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Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Echoes

Grainger Studio Adelaide, SA, Australia
Relax, take a deep breath and listen as the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra guides you on a peaceful musical journey performed in near darkness. This unique concert experience will reveal every detail of the music with unparalleled clarity and depth. Sit or recline on a yoga mat and enter a world…
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Orange Chamber Music Festival: Cultured

Orange Civic Square Byng Street, Orange, NSW, Australia
Back for its fifth year, the Orange Chamber Music Festival packs a punch with a program including Brisbane's Orava Quartet, a festival gala lineup with pianists Andrea Lam and Sonya Lifschitz and Cultured, a day of free events, which sees the ACO Collective perform amongst the collection of the Orange Regional Gallery. Limelight Editor's Choice Cultured is…
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UKARIA: Bridges

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
Musical instruments migrate from one culture to another, finding new contexts while retaining their distinctiveness. Inspired by these journeys, this concert celebrates cross-cultural collaboration. At its heart are the Vietnamese instruments of Van-Anh Vo, presented in collaboration with Trio Da Kali, Peni Candra Rini and Affinity Quartet. Interpretations of Satie…
Editor's Choice Brisbane Bel Canto

Opera Queensland: La Cenerentola (Cinderella)

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
This year’s celebration of “beautiful singing” is led by two performances at QPAC of Rossini’s La Cenerentola, a fizzy, florid take on the classic Cinderella story. Richard Mills conducts Laura Hansford’s staging, which stars Mara Gaudenzi as Angelina (Cinderella), Petr Nekoranec as Don Ramiro (Prince Charming) and Samuel Dundas as Dandini.…

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: James Ehnes performs Brahms’ Violin Concerto

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
The Times (London) declares Ehnes as being ‘in a class of his own.’ He’s one of the greatest violinists in the world, his performances praised for their astounding lyricism and beauty. Rising star Finnegan Downie Dear, a protégé of Simone Young, conducts Ehnes in this concert of evocative works by master…
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UKARIA: Continents

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
The language of Bach is often described as being ‘universal’. In this performance it finds a new cultural context as movements from the Goldberg Variations are interspersed with improvisations by Lassana Diabaté on the balafon, a West African xylophone. Peter Sculthorpe’s Jabiru Dreaming opens the concert, whose music David Harrington…
Editor's Choice Journeying to Finisterre

The Song Company: Journeying to Finisterre

St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Wollongong 36 Harbour St, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Here’s a fascinating program, crafted by The Song Company’s co-Artistic Director and soprano Amy Moore, exploring themes and music associated with the famous pilgrim route across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela. Medieval music comes from the 12th-century Codex Calixtinus, which contains some of the earliest examples of polyphony, as…
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Orange Chamber Music Festival: Watercolours

Orange Regional Conservatorium Orange, NSW, Australia
Back for its fifth year, the Orange Chamber Music Festival packs a punch with a program including Brisbane's Orava Quartet, a festival gala lineup with pianists Andrea Lam and Sonya Lifschitz and Cultured, a day of free events, which sees the ACO Collective perform amongst the collection of the Orange Regional Gallery. Limelight Editor's Choice The concept…
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UKARIA: Trio Da Kali

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
David Harrington’s admiration for Trio Da Kali goes beyond music: every note of their performances embodies the full spectrum of human experience. The Trio’s name means ’to give a pledge’, referring to the 700-year musical tradition on which their music-making is founded. The first half of this concert showcases the…
Editor's Choice Brisbane Bel Canto

Opera Queensland: Red Dirt Hymns

Opera Queensland Studio South Bank, QLD, Australia
This year’s celebration of “beautiful singing” is led by two performances at QPAC of Rossini’s La Cenerentola, a fizzy, florid take on the classic Cinderella story. Richard Mills conducts Laura Hansford’s staging, which stars Mara Gaudenzi as Angelina (Cinderella), Petr Nekoranec as Don Ramiro (Prince Charming) and Samuel Dundas as Dandini.…
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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Joined with Gold

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Nicolas Altstaedt returns to Melbourne for the Australian premiere of Liza Lim’s A Sutured World. Embracing the notion that beauty lies in adversity, this program is inspired by Kintsugi – the Japanese art of mending broken pottery using gold lacquer. It also includes Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, which marked a period of…
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West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Fifth

Winthrop Hall Perth, WA, Australia
Ta–ta–ta–taaa! Ta–ta–ta–taaa! In his 1840 biography of Beethoven, Anton Schindler suggested that the opening notes of the Fifth Symphony were the sound of “Fate knocking at the door”. A century later, the Allies dubbed the work the Victory Symphony, because those same beats spelled out the letter V in Morse code.…

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