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    Canberra International Music Festival: Bell Plains

    National Carillon Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Artistic Director Eugene Ughetti’s 2026 program is deeply rooted in place, from site-specific bell works at Parliament House and the National Carillon to chamber and choral premieres. Anna-Louise Cole sings Wagner Lieder and Strauss’s Four Last Songs, the Australian String Quartet surveys British music from Purcell to Britten and Rebecca…
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    Canberra International Music Festival: Tales of Fragile Sensations

    Snow Concert Hall 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Artistic Director Eugene Ughetti’s 2026 program is deeply rooted in place, from site-specific bell works at Parliament House and the National Carillon to chamber and choral premieres. Anna-Louise Cole sings Wagner Lieder and Strauss’s Four Last Songs, the Australian String Quartet surveys British music from Purcell to Britten and Rebecca…

    The Southern Concert: Dorinda & Olimpia

    St Paul's Anglican Church, Manuka 70 Canberra Avenue, Griffith, ACT, Australia
    The Southern Concert presents an afternoon of enticing Italian baroque music with soprano Greta Claringbould, Shaun Ng (theorbo), Stephen Freeman and Lauren Davis (violin), Odette Bruinzeel (viola), Clara Teniswood (violoncello) and Rosalind Halton (harpsichord). Come and hear the intimate sound of the theorbo accompanying Greta in two cantatas by Alessandro…

    UKARIA: Leonkoro Quartet | Opus 131

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    In their second offering for UKARIA, the Leonkoro Quartet presents a unique selection of Austro-German voices old and new. The lavish late-Romantic vocabulary of Anton Webern’s 1905 single-movement Langsamer Satz is testament to the influence of his teacher Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht. From late-Romanticism, the Leonkoro Quartet shifts towards a…

    Camberwell Chorale: Mozart “Requiem” and Michael Easton “Unsung Heroes”

    Hawthorn Arts Centre Burwood Road, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
    Mozart’s final and most profound work, his Requiem, is a powerful and moving choral work renowned for dramatic intensity, stirring sequences, rich harmonies and evocative use of choir and orchestra. Exploring themes of mourning, hope, and redemption, the Mozart Requiem is one of the most enduring and celebrated pieces in…
    Howl

    Omega Ensemble: Howl

    Malachi Gilmore Hall 124 Oberon St, Oberon, NSW, Australia
    Howl presents a performance of musical defiance and untamed brilliance. Best known as the musical mind behind Tim Burton's dark cinematic worlds, Danny Elfman’s mischievous Piano Quartet is a rare and revealing gem, written with the same sardonic humour and manic intensity that define his film scores. Celebrating the strange…
    Beethoven, Mozart & Boccherini

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven, Mozart & Boccherini

    ACO on the Pier Suite 3/13A Hickson Rd, Dawes Point NSW 2000, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
    How does that one go again? Neglected even amongst Beethoven’s even-numbered “B-side” symphonies, No. 4 in B flat can be a little slow to spring to mind, but once that effervescent first subject banishes the portent of the mock-gloomy introduction, the delights of this work come flooding back. Really remarkable…
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    Canberra International Music Festival: Pianos and Percussion: Festival Finale

    Snow Concert Hall 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Artistic Director Eugene Ughetti’s 2026 program is deeply rooted in place, from site-specific bell works at Parliament House and the National Carillon to chamber and choral premieres. Anna-Louise Cole sings Wagner Lieder and Strauss’s Four Last Songs, the Australian String Quartet surveys British music from Purcell to Britten and Rebecca…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Leonkoro Quartet

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Berlin's Leonkoro Quartet arrives with the fearless intensity their Esperanto name promises – 'lion-heart' – and a reputation that has electrified the international chamber music world since their 2019 formation. Fresh from claiming top prizes at Wigmore Hall and earning Concertgebouw's Young Talent Award, these four musicians deliver performances that…
    Beethoven’s Ghost

    Musica Viva Australia: Beethoven’s Ghost

    Newcastle City Hall Newcastle, NSW, Australia
    What makes a great piano trio? Is it celebrity? Is it longevity? Or is it serendipity? Three magnificent musicians, brought together at the right time and the right place? Aura Go, Australian pianist, storyteller and FutureMaker, has worked with Finnish/Australian-based cellist Timo-Veikko (Tipi) Valve for many years, performing nationally and…
    Howl

    Omega Ensemble: Howl

    The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre 30 Eton St, Sutherland, NSW, Australia
    Howl presents a performance of musical defiance and untamed brilliance. Best known as the musical mind behind Tim Burton's dark cinematic worlds, Danny Elfman’s mischievous Piano Quartet is a rare and revealing gem, written with the same sardonic humour and manic intensity that define his film scores. Celebrating the strange…
    Beethoven’s Ghost

    Musica Viva Australia: Beethoven’s Ghost

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    What makes a great piano trio? Is it celebrity? Is it longevity? Or is it serendipity? Three magnificent musicians, brought together at the right time and the right place? Aura Go, Australian pianist, storyteller and FutureMaker, has worked with Finnish/Australian-based cellist Timo-Veikko (Tipi) Valve for many years, performing nationally and…