• Ensemble Q: Step Inside The Music: Concert 1

    Sandgate Town Hall Cliff and Seymour St, Sandgate, QLD, Australia
    Featuring music by Albinoni, Bach, Vivaldi, interwoven with new works and presented in orchestral seating format (you get to sit in the orchestra). Soloists include violinist Glenn Christensen, violist Roger Benedict (Sydney Symphony Orchestra former Principal Viola and generally famously incredible player) and bassoonist David Mitchell.

    Ensemble Q: Step Inside The Music: Concert 2

    Sandgate Town Hall Cliff and Seymour St, Sandgate, QLD, Australia
    Featuring music by Mozart, Vaughan Williams, Anne Cawrse, and emerging composers, presented in the round and absolutely spine tinglingly beautiful. Soloist for The Lark Ascending - Glenn Christensen, Associate Concertmaster QSO.

    Ensemble Q: Step Inside The Music: Concert 3

    Sandgate Town Hall Cliff and Seymour St, Sandgate, QLD, Australia
    The Australian Voices join us for this beautiful nocturnal ode to Queensland and romanticism, featuring works by Esenwalds, Paul Dean, a nine-composer Nocturne and climaxing with the stunningly beautiful Verklärte Nacht (Enchanted evening) by Arnold Schoenberg.
    Lennie’s Great Adventure

    Musgrove Opera: Lennie’s Great Adventure

    Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House – Bennelong Point Sydney Australia 14/2 Circular Quay E, Sydney NSW 2000, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    Lennie Gwyther is an Australian hero. His journey from regional Victoria to the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge is a story that’s worth telling. Hear this inspiring tale in a 50-minute children’s opera adaptation from Australian composer Lachlan Massey. In 1932, aged just nine years old, Lennie travelled on…

    Penrith Conservatorium of Music: Fiery Bach

    Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre Penrith, NSW, Australia
    Bach’s imagination has always burned brightly; igniting generations of composers and musicians to create music that is kinetic, daring, and alive with electricity. Fiery Bach takes that fire and pushes it further, reimagining the music of Bach and his contemporaries with a thrilling modern edge. At its heart burns Arash Safaian’s ÜberBach concertos,…
    Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Schubert composed like an oil painter, drawing from a rich palette of melodic and harmonic colours. With a divine lyricism at its heart, his music is imbued with an intimacy and intensity that taps into the full range of human emotion. Richard Tognetti’s affinity for Schubert is evident in every…
    The Drover’s Wife

    Opera Australia: The Drover’s Wife

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Molly Johnson is a survivor. Heavily pregnant, she’s left alone to care for her children in a remote Snowy Mountains shanty. Between the snakes, bullocks and hostile travellers on her doorstep, she faces no shortage of threats. With her husband away droving sheep, she faces them alone. But when Yadaka,…
    Alexander Gavrylyuk performs Rachmaninov

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Alexander Gavrylyuk performs Rachmaninov

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Here Gavrylyuk tackles Rachmaninov’s notoriously difficult Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. These 24 variations take you on a wild ride, from stormy to mischievous to tender; but in the 18th, Rachmaninov flips the melody upside down to reveal one of classical music’s biggest and best-loved tunes. Australian conductor Nicholas Carter…
    Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Schubert composed like an oil painter, drawing from a rich palette of melodic and harmonic colours. With a divine lyricism at its heart, his music is imbued with an intimacy and intensity that taps into the full range of human emotion. Richard Tognetti’s affinity for Schubert is evident in every…
    Claire Edwardes

    Bowerbird Collective: Claire Edwardes

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    Dubbed “the sorceress of percussion,” Claire Edwardes OAM has been a defining force in Australian new music for three decades. Since 2006 she has led Ensemble Offspring as Artistic Director, commissioning more than 80 new solo works and collaborating with leading composers worldwide. She maintains a busy solo career presenting…
    The Drover’s Wife

    Opera Australia: The Drover’s Wife

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Molly Johnson is a survivor. Heavily pregnant, she’s left alone to care for her children in a remote Snowy Mountains shanty. Between the snakes, bullocks and hostile travellers on her doorstep, she faces no shortage of threats. With her husband away droving sheep, she faces them alone. But when Yadaka,…
    Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Schubert composed like an oil painter, drawing from a rich palette of melodic and harmonic colours. With a divine lyricism at its heart, his music is imbued with an intimacy and intensity that taps into the full range of human emotion. Richard Tognetti’s affinity for Schubert is evident in every…