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    • 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…

    Australian National Academy of Music: The Alchemy of Alban Berg with Jeffrey 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…

    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…