• Avant Gardens Summer

    Ensemble Offspring: Avant Gardens Summer

    A voice, a piano, a salon setting in a private home… It could be Schubert circa 1826, but add a percussionist and fresh new sounds and it’s Summer 2026. The heart of the program is drawn from Pascal Dusapin’s O Mensch! – a song cycle to words by Nietzsche. It’s theatrical in…

    Tempo Rubato: In Celebration of Phillip Miechel

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    To celebrate Phillip Miechel's incredible influence on clarinettists throughout Australia, International clarinettist and (past student of Phillip) Marc Naylor is joining Australian clarinettist/composer Brigid Burke and pianist Victoria Bilogan to perform works by: J.Albrechtsberger (arr. Phillip Miechel): Scherzo Franz Danzi: Sonata in B flat Major F.X. Sussmayr (realised by Marc Naylor):…
    Editor's Choice A Winter’s Journey

    Musica Viva Australia: A Winter’s Journey

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Allan Clayton, one of the finest tenors on the world stage, returns for a substantial national tour of Winterreise. Lindy Hume’s evocative staging, titled A Winter’s Tale, imagines Schubert’s increasingly disillusioned wanderer trekking through a desolate landscape made up of Fred Williams’ paintings of Australia and brought to life by…

    Inspire Music Australia: Orpheus Quintet

    St Jude's Church, Bowral 38 Bendooley St, Bowral, NSW, Australia
    A dynamic young wind ensemble based in Sydney, Orpheus Quintet was formed at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and is quickly gaining recognition for its vibrant performances, musical precision, and collaborative spirit. In 2025, the quintet participated in the Pathways Program at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and was…

    Inspire Music Australia: Emerging Artist Concert Series: Orpheus Quintet

    Wollongong Art Gallery 46 Burelli St, Wollongong NSW 2500, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
    A dynamic young wind ensemble based in Sydney, Orpheus Quintet was formed at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and is quickly gaining recognition for its vibrant performances, musical precision, and collaborative spirit. In 2025, the quintet participated in the Pathways Program at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and is…

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: 18th Century Unpacked – “Mozart and Haydn”

    The Friends Room, State Library of New South Wales 1 Shakespeare Place, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Haydn’s influence on Mozart and the string quartet Join the Australian Haydn Ensemble (AHE) for the first of three series of interactive lecture recitals, designed as a stand-alone event or to deepen your experience of AHE's mainstage concert in March - Mozart's Spring. Guest Presenter Genevieve Lang of ABC Classic…
    First Light ARCO

    Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra: First Light

    Armidale Town Hall 127 Rusden St, Armidale, NSW, Australia
    A clarinet melody, rising like the sun from shimmering strings. Five of Australia’s most brilliant musicians. Works beloved and new from an age of discovery, emotion and light. ARCO’s First Light takes in a sweep of classical chamber music, including Schubert’s joyful String Quartet No.7 in D major D.74, Mozart’s Largetto from…

    Van Diemen’s Band: 2026 Baroque Academy

    Mount Carmel College 361 Sandy Bay Rd, Sandy Bay, TAS, Australia
    VDB's 2026 Baroque Academy provides the perfect opportunity for both experienced and developing musicians of period instruments to work on 17th and 18th Century music in an academy-style education setting. In classic VDB style, the Academy will combine excellence in historically informed performance (HIP) with a fun, casual and supportive…
    Australian Haydn Ensemble 2026 Season

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Mozart’s Spring

    Berry Uniting Church Hall 71-77 Albert St, Berry, NSW, Australia
    ★★★★1/2 "...elegance, invention and emotional depth.‍” Limelight, 2025 The Australian Haydn Ensemble opens the 2026 season with Haydn’s chirpy and charming quartet Op. 33 No. 3, known as the "Bird".  Named after an unidentified avian, it features a spirited finale and a second movement that’s wild even by Haydn’s standards!…
    First Light ARCO

    Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra: First Light

    Glasshouse, Port Macquarie Corner of Clarence and Hay Streets, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
    A clarinet melody, rising like the sun from shimmering strings. Five of Australia’s most brilliant musicians. Works beloved and new from an age of discovery, emotion and light. ARCO’s First Light takes in a sweep of classical chamber music, including Schubert’s joyful String Quartet No.7 in D major D.74, Mozart’s Largetto from…