• Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Morning Masterworks 5: Beethoven, Mendelssohn & Fisher

    QPAC - Concert Hall
    Start your Friday with a touch of classical brilliance with this Morning Masterworks concert. Where grace meets grandeur in perfect balance. Beethoven’s sole Violin Concerto marries nobility with disarming simplicity: long, singing lines that seem to float above time, flashes of playful wit, and passages of hushed intimacy. Satu Vänskä, Principal Violin…
    Elder Con Lunchtime Concerts

    Elder Conservatorium: Serenity with Strings

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    The two works in today’s concert were both composed under remarkable circumstances, and in close connection with other celebrated pieces. Paul Hindemith travelled to London to premiere his Viola Concerto, only for his plans to be interrupted by the death of King George V. In response, Hindemith spent the following…

    Tier 1 Arts: Andrew Blanch – Tierra

    Leichardt Town Hall 170 Norton St, Leichhardt, NSW, Australia
    Fresh off a 68-concert tour of the United States where he performed to more than 18,000 people, “Classical guitar star” Andrew Blanch returns home to launch Tierra, his new album with ABC Classic. Featuring repertoire from Blanch’s new Tierra release alongside his USA Spanish Romance programs, the concert features some…
    Stories That Must Be Heard

    Chloé Charody Creations LTD.: Stories That Must Be Heard

    Sydney Opera House - Studio
    An electrifying concert fusing classical music and circus This transformative concert seamlessly fuses classical music and circus into a single, spellbinding genre, illuminating refugee experiences and amplifying voices that have been silenced by suffering and injustice. The program features three new works by Australian composer Chloé Charody. Truth in the…
    Stories That Must Be Heard

    Chloé Charody Creations LTD.: Stories That Must Be Heard

    Sydney Opera House - Studio
    An electrifying concert fusing classical music and circus This transformative concert seamlessly fuses classical music and circus into a single, spellbinding genre, illuminating refugee experiences and amplifying voices that have been silenced by suffering and injustice. The program features three new works by Australian composer Chloé Charody. Truth in the…
    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 –…

    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,…