• 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…
    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…

    Orchestra Victoria: Bila’s Big Dance – A musical storytime

    Lighthouse Theatre 185 Timor Street, Warrnambool, VIC, Australia
    The water in the Yaba River is low, the country is in a drought, the waterbirds are hungry. Bila the Spoonbill knows he must do something to help. A rain dance could be the answer. But will Bila be able to bring together the waterbird mob? And can he lead…

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Festivity

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    The concert opens with a musical love letter to home, Miriam Hyde’s An Adelaide Overture – evoking a lyrical sense of place. Strauss’s Horn Concerto No.2 follows, bringing warmth and wit to the spotlight in the hands of ASO Principal Horn Adrian Uren. The satisfying melodies of Mozart’s Symphony No.29…

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Genevieve Lacey & the Sydney Symphony

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    From guest soloist with some of Europe’s most acclaimed early music ensembles to commissioning new works by the great composers of the 21st century, the common thread connecting it all is Lacey’s artistic curiosity, her generous connection with audiences and her expressive musicianship. This program invites you into Lacey’s fascinating…

    Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra: Brass, Percussion, Chorus

    Federation Concert Hall Hobart, TAS, Australia
    World-renowned choral director Simon Halsey returns to Federation Concert Hall, joining the TSO Chorus with brass and percussion for a program that sparkles with the joyful energy of Rutter’s Gloria and Te Deum and Vaughan Williams’s uplifting O Clap Your Hands. Music by Lauridsen and Tavener adds beauty, calm, and…