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Featured Editor's Choice Rapture

Australian String Quartet: Rapture

Brisbane City Hall 64 Adelaide St, Brisbane City, QLD, Australia
ASQ lifts the lid on our deepest fears and desires, from the unrequited love expressed in Janáček’s Intimate Letters to Osvaldo Golijov’s juxtaposition of pain and beauty in Tenebrae and Beethoven’s triumph over adversity in Serioso. The program also includes the world premiere of Vanessa Perica’s No Feeling is Final, which…

Ensemble Q: Black Angels & Red Death

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Black Angels & Red Death presents a captivating collection of works that explore themes of remembrance, conflict, fantasy, and deep introspection. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin pays tribute to the elegance of Baroque music while mourning friends lost in World War I, reimagined here with Paul Dean’s arrangement that highlights…
Theremin & Beyond

Australian Chamber Orchestra: Bach to the Beach Boys and Beyond

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
The theremin is utterly unique. It’s a sound you’ve definitely heard, even if you’ve never heard of it. Following the success of our sold-out tour of A Clockwork Orange & Beyond comes this series showcasing the range and power of the world’s first electronic instrument. Richard Tognetti directs an eclectic…
Fractured Fairy Tales

RAVA Productions: Fractured Fairy Tales

The Empire Theatres, Toowoomba 54-56 Neil Street, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
Classic stories have tipped higgledy-piggledy and favourite characters are all in a twist. Two children, transported to fairyland, navigate its fractured stories, coming across Little Red, haggling with pigs and helping giants, a prince and princesses, pulling their stories back together before midnight. On the way, our heroes learn who…

Australian National Academy of Music: Mostly Mozart: Serenade

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Begin your morning by venturing to the sunny afternoon with a chamber arrangement of Debussy’s innovative Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. With its famous opening melody, this impressionist masterpiece comes to life as ANAM Musicians join ANAM Faculty member and Principal Flute of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Alison Mitchell, for an exploration…
Fractured Fairy Tales

RAVA Productions: Fractured Fairy Tales

The Empire Theatres, Toowoomba 54-56 Neil Street, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
Classic stories have tipped higgledy-piggledy and favourite characters are all in a twist. Two children, transported to fairyland, navigate its fractured stories, coming across Little Red, haggling with pigs and helping giants, a prince and princesses, pulling their stories back together before midnight. On the way, our heroes learn who…
Theremin & Beyond

Australian Chamber Orchestra: Bach to the Beach Boys and Beyond

Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
The theremin is utterly unique. It’s a sound you’ve definitely heard, even if you’ve never heard of it. Following the success of our sold-out tour of A Clockwork Orange & Beyond comes this series showcasing the range and power of the world’s first electronic instrument. Richard Tognetti directs an eclectic…
Brahms – The Symphonies

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Brahms – The Symphonies: Concert 1

Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
In 2025, the ASO’s annual immersive concert series celebrates the four symphonies of Johannes Brahms conducted by Chief Conductor, Mark Wigglesworth. Full of drama, romance, poetry, and passion, these works are a pinnacle of western civilisation and the chance to hear them all together is as special as it is…
Featured Editor's Choice Rapture

Australian String Quartet: Rapture

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
ASQ lifts the lid on our deepest fears and desires, from the unrequited love expressed in Janáček’s Intimate Letters to Osvaldo Golijov’s juxtaposition of pain and beauty in Tenebrae and Beethoven’s triumph over adversity in Serioso. The program also includes the world premiere of Vanessa Perica’s No Feeling is Final, which…
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Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Stirring Strings in the City

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Concertmaster Andrew Haveron directs Grażyna Bacewicz’s Concerto for String Orchestra, written in 1948 and premiered at a General Assembly of the Polish Composers’ Union two years later. Hailed as “a modern Brandenburg Concerto” by critic Stefan Kisielewski, it drew praise from Lutosławski, who appreciated its “bitter” harmonies and considered it…

Opera Australia: Opera Australia at St James’ Church

St James Church, Sydney 173 King St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Experience one of the greatest choral works ever written in a concert performance at Sydney’s historic St James’ Church. Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem is a transformative, meditative musical experience. Completed in 1947 and drawing on the traditional Gregorian Mass for the Dead, Duruflé’s Requiem will make your heart soar. From the…

Elder Conservatorium: Worlds within Worlds

Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
This captivating program celebrates the rich diversity of musical traditions and expressions from around the globe. From Malcolm Arnold’s vibrant Four Scottish Dances, evoking the lively spirit of the Scottish Highlands, to John Barnes Chance’s Variations on a Korean Folk Song, which brings ancient melodies to life, each piece tells…

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