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Emanuel Synagogue: Custodians of the Sky

Emanuel Synagogue 7 Ocean St, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Custodians of the Sky is a new Australian work by composer Luke Styles that invites audiences to journey among the heavens and the earth, exploring our shared imaginings of the universe through the power of music and poetry. At Emanuel Synagogue, this production takes on special resonance. Honouring the Jewish…

Australian National Academy of Music: Beleura 5: Matinee

Beleura House & Garden PO Box 1198, Mornington, VIC, Australia
Beleura House and Garden, a stunning 19th-century house on the Mornington Peninsula, is renowned for its breathtaking gardens and custom-built performance space. Here, ANAM brings you an exceptional chamber music experience, featuring both ANAM musicians and faculty members. After the concert, enjoy a delightful afternoon tea, included in your ticket…
Opera for the Dead

OzAsia Festival: Opera for the Dead

Odeon Theatre, Norwood 57a Queen St, Norwood, SA, Australia
A contemporary Chinese cyber-opera that reimagines the connection between life and death. Inspired by Chinese mourning rituals, Opera for the Dead 祭歌 is an immersive, multi-artform performance combining live musicians and singers with electronic processing, mobile stages, ambisonic sound, and 3D animation. Move freely through the shifting performance space as…

Melbourne Recital Centre: Badieh – Songs from Greater Khorasan

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Experience the power and beauty of traditional music from the borderlands of Iran and Afghanistan as Badieh brings to life the rich and rarely heard folk music traditions of Greater Khorasan. This deeply immersive and transportive experience combines traditional instruments with centuries-old melodies, creating a sonic journey that's both meditative…

Moonbird Festival: Welcome Party and Opening Concert

King Island Hub 38 Lighthouse Street, Currie, Tasmania, Australia
The 2025 Moonbird Festival opens with a stunning program for string quartet and guitar, featuring award winning Australian guitarist Andrew Blanch, recently returned from a sold out concert tour of the USA. Two evocative Australian guitar quintets, Anne Cawrse’s Imperfect Fourths and Iain Grandage’s Black Dogs, frame this program that…
Elastic Hearts

HOTA: Elastic Hearts

HOTA 135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise, QLD, Australia
Step into a powerful new dance experience with Elastic Hearts — a bold fusion of contemporary ballet and the chart-topping music of pop icon Sia, brought to life with a cinematic score specially recorded by Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Choreographed and directed by Garry Stewart, the visually stunning production is a…
Beethoven’s Eighth

Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven’s Eighth

Glasshouse, Port Macquarie Corner of Clarence and Hay Streets, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
Ah, those summer nights in Eastern Europe, 1812. A week after Napoleon invades Russia, Ludwig van Beethoven almost certainly says “Yes, tonight Josephine” to the love of his life, the unhappily married and recently jilted but socially impossible match, Countess Jozefina Brunszvik. Three days later he pours forth - with…

Coffs Harbour Music Society: Ziggy and Miles

St John Paul College Theatre 421 Hogbin Drive, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia
The sensational guitar duo brothers perform in Coffs Harbour a program of their own arrangemnts, plus Nigel Westlake, Piazzolla, Christopher Sainsubyry and Gnattali. Join us from 6:30pm for a free pre-concert talk in the theatre. Presented in association with Musica Viva Australia.
Opera for the Dead

OzAsia Festival: Opera for the Dead

Odeon Theatre, Norwood 57a Queen St, Norwood, SA, Australia
A contemporary Chinese cyber-opera that reimagines the connection between life and death. Inspired by Chinese mourning rituals, Opera for the Dead 祭歌 is an immersive, multi-artform performance combining live musicians and singers with electronic processing, mobile stages, ambisonic sound, and 3D animation. Move freely through the shifting performance space as…
Affinity Quartet – Incantation

Melbourne Recital Centre: Affinity Quartet – Incantation

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Considered a groundbreaking work from the moment it premiered in 1893, Debussy’s only string quartet, with its shimmering textures and innovative harmonies, transports audiences to an impressionistic world. A defining moment in chamber music, Debussy left an undeniable mark on future composers including French-born Héloïse Werner. Described as ‘a composer…

Australian National Academy of Music: Karina Filipi

The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
Karina Filipi (ANAM Faculty, Tuba) has built an outstanding international career, with her studies taking her from the Elder and Sydney Conservatoriums to the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Switzerland. Alongside her performances with prestigious orchestras, Karina is deeply committed to nurturing the next generation of musicians. "From heralding fanfares…
Affinity Quartet – Incantation

Melbourne Recital Centre: Affinity Quartet – Incantation

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Considered a groundbreaking work from the moment it premiered in 1893, Debussy’s only string quartet, with its shimmering textures and innovative harmonies, transports audiences to an impressionistic world. A defining moment in chamber music, Debussy left an undeniable mark on future composers including French-born Héloïse Werner. Described as ‘a composer…

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