Welcome Aussie music fans to the second edition of Australian Accent, Limelight‘s monthly round-up of the Australian music being played on our concert stages and in our recital halls.

The response for our debut column in April was great – and so now we go way deep and organise things into a state-and-territory-based list so you can zoom in on what’s happening close to home.

Got a premiere to puff? A piece getting a repeat performance? Email editors@limelight-arts.com.au for inclusion in next month’s roundup (subject to editorial discretion).

Australian Capital Territory

The Canberra International Music Festival is ripe with Aussie music. In Magic Realism (1 and 2 May), you can hear O Spectabiles Viri (O men of sight—what a sight!), a Hildegard von Bingen work given a contemporary spin by soprano Jane Sheldon and arranger Erkki Veltheim. Also airing is Mungangga Garlagula, a collaboration between Indigenous performer Mark Atkins and Veltheim inviting audiences to take a trip “across the border between day and night, dream and reality, the reverberating past and the emerging future”.

On Lake Burley Griffin during CIMF, you can hear