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    • Editor's Choice Young Mannheim Symphonists 2025

    Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra: Young Mannheim Symphonists 2025 NSW State Academy Concert

    SCEGGS Darlinghurst 215 Forbes St, Darlinghurst, NSW
    Fresh from a tour of regional Queensland in Mozart’s Clarinet, the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra holds its first Young Mannheim Symphonists Academies for 2025. Coached in Historically Informed Performance by the orchestra’s players, this year’s cohort will perform Haydn's Drumroll Symphony from 1795 and Beethoven's Symphony No. 1, first…
    Editor's Choice Edward Gardner Conducts Brahms

    West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Edward Gardner Conducts Brahms

    Winthrop Hall Perth, WA, Australia
    Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner, makes his WASO debut with Brahms’ First Symphony. Caught in the shadow of his idol Beethoven, Brahms spent two decades composing the work, which finally premiered in 1876. It is paired with Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations, sung by soprano Samantha Clarke.…
    Featured Beethoven & Strauss

    Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven & Strauss

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    You may recognise it as the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but Richard Strauss wrote Also Sprach Zarathustra long before that film hit the cinemas. It was his response to a philosophical novel by Nietzsche, so feel free to contemplate the meaning of life when you listen to these…
    Ravel & Falla

    Sydney Opera House: Ravel & Falla

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Spanish conductor Jaime Martín – Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – guides the accomplished musicians of the Sydney Symphony in these vivid evocations of his homeland, and a celebration of Ravel’s 150th birthday. These pieces are postcards from Spain. Ravel’s mother was from the Basque region straddling the…

    Toowoomba Concert Orchestra: 50th Anniversary Concert

    The Empire Theatres, Toowoomba 54-56 Neil Street, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
    Featuring a selection of favourites performed over the five decades including works by Elgar, Khachaturian, Grainger, Satie, and Claire de Lune by Debussy arranged by former conductor Peter Rorke OAM. TCO will also perform a re-orchestrated Carnival and Sunset over Gowrie Mountain by local composer Professor Rhoderick McNeill which was…
    Toy Story in Concert
    Toy Story in Concert

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Toy Story in Concert

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Ever wonder what toys do when people aren't around? Toy Story answers that question with a fantastic fun-filled journey, viewed mostly through the eyes of two rival toys – Woody, the lanky, likable cowboy, and Buzz Lightyear, the fearless space ranger.  Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until…
    Toy Story in Concert
    Toy Story in Concert

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Toy Story in Concert

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Ever wonder what toys do when people aren't around? Toy Story answers that question with a fantastic fun-filled journey, viewed mostly through the eyes of two rival toys – Woody, the lanky, likable cowboy, and Buzz Lightyear, the fearless space ranger.  Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until…
    Editor's Choice Journey to the Americas

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Journey to the Americas

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Peruvian conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads a program that opens with compatriot Jimmy López’s Fiesta! – commissioned for the Lima Philharmonic Society’s centenary in 2007. Joe Chindamo’s jazz-infused Concerto for Orchestra follows, after which German cellist Raphaela Gromes joins the MSO for Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. Completed in 1895, it expresses the Czech…
    Toy Story in Concert
    Toy Story in Concert

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Toy Story in Concert

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Ever wonder what toys do when people aren't around? Toy Story answers that question with a fantastic fun-filled journey, viewed mostly through the eyes of two rival toys – Woody, the lanky, likable cowboy, and Buzz Lightyear, the fearless space ranger.  Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until…
    Star Wars: The Last Jedi in Concert

    West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Star Wars: The Last Jedi in Concert

    Riverside Theatre, Perth 21 Mounts Bay Rd, Perth, WA, Australia
    Experience the action-packed film, The Last Jedi, from the legendary Star Wars saga, live in concert on a giant screen with John Williams’ epic score performed live on stage by WASO. While Rey seeks out the galaxy's last hope, Luke Skywalker, the Resistance find themselves closely pursued by the First…
    Editor's Choice Journey to the Americas

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Journey to the Americas

    Costa Hall, Geelong Deakin University, 1 Gheringhap St, Geelong, VIC, Australia
    Peruvian conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads a program that opens with compatriot Jimmy López’s Fiesta! – commissioned for the Lima Philharmonic Society’s centenary in 2007. Joe Chindamo’s jazz-infused Concerto for Orchestra follows, after which German cellist Raphaela Gromes joins the MSO for Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. Completed in 1895, it expresses the Czech…
    Editor's Choice

    Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra: Rachmaninov Rhapsody

    Federation Concert Hall Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk joins the TSO for Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, describing it as the composer’s most advanced composition for piano and orchestra. “Honestly, I think it's even more interesting than his Third Piano Concerto,” he tells Limelight. Praising the TSO players’ enthusiasm and sincerity, he adds,…

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