Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Four Bassoons

Iwaki Auditorium 130 Southbank Blvd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
The gentle giants of the orchestra come centre stage in this unique program curated by MSO contrabassoonist Brock Imison. Showcasing the entire MSO bassoon section, this chamber music concert explores all the characters and emotions of this curious family of instruments in works from the renaissance to modern times.

Hunters Hill Music: Swirl, Swoop and Dance

Hunters Hill Town Hall 22 Alexandra St, Hunters Hill, NSW, Australia
Youth reigns in this exuberant program featuring three short works for string quartet by young Australian composers Harry Sdraulig, Holly Harrison and Joseph Twist and Schubert’s masterpiece, his String Quintet written shortly before his death, aged 31. Harrison, Sdraulig and Twists’s works are inventive, evocative and arresting, with chromatic twists…
Fantasia

Melbourne Chamber Choir: Fantasia

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Youthful brilliance and solemn beauty. At the heart of this program is a new violin concerto by one of Australia’s most respected composers, Richard Mills, who has conceived the work with MCO Artistic Director Sophie Rowell as the soloist. Described as an “oarsman, musician and scholar”, Frederick Septimus Kelly wrote…

Heidelberg Choral Society: Schubertiade – Celebrating Franz Schubert

The Centre Ivanhoe 275 Upper Heidelberg Rd, Ivanhoe, VIC, Australia
In his short life of 31 years, Franz Peter Schubert’s music was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna. Today, Schubert is considered one of the greatest composers in the history of Western classical music, and you can join with the Heidelberg Choral Society to hear a…
Sundays by the Lake

Ensemble Q: Death & The Maiden

University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD, Australia
The extraordinary string quartet no 14 in D minor by Schubert is possibly the most important and most loved string quartet in history. It’s paired with French composer Lili Boulanger’s exquisite D’un soir triste and D’un matin de printemps for Piano Trio.
The Art Of

Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra: The Art Of

The Empire Theatres, Toowoomba 54-56 Neil Street, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
An inspiring and refreshing collaboration between QPAC’s Art of the Possible artist, the ARIA award-winning pianist, Paul Grabowsky AO, together with Camerata This concert brings QPAC’s Art of the Possible artist, the inimitable pianist, Paul Grabowsky AO, together with Camerata in a program that celebrates tradition and reimagines it. Hear…
Hollywood Songbook

Musica Viva Australia: Hollywood Songbook

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Signum Saxophone Quartet and renegade opera star, Ali McGregor, reclaim the Hollywood Songbook in a journey from moody monochrome to vibrant technicolour. Trip the light fantastic from Berlin to Hollywood, via a Shakespearean tragedy, a Broadway musical and a Wild West rodeo in this sonic documentary of turbulent times.

The University of Melbourne: Draevon – Between Light and Darkness

Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Transfigured String Trio presents Russian composer Alfred Schnitkke’s extraordinary dark and compelling string trio in its original format composed in 1985 just prior to him suffering a severe stroke that led into a coma. After being declared clinically dead on several occasions, he went on to survive and continued composing…
fortyfivedownstairs Chamber Music Festival

fortyfivedownstairs: Egmont / Prometheus

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
An incredibly ambitious opening night program performed by Coady Green, Ian Munro, Justin Kenealy, Paul English, Antoinette Halloran, and the Divisi Chamber Singers. Beethoven: Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus Opus 43, for piano four hands (arr. Carl Czerny) Coady Green, Ian Munro Beethoven: Egmont Opus 84, for narrator, two…

Australian Chamber Orchestra: An Evening with the ACO Collective Quartet

The Art House 19-21 Margaret Street, Wyong, NSW, Australia
Featuring classical masterworks by Bach, Beethoven and Dvořák, alongside contemporary works by Philip Glass and Caroline Shaw, interspersed with delightfully informative introductions to the music. Acclaimed for the energy and dynamism of their performances, the ACO Collective Quartet is made up of graduates from the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s renowned Emerging…

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