Selby & Friends: Epic Diva

Bowral Memorial Hall 16-24 Bendooley St,, Bowral, NSW
Our 2025 Season comes to a close with a blockbuster program of big piano quartets filled to the brim with the most gorgeous melodies and boasting two of our most beloved chamber musicians in Liz Layton and Julian Smiles with an introduction to another brilliant young Australian artist, violist Isabella…
After Hours Concert

Elder Conservatorium: Born in Vienna

Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Celebrating Vienna as the birthplace of orchestral music as we know it, this special performance presents Mozart’s first and last thoughts, Beethoven’s dramatic arrival onto the stage, and Schubert’s ‘Great’ C major Symphony, a work that sums up the Viennese Classical tradition while simultaneously knocking on the door of the…
Celestial Choral Baroque

Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra: Celestial Choral Baroque

The Empire Theatres, Toowoomba 54-56 Neil Street, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
Strings and choir unite! In an otherworldly collaboration with one of Australia’s newest choirs, expect to be uplifted with this achingly beautiful music, both old and new. This otherworldly collaboration sees strings and choir unite with one of Australia’s newest choirs, based right here in Brisbane! One Equal Music joins…
Cocteau’s Circle

Australian Chamber Orchestra: Cocteau’s Circle

Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Step into the intimate, dreamy light of Le Boeuf sur le toit, the legendary cabaret bar of 1920s Paris. The liquor is strong and spirits are high. War is over and art is flourishing. Here, Europe’s most fashionable mingle with the city’s greatest minds: Coco Chanel, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway,…

Selby & Friends: Epic Diva

Turramurra Uniting Church 10 Turramurra Ave, Turramurra, NSW, Australia
Our 2025 Season comes to a close with a blockbuster program of big piano quartets filled to the brim with the most gorgeous melodies and boasting two of our most beloved chamber musicians in Liz Layton and Julian Smiles with an introduction to another brilliant young Australian artist, violist Isabella…

Hunters Hill Music: Affinity Quartet

Hunters Hill Town Hall 22 Alexandra St, Hunters Hill, NSW, Australia
The Affinity Quartet has captured the world’s attention with its exceptional music making.  Winners of the 2023 Melbourne International String Quartet Competition and Laureates of the Bad Tölz International String Quartet Competition (Germany), the Mozart International String Quartet Competition (Austria) and the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, the Affinity…
Nightingale

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Nightingale

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Baroque and modern treasures in an explosion of colour and energy. Harpsichordist Donald Nicolson brings an infectious enthusiasm and a sparkling musicality to everything he does. This program sees him take centre stage, both as guest director from the keyboard and as the soloist in Bach’s stunning first harpsichord concerto.…

UKARIA: Kristian Winther with Konstantin Shamray

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
For this program – contrary to my own general philosophy of being anti-‘curation’, or in other words, of being against the modern norm of taking multiple historical works of genius and stringing them together in such a way as to unnecessarily impose the curator’s own artistic ‘vision’ of a particular…

Selby & Friends: Epic Diva

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Our 2025 Season comes to a close with a blockbuster program of big piano quartets filled to the brim with the most gorgeous melodies and boasting two of our most beloved chamber musicians in Liz Layton and Julian Smiles with an introduction to another brilliant young Australian artist, violist Isabella…

The Concourse: Meditations on Australia

The Concourse, Chatswood 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood, NSW, Australia
Beloved Australian actor, singer, and writer Drew Forsythe joins cellist Susan Blake, flautist Jane Rutter, Lachlan Youll on didjeridoo, and special guest dramatist and renowned music theatre composer, Terence Clarke on piano. With music and poetry for and from the Australian continent, the performers play works from Jane Rutter’s album…
Epic Diva

Selby & Friends: Epic Diva

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Our 2025 Season comes to a close with a blockbuster program of big piano quartets filled to the brim with the most gorgeous melodies and boasting two of our most beloved chamber musicians in Liz Layton and Julian Smiles with an introduction to another brilliant young Australian artist, violist Isabella…
Epic Diva

Selby & Friends: Epic Diva

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Our 2025 Season comes to a close with a blockbuster program of big piano quartets filled to the brim with the most gorgeous melodies and boasting two of our most beloved chamber musicians in Liz Layton and Julian Smiles with an introduction to another brilliant young Australian artist, violist Isabella…

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