• A Romantic Rendezvous

    Pacific Chamber Players: A Romantic Rendezvous

    Cooroy Memorial Hall 23 Maple Street, Cooroy, QLD, Australia
    Pacific Chamber Players’ first performance for the year is a very special one. They are presenting works by female Romantic composers, in particular Louise Farrenc, Cécile Chaminade, Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. The music of these composers and pianists added an emotional depth and enchantment to the canon of…

    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…

    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.

    Sydney Chamber Music Institute: Schubert and Brahms – The Trout and the Trio

    Church Street Studios, Camperdown 62-68 Church St,, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
    An afternoon of warmth, wit, and virtuosity in the golden light of a Sunday. Schubert's Trout Quintet is one of chamber music's most beloved works — playful, songful, and irresistibly charming. Alongside it, Brahms's Horn Trio brings a different richness, its famous finale bursting into a joyous hunting-call rondo. Together,…
    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…

    Van Diemen’s Band: Meyers and Yap

    Burnie Arts and Function Centre 77-79 Wilmot Street,, Burnie, TAS, Australia
    Acclaimed fiddlers Katie Yap and Rachel Meyers bring their new duo project to the Lunchbox Concerts. Together they explore the confluence of folk and baroque music: haunting traditional tunes and songs sit alongside intricate original compositions and their own arrangements of pieces by baroque composers Henry Purcell and Diego Ortiz, all delivered with warmth,…
    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…
    Elder Con Lunchtime Concerts

    Elder Conservatorium: Vignettes

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    In his youth, Shostakovich was employed as a cinema pianist, improvising soundtracks for silent films. This theatrical flair and narrative sensibility can be found in his Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano. A suite of vignettes, each piece tells its own story and unfolds like a reel of miniature…

    Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra: Bohemian Dreams Brisbane

    Plant Empire 15/55 Lofter St, Tennyson QLD 4105, Brisbane, QLD
    Horn calls, lilting clarinet and strings – the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra returns to regional Queensland with sparkling chamber music from an age of elegance. ‘Bohemian Dreams’ soars from joyful Mozart and Schubert to the freshness of Bohemian composers like Franz Krommer and Giovanni Punto, performed on rare period…

    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: The Alchemy of Alban Berg

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Please note that in a change to the previously advertised program, Roger Benedict will be conducting the Kammerkonzert, rather than Jeffrey Means. We thank you for your understanding. Please note that the repertoire remains the same.  ANAM musicians embark on a performance tracing and uncovering the musical world of Alban…