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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Joined with Gold

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Nicolas Altstaedt returns to Melbourne for the Australian premiere of Liza Lim’s A Sutured World. Embracing the notion that beauty lies in adversity, this program is inspired by Kintsugi – the Japanese art of mending broken pottery using gold lacquer. It also includes Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, which marked a period of…
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West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Fifth

Winthrop Hall Perth, WA, Australia
Ta–ta–ta–taaa! Ta–ta–ta–taaa! In his 1840 biography of Beethoven, Anton Schindler suggested that the opening notes of the Fifth Symphony were the sound of “Fate knocking at the door”. A century later, the Allies dubbed the work the Victory Symphony, because those same beats spelled out the letter V in Morse code.…

The Street Theatre: Bandaluzia Flamenco

The Street Theatre 15 Childers St, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Acclaimed ensemble Bandaluzia will present their latest show in an exhilarating display of contemporary flamenco music and dance. A performance replete with a unique range of creative influences, from the great canon of the flamenco tradition, to inspiration from Debussy, Jazz, Radiohead and Contemporary dance. Bandaluzia subtly intertwines this inspiration…
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Orange Chamber Music Festival: Festival Gala

Orange Civic Theatre 135 Byng Street, Orange, NSW, Australia
Back for its fifth year, the Orange Chamber Music Festival packs a punch with a program including Brisbane's Orava Quartet, a festival gala lineup with pianists Andrea Lam and Sonya Lifschitz and Cultured, a day of free events, which sees the ACO Collective perform amongst the collection of the Orange Regional Gallery. Limelight Editor's Choice On International…
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Orange Chamber Music Festival: Melodies & Conversations

Orange Regional Gallery Byng St, Orange, NSW, Australia
Back for its fifth year, the Orange Chamber Music Festival packs a punch with a program including Brisbane's Orava Quartet, a festival gala lineup with pianists Andrea Lam and Sonya Lifschitz and Cultured, a day of free events, which sees the ACO Collective perform amongst the collection of the Orange Regional Gallery. Limelight Editor's Choice Join the…
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UKARIA: Sound Worlds

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
This concert celebrates the joy of sound. Janáček’s String Quartet No. 2 Intimate Letters was originally written for the unique sound of the viola d’amore; we sample that version, together with a performance featuring the viola. Multi-instrumentalist Garth Knox, whom Harrington reveres for his approach to music making, is our guide. He’ll…
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Orange Chamber Music Festival: Elvina String Quartet

Tonic Restaurant 6 Pym Street, Millthorpe, NSW, Australia
Back for its fifth year, the Orange Chamber Music Festival packs a punch with a program including Brisbane's Orava Quartet, a festival gala lineup with pianists Andrea Lam and Sonya Lifschitz and Cultured, a day of free events, which sees the ACO Collective perform amongst the collection of the Orange Regional Gallery. Limelight Editor's Choice Welcome Drinks…
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UKARIA: For The Future

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
To mark their 50th anniversary, the Kronos Quartet chose to look forward, not back. Cue one of the most ambitious commissioning projects of recent times: 50 new works, with scores and recordings of each madefreely available. Together, these works form a snapshot of the possibilities for the string quartet in…
Editor's Choice Journeying to Finisterre

The Song Company: Journeying to Finisterre

Here’s a fascinating program, crafted by The Song Company’s co-Artistic Director and soprano Amy Moore, exploring themes and music associated with the famous pilgrim route across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela. Medieval music comes from the 12th-century Codex Calixtinus, which contains some of the earliest examples of polyphony, as…
Haydn’s Sunrise

Australian Haydn Ensemble: Haydn’s Sunrise

Riverside Theatres, Parramatta Parramatta, NSW, Australia
The AHE commence their season with two wonderful quartets that morph effortlessly from the lofty to the lowbrow. Then Fanny Mendelssohn’s quartet, apparently the first ever composed by a woman, offers an elegant, if far from ladylike, riposte. Beethoven never set Shakespeare, even in translation, but his instrumental works often…
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UKARIA: Dream Collectors

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
In a fitting culmination, Horizons draws to a close with all artists on stage together. Presented from the stage by David Harrington, this collaborative concert culminates in a rhapsodic performance of Terry Riley’s cult hit Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector.

Wesley Music Centre: John Granger Fisher Piano Recital

Internationally-acclaimed Australian concert pianist John Granger Fisher presents a program of works from the Baroque period to the 20th century. The recital includes works by Scarlatti, Haydn, Schumann, Schubert/Liszt, Bizet/Horowitz and more.

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