• Ensemble Q: Step Inside The Music: Concert 3

    Sandgate Town Hall Cliff and Seymour St, Sandgate, QLD, Australia
    The Australian Voices join us for this beautiful nocturnal ode to Queensland and romanticism, featuring works by Esenwalds, Paul Dean, a nine-composer Nocturne and climaxing with the stunningly beautiful Verklärte Nacht (Enchanted evening) by Arnold Schoenberg.

    Wesley Music Centre: Love, Loss… and Butterflies

    Wesley Music Centre 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    Accomplished pianist Stuart Long presents a captivating program of beautiful and soulful pieces for solo piano by Liszt, Schumann, Brahms and Grieg.
    Lennie’s Great Adventure

    Musgrove Opera: Lennie’s Great Adventure

    Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House – Bennelong Point Sydney Australia 14/2 Circular Quay E, Sydney NSW 2000, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    Lennie Gwyther is an Australian hero. His journey from regional Victoria to the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge is a story that’s worth telling. Hear this inspiring tale in a 50-minute children’s opera adaptation from Australian composer Lachlan Massey. In 1932, aged just nine years old, Lennie travelled on…

    Penrith Conservatorium of Music: Fiery Bach

    Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre Penrith, NSW, Australia
    Bach’s imagination has always burned brightly; igniting generations of composers and musicians to create music that is kinetic, daring, and alive with electricity. Fiery Bach takes that fire and pushes it further, reimagining the music of Bach and his contemporaries with a thrilling modern edge. At its heart burns Arash Safaian’s ÜberBach concertos,…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: String Spectacular

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Could the waltz from Serenade for Strings be the most charming piece of music ever written? Decide for yourself when you hear the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra perform Tchaikovsky’s music inside Melbourne Recital Centre. This concert is dedicated entirely to the luscious sounds of the string orchestra. Tchaikovsky’s yearningly romantic music…
    Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Schubert composed like an oil painter, drawing from a rich palette of melodic and harmonic colours. With a divine lyricism at its heart, his music is imbued with an intimacy and intensity that taps into the full range of human emotion. Richard Tognetti’s affinity for Schubert is evident in every…
    The Drover’s Wife

    Opera Australia: The Drover’s Wife

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Molly Johnson is a survivor. Heavily pregnant, she’s left alone to care for her children in a remote Snowy Mountains shanty. Between the snakes, bullocks and hostile travellers on her doorstep, she faces no shortage of threats. With her husband away droving sheep, she faces them alone. But when Yadaka,…
    Editor's Choice Alexander Gavrylyuk performs Rachmaninov

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Alexander Gavrylyuk Performs Rachmaninov

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Recently announced as General Music Director in Stuttgart, Nicholas Carter conducts an ocean-inspired program featuring Benjamin Britten’s Sea Interludes, Claude Debussy’s La Mer and the Australian premiere of Jeanne Demessieux’s Poème. Pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk joins the SSO for Rachmaninov’s notoriously difficult Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, composed in 1934…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Mass of Deliverance

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The human voice is an instrument that connects us all. Hear it sing through two radiant pieces of music from England’s beloved choral composer John Rutter. His 1970s Gloria begins with a surprisingly high-energy fanfare, and his Hymn projects sacred traditions into our modern era. MSO Chorus and musicians will…
    Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Schubert composed like an oil painter, drawing from a rich palette of melodic and harmonic colours. With a divine lyricism at its heart, his music is imbued with an intimacy and intensity that taps into the full range of human emotion. Richard Tognetti’s affinity for Schubert is evident in every…

    Genesis Baroque: Take Six

    Wesley of Warragul 64 Victoria Street, Warragul, VIC, Australia
    Genesis Baroque presents two pillars of the string sextet repertoire, exploring the genre’s broad expressive palate; from lush and dramatic, exuberant and effervescent, to deeply intimate. Featuring Mozart’s beloved Sinfonia Concertante K.364, arranged for string sextet and published posthumously in 1808 as the Grande Sestetto Concertante, and Brahms’ grand, romantic…
    Claire Edwardes

    Bowerbird Collective: Claire Edwardes

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    Dubbed “the sorceress of percussion,” Claire Edwardes OAM has been a defining force in Australian new music for three decades. Since 2006 she has led Ensemble Offspring as Artistic Director, commissioning more than 80 new solo works and collaborating with leading composers worldwide. She maintains a busy solo career presenting…