• Patterns of Plants

    Van Diemen’s Band: Patterns Of Plants

    Princess Theatre, Launceston (Theatre North) 55/57 Brisbane Street, Launceston, TAS, Australia
    Bite-sized concerts for the price of a sandwich. Van Diemen’s Band teams up with Melbourne’s Astra Ensemble to present Japanese composer Mamoru Fujieda’s magnum opus “Patterns of Plants”.
    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…

    Brisbane Music Festival: Myths

    FourthWall Arts Suite 4, 540 Queen St, Brisbane City, QLD, Australia
    Karol Szymanowski | Mythes Amy Beach | Sonata for Violin and Piano Sophie Rowell | Violin Alex Raineri | Piano

    Genesis Baroque: Vivaldi’s Gloria

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Described as ‘impressive’ (Sydney Morning Herald), Melbourne’s own Genesis Baroque makes its Elisabeth Murdoch Hall debut as they join forces with the illustrious Choir of Trinity College. This evening of deep musical devotion opens with Vivaldi’s eternally dazzling Gloria. Bursting with sunlit joy and dancing rhythms, the opening movement right through…
    Patterns of Plants

    Van Diemen’s Band: Patterns Of Plants

    Burnie Arts and Function Centre 77-79 Wilmot Street,, Burnie, TAS, Australia
    Bite-sized concerts for the price of a sandwich. Van Diemen’s Band teams up with Melbourne’s Astra Ensemble to present Japanese composer Mamoru Fujieda’s magnum opus “Patterns of Plants”.
    Harmonies Du Soir – Festival of French Chamber Music

    Australian National Academy of Music: Un Cabaret Sérieux

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    This concert is an exhibition of 20th- and 21st-century French works, from wunderkind Lili Boulanger to jazz-influenced Guillaume Connesson. Henri Dutilleux brings a pinch of avant-garde flair, a tradition carried on by the ever-experimental Pascal Dusapin. This opening concert captures the threads running through the festival, an invitation to explore the diversity of chamber music, from incidental pieces to the avant-garde…
    Harmonies Du Soir – Festival of French Chamber Music

    Australian National Academy of Music: Rousseau vs. Rameau

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    La Querelle des Bouffons is a musical scandal that rattled Paris in the mid-18th century.  The dispute (literally “the quarrel of the comic actors”) pitted the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau against philosopher-musician Jean-Jacques Rousseau. What began as an argument over the merits of French opera versus the lighter, more playful Italian comic style…
    Editor's Choice Messiah

    Pinchgut Opera: Messiah

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Although conceived for modest forces, Handel’s Messiah, with its trumpets, drums and majestic Hallelujah Chorus, rapidly expanded to become the preserve of vast Victorian choral societies. Taking a back-to-basics approach, Pinchgut Opera present this Christmas staple in its original version as performed in Dublin in 1742. A cast of just…

    Tempo Rubato: Romance and Reverie

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    Meredith Steele is a North American cellist living in Melbourne. She has performed in concert halls across Europe, the USA, and Asia. Most recently, she represented the University of Melbourne in the Tianjin Juilliard Orchestral Symposium in Beijing. The recipient of multiple awards, Meredith was selected as the 2024 Otti…
    Harmonies Du Soir – Festival of French Chamber Music

    Australian National Academy of Music: Poème

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Two young artists, one a painter and one a musician, both in love with the same woman, compelled and tormented by a single violin melody. It’s no wonder that this story, from Ivan Turgenev’s novella Le Chant de l’amour triomphant (‘The Song of Triumphant Love’), provided inspiration for Ernest Chausson’s haunting Poème, with the violin soloist echoing the novella’s recurring theme.…
    Harmonies Du Soir – Festival of French Chamber Music

    Australian National Academy of Music: In Search of Lost Time

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Could the Adagio of Gabriel Fauré’s first piano quartet have inspired the Vinteuil’s fictional sonata, the “little phrase” of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time? In the novel, the sonata marks the deepening love between Swann and Odette before twisting into a motif for the heartache of their separation.  Fauré himself was grieving after the end of his engagement to Marianne Viardot, and…