Season Preview: Your guide to the arts in 2026

Hunters Hill Music (HHM) has announced its 2026 season. The third year under the artistic direction of Lerida Delbridge, it offers four intimate weekend performances in Hunters Hill by internationally renowned Australian performers.

Andrea Lam. Photo © Lisa Marie Mazzucco

The season opens with One. Two. Three. Four. Five on 29 March – a program featuring five works (from solo to quintet) performed by five leading Sydney musicians from the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Violinists Ike See and Lerida Delbridge, violists Stefanie Farrands and Justin Williams and cellist Eliza Sdraulig star in works by Garth Knox, Mozart, Bach and Martinů before banding together for Dvořák’s Third String Quintet.

After collecting the 2025 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album, Andrea Lam unleashes her “interpretive depth and virtuosic prowess” in a recital on 28 June. With Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A Major as its cornerstone, Lam’s program features works by Bach, Clara and Robert Schumann, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, as well as Melody Eötvös’s Bachram, a work specially written for Lam.