered in 1893, Debussy’s only string quartet, with its shimmering textures and innovative harmonies, transports audiences to an impressionistic world. A defining moment in chamber music, Debussy left an undeniable mark on future composers including French-born Héloïse Werner. Described as ‘a composer…
    Elastic Hearts

    HOTA: Elastic Hearts

    HOTA 135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise, QLD, Australia
    Step into a powerful new dance experience with Elastic Hearts — a bold fusion of contemporary ballet and the chart-topping music of pop icon Sia, brought to life with a cinematic score specially recorded by Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Choreographed and directed by Garry Stewart, the visually stunning production is a…
    Songbirds

    Music in the Regions: Ensemble Offspring – Songbirds

    Wauchope Community Arts Hall Oxley Ln, Wauchope, NSW, Australia
    Music in the Regions is proud to tour Songbirds on the Mid-North Coast with Ensemble Offspring, Australia’s leading contemporary music group. Since its premiere in 2019, Songbirds has become an Ensemble Offspring crowd-favourite. Nature comes alive, as a trio of flute, clarinet and percussion evokes the weird and wonderful sounds…

    Moonbird Festival: Saxophone and Strings at the Hub

    King Island Hub 38 Lighthouse Street, Currie, Tasmania, Australia
    This concert features rising star saxophonist Alice Morgan alongside members of the Bowerbird Collective performing a stunning new commission by composer Andrew Howes, as well as works by Max Richter, Alice Chance, Philip Glass and Danish folk tunes. "A lake is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the…

    North Adelaide Baroque Hall: Walking on Roses

    North Adelaide Baroque Hall 104 Tynte St, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Intimate chamber music arranged from cantatas by two of the Baroque era's most celebrated composers. Vocal lines are substituted by the recorder, oboe, oboe d'maore and cello, with each instrument displaying poignant and ornate obbligato roles.
    Elastic Hearts

    HOTA: Elastic Hearts

    HOTA 135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise, QLD, Australia
    Step into a powerful new dance experience with Elastic Hearts — a bold fusion of contemporary ballet and the chart-topping music of pop icon Sia, brought to life with a cinematic score specially recorded by Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Choreographed and directed by Garry Stewart, the visually stunning production is a…

    Hayes Street Studio: Anna da Silva Chen in recital with Lee Dionne

    Hayes Street Studio 11 Hayes Street, Neutral Bay, NSW, Australia
    Hayes Street Studio presents violinist Anna da Silva Chen in a recital with pianist Lee Dionne. The pair will perform Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, Sz. 75 by Béla Bartók alongside the music of Grażyna Bacewicz and Cheng Jin Koh. Anna da Silva Chen is widely regarded as…