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    • 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…

    Australian National Academy of Music: The Spanish Piano

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    ANAM Pianos bring the colours of Spain to the Abbotsford Convent in a wonderfully intimate performance of Romantic Spanish repertoire. Tonight’s program is an ode to the Spanish greats, offering a vivid snapshot of their works. Journey across the Iberian Peninsula with Enrique Granados and see through the eyes of…

    • Australian National Academy of Music: In Conversation with Claire Edwardes

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Claire Edwardes OAM — described as Australia’s “sorceress of percussion” (City News, Canberra) — is the only artist to have received the APRA Art Music Luminary Award four times. A charismatic percussion virtuoso, Claire moves fluidly between her roles as Artistic Director of Ensemble Offspring (Australia’s leading new music ensemble),…

    Australian National Academy of Music: A Journey Through Our Time with Ensemble Offspring

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Ensemble Offspring joins ANAM musicians for a program curated by Artistic Director, Claire Edwardes OAM. A Journey Through Our Time brings together music written by composers from different corners of the world, many of whom have worked closely with the ensemble. From Nardi Simpson’s Wilga’s Last Dance, based on the…
    Clara & Robert

    Australian National Academy of Music: Clara & Robert

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Perhaps one of the most iconic couples in the realm of classical music, Robert and Clara Schumann were both celebrated musicians in their own right – admired in their lifetime and revered in the present. Clara’s public career was more as a pianist and Robert’s a composer but within the…
    Clara & Robert

    Australian National Academy of Music: Clara & Robert

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Perhaps one of the most iconic couples in the realm of classical music, Robert and Clara Schumann were both celebrated musicians in their own right – admired in their lifetime and revered in the present. Clara’s public career was more as a pianist and Robert’s a composer but within the…

    • Australian National Academy of Music: The Great Schubert Nine with Giordano Bellincampi

    St Kilda Town Hall 99a Carlisle St, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    In this concert Giordano Bellincampi and the ANAM Orchestra trace Vienna’s musical DNA across a century of change. Webern’s Passacaglia was written as a student homage to Brahms — his most Romantic and symphonic work before modernism took hold. The Strauss family pieces bring the heartbeat of Vienna’s golden age…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Shared Memories with Paavali Jumpannen

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    For his final concert as ANAM Artistic Director, Paavali Jumppanen brings together four composers united by their fascination with Finnish and Hungarian folk music. Shared Memories traces how these traditions have shaped some of the most distinctive voices of the 20th and 21st centuries. The program opens with Béla Bartók’s…