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Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM at Elgee Park: Spring

Elgee Park 310 Wallaces Rd, Dromana, VIC, Australia
Experience a delightful chamber music concert performed by ANAM musicians, surrounded by beautiful artworks at Elgee Park on the Mornington Peninsula. The artworks, with personal connections to our hosts, the Myer family, span various periods and styles. After the concert, enjoy complimentary afternoon tea, with an opportunity to taste and…
Beethoven’s World

Australian National Academy of Music: Immortal Beloved

The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
In the final concert of the Beethoven's World series, ANAM musicians delve into Beethoven's heart and his yearning for an intimate connection. This longing, poignantly captured in his 1812 letter to the mysterious 'Immortal Beloved', reflects a love that remained unfulfilled, likely aimed at the unattainable Antonie Brentano. This concert features…

Australian National Academy of Music: Beleura 5: Matinee

Beleura House & Garden PO Box 1198, Mornington, VIC, Australia
Beleura House and Garden, a stunning 19th-century house on the Mornington Peninsula, is renowned for its breathtaking gardens and custom-built performance space. Here, ANAM brings you an exceptional chamber music experience, featuring both ANAM musicians and faculty members. After the concert, enjoy a delightful afternoon tea, included in your ticket…

Australian National Academy of Music: Karina Filipi

The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
Karina Filipi (ANAM Faculty, Tuba) has built an outstanding international career, with her studies taking her from the Elder and Sydney Conservatoriums to the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Switzerland. Alongside her performances with prestigious orchestras, Karina is deeply committed to nurturing the next generation of musicians. "From heralding fanfares…

Australian National Academy of Music: Mostly Mozart: Mozart & Marsellaise

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Opening with a delightful rarity, Mozart’s sonatas for four-hands were originally written to be performed with his sister Nannerl, and are the ultimate depiction of playful competition, now living on as intimate conversations between instrumentalists. The four-hands approach to music-making continues in ANAM Head of Piano Timothy Young’s arrangement of La…
Harmonies Du Soir – Festival of French Chamber Music

Australian National Academy of Music: Un Cabaret Sérieux

Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
This concert is an exhibition of 20th- and 21st-century French works, from wunderkind Lili Boulanger to jazz-influenced Guillaume Connesson. Henri Dutilleux brings a pinch of avant-garde flair, a tradition carried on by the ever-experimental Pascal Dusapin. This opening concert captures the threads running through the festival, an invitation to explore the diversity of chamber music, from incidental pieces to the avant-garde…
Harmonies Du Soir – Festival of French Chamber Music

Australian National Academy of Music: Rousseau vs. Rameau

Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
La Querelle des Bouffons is a musical scandal that rattled Paris in the mid-18th century.  The dispute (literally “the quarrel of the comic actors”) pitted the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau against philosopher-musician Jean-Jacques Rousseau. What began as an argument over the merits of French opera versus the lighter, more playful Italian comic style…
Harmonies Du Soir – Festival of French Chamber Music

Australian National Academy of Music: Poème

Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
Two young artists, one a painter and one a musician, both in love with the same woman, compelled and tormented by a single violin melody. It’s no wonder that this story, from Ivan Turgenev’s novella Le Chant de l’amour triomphant (‘The Song of Triumphant Love’), provided inspiration for Ernest Chausson’s haunting Poème, with the violin soloist echoing the novella’s recurring theme.…
Harmonies Du Soir – Festival of French Chamber Music

Australian National Academy of Music: In Search of Lost Time

Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
Could the Adagio of Gabriel Fauré’s first piano quartet have inspired the Vinteuil’s fictional sonata, the “little phrase” of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time? In the novel, the sonata marks the deepening love between Swann and Odette before twisting into a motif for the heartache of their separation.  Fauré himself was grieving after the end of his engagement to Marianne Viardot, and…
Harmonies Du Soir – Festival of French Chamber Music

Australian National Academy of Music: Versailles – Centre Pompidou – Notre-Dame

Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
Could the Adagio of Gabriel Fauré’s first piano quartet have inspired the Vinteuil’s fictional sonata, the “little phrase” of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time? In the novel, the sonata marks the deepening love between Swann and Odette before twisting into a motif for the heartache of their separation.  Fauré himself was grieving after the end of his engagement to Marianne Viardot, and…