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    • Australian National Academy of Music: Lutosławski Quartet – Polish Violin

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    The Lutosławski Quartet's Melbourne debut brings the world-renowned Polish ensemble to the Abbotsford Convent for a week of intensive music-making. Taking its name from 20th-century master Witold Lutosławski, the ensemble was founded in 2007 and is now one of Poland’s leading string quartets. Renowned for its focus on 20th and…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Lutosławski Quartet – Leaves of an Unwritten Diary

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    In their final concert at ANAM, the Lutosławski Quartet unites with ANAM’s string cohort for a whirlwind of Polish works – from the legendary Lutosławski and Krzysztof Penderecki to contemporary voices Paweł Mykietyn and Marcin Markowicz. This performance crowns a week of masterclasses, concerts and deep engagement with the breadth…
    Richard Tognetti at ANAM

    Australian National Academy of Music: Richard Tognetti – Central Park in the Dark

    St Kilda Town Hall 99a Carlisle St, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    In the first of two concerts during his residency at ANAM, superstar violinist Richard Tognetti brings together the fascinating sound worlds of American composers Charles Ives and Ruth Crawford-Seeger, alongside a current new voice in Australian music, Alex Turley, and the sumptuous late-Romantic sounds of Arnold Schoenberg’s early masterpiece Verklärte…
    Richard Tognetti at ANAM

    Australian National Academy of Music: Richard Tognetti – Mahler’s Heavenly Life

    St Kilda Town Hall 99a Carlisle St, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Throughout 2026, ANAM musicians explore some of the most monumental works in the orchestral repertoire, including Mahler's Fourth Symphony - one of the orchestral canon's most radiant achievements. Often interpreted as a journey from life to death, its final movement offers a childlike vision of Das himmlische Leben (“The Heavenly…

    • Australian National Academy of Music: Steve Reich Sextet

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    American composer Steve Reich is celebrated in this specially curated performance at the Abbotsford Convent. The ANAM Percussion cohort are joined by their colleagues in the ANAM Piano department to present a trio of works, highlighting and sharing the versatility of their craft. Aiming to breach the limitations of the…

    • Australian National Academy of Music: 30th Gala with Simone Young

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Needing no introduction, Simone Young AM returns to conduct the full forces of the ANAM Orchestra in the Australian National Academy of Music's 30th birthday celebration. This one-night-only gala concert features some of the most distinct music of our time, culminating in the glistening sounds of Richard Strauss at the…
    In-Conversation & The Alchemy of Alban Berg with Jeffree Means

    Australian National Academy of Music: In-Conversation & The Alchemy of Alban Berg with Jeffree Means

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    American conductor Jeffrey Means (Berklee College of Music) leads ANAM musicians in a pre-show talk and performance tracing the musical world of Alban Berg — a composer who stood between centuries, traditions and ideas. The concert program begins with Berg’s Seven Early Songs, a work written in his twenties and…
    In-Conversation & The Alchemy of Alban Berg with Jeffree Means

    Australian National Academy of Music: In-Conversation & The Alchemy of Alban Berg with Jeffree Means

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    American conductor Jeffrey Means (Berklee College of Music) leads ANAM musicians in a pre-show talk and performance tracing the musical world of Alban Berg — a composer who stood between centuries, traditions and ideas. The concert program begins with Berg’s Seven Early Songs, a work written in his twenties and…

    Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM Percussion with Jeffrey Means

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Percussionist and conductor Jeffrey Means joins ANAM Percussion for a program that tests the limits of sound, silence, and performance. The evening opens with James Tenney’s Having Never Written a Note for Percussion — a single, slowly rising and falling roll that transforms from near-silence to a wall of resonance,…

    • Australian National Academy of Music: Sacred – Mystery of Chorales

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Let ANAM’s musicians guide you as you wind your way through this mystical tour of sacred music that spans brass, strings and even the mighty organ housed within the Good Shepherd Chapel. Whether through Messiaen or Mahler; Beethoven, Bach, Brahms or Bruckner, devote this time to contemplate the divine, and…

    Australian National Academy of Music: ELISION: Sorcerer

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    The culimination of a three-year residency at ANAM, ELISION Ensemble returns with a program that captures the precision, intensity and imagination that define their work. Recognised as Australia’s leading new music ensemble, ELISION unites musicians based across Europe, the United States and Australia, known for their technical mastery and commitment…

    Australian National Academy of Music: ELISION & ANAM

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    This program begins with Milica Djordjević's Nalet, introducing a gripping and persevering energy as the ensemble pushes determinedly against an unseen resistance, delineative of Djordjević's struggle when composing this piece. Xenakis puts a spin on the sound an orchestra can create in Jalons, each movement developing upon rhythmic construction and…