• SXS Chamber Music Festival: Tipi And Aura

    Shambala Estate 104 Beacon Road, Tamborine Mountain, QLD, Australia
    Aura Go and Timo-Veikko Valve love playing Beethoven together. Critics say their performances bring “extraordinary life and colour” (Limelight) to his works for cello and piano. In this program they assemble a “new” Beethoven sonata from their favourite movements, then frame it with luminous miniatures: the lyrical stillness of Helvi Leiviskä, the delicate…

    Trio Anima Mundi: The Muse

    Holy Trinity Anglican Church, East Melbourne 193 Hotham St, East Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Be transported to the glittering salons of Belle Époque Paris, a world of artistic innovation, poetry, and elegance. This enchanting program celebrates the era's creative spirit, placing two brilliant female composers alongside a celebrated master. Experience the perfumed, exotic dreamscape of Mel Bonis’ Suite Orientale, the effortless charm and passion…

    Christ Church Camerata: Mahler #1

    Newcastle Conservatorium of Music Cnr Laman Street, Auckland St, Newcastle, NSW
    From one of the most original voices in the history of orchestral music, Mahler’s first symphony remains one of his most popular. Ranging from the tenderest moments to passages of earth-shattering drama, this symphony was his Mahler’s first mark on the world of music, daring to build on the tradition…

    Chimera Ensemble: Chimera Ensemble: Lyrical Landscapes

    St Mary's Anglican Church, South Perth 9 Ridge Street, South Perth, WA, Australia
    Join Chimera Ensemble for Clarinet Trios by Mendelssohn, Hartmann, & D'Indy, with clarinettist Geoff Bourgault, cellist Melinda Forsythe & pianist Tommaso Pollio in the beautiful St Mary's Church, South Perth. Program: Mendelssohn: Concert pieces Emily Hartmann: Serenade in A major op 20 D’Indy: Trio in B-flat major op 29 Light…

    SXS Chamber Music Festival: Exsultate!

    Shambala Estate 104 Beacon Road, Tamborine Mountain, QLD, Australia
    Maurice Ravel’s shimmering Three Mallarmé Songs brings together Sara Macliver and the extended family of festival artists. Timo-Veikko Valve joins in vivid duos: Derek Bermel’s Coming Together and Jessie Montgomery’s energetic Duo for violin and cello. Then Mozart’s radiant Exsultate, Jubilate closes the festival in music of pure joy—sending everyone out singing.
    Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford

    Musica Viva Australia: Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford

    Queensland Conservatorium 140 Grey St, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    In the intricate weave of sounds that make up a baroque ensemble, the lute is central. It’s fitting, then, that French-American lutenist Thomas Dunford is at the centre of some of the most exciting early music making of the moment. A regular collaborator with everyone from Les Arts Florissants to…
    Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford

    Musica Viva Australia: Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    In the intricate weave of sounds that make up a baroque ensemble, the lute is central. It’s fitting, then, that French-American lutenist Thomas Dunford is at the centre of some of the most exciting early music making of the moment. A regular collaborator with everyone from Les Arts Florissants to…

    Australian National Academy of Music: In-Conversation & The Alchemy of Alban Berg with Jeffrey Means

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    American conductor Jeffrey Means (Berklee College of Music) leads ANAM musicians in a pre-show talk and performance tracing the musical world of Alban Berg — a composer who stood between centuries, traditions and ideas. The concert program begins with Berg’s Seven Early Songs, a work written in his twenties and…
    Old. New. Borrowed. Blue.

    Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra: Old. New. Borrowed. Blue.

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Dive into a kaleidoscope of sound. Featuring Brisbane-born international pianist Anthony Romaniuk, you will be treated to a curation of musical gems from the baroque elegance of JS Bach to the modern vision of Olli Mustonen and everything in between. Lovers of jazz will delight in the opportunity to hear…

    Ensemble Q: Ensemble Q play Bartok & Brahms

    Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House – Bennelong Point Sydney Australia 14/2 Circular Quay E, Sydney NSW 2000, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    From Bartók’s dazzling Contrasts and Margaret Sutherland’s shimmering Nocturne to the passionate drama of Brahms’ Piano Quartet in C minor, Ensemble Q weaves a program of striking contrasts — music of energy, intimacy and emotional depth from three unique voices across continents and eras.

    Australian National Academy of Music: In-Conversation & The Alchemy of Alban Berg with Jeffrey Means

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    American conductor Jeffrey Means (Berklee College of Music) leads ANAM musicians in a pre-show talk and performance tracing the musical world of Alban Berg — a composer who stood between centuries, traditions and ideas. The concert program begins with Berg’s Seven Early Songs, a work written in his twenties and…

    Bundanon: Liam Byrne & Laura Vaughan – Liquid Threads

    Boyd Education Centre, Bundanon 170 Riversdale Rd, Illaroo, NSW, Australia
    In this rare and captivating collaboration, two of the world’s finest viola da gamba players perform an atmospheric musical journey across the centuries. Liquid Threads celebrates the unique sonority of two bass viols in dialogue — a sound at once intimate and powerful, with a unique expressive depth. Liam Byrne…