• Brahms Festival

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Brahms’ Second Symphony & Piano Concerto

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Our two-week festival of Brahms continues, and through these two works we delve deeper into the personal life of this great composer. With his first symphony, he had finally stepped out of the shadow of Beethoven, who he respected as his predecessor while fearing he would never be good enough…
    La Bohème

    Opera Australia: La Bohème

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    They have love. They have art. They have each other. But you can’t eat poetry, and philosophy won’t warm a bitter winter. This classic opera about young artists caught between ecstasy and pain has inspired countless Bohemian love stories. Now it’s time for a fresh production of this timeless tale,…

    St George’s Cathedral: I Was Glad – A Celebration Of Wedding Music

    St George's Cathedral, Perth 38 Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
    The 2026 season concludes with a magnificent evening of ceremonial anthems heard at Royal Weddings for generations. The program includes Parry’s I Was Glad and Blest Pair of Sirens, featured at the wedding of The Prince and Princess of Wales in 2011. Under the direction of Dr Joseph Nolan, formerly…
    Elder Con Lunchtime Concerts

    Elder Conservatorium: Top Class

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Our annual classical performance showcase concert, featuring top student performers from the Elder Conservatorium of Music and School of Performing Arts. Supported by the Peter Brooker Prize for Musical Excellence.

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Open Rehearsal with Jaime Martín

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Take a peek behind the scenes at an open rehearsal with Chief Conductor Jaime Martín. Join us for an hour in some of the best seats in the house as Jaime and the musicians of the MSO rehearse their program. You'll be able to eavesdrop on the dialogue between conductor…

    Bowerbird Collective: Lotte Betts-Dean with Ronan Apcar | Lyrebird Festival Concert 2

    The Old Stables 853 Megalong Rd, Megalong Valley, NSW, Australia
    The Lyrebird Festival welcomes the "irresistible" Australian soprano Lotte Betts-Dean, performing alongside "firebrand" pianist Ronan Apcar, for a compelling program tracing the development and resonance of vocal composition. The program ends with Alice Chance's exquisite Salve Regina, with Lotte and Ronan joined by members of the Bowerbird Collective. In demand…

    Moonah Arts Centre: Australian Harp Composition

    Moonah Arts Centre 23-27 Albert Rd, Moonah, TAS, Australia
    Join Katia to discover the breadth and versatility of Australian Harp Composition, by women and harpist-composers, including Modern Classical, Jazz, and Resonance Music. Program: Mary Doumany – marydoumany.com I. Water II. Spirit VI. Ice Paul Nicolaou – paulnicolaoumusic.com Pythia, Oracle of Delphi Lisa Cheney – lisacheney.com.au Strange Charisma Nat Bartsch…

    Australian National Academy of Music: The Great Schubert Nine with Giordano Bellincampi

    St Kilda Town Hall 99a Carlisle St, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    In this concert Giordano Bellincampi and the ANAM Orchestra trace Vienna’s musical DNA across a century of change. Webern’s Passacaglia was written as a student homage to Brahms — his most Romantic and symphonic work before modernism took hold. The Strauss family pieces bring the heartbeat of Vienna’s golden age…

    Whistling Kite New Music: Stories of Water and Earth

    Browns Mart 12 Smith Street, Darwin, NT, Australia
    A powerful collaboration between Djapu poet and performer Melanie Mununggurr and composer Netanela Mizrahi, blending music and oral storytelling to explore connection to Country, ancestry and renewal. Featuring Mununggurr, Mizrahi and musicians of Whistling Kite New Music in its second ever Northern Territory performance.
    Charms in Musick

    Salut! Baroque: Charms in Musick

    “If there are Charms in Musick in general, all the reasonable World agrees, that the Vocal has the Pre-eminence, both from Nature and Art above the Instrumental.” JE Galliard (1743) Ancient Greek theatre inspired a gathering of musicians, poets and intellectuals in Florence in the late 16th century to create…

    James Dekleva: Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker

    Sydney Opera House - The Utzon Room
    James Dekleva launches his second Australia–Asia recital tour of 2026 in Sydney’s Utzon Room, continuing to Perth’s Government House Ballroom, Eslite Performance Hall in Taipei and Esplanade Recital Studio in Singapore. At the heart of the recital is Tchaikovsky’s beloved Nutcracker, transformed by Mikhail Pletnev into a virtuosic concert suite…
    The Planets

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: The Planets

    Adelaide Festival Theatre King William Road, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    CELEBRATING 90 YEARS OF THE ASO WITH SIR BRYN TERFEL Stories of love, adventure and the cosmos will mark the 90th birthday of the ASO. World-renowned baritone Sir Bryn Terfel joins the celebration for Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel, a soulful reflection on the road taken – and the one…