• Simone Young Conducts Mozart & Bach

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Simone Young Conducts Mozart & Bach

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The music of fast-emerging Sydney composer Ella Macens inspires awe and stillness, an exquisite contemporary counterpoint to JS Bach’s Third Orchestral Suite; swirling with joyful ceremony and crowned by the quietly powerful Air, one of the most cherished movements in Baroque music. Then we hear Mozart at his peak –…

    Penrith Symphony Orchestra: Liszt, Wagner & Grieg – Death & Fate

    Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre Penrith, NSW, Australia
    Acclaimed Australian pianist, Vatche Jambazian appears as soloist in Liszt’s Totentanz. The concept underpinning the ‘danse macabre’ had gripped imaginations since the Middle-Ages, with artists frequently exploring and revisiting the genre. Liszt’s contribution to the form unleashes both piano and orchestra with apocalyptic force in a bravura showpiece. The innovative…
    Australia Ensemble UNSW 2026 Concerts

    Australia Ensemble: Australia Ensemble Concert 4 2026

    Sir John Clancy Auditorium, UNSW 9 High St, Kensington, NSW, Australia
    French and Australian works bring the season to a glittering conclusion. Jean Anouilh’s satirical comedy, known in English as Ring Round the Moon and worthy of Wodehouse or Waugh, inspired Poulenc’s highly amusing incidental music of dances and parodic character pieces to illustrate the comic intrigues at a lavish ball. Gabriel Fauré’s…
    Brahms Festival

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Brahms’ First Symphony & Piano Concerto

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    MSO Chief Conductor Jaime Martín will lead our musicians through Brahms’ Symphony No.1. This work was around two decades in the making because he was so concerned with having to compose under the shadow of Beethoven, the legend who came before him. Brahms’ fears may sound unfounded to us, but…
    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,…
    Organ Symphony

    Willoughby Symphony: Organ Symphony

    The Concourse, Chatswood 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood, NSW, Australia
    Hear Dr Nicholas Milton AM and the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra pull out all the stops when they perform Saint-Saëns’ monumental ‘Organ’ Symphony, one of the best-loved symphonies of all time, whose famous theme was used to great effect in the cherished Australian film Babe. World-renowned didgeridoo virtuoso and proud Kalkadunga…
    Simone Young Conducts Mozart & Bach

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Simone Young Conducts Mozart & Bach

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The music of fast-emerging Sydney composer Ella Macens inspires awe and stillness, an exquisite contemporary counterpoint to JS Bach’s Third Orchestral Suite; swirling with joyful ceremony and crowned by the quietly powerful Air, one of the most cherished movements in Baroque music. Then we hear Mozart at his peak –…
    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,…

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Origins of the Universe, Of Life, Of Species, Of Humanity

    Tatachilla Lutheran College, McLaren Vale
    In association with Big Sing McLaren Vale, we venture into wine region to celebrate the beautiful science of our origins. A mass of voices joins the orchestra in a major new oratorio by Nicholas Buc. Conceived by evolutionary geneticist Jenny Graves, who co-wrote the libretto with the poet Leigh Hay,…

    Creative Galah: Estampa – Postcards

    Keystone 1889 99 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSW, Australia
    A Musical Voyage across Cultures and Continents. ​Embark on a captivating musical journey with Postcards – Melodies from Afar, a concert that blends jazz, classical, folk and world music in a truly unique experience. From the fierce folky jazz of Django Reinhardt’s Seul ce soir to the romantic bossa nova…

    Changing Wilds Ensemble: 85 seconds to midnight

    Primrose Potter Salon 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    On January 27, 2026, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds before midnight, the closest it has ever been to the symbolic threshold of global catastrophe. Led by artistic director and composer Robert McIntyre and pianist Georgina Lewis, Changing Wilds Ensemble blends post-minimalism, art music,…