• Haydn’s Miracle

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Haydn’s Miracle

    Berry Uniting Church Hall 71-77 Albert St, Berry, NSW, Australia
    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…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Anna Goldsworthy & Nam Le

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Pianist and curator Anna Goldsworthy will mentor ANAM musicians as they create a concert experience that explores the complex history of the Abbotsford Convent. Our musicians will also work in collaboration with Dylan Thomas prize-winning author, and former Convent tenant, Nam Le, who has been commissioned by ANAM to write a…
    Takács Quartet & Angie Milliken

    Musica Viva Australia: Takács Quartet & Angie Milliken

    Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    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…
    Orpheus

    Wright & Grainger: Orpheus

    Browns Mart 12 Smith Street, Darwin, NT, Australia
    A story about love and how far you’ll go to get it back when you lose it Dave is single. He’s stood at the bar. Eurydice is a tree nymph. And Bruce Springsteen is on the juke box. A tale of impossible, death-defying love told through hair raising spoken word…
    Listening Acts Performance

    Chamber Made: Listening Acts Performance

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Sonic rituals where medical machines sing, bones whisper secrets, and vibrating forms create sublime performance. The space between making sound and hearing it holds intimacy and possibility. In this multidisciplinary experience, Chamber Made activates Melbourne Recital Centre for Now or Never with Listening Acts – a series of live music…
    SXS Festival

    Southern Cross Soloists: Small Birds Play

    Shambala Estate 104 Beacon Road, Tamborine Mountain, QLD, Australia
    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.
    Listening Acts Performance

    Chamber Made: Listening Acts Installation

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The space between making sound and hearing it holds intimacy and possibility. In this multidisciplinary experience, Chamber Made activates Melbourne Recital Centre for Now or Never with Listening Acts – a series of live music installations that explore listening and its role in memory, belonging and identity. Chamber Made invites…
    SXS Festival

    Southern Cross Soloists: The Oravas

    Shambala Estate 104 Beacon Road, Tamborine Mountain, QLD, Australia
    The world-class Orava Quartet return to the Southern Cross stage for a program of love songs, without words. Wood Works brings the simple sound of Nordic folk tunes into our own time, while the teenaged Felix Mendelssohn drew on one of his own songs for this passionate, heart-on-the-sleeve work. It…
    Listening Acts Performance

    Chamber Made: Listening Acts Performance

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Sonic rituals where medical machines sing, bones whisper secrets, and vibrating forms create sublime performance. The space between making sound and hearing it holds intimacy and possibility. In this multidisciplinary experience, Chamber Made activates Melbourne Recital Centre for Now or Never with Listening Acts – a series of live music…
    Haydn’s Miracle

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Haydn’s Miracle

    Bowral Memorial Hall 16-24 Bendooley St,, Bowral, NSW
    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…
    Listening Acts Performance

    Chamber Made: Listening Acts Performance

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Sonic rituals where medical machines sing, bones whisper secrets, and vibrating forms create sublime performance. The space between making sound and hearing it holds intimacy and possibility. In this multidisciplinary experience, Chamber Made activates Melbourne Recital Centre for Now or Never with Listening Acts – a series of live music…
    SXS Festival

    Southern Cross Soloists: Love and Life

    Shambala Estate 104 Beacon Road, Tamborine Mountain, QLD, Australia
    Alexandra Flood, with “a voice to drown in” (The Courier Mail), joins Sholto Kynoch, one of the world’s great lieder pianists, for a recital program of captivating beauty. Robert Schumann’s exquisite Frauen-Liebe und Leben forms the centrepiece, a journey from love at first sight to marriage to motherhood to beyond.…

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