• The Opera and Song Collective: Visions of Verdi

    Mosman Art Gallery 1 Art Gallery Way, Mosman, NSW, Australia
    The Opera and Song Collective invites you into the passionate, conflicted world of Verdi’s late masterpieces. No composer captures sweeping melody, pathos, intrigue, and patriotic fire like Giuseppe Verdi. Under the baton of Simon Kenway, leading Australian singers present narrated, semi-staged excerpts from five of his greatest operas: I Vespri…

    Brisbane Symphony Orchestra: Regency and Reformation

    The Old Museum Concert Hall 480 Gregory Terrrace, Bowen Hills, Queensland, Australia
    Ever wondered what Jane Austen’s stories would sound like with a live orchestra? This unique concert brings her world to life with beautiful music and live acting. You’ll hear pieces from the time Austen lived - like the dramatic Pride and Prejudice Suite and the powerful Reformation Symphony - while…
    Imagine

    Melbourne Youth Orchestras: Imagine – Concert 2

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    IMAGINE Concert 2 includes the following ensemble performances: Melbourne Youth Strings, Melbourne Youth Chamber Strings, and Melbourne Youth Sinfonia.
    Red Dirt Hymns

    Luminescence Chamber Singers: Red Dirt Hymns

    Orange Civic Theatre 135 Byng Street, Orange, NSW, Australia
    A living songbook more than four years in the making, Red Dirt Hymns brings together the words of sixteen contemporary Australian writers, poets, essayists, and folksingers. Born in a time of fire, darkness, grief and loss, and then fragile, tender hope, these hymns are songs of awe and praise, not…
    Songbirds

    Music in the Regions: Ensemble Offspring – Songbirds

    Gloucester Uniting Church 5 Cowper St, Gloucester, NSW, Australia
    Music in the Regions is proud to tour Songbirds on the Mid-North Coast with Ensemble Offspring, Australia’s leading contemporary music group. Since its premiere in 2019, Songbirds has become an Ensemble Offspring crowd-favourite. Nature comes alive, as a trio of flute, clarinet and percussion evokes the weird and wonderful sounds…

    Hayes Street Studio: Anna da Silva Chen in recital with Lee Dionne

    Hayes Street Studio 11 Hayes Street, Neutral Bay, NSW, Australia
    Hayes Street Studio presents violinist Anna da Silva Chen in a recital with pianist Lee Dionne. The pair will perform Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, Sz. 75 by Béla Bartók alongside the music of Grażyna Bacewicz and Cheng Jin Koh. Anna da Silva Chen is widely regarded as…

    Moonbird Festival: Closing Concert with James Crabb

    King Island Hub 38 Lighthouse Street, Currie, Tasmania, Australia
    James Crabb and the Moonbird artists close the 2025 Moonbird Festival on King Island with a fun and fiery program for accordion and string quartet, featuring extraordinary works by Astor Piazzolla and more. The Moonbird Festival returns in 2025, celebrating one of the most spectacular places on Earth, King Island,…
    Editor's Choice Cocteau’s Circle

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Cocteau’s Circle

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Richard Tognetti and the ACO close their 50th- anniversary season in style, stepping into the surreal world of 1920s Paris. Directed by Circa’s Yaron Lifschitz, this concert-cum-cabaret features soprano Chloe Lankshear with drag artist and baritone Le Gateau Chocolat as maître d’. Inspired by Jean Cocteau’s avant-garde circle and the…
    Editor's Choice Piotr Anderszewski

    Musica Viva Australia: Piotr Anderszewski

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Fresh from his triumphant performances at the Edinburgh Festival, pianist Piotr Anderszewski brings his intelligence, restless curiosity and joy to Brahms’ 12 pieces from Opp. 116– 119, selections from JS Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 and Beethoven’s Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major. Known for his uncompromising standards – he famously walked out…

    Nick Batterham: First Snow album launch

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    ARIA Award nominated musician and AFI/AACTA award-nominated sound designer Nick Batterham's new album First Snow (music for piano and strings) follows on thematically from the artist's recent soundtracks for installations by the visual artist Rone. The album will be released October 17. The title First Snow conjures sparse landscapes and a…
    Editor's Choice Cocteau’s Circle

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Cocteau’s Circle

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Richard Tognetti and the ACO close their 50th- anniversary season in style, stepping into the surreal world of 1920s Paris. Directed by Circa’s Yaron Lifschitz, this concert-cum-cabaret features soprano Chloe Lankshear with drag artist and baritone Le Gateau Chocolat as maître d’. Inspired by Jean Cocteau’s avant-garde circle and the…