• The Ten Tenors

    Mellen Events: The Ten Tenors

    Australia’s favourite tenor ensemble The TEN Tenors return to Australia in 2025 for their 30th Anniversary Tour. What started as a one-off performance in 1995 has become a live concert phenomenon. The TEN Tenors are known for their iconic performances; from the best in classical opera through to some of…

    Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Spanish Connections

    St Ambrose Church 16 Templeton St,, Woodend, VIC
    Spanish Connections highlights some of the diverse influences which have defined the Spanish guitar over the past century. In the early 20th century, guitarists Miguel Llobet and Andrés Segovia gained global fame, expanding the instrument’s repertoire and demonstrating its potential for concert performance. Spanish composers such as Manuel de Falla…
    Handel Concertos

    Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Handel Concertos

    St Ambrose Catholic Church, Woodend 47 Urquhart St, Woodend, VIC, Australia
    This program opens with the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, in essence a one-movement concerto for two oboes, and includes a concerto for harp, another for organ, and two of the great Concerti Grossi, Opus 6. All of these works achieved immediate popularity in their time and have continued to hold their…
    Editor's Choice Love’s Four Seasons

    The Song Company: Love’s Four Seasons

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    Guest Director Eamonn Dougan, a regular with British companies like The Sixteen and I Fagiolini, leads the ensemble through a seasonal program exploring the rich panoply of the Italian madrigal alongside a selection of complementary works by composers today. Spring, for example, features Monteverdi’s radiant Sfogava con le stelle and Barbara Strozzi’s…

    Mosman Art Gallery: Pastoral Fantasies – A Baroque Journey through Italy and Germany

    Mosman Art Gallery 1 Art Gallery Way, Mosman, NSW, Australia
    Join us at the Mosman Art Gallery on June 8th at 3pm for "Pastoral Fantasies: A Baroque Journey through Italy and Germany", where we'll take you on a musical exploration of pastoral Italy and Germany in the Baroque era. This intimate concert will feature some of the finest works by…

    Fremantle Chamber Orchestra: Ellie Malonzo plays Max Richter’s Vivaldi 4 Seasons Recomposed

    PHC Synagogue 28 Freedman Road, Menora, WA, Australia
    Fremantle Chamber Orchestra celebrating its 20th Anniversary performs the beautiful fusion of Vivaldi’s enduring Four Seasons and postmodernist minimalism by Max Richter featuring amazingly talented 15-year-old Ellie Malonzo. Mozart’s rarely played but beautiful Symphony 33 is uplifting with a sweet slow movement and a fiery finale. With the eminent Paul…

    Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Variations on a theme: works by Brahms, Mozart, Chopin & Scriabin

    St Ambrose Church 16 Templeton St,, Woodend, VIC
    A spectacular program of the finest works for solo piano by Mozart, Chopin, Scriabin, and Brahms. The moody chromaticism of Mozart’s A-minor Rondo provides a perfect segue into Chopin’s Ballade no. 4, “the most exalted, intense and sublimely powerful of all Chopin’s compositions” (John Ogden). Scriabin’s post-romantic Sonata no. 4…

    Hayes Street Studio: Rosie Gallagher and Lee Dionne in recital

    Hayes Street Studio 11 Hayes Street, Neutral Bay, NSW, Australia
    Hayes Street Studio presents a dynamic recital featuring flautist Rosie Gallagher and pianist Lee Dionne. The duo explores a diverse program of music spanning from Bach’s church’s in Leipzig to tall ships on the Atlantic, traveling around the world and through time, exploring the flute as an instrument with the…

    Sydney Philharmonia Choirs: ChorusOz: A Sea Symphony

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    ‘Behold, the sea itself!’ For his first symphony, Ralph Vaughan Williams took the poetry of Walt Whitman and transformed it into a magnificent musical creation for choir and orchestra, reaching out to us across the decades with all the optimism of the dawning 20th century. It’s the kind of music…
    Editor's Choice The Fairy Queen

    Pinchgut Opera: The Fairy Queen

    Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Pinchgut brings magic to Sydney’s Roslyn Packer stage for performances of Purcell’s spectacular semi-opera, The Fairy Queen. An adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it was first performed in 1692 and was the 32-year-old composer’s most ambitious stage work to date, full of scenic transformations, fairies and frivolity. Purcell sets a…

    Smith’s Alternative: Stella Anning and Michael J Brady

    Smith's Alternative 76 Aliinga Street, Canberra, ACT
    United during a transformative artist residency at Banff, Canada, in 2024, their shared experience of jazz guitarist turned singer/songwriter, inspired a series of original jazz/folk compositions that capture the spirit of collaboration and creativity. In between their solo release schedules - Stella & Michael will be co-headlining an interstate tour, sharing these…

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