• Editor's Choice

    Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Opera Unmasked

    St Patrick's Hall, Port Fairy 9/11 William St, Port Fairy, VIC, Australia
    Curators Monica Curro and Stefan Cassomenos have set out to examine our heritage and bloodlines, and to rejoice in “the miracle of how millions of notes in the hands of master musicians are crafted into stunning sonic stories,” all the while paying homage to the Ancient Greek mosaic and the…
    Editor's Choice

    Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Dreamcrafters

    Lecture Hall, Port Fairy Sackville Street, Port Fairy, VIC, Australia
    Curators Monica Curro and Stefan Cassomenos have set out to examine our heritage and bloodlines, and to rejoice in “the miracle of how millions of notes in the hands of master musicians are crafted into stunning sonic stories,” all the while paying homage to the Ancient Greek mosaic and the…

    FourthWall Arts: Rebecca Lloyd-Jones and Alex Raineri

    FourthWall Arts Suite 4, 540 Queen St, Brisbane City, QLD, Australia
    Rebecca Lloyd-Jones and Alex Raineri perform music for piano and percussion, featuring music by Alex Turley, Hannah Barnes, Hannah Kulenty and Alex Raineri. Ticket price includes complimentary wine.

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Mozart & Harrison

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Mozart was the first to explore this combination in his Clarinet Quintet of 1789, written for Anton Stadler, the most gifted clarinettist in Vienna at the time. Across four exquisite movements we hear a gentle lullaby, a lively dance and lyrical passages that could almost be opera arias; while the…

    The Bizz with Johnno: eXposure

    NorthcoteSocialClub 301 High St, Northcote VIC 3070, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    This isn’t just a gig. This is eXposure. We’re not your average showcase or scene. We’re a movement — a launchpad for Melbourne’s most electrifying, genre-bending talent. No gimmicks. No freebies. Just pure, unfiltered live music and real industry connection. eXposure is a ticketed industry event that unites past performers,…
    Fate

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Fate

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4 bursts into life with the thunderous power of brass, setting a dramatic stage for the composer’s exploration of fate. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1 offers a charming counterpoint, as Benjamin Grosvenor’s virtuosity infuses the playful and expressive dialogue between piano and orchestra. The concert begins with Akimenko’s celestial…
    The Flute Revamped

    Melanie Walters: The Flute Revamped

    Gasworks Arts Park 21 Graham Street, Albert Park, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    "The flute as you don’t usually hear it!" Join flautist Melanie Walters for this concert of vibrant music inspired by television, pop music, children's literature, and other popular culture. The program includes music by Jacob TV, Azeem Ward, Anne La Berge and Ian Clarke. ★★★★★ "An hour better spent is…
    Editor's Choice Water Music

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Water Music

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A meditation on the spiritual, cultural and environmental significance of water, this program pairs Handel’s Water Music with the world premiere of a new work by Arnhem Land ocean and waterway custodian Rrawun Maymuru and Nick Wales. Titled Nguy Gapu (Ocean Water) this is the first time the ABO is performing…
    Editor's Choice Trio Isimsiz

    Musica Viva Australia: Trio Isimsiz

    Queensland Conservatorium 140 Grey St, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    Trio Isimsiz (‘anonymous’ in Turkish) was formed in 2008 by pianist Erdem Mısırlıoğlu, violinist Pablo Hernán Benedí and cellist Edvard Pogossian after meeting at the Guildhall School in London. Celebrated from the Aldeburgh Festival to Copenhagen’s Tivoli Concert Hall, they now embark on their first national tour with Schubert’s Piano Trio…
    Manon

    The Australian Ballet: Manon

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s adaptation of Abbé Prévost’s 1731 novel, Manon is a tragic romance unlike any other in ballet. From the echelons of high society 18th-century Paris to the gritty streets of New Orleans, Manon tells a story of a young girl desperate to rise above her lowly origins, seduced…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Journeys

    Iwaki Auditorium 130 Southbank Blvd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The MSO Chorus explores the music of Renaissance composer Tomás Luis de Victoria, famous for his motets, and complementary modern works including Australian composer Joseph Twist’s motet that pays tribute to Victoria himself. Gabriel Jackson’s To The Field of Stars also makes a welcome return, originally co-commissioned and premiered by the MSO…
    Asher Fisch Conducts Dvořák 9

    West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Asher Fisch Conducts Dvořák 9

    Winthrop Hall Perth, WA, Australia
    Zoltán Kodály’s colourful Variations on a Hungarian Folksong sets the tone for this folk-inspired program. WASO’s own Principal Viola, Daniel Schmitt, takes centre stage for Bartók’s Viola Concerto, his final, elegiac work, full of the folk-music influences which so fascinated him. The sheer number of unforgettable melodies that fill Dvořák’s…