In 2025, Omega Ensemble celebrates its 20th anniversary, and, according to Artistic Director David Rowden, it is only just getting started.

“While it’s certainly worth taking a moment from the busy everyday to acknowledge this milestone, for me the last twenty years have felt like just the beginning,” Rowden said.

Omega Ensemble’s 2025. Photo © Saskia Wilson

“Our 2025 National Concert Season is a vision for the future: celebrating local talent and connecting Australian stages with global movements; telling important stories and reflecting the world in which we live; and redefining the concert hall as a place of belonging – a place for everyone.”

First up in the celebration is an encore performance of 2024’s Dark with Excessive Bright, returning for an appearance at next year’s Sydney Festival on 18 January. The program pairs Missy Mazzoli’s titular work with Samuel Adams’ Lighthouse, a work commissioned and premiered by OE.

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