• Editor's Choice Simone Young conducts Siegfried

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Simone Young conducts Siegfried

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The third instalment in Simone Young’s multi-year Ring Cycle features tenor Simon O’Neill as Siegfried. Stepping in for Anja Kampe, renowned Wagnerian soprano Miina-Liisa Värelä joins him for the climactic half-hour love duet – arguably the finest in the repertoire, and certainly the loudest. Värelä comes fresh from her role…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Alma Moodie Quartet play Haydn and Brahms

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Experience the transcendent beauty of chamber music as the acclaimed Alma Moodie Quartet presents two undisputed masterpieces. Opening with pristine elegance, Haydn's ‘Emperor’ Quartet’s true splendour comes alive in the second movement – a set of variations on the melody he composed for Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser, which later became…

    Snow Concert Hall: Benjamin Grosvenor

    Snow Concert Hall 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Britain’s superstar pianist comes to Snow Concert Hall with some of the greatest works ever written for piano. Regarded as one of the most important pianists to emerge in several decades, Gramophone recently acknowledged him as one of the top 50 pianists ever on record!
    Bleak Squad

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Bleak Squad

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Bleak Squad is a new Melbourne four-piece comprised of true Australian art-rock royalty. Featuring Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Mess Esque), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, The Birthday Party), Adalita (Magic Dirt) and Marty Brown (Art of Fighting), the unlikely quartet unite for the first time on…
    Classical Music Club

    Hermit Arts: Classical Music Club

    Leederville Town Hall 84 Cambridge St, West Leederville, WA
    A morning concert series featuring local classical musicians perform a beautiful one hour long recital. Each performance features famous classical tunes that are well known and easy to listen to. Classical Music Club concerts are at the Leederville Town Hall from 10-11am on the third Friday of each month in…

    Elder Conservatorium: Lunchtime Concert – The Ringtone Cycle

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    This 2010 commission from the Seraphim Trio has a libretto from the Australian author Peter Goldsworthy. Subtitled a ‘cabaret quintet for soprano, violin, cello, piano and iPhone’, it is a mini-operetta that tells of a love affair starring a modern-day Brünnhilde and her phone. Koehne’s continuous flow of music recalls…

    Ensemble Offspring: Ngarra-Burria

    The Street Theatre 15 Childers St, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Each year, Ngarra-Burria: First Peoples Composers – our award-winning collaborative First Nations artist development program – brings exciting new artistic voices into the spotlight - you can discover them for yourself in this free concert at the Eugene Goossens Hall (Sydney) and The Street (Canberra). Hear new instrumental works from…

    Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Carnival

    75 Reid Street, Fitzroy North 75 Reid St, Fitzroy North, VIC, Australia
    Writing when he was a mere 16 years old, Mendelssohn noted that his newly composed Octet “must be played by all the instruments in symphonic orchestral style.” It beggars belief that someone so young could have written one of the grandest chamber music works. The Octet is epic in proportion,…

    Coffs Harbour Music Society: Flinders Quartet

    St John Paul College Theatre 421 Hogbin Drive, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia
    The outstanding Australian string quartet performs for the Coffs Harbour Music Society, presented in association with Musica Viva Australia. Their program includes Beethoven's String Quartet no 11, op 95 ‘Serioso’, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon's Bungaree, Mozart's Adagio & Fugue in C minor, K.546 and Dvorak's String Quartet no 14, op 105.…

    Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Chamber Music Dining at Narkoojee

    Narkoojee Winery 220 Francis Road, Glengarry North, VIC, Australia
    Our annual visit to our wine partner, Narkoojee, has become a highlight for Melbourne and Gippsland audiences alike. Join us in Glengarry, around two hours east of Melbourne, for a convivial afternoon including a glass of Sparkling Harriet on arrival, gorgeous music and lunch with matched Narkoojee wines.  

    North Adelaide Baroque Hall: Golden Harp & Hoboy – Handel

    North Adelaide Baroque Hall 104 Tynte St, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Jane Downer, recorder & baroque oboe d'amore Lesley Lewis, harpsichord Music for recorder/baroque oboe and harpsichord Paul's Steeple Handel - "Hoboy" Sonata in G minor Op. 1 No. 6 Handel - "Rinaldo for a Flute" including "Lascia ch’io pianga" for harpsichord solo Geminiani & Barsanti - Scots Tunes