• Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: First Voices Showcase

    Iwaki Auditorium 130 Southbank Blvd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    MSO's annual program for emerging First Nations composers aims to enhance cultural vibrancy through collaboration and the nurturing of talent. First Voices offers participants an orchestral music commission along with the opportunity to workshop intensively with musicians and staff from the orchestra and guest composer mentors. You'll hear the world…

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Questions & Answers

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    Two American and two central European composers combine to ask and answer questions in equal measure. Perhaps the first great American composer, Charles Ives understandably wonders what music and life are all about. Copland suggests that we should be grateful for open skies and hopeful horizons whilst Dvořák thinks that…

    Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra: Vaughan Williams’ Tuba Concerto

    Federation Concert Hall Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Forget everything you think you know about the tuba, as Vaughan Williams’ Concerto for Bass Tuba turns the spotlight on the orchestra’s biggest brass instrument. TSO’s Principal Tuba Rachel Kelly takes centre stage, revealing her instrument’s lyrical voice and astonishing agility. Also on the program: Doreen Carwithen’s cinematic Overture ODTAA…

    Tasmanian String Quartet: Livestream Event | Vaughan Williams’ Tuba Concerto

    The Makers Technology and Innovation Hub, Parklands
    Forget everything you think you know about the tuba, as Vaughan Williams’ Concerto for Bass Tuba turns the spotlight on the orchestra’s biggest brass instrument. TSO’s Principal Tuba Rachel Kelly takes centre stage, revealing her instrument’s lyrical voice and astonishing agility. Also on the program: Doreen Carwithen’s cinematic Overture ODTAA…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: MSO in Your Neighbourhood – Narre Warren

    Bunjil Place 2 Patrick Northeast Drive, Narre Warren, VIC, Australia
    The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra returns to Bunjil Place with a powerful program of contemporary Australian music – alive with stories of land, water, memory and identity. Program James Howard Nyirrimar Ngamatyata | To lose yourself at sea Aaron Wyatt The Things Which are Most Important Don’t Always Scream the Loudest…

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: William Barton & the Sydney Symphony

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Whether he’s writing for voice, yiḏaki and guitar or the full force of a symphony orchestra, William Barton creates music that feels grounded and expansive. Described by ABC Arts as a ‘master of his craft and a deeply compelling performer’, Barton’s music moves through scenes of land and light: expansive, shaped by…
    Nature Untamed

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Nature Untamed

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Britten’s feather-light arrangement of music by Mahler tantalisingly captures the fleeting beauty of nature. And Dvořák’s pastoral and triumphant Symphony No.8 reflects on the delicate balance between nature and humanity. In between, Shostakovich’s razor-sharp Cello Concerto No.1 asks what the balance should be between an individual and society, and we…

    Glen Street Theatre: Mark Vincent | Amoré with The Australian Symphony Orchestra

    Glen Street Theatre Belrose, NSW, Australia
    Fresh from his acclaimed star turn as Old Deuteronomy in the 40th Anniversary Australian Tour of CATS, produced by John Frost for Crossroads Live, Mark brings his signature passion and power to a breathtaking evening of song. Under the baton of conductor Shannon Brown, a founding member of The Ten…
    Nature Untamed

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Nature Untamed

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Britten’s feather-light arrangement of music by Mahler tantalisingly captures the fleeting beauty of nature. And Dvořák’s pastoral and triumphant Symphony No.8 reflects on the delicate balance between nature and humanity. In between, Shostakovich’s razor-sharp Cello Concerto No.1 asks what the balance should be between an individual and society, and we…
    Editor's Choice

    The Metropolitan Orchestra: Flare

    The Verbrugghen Hall Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 1 Conservatorium Road, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Led by Chief Conductor Sarah-Grace Williams, this program features the world premiere of Graeme Brown’s Endangered Species alongside Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol, Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte and Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite. The orchestra recently joined Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra on the Sydney leg of the Night Blooms…
    Monteverdi Vespers

    Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Monteverdi Vespers

    St Ambrose Catholic Church, Woodend 47 Urquhart St, Woodend, VIC, Australia
    Monteverdi’s 1610 setting of Vespers is among the greatest works of the Early Baroque. A 400th anniversary performance was given at our Festival in 2010, and it now returns by popular demand. While we tend to associate Monteverdi’s choral writing with Venice, this work was written while he was working in Mantua;…
    Monteverdi Vespers

    Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Monteverdi Vespers

    St Ambrose Catholic Church, Woodend 47 Urquhart St, Woodend, VIC, Australia
    Monteverdi’s 1610 setting of Vespers is among the greatest works of the Early Baroque. A 400th anniversary performance was given at our Festival in 2010, and it now returns by popular demand. While we tend to associate Monteverdi’s choral writing with Venice, this work was written while he was working in Mantua;…