Featuring the music of migrant & diaspora composers from Australia and around the world, Journeys highlights the crucial role of music in storytelling and the continuation of culture.

In its third concert for 2025, Ensemble Lumen draws the audience into a dance of light and shadow, where three remarkable works shimmer with their own unique brilliance. Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Winds opens, glowing with graceful interplay and crystalline elegance. Carl Vine’s Flute Sonata follows, a beacon of…

Since 2015 Hourglass has lead the way in commissioning and touring new Australian chamber music. The core group of founders Andrew Kennedy and Ewa Kowalski were joined in 2018 by Anna Rutkowska-Schock, and the trio of flute clarinet and piano is always joined by the best collaborators from every corner…

Respighi’s Pines of Rome paints a vivid portrait of Italy’s eternal city, from its serene groves to its triumphant marches, using lush orchestral colors and evocative imagery. Charles Bodman Rae’s Clarinet Concerto is based on the composer’s Partita Dalriada, which has at its heart an ancient Scottish melody. This world-premiere…

Hayes Street Studio presents the latest edition in its iconic YOLO Solos Series, featuring violinist Beatrice Colombis and cross cultural flautist Chloe Chung. YOLO (you only live once!) shows offer listeners to experience a rapid fire burst of virtuosity from exceptional and diverse artists around Australia.  

Renowned for breaking genre barriers, Katie Noonan’s technical mastery has cemented her status as one of Australia’s most beloved vocalists, while guitarist Karin Schaupp’s internationally celebrated career has taken her around the globe as recitalist and soloist. Returning to their acclaimed Southern Skies catalogue, Volume 2 sees the ARIA-award winning…

MCO principal players come together for this program of string quartet masterpieces that vividly evoke the composers’ worlds. Although not given by Haydn, the nickname Sunrise is perfect to describe the way the quartet opens like the first rays of light on a perfect spring day. Dvořák, so deeply connected…