• Editor's Choice Sibelius: The Symphonies

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Sibelius: The Symphonies Concert 2

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth leads the ASO in a complete cycle of Sibelius’s seven symphonies, tracing the composer’s evolution from the national-romantic expansiveness of the First and Second to the increasingly concise, abstract language of the later works. Rooted in Finnish landscapes, mythology and identity, the cycle reveals Sibelius’s radical…
    Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane – Night II

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A trilogy through time. Enter a realm where Romantic lyricism meets modernist exploration as Pieter Wispelwey and Piers Lane bridge the delicate balance between tradition and transformation. Franz Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata, written for the now extinct instrument, enters a new era on the cello. The gentle dialogue between instruments, embodying…

    ACT Keyboard Association: Simon Tedeschi Plays Your Requests Piano Recital 18 Sep 2026

    Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture 15 Blackall St, Barton, ACT, Australia
    Simon Tedeschi AM returns to Canberra for a unique, completely unscripted evening at the piano where he will play YOUR musical requests live. No set list. No safety net. From Bach to Beethoven, Gershwin to Scriabin, Schubert to jazz standards, and the occasional reckless detour. You nominate the composer. He…

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Umberto Clerici Conducts Dvořák

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The music that we hear as children is forever etched into our memories. Umberto Clerici conducts this richly textured program featuring music by two composers who grew up to conquer the world’s concert halls but who never forgot their roots in rural areas of eastern Europe. Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony is…
    Elder Con Lunchtime Concerts

    Elder Conservatorium: In Honour of Beryl Kimber (Leske)

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    This special concert honours the memory of Beryl Kimber (Leske), whose distinguished career as an international virtuoso and violin teacher at the Elder Conservatorium spanned decades, shaping generations of musicians. The program opens with J.S. Bach's Sonata No. 2 in A major, BWV 1015, a work of luminous elegance and…
    Editor's Choice Barossa Weekend of Music

    Australian String Quartet: Opening Night Concert

    Angaston Town Hall Washington St, Angaston, SA, Australia
    Set among the Barossa Valley’s cellar doors and heritage venues, this boutique festival combines canonical chamber music with more contemporary fare, and a healthy serving of the best local produce. Hear Haydn and Prokofiev in Angaston Town Hall, a pairing of Beethoven and Bartók at Maggie Beer’s Farm Eatery, cross-genre…
    Editor's Choice Barossa Weekend of Music

    Australian String Quartet: Morning Concert

    The Farm Eatery Pheasant Farm Rd, Nuriootpa, SA, Australia
    Set among the Barossa Valley’s cellar doors and heritage venues, this boutique festival combines canonical chamber music with more contemporary fare, and a healthy serving of the best local produce. Hear Haydn and Prokofiev in Angaston Town Hall, a pairing of Beethoven and Bartók at Maggie Beer’s Farm Eatery, cross-genre…

    Australian National Academy of Music: ELISION & ANAM

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    This program begins with Milica Djordjević's Nalet, introducing a gripping and persevering energy as the ensemble pushes determinedly against an unseen resistance, delineative of Djordjević's struggle when composing this piece. Xenakis puts a spin on the sound an orchestra can create in Jalons, each movement developing upon rhythmic construction and…

    ACT Keyboard Association: Simon Tedeschi Plays Your Requests Piano Recital 18 Sep 2026

    Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture 15 Blackall St, Barton, ACT, Australia
    Simon Tedeschi AM returns to Canberra for a unique, completely unscripted evening at the piano where he will play YOUR musical requests live. No set list. No safety net. From Bach to Beethoven, Gershwin to Scriabin, Schubert to jazz standards, and the occasional reckless detour. You nominate the composer. He…
    Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane – Night III

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A trilogy through time. Pieter Wispelwey's concert trilogy concludes as he and Piers Lane delve into music's most profound emotional territories, anchored by Benjamin Britten's haunting Third Cello Suite. César Franck's radiant Violin Sonata, equally compelling on cello, unfolds with soaring expression. Frédéric Chopin's final published work, his only Cello…

    Melbourne Youth Orchestra: The Big Busk 2026

    Queen Victoria Market Queen St, Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
    The streets of the Queen Victoria Market will come alive with the sound of music when Melbourne Youth Orchestras (MYO) presents The Big Busk on Saturday 19 September 2026, transforming one of Naarm/Melbourne's most iconic destinations into a vibrant celebration of young musical talent. More than 650 young musicians will…

    : Colombia Earthquake Relief Concert

    St Stephen's Uniting Church 197 Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Join us at St Stephen’s Uniting Church in Sydney on Saturday, 19 September for the Colombia Earthquake Relief Concert — an afternoon of classical and Colombian music, contemporary composition, and a unique cultural dialogue between Australia and Colombia, raising funds to support communities affected by the recent earthquake in Colombia. Presented entirely on a pro…