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    Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Iberian Icons

    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…
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    Port Fairy Spring Music Festival: Apparitions

    Reardon Theatre 35 Bank 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: Ancient Fragments

    St John's Anglican Church, Port Fairy 21 Regent 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…
    Opera’s Bad Girl

    Hume Conservatorium: Opera’s Bad Girl

    Hume Conservatorium 160 Bourke St, Goulburn NSW 2580, Goulburn, NSW
    Original diva Anna Bishop, a daring contemporary of Queen Victoria, shattered expectations and redefined independence when she left her famous composer husband to forge her own artistic path. Bravely defying the social norms of the time — and forced to leave her beloved children behind — she toured the globe…

    The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre: The Estivo Trio

    The Pavilion Performing Arts Centre 30 Eton St, Sutherland, NSW, Australia
    The Estivo Trio is quickly establishing itself as one of Australia’s premiere young trios. The ensemble brings together three outstanding young musicians of remarkable talent, passion and experience.”
    From Vienna With Love

    Trio Anima Mundi: From Vienna With Love – Melbourne

    Holy Trinity Anglican Church, East Melbourne 193 Hotham St, East Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    From Vienna With Love - has at its core one of Franz Schubert's last compositions, the Piano Trio No.2. Like his other trio (No.1) this work is grand in composition and structure. First performed in early 1828, the work was published later that year, just before the composer's death. The…

    UKARIA: Benjamin Grosvenor

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor is an international sensation, heralded as a ‘genius who has reached the height of his interpretative powers’ (The Spectator). The youngest British musician ever signed as a Decca Classics recording artist, Grosvenor has performed with (among others) the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, London Philharmonic…
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    Sydney Opera House: Annie Jacobs-Perkins

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins takes us on a fascinating interior voyage through sound. The inventiveness of eighteenth-century Italian composer and cellist Joseph dall'Abaco’s Caprices are a recurring thread in this program, heard between contemporary Finnish composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen’s rhapsodic Arabesques for Olly, for cello and samples (the composer’s own re-working of…

    Australian Boys Choir: French Classics

    St Andrew's Anglican Church, Brighton 228 New St, Brighton, VIC, Australia
    Romantic choral masterpieces by famous French composers performed with an ensemble of organ, harp, cello and double bass.

    Southern Cross Soloists: Wonder

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Felix Mendelssohn’s four simple, yet magical chords (I-V-iv-I) are a portal to a musical wonderland of elves, fairies, lovers, and a donkey. Mendelssohn stood on the conductor’s podium when the 16-year-old wonderchild composer-performer Clara Wieck premiered her own piano concerto. Her concerto would inspire and influence the concerti of her…
    Melode D’ Amore

    Pacific Chamber Players: Trio Sole presents Melode D’ Amore

    Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Hall 115 Eumundi Road, Noosaville, 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.…