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Concerts for All: 15th Young Maestros Community Concert (Willoughby)

Willoughby Uniting Church 10/12 Clanwilliam St, North Willoughby, NSW, Australia
Featuring outstanding young musicians (ages 6-14) performing on the various instruments. Join Concerts for All for an enchanting hour of classical music! Outstanding young musicians will perform an engaging program of classical masterpieces on a variety of instruments. This community concert is designed to welcome classical newcomers and seasoned enthusiasts…

Melbourne Recital Centre: Atmosphere

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Concert two features giants of the Russian repertoire to make your spirits soar high into the sky. Glinka’s lightening-fast overture opens this programme and is then joined by Kristian Chong for Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.2. Finally, Fabian Russell opens the heavens with a thunderous performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4.  
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Sydney Concert Orchestra: Tales from the Homeland

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
After a sold-out tour of Indonesia, the Sydney Concert Orchestra joins forces with the Russian Orthodox Male Choir of Australia. Under Artistic Director and Chief Conductor, Omid Moheb-Zadeh, the SCO has come to specialise in Slavic repertoire, and this program pairs Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, which quotes In the Field a…
fortyfivedownstairs Chamber Music Festival

fortyfivedownstairs: A Gwen Harwood Cycle

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Duo Eclettico (Justin Kenealy) and Coady Green (piano) are joined by the one the Australia’s leading actors, Helen Morse, for the world premiere of Linda Kouvaras’ complete A Gwen Harwood Cycle. Written as a one-woman stage vehicle for Helen Morse and Duo Eclettico, A Gwen Harwood Cycle explores the life and work…
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…
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 University: Sublime Voices

Australian National University Acton, ACT, Australia
Sublime Voices - Autumn concert with ANU Chamber Choir and Vocal Fry (ANU Community Music Centre) Conducted by Tobias Cole. Program to come. Audience members can choose how much they pay for each ticket. All proceeds will go to the ANU School of Music Community Outreach Fund.
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Selby & Friends: This Mirror Has Three Faces

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
A breathtaking concert program which begins in stunning fashion with the second piano trio by important Soviet-born Austrian-American classical composer, conductor and concert pianist Lera Auerbach. One of today’s most sought-after and exciting creative voices, her performances and music are featured on the world’s leading stages – from Vienna’s Musikverein…
Paavali

Flinders Quartet: Paavali

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
“Usually, our programs come about because we want to play the music of specific composers but in the case of this program, it was a performer that was the catalyst. Melbourne has been lucky to have extraordinary pianist, Paavali Jumppanen, in our musical community as Artistic Director at ANAM and…
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…

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