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Melode D’ Amore

Pacific Chamber Players: Trio Sole presents Melode D’ Amore

Caloundra Uniting Church 56c Queen Street, Caloundra, Queensland, Australia
Fall in love with opera’s most beloved arias and Neapolitan favourites as Trio Sole makes its debut with Melodie D’Amore — a concert series celebrating the passion, elegance, and emotional power of classical voice and piano. Trio Sole features soprano Vanessa West, Neapolitan tenor Raffaele Pierno, and pianist Janet Brewer.…
New World

National Capital Orchestra: New World

Snow Concert Hall 40 Monaro Cres, Red Hill ACT 2603, Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Join the NCO for an evocative afternoon of sound and storytelling at the magnificent Snow Concert Hall, under the direction of Music Director Louis Sharpe. The NEW WORLD concert features three extraordinary works, including world-class performances by local composers and soloists, alongside one of the most beloved symphonies ever written.…
Quartz – Schubert’s Death and the Maiden

Melbourne Recital Centre: Quartz – Schubert’s Death and the Maiden

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
The fifth movement of Australian composer Richard Meale’s String Quartet No.2 has long had a life of its own. Dedicated to the recent loss of a dear friend, Meale’s Cantilena Pacifica achieved stand-alone fame for its lyrical violin stretching mournfully over a gentle accompaniment. Named after, and taking inspiration from, a song…
Editor's Choice Trio Isimsiz

Musica Viva Australia: Trio Isimsiz

Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, 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…
Quartz – Schubert’s Death and the Maiden

Melbourne Recital Centre: Quartz – Schubert’s Death and the Maiden

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
The fifth movement of Australian composer Richard Meale’s String Quartet No.2 has long had a life of its own. Dedicated to the recent loss of a dear friend, Meale’s Cantilena Pacifica achieved stand-alone fame for its lyrical violin stretching mournfully over a gentle accompaniment. Named after, and taking inspiration from, a song…

Musica Viva Australia: Alma Moodie Quartet & Daniel de Borah

The Concourse, Chatswood 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood, NSW, Australia
We welcome the Alma Moodie String Quartet in its Sydney Morning Masters debut alongside pianist Daniel de Borah, performing Erich Korngold's luscious Piano Quintet. This rarely-performed work promises to be a real treat

Sydney Mozart Society: Haveron, Smiles, Jacobs and Selby

The Concourse, Chatswood 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood, NSW, Australia
Kathryn Selby AM, one of Australia’s highly acclaimed chamber musicians, has assembled a star-studded quartet including two distinguished and enduring ‘friends’, Andrew Haveron (violin) and Julian Smiles (cello), and a fresh face – one of the best horn players in the world – Samuel Jacobs. They mark our 75th year…
Bruckner and Strauss

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Bruckner and Strauss

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Said to pick up where Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony left left off, Bruckner’s transcendent Seventh Symphony was a monument to his hero Wagner. Also including a selection of works for soprano and orchestra by Richard Strauss, this luxuriant program is full of rich orchestral textures creating a musical tapestry that’s guaranteed…
Editor's Choice Trio Isimsiz

Musica Viva Australia: Trio Isimsiz

Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, 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…
Garden of Earthly Delights

Luminescence Chamber Singers: Garden of Earthly Delights

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
A garden teeming with temptation and desire, grotesque creatures and improbable scenes of surrender: the uninhibited world of Hieronymus Bosch’s 500-year-old triptych “De tuin der lusten”. Baffling his Dutch contemporaries and the casual tourists in Madrid’s Prado in equal measure (not to mention generations of art critics) Bosch’s Garden of…

Tempo Rubato: In Stillness, We Dance

Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
Be moved by dances of devotion in this concert from Jenny Lu (piano) and James Littlewood (bass trombone). Their program, featuring works by Korngold, Kreisler and Joe Twist, is teeming with passion and yearning, and explores the sweet sorrow of star-crossed lovers in two musical interpretations of 'Romeo and Juliet'.…

Elder Conservatorium: Lunchtime Concert – Orchestral Pianos

Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
The unique sonic alchemy of two pianos has long served as one of the most reliable vehicles through which to faithfully reproduce orchestral sonorities and textures. Liszt, Brahms, Ravel and Rachmaninoff (to name only a few celebrated examples) all initially turned to four hands as the medium for a composition…

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