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    • Epic Diva

    Selby & Friends: Epic Diva

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Our 2025 Season comes to a close with a blockbuster program of big piano quartets filled to the brim with the most gorgeous melodies and boasting two of our most beloved chamber musicians in Liz Layton and Julian Smiles with an introduction to another brilliant young Australian artist, violist Isabella…

    Brisbane Music Festival: Myths

    FourthWall Arts Suite 4, 540 Queen St, Brisbane City, QLD, Australia
    Karol Szymanowski | Mythes Amy Beach | Sonata for Violin and Piano Sophie Rowell | Violin Alex Raineri | Piano
    Editor's Choice Beethoven – The Piano Concertos

    West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven – The Piano Concertos – The Maverick

    Winthrop Hall Perth, WA, Australia
    Asher Fisch and Czech virtuoso Lukáš Vondráček join forces for an unprecedented celebration of Beethoven’s five piano concertos across three concerts. From the youthful charm of the First to the heroic grandeur of the Emperor, this complete cycle charts 15 years of revolutionary creativity. Each program pairs the concertos with…

    Genesis Baroque: Vivaldi’s Gloria

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Described as ‘impressive’ (Sydney Morning Herald), Melbourne’s own Genesis Baroque makes its Elisabeth Murdoch Hall debut as they join forces with the illustrious Choir of Trinity College. This evening of deep musical devotion opens with Vivaldi’s eternally dazzling Gloria. Bursting with sunlit joy and dancing rhythms, the opening movement right through…
    Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Simone Young

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Simone Young

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Chief Conductor Simone Young is world-renowned for her interpretation of the great symphonies and draws everything out of this life-affirming masterpiece, celebrating Beethoven’s vision of universal harmony through the power of music with a superb, all-Australasian quartet of singers.    Demonstrating the continued power of Beethoven's profoundly human message, acclaimed First…
    Patterns of Plants

    Van Diemen’s Band: Patterns Of Plants

    Burnie Arts and Function Centre 77-79 Wilmot Street,, Burnie, TAS, Australia
    Bite-sized concerts for the price of a sandwich. Van Diemen’s Band teams up with Melbourne’s Astra Ensemble to present Japanese composer Mamoru Fujieda’s magnum opus “Patterns of Plants”.
    Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Simone Young

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Simone Young

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Chief Conductor Simone Young is world-renowned for her interpretation of the great symphonies and draws everything out of this life-affirming masterpiece, celebrating Beethoven’s vision of universal harmony through the power of music with a superb, all-Australasian quartet of singers.    Demonstrating the continued power of Beethoven's profoundly human message, acclaimed First…
    Harmonies Du Soir – Festival of French Chamber Music

    Australian National Academy of Music: Un Cabaret Sérieux

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    This concert is an exhibition of 20th- and 21st-century French works, from wunderkind Lili Boulanger to jazz-influenced Guillaume Connesson. Henri Dutilleux brings a pinch of avant-garde flair, a tradition carried on by the ever-experimental Pascal Dusapin. This opening concert captures the threads running through the festival, an invitation to explore the diversity of chamber music, from incidental pieces to the avant-garde…
    Harmonies Du Soir – Festival of French Chamber Music

    Australian National Academy of Music: Rousseau vs. Rameau

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    La Querelle des Bouffons is a musical scandal that rattled Paris in the mid-18th century.  The dispute (literally “the quarrel of the comic actors”) pitted the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau against philosopher-musician Jean-Jacques Rousseau. What began as an argument over the merits of French opera versus the lighter, more playful Italian comic style…
    Editor's Choice Messiah

    Pinchgut Opera: Messiah

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Although conceived for modest forces, Handel’s Messiah, with its trumpets, drums and majestic Hallelujah Chorus, rapidly expanded to become the preserve of vast Victorian choral societies. Taking a back-to-basics approach, Pinchgut Opera present this Christmas staple in its original version as performed in Dublin in 1742. A cast of just…
    Bach Barton Brodsky
    New Worlds: Jaime conducts Cheetham Fraillon and Dvořák

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: New Worlds: Jaime conducts Cheetham Fraillon and Dvořák

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    One of classical music’s most popular works, Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony never fails to entrance, with its soulful melodies inspired by African American spirituals. The Orchestra also performs a new work by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, which features the extraordinary yidaki (didgeridoo) virtuoso William Barton.

    Tempo Rubato: Romance and Reverie

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    Meredith Steele is a North American cellist living in Melbourne. She has performed in concert halls across Europe, the USA, and Asia. Most recently, she represented the University of Melbourne in the Tianjin Juilliard Orchestral Symposium in Beijing. The recipient of multiple awards, Meredith was selected as the 2024 Otti…

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