• Mahlers First Symphony

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Mahlers First Symphony

    Iwaki Auditorium 130 Southbank Blvd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Jams for Juniors is the perfect way to introduce babies and toddlers to the magic of music! Children aged 0-5 and their adults can explore, play and join in at these popular 30-minute musical workshops. Pull up a cushion and explore the music of Mahler's First Symphony, led by presenter…

    Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra: Brilliant Pairings

    Ian Potter Recital Hall 19-27 Campbell St, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    In the early 20th century, composers reshaped chamber music by blending tradition and innovation. Prokofiev’s Sonata for two violins (1932), written for a Paris festival, astonished with its clarity and restraint. Lili Boulanger’s Two Pieces (1911–14) reveal delicate lyricism, balancing Romantic warmth with French colour. Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne (1932), drawn…
    Mahlers First Symphony

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Mahlers First Symphony

    Iwaki Auditorium 130 Southbank Blvd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Jams for Juniors is the perfect way to introduce babies and toddlers to the magic of music! Children aged 0-5 and their adults can explore, play and join in at these popular 30-minute musical workshops. Pull up a cushion and explore the music of Mahler's First Symphony, led by presenter…
    Mahlers First Symphony

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Mahlers First Symphony

    Iwaki Auditorium 130 Southbank Blvd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Jams for Juniors is the perfect way to introduce babies and toddlers to the magic of music! Children aged 0-5 and their adults can explore, play and join in at these popular 30-minute musical workshops. Pull up a cushion and explore the music of Mahler's First Symphony, led by presenter…
    Editor's Choice Mahler & Tchaikovsky

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Mahler & Tchaikovsky

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Trumpet virtuoso Sergei Nakariakov, widely credited with bringing the flugelhorn to prominence on the concert stage, performs his own arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, originally written for cello. Singaporean conductor Kahchun Wong also leads Mahler’s First Symphony, Titan, alongside the world premiere of The Erl-King by Cybec…
    Editor's Choice Choral Splendour

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Choral Splendour

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Concertmaster Shaun Lee-Chen and Ben Dollman perform Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, alongside excerpts from the composer’s cantatas Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben and Wir Danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir. The program also includes Telemann’s Overture in D major and Handel’s Coronation Anthems, Zadok the…
    Editor's Choice Choral Splendour

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Choral Splendour

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Concertmaster Shaun Lee-Chen and Ben Dollman perform Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, alongside excerpts from the composer’s cantatas Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben and Wir Danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir. The program also includes Telemann’s Overture in D major and Handel’s Coronation Anthems, Zadok the…
    In The Quiet

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: In The Quiet

    Adelaide Town Hall off Pirie St, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony unfolds with yearning, sweeping strings that explore deep currents of longing and memory. Copland’s Quiet Citypaints a quieter scene, where plaintive trumpet and cor anglais solos capture moments of stillness amid the bustling world. Between them, lauded ASO Principal Clarinettist Dean Newcomb premieres a new concerto by…

    Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA): Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Emma Matthews

    Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts 2 Bradford St, Mount Lawley, WA, Australia
    The WAAPA Symphony Orchestra celebrates a new era at ECU City in a concert of extraordinary music featuring two of the world's most loved works, along with Australia's most-loved soprano. The divine Emma Matthews AM dazzles in music by Mozart, Claude Debussy's ravishing Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun…

    Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Maestro 2: Respighi, Higgins & Strauss

    QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
    Discover the dazzling possibilities of the trombone. British composer Gavin Higgins places the trombone centre stage with an imaginative concerto, inspired by a recently unearthed 16th-century manuscript brimming with fantastical imagery and celestial visions. From soaring comets to mysterious beasts, these vivid scenes are brought to life by one of…
    Editor's Choice Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Multi-award-winning violinist Leonidas Kavakos performs Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto on his 1734 ‘Willemotte’ Stradivarius. Composed in 1947 for David Oistrakh, it reflects the composer’s intensely personal voice against a backdrop of Stalinist purges and rising antisemitism. It is coupled with Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, which was completed shortly after a European tour and…

    Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra: Brilliant Pairings

    Woolmers Estate 658 Woolmers Ln, Longford, TAS, Australia
    In the early 20th century, composers reshaped chamber music by blending tradition and innovation. Prokofiev’s Sonata for two violins (1932), written for a Paris festival, astonished with its clarity and restraint. Lili Boulanger’s Two Pieces (1911–14) reveal delicate lyricism, balancing Romantic warmth with French colour. Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne (1932), drawn…