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Geelong Symphony Orchestra: Music from the Movies

Geelong Arts Centre 81 Ryrie Street, Geelong, VIC, Australia
GSO will perform great themes from favourite movies past and present, highlighting the symphonic nature of this music and demonstrating the skill of this fabulous orchestra.
Editor's Choice Event Series Baroque Kaleidoscope

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Baroque Kaleidoscope

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Headlined by Vivaldi, Telemann and Handel, this Baroque celebration sees the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra return to its musical roots. Showcasing the talents of the orchestra’s principal musicians including Concertmaster Shaun Lee-Chen, Principal Second Baroque Violin Ben Dollman and Principal Baroque Flute Melissa Farrow, the program includes The Arrival of the Queen…
Event Series Mozart’s Mass

Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Mozart’s Mass

The Cathedral of St Stephen, Brisbane 249 Elizabeth Street,, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
This is Mozart at the height of his compositional genius. Grandeur, opulence, and the soul-striking power of a choir in sacred unity. His Mass in C Minor is a transcendent work, darkly divine. Although fragments of the work were performed during Mozart’s lifetime, this mysterious work remained unfinished at his…
Event Series The Music of Hans Zimmer

West Australian Symphony Orchestra: The Music of Hans Zimmer

Perth Concert Hall 5 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
Experience some of the greatest modern film music as WASO and conductor Nicholas Buc pay tribute to one of the most influential film composers of all time: Hans Zimmer. From the epic worlds of Interstellar, Inception and Batman’s Dark Knight Trilogy, to unforgettable themes from Pirates of the Caribbean and…
Event Series Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Guest conductor Han-Na Chang has a long and deep relationship with Tchaikovsky’s music, both as an acclaimed cellist and now as conductor. She brings her unforgettable interpretations to the great Russian’s glorious romance. Sydneysiders have always flocked to Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov, and his virtuosity will be on full display…
Editor's Choice Event Series Baroque Kaleidoscope

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Baroque Kaleidoscope

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Headlined by Vivaldi, Telemann and Handel, this Baroque celebration sees the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra return to its musical roots. Showcasing the talents of the orchestra’s principal musicians including Concertmaster Shaun Lee-Chen, Principal Second Baroque Violin Ben Dollman and Principal Baroque Flute Melissa Farrow, the program includes The Arrival of the Queen…

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: When George Met Arnold

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
When George Gershwin moved from New York to a new house in Hollywood in 1936, he discovered that the legendary Viennese composer Arnold Schoenberg lived around the corner. These two geniuses of the 20th century struck up an unlikely friendship, playing tennis together every week, discussing music, art, love and…
Event Series Australian Series

Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Heart-space

National Museum of Australia Lawson Crescent, Acton, ACT, Australia
This program invites us to engage the mind and the heart, exploring joy, love, loss and longing. Achingly beautiful, Ella Macens’ string quartet A Love Worth Fighting For creates space for love, grief and longing: ‘the multitude of different emotions and sensations that come up into the heart-space and the head-space’ when we…
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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: MSO Mornings: Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony

Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Written during his self-imposed exile from Russia on the shores of Lake Lucerne, Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony is a brooding, nostalgic work inspired by his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Any doubts surrounding his homesickness are quickly laid to rest by the influence of Slavic folk music and dance rhythms in the…
Event Series Dvořák and Bernstein

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Dvořák and Bernstein

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Dvořák wrote his American string quartet when visiting the Czech-speaking colony of Spillville, Iowa, in 1893, finding there a balance between Old and New Worlds, and a way to express his love of Czech and American folk music in classical forms. The quartet has a poise and balance, with each…

River City Voices: Mozart’s Requiem

St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta 1 Marist Pl, Parramatta, NSW, Australia
Vienna, June, 1791. The world's most famous composer, juggling multiple commissions and worsening health, has taken on one work he won't complete: a requiem mass for a beautiful young Countess. By December, at only 35 years old, leaving behind a despairing wife and two young children, he himself will be…
Event Series Symphony Fantastic

Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Symphony Fantastic

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Death has never sounded more alive than in Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre, where a violin charms skeletons from their graves so they can dance until the break of dawn. Then, allow yourself to be lured to the depths of a crazed composer’s mind in Symphonie Fantastique. Our Chief Conductor Umberto Clerici…

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