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Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Mythic

Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Elena Kats-Chernin conjures the atmosphere of a mystical cave in Mythic, where shadowy strings and twinkling winds reflect the faint glimmer of light in a cavernous realm. Stravinsky reveals the spark of another fairytale in Petrushka, his zippy ballet score that brings to life some seriously mischievous puppets. The concert reaches its…
Mozart and the Mendelssohns

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Mozart and the Mendelssohns

Ulumbarra Theatre Bendigo, VIC, Australia
Chief Conductor Jaime Martín presents a joyful program of classical and early romantic treasures. Join us for an evening of pure musical bliss, beginning with Fanny Mendelssohn’s delightful Overture and concluding with her brother Felix’s romp through Italy in the Fourth Symphony. In between, Principal Players of the MSO wind…
Mozart and the Mendelssohns

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Mozart and the Mendelssohns

Ulumbarra Theatre Bendigo, VIC, Australia
Chief Conductor Jaime Martín presents a joyful program of classical and early romantic treasures. Join us for an evening of pure musical bliss, beginning with Fanny Mendelssohn’s delightful Overture and concluding with her brother Felix’s romp through Italy in the Fourth Symphony. In between, Principal Players of the MSO wind…
Arabella Steinbacher performs Prokofiev

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Arabella Steinbacher performs Prokofiev

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Arabella Steinbacher’s mastery of Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto is clear from the first touch of her bow. Moments after the lights go down, her unaccompanied violin deftly sketches a potent and mysterious melody before the orchestra joins her. The New York Times describes Steinbacher as having ‘balanced lyricism and fire…

Fremantle Symphony Orchestra: Edwardian England

John Leckie Pavilion Melvista Ave & Stone Rd, Nedlands, WA, Australia
Back for another year, we are pleased to present FSO’s 2025 Winter Warmer concert season! First in the series is ‘Edwardian England’… Join us for an intimate, cabaret-style evening of music making at John Leckie Pavilion, home of the FSO. David Pye conducts the FSO in this wonderful program of…
Featured Folk Reimagined

Ryan Maxwell Event: Folk Reimagined: East In Symphony

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Experience the power of Chinese folk tradition mixed with the grandeur of Western symphony as Ryan Maxwell Event presents Folk Reimagined: East in Symphony, a ground-breaking, new musical collaboration between the Guizhou Chinese Orchestra and The Australia Orchestra, at the Sydney Opera House on Monday 7th July and the Melbourne…
Featured Folk Reimagined

Ryan Maxwell Event: Folk Reimagined: East In Symphony

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Experience the power of Chinese folk tradition mixed with the grandeur of Western symphony as Ryan Maxwell Event presents Folk Reimagined: East in Symphony, a ground-breaking, new musical collaboration between the Guizhou Chinese Orchestra and The Australia Orchestra, at the Sydney Opera House on Monday 7th July and the Melbourne…
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…
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…

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