Sydney’s Australia Ensemble has announced its 2025 season, showcasing the remaining key artists after 2024’s line-up change, in collaboration with an expanding roster of guest musicians across the country.

Julian Smiles, Dimity Hall and David Griffiths. Photo © Keith Saunders

The season will offer four chamber music concerts of classic and contemporary works, including a premiere of a new work by Australian composer Lachlan Skipworth.

On March 22, pianist Andrea Lam joins the core trio in an all-French program to perform Messiaen’s apocalyptic Quartet for the End of Time, a significant work born from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1941. Fauré’s Piano Trio will be performed with clarinet instead of violin, as Fauré originally intended, followed by Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello.

Andrea Lam. Photo © Keith Saunders

Fairy tales and jazz combine in the second program on May 24, with violist Christopher Moore and pianist Konstantin Shamray performing Schumann’s Fairy Tales in an unusual grouping of clarinet, viola and piano. Brahms’ Piano Trio and Kapustin’s jazz-infused Cello Sonata round out the...