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 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…

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…

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.

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,…

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.  

An immersion of soul and space, from 12th century chant to recent Australian works. Featuring Miranda Brockman (cello), Vicki Hallett (clarinet), Tom Healey (baritone), Philip Healey  (violin), Brighid Mantelli (flute), Laura Tanata (harp) and Frank De Rosso (organ).

Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-2025) emerged from the Soviet Union as an innovative composer to keep an eye on. She proved herself to be one of the most foremost composers not just from Russia but internationally. Gubaidulina was a composer who fully committed herself to music of emotional intensity. To step into…