• SIMA: Comfortable – Hamed Sadeghi

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Hamed Sadeghi presents Comfortable, a new work for an 8-piece ensemble of tar, woodwinds, brass, double bass and percussions that weave together ancient Middle Eastern resonance and contemporary jazz. This is music that fills a room with something hard to name but impossible to ignore. Described by Sydney Morning Herald as "one of…
    Bush, Borscht & Bonn

    Selby & Friends: Bush, Borscht & Bonn

    Concordia College Chapel 45 Cheltenham Street,\, Highgate, SA
    Listening to Beethoven’s own wonderful piano trio arrangement of his famous Septet, one gets a real sense of what it must have been like to desperately want to play something at home you had only heard played by many artists publicly. This tradition of changing the forces to accommodate everyday…

    Sydney Opera House: Thomas Dunford

    Sydney Opera House - The Utzon Room
    Dubbed “the Eric Clapton of the lute” by BBC Music Magazine, dynamic young French virtuoso Thomas Dunford is the leading lutenist of his generation. Dunford has performed with many acclaimed ensembles, including Les Arts Florissants, The English Consort, La Serenissima and Les Siècles, and has released a series of award-winning recordings. With…

    Sydney Opera House: OMCA: Anniversary X

    Sydney Opera House - Concert Hall
    The Russian Orthodox Male Choir of Australia (ROMCA) marks its 10th anniversary with a momentous concert in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall – a milestone event for the ensemble and the wider Slavic community in Australia. Over the past decade, ROMCA has inspired audiences across continents, earning international acclaim…
    Bush, Borscht & Bonn

    Selby & Friends: Bush, Borscht & Bonn

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Listening to Beethoven’s own wonderful piano trio arrangement of his famous Septet, one gets a real sense of what it must have been like to desperately want to play something at home you had only heard played by many artists publicly. This tradition of changing the forces to accommodate everyday…

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Open Rehearsal with Stephen Layton

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Previously Director of Music at Trinity College, Cambridge for nearly twenty years, Stephen Layton is one of the world’s most celebrated conductors of English music – especially choral music. In this special open rehearsal, listen as he breathes new life into this exquisite program, which spans 400 years of English…

    Flinders Quartet: New Light

    St Johns Southgate 20 City Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The final concert of the year shines a “new light” on the quartet tradition. Beethoven’s String Quartet in E-flat major, Op.127 - the first of his groundbreaking late quartets - opens the program with majestic chords and profound emotional range. Completing the program is a world premiere by Naomi Dodd,…

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Rediscovering Acoustic & Electric Violin

    Ainslie Football & Social Club 52 Wakefield Avenue, Ainslie, ACT, Australia
    Discover the range of sound possibilities when a violinist uses extended techniques on their instrument. Then hear what happens when they layer the sound using amplification and a loop station. The loop station allows the musician to become a one-man-band, creating their own accompaniment in anything from soundscapes to dance…

    Ensemble Q: Helena

    Mrs J Rabbits, Electric Ave 23 Logan Road, Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia
    Principal violin of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Helena Rathbone likes nothing more than the idea of hanging out in a Whiskey Bar with the Deans and you lot. Featuring the extraordinary Kodaly duo that Trish & Helena performed in Sydney a few years ago, this concert will be extremely special.

    Australian National Academy of Music: Sacred – Mystery of Chorales

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Let ANAM’s musicians guide you as you wind your way through this mystical tour of sacred music that spans brass, strings and even the mighty organ housed within the Good Shepherd Chapel. Whether through Messiaen or Mahler; Beethoven, Bach, Brahms or Bruckner, devote this time to contemplate the divine, and…