As a musician’s instrumental proficiency develops, so too does their artistic taste and temperament. Each ANAM musician’s recital is a snapshot in time – simultaneously summarising their year of training and revealing glimpses of their future selves. What music excites them? What do they want to communicate? Hear what the…

As a musician’s instrumental proficiency develops, so too does their artistic taste and temperament. Each ANAM musician’s recital is a snapshot in time – simultaneously summarising their year of training and revealing glimpses of their future selves. What music excites them? What do they want to communicate? How does their…

Formed in 1975 by four students of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, the much-loved Takács Quartet has remade itself artistically, geographically and personally across five decades on the classical stage. Now, in its 50th year, the Quartet returns to Australia with undimmed brilliance to present a major new work…

Legendary UK clarinettist Michael Collins mixes the classics with the common man in this side-winding and heart-racing performance. Celebrated as a “composer of uncommon gifts and unusual methods” (The New York Times), Grammy-nominated composer Anna Clyne's Stride takes fragments of Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata, refracting the work's adored lyricism in a captivating…

The AHE quartet return to Haydn’s Op. 76 with No. 6 in E flat major. It’s often called the Fantasia after its utterly captivating slow movement, but the true sense of the word - the composer’s “fancy” running freely - applies equally to the whole quartet, from the euphoric riffing…

A little festival taster to whet your appetite for the weekend ahead. Voices sing to us from the past in a program of dances and heartbreak. From Bartók’s toe-tappin’ moves to Piazzolla’s deep wells of emotion. Festival artists Slava and Sharon Grigoryan present a special musical surprise.