Season Preview: Your guide to the arts in 2023

With five distinct tours across a string of revered interstate venues, Selby & Friends announces its 2023 season.

The 17th season debuts its new Matinee series with two full concerts for Melbourne’s Primrose Potter Salon, as a highly-requested elevation from its single-event Twilight series, as well as a change from Canberra’s Llewellyn Hall to the newly-refurbished Fairfax Theatre in the National Gallery of Australia.

“Here we are, about to embark on our 17th Season of Selby & Friends, and it feels just as wonderful and exhilarating as our very first!” says Artistic Director Kathryn Selby.

Selby & Friends. Photo supplied.

“This upcoming season is full of treasures, some from the ‘vault’ and others we love regularly playing as they always sound so different in the hands of our brilliant and ever-changing guest artists. Speaking of whom, 2023 will showcase some thrilling and truly delightful artists – new friends from the next generation and familiar, seasoned and wonderful old friends.”

Its first tour, the aptly...