• Long Listen: Horizons New Art Music with Cerulean Collective

    Palmwoods Memorial Hall 1 Main Street, Palmwoods, QLD, Australia
    Discover the next wave of Australian classical music with Cerulean Collective, a Brisbane-based ensemble of composer-performers. Violinist Abigail Lui, cellist Emily Winter, pianist Alexandra Mison, and violist Bridget Wegner present Horizons, a program drawn from their debut album of the same name. Featuring music by Sophia Mackson, Alexandra Mison, and…

    UKARIA: Cuarteto Quiroga

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    The ‘exquisite’ and ‘interpretatively fresh’ (New York Times) Cuarteto Quiroga celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2023 and now makes its UKARIA debut. The quartet has become a staple of the European and North American chamber music landscape and is renowned for its distinctive musical personality and charismatic music-making. Cuarteto Quiroga’s…

    Music at the Basilica: E Flat Major through Centuries

    St Joseph's College Performing Arts Centre 135 Aphrasia Street, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
    Trio Océanique –Olivier Bonnici (violin), Jenny Ingram (viola) and Siobhan O'Shaughnessy (cello) with Sonoka Miyake - piano Mozart - Piano Quartet in E-flat major, K. 493 (1786) Dvořák - Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 87 (1889)
    AYO Chamber Players

    Australian Youth Orchestra: AYO Chamber Players – Concert I

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Take a front-row seat and experience the wonderful world of chamber music with Australia's rising musical stars. From wind quintets to brass ensembles and string quartets, this is your chance to get up close and personal with the instruments of the orchestra. The program features a deeply moving new work…
    AYO Chamber Players

    Australian Youth Orchestra: AYO Chamber Players – Concert II

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Take a front-row seat and experience the wonderful world of chamber music with Australia's rising musical stars. From wind quintets to brass ensembles and string quartets, this is your chance to get up close and personal with the instruments of the orchestra. The program features a deeply moving new work…

    Van Diemen’s Band: Where Everything is Music

    Brisbane Powerhouse 119 Lamington St, New Farm, QLD, Australia
    Van Diemen’s Band invites listeners to experience a stunning blend of two distinct musical worlds. Created for MONA FOMA 2023 and performed to sold-out audiences, this cross-cultural collaboration with Ensemble Kaboul features musicians Khaled Arman (rubab) and Siar Hashimi (tablā and vocals). Embodying artistry and advocacy, this performance preserves and…

    Phoenix Central Park: Bhairavi Raman x Nanthesh Sivarajah

    Phoenix Central Park NSW
    Bhairavi Raman is an Indian-Australian violinist. Classically trained in Western and Carnatic forms, she merges concepts and techniques to express her bicultural identity. She uses sound in a dynamic way, blending concepts and techniques developed through her decades of training and expertise in Carnatic (South Indian Classical) and Western Classical…
    Editor's Choice Trio Isimsiz

    Musica Viva Australia: Trio Isimsiz

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Trio Isimsiz (‘anonymous’ in Turkish) was formed in 2008 by pianist Erdem Mısırlıoğlu, violinist Pablo Hernán Benedí and cellist Edvard Pogossian after meeting at the Guildhall School in London. Celebrated from the Aldeburgh Festival to Copenhagen’s Tivoli Concert Hall, they now embark on their first national tour with Schubert’s Piano Trio…

    Salamanca Arts Centre: Villa Lobos & Ginastera

    Salamanca Arts Centre 77 Salamanca Pl, Battery Point, TAS, Australia
    In this concert of works by two Brazilian composers; Villa-Lobos and Albert Ginastera, the quartet will also perform the world premiere of a new String Quartet by Tasmanian composer, Tom Misson, as well as ‘Movement for String Quartet’ by Tasmanian composer Gary Wain.
    Editor's Choice Trio Isimsiz

    Musica Viva Australia: Trio Isimsiz

    Newcastle City Hall Newcastle, NSW, Australia
    Trio Isimsiz (‘anonymous’ in Turkish) was formed in 2008 by pianist Erdem Mısırlıoğlu, violinist Pablo Hernán Benedí and cellist Edvard Pogossian after meeting at the Guildhall School in London. Celebrated from the Aldeburgh Festival to Copenhagen’s Tivoli Concert Hall, they now embark on their first national tour with Schubert’s Piano Trio…

    Elder Conservatorium: Lunchtime Concert – The Trout

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    This special collaboration sees three of our faculty members team up with two very distinguished colleagues from overseas. Described by the Los Angeles Times as an ‘extraordinary musician’, Mark Menzies is a member of the LA Philharmonic, and is currently violin and viola professor at the Californian Institute of Arts. The German-born,…

    Australia Baroque: Extravagant Mozart

    Government House Ballroom, Perth 13 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
    Join us in the elegant Ballroom of Government House for an all-Mozart program played on period instruments. Mozart’s spectacular and rarely heard concerto for three fortepianos round off this dazzling program, with fortepiano soloists Dr Geoffrey Lancaster AO, James Huntingford and Jake Smith.