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    • MSO & ANAM: Great Passions – Radulović plays Khachaturian

    Australian National Academy of Music: MSO & ANAM: Great Passions – Radulović plays Khachaturian

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    If you’re the type of listener who likes to experience the full force of the orchestra, this concert is for you. The Hamer Hall stage will be packed with musicians from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performing alongside next-generation talent from the Australian National Academy of Music. The colossal scale of this…
    Sacred: Vingt Regards

    Australian National Academy of Music: Sacred: Vingt Regards

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    This suite of 20 works for solo piano meditates on the infant Jesus, a subject often revisited in Messiaen’s music. A deeply spiritual man, he sought through sound to unite the celestial songs of birds, meticulously transcribed from nature, with intricate polyphony and transendental musical colours and textures. Performed by…
    Sacred: Vingt Regards

    Australian National Academy of Music: Sacred: Vingt Regards

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    This suite of 20 works for solo piano meditates on the infant Jesus, a subject often revisited in Messiaen’s music. A deeply spiritual man, he sought through sound to unite the celestial songs of birds, meticulously transcribed from nature, with intricate polyphony and transendental musical colours and textures. Performed by…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Homecomings

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Known for their deep commitment to new Australian music, Arcadia Winds have spent the past decade touring nationally and internationally, working with composers including Elliott Gyger, Natalie Williams, Lachlan Skipworth and Elizabeth Younan. Now celebrating their 13th year, they reunite with ANAM musicians in a program that looks both back…

    • Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM Masterclass: Lucas Debargue (piano)

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Each year, ANAM presents a series of masterclasses by some of the world’s leading classical instrumentalists and pedagogues, given as part of their work with our musicians on repertoire, technique and performance. These are up-close, 'open lesson' style masterclasses open to a public audience, offering priceless insights into the secrets…

    Australian National Academy of Music: En Pointe with the Australian Ballet School

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) continues its collaboration with The Australian Ballet School through the national ARTS8 initiative, bringing together some of Australia’s most talented emerging dancers and musicians. This performance presents a new work by choreographer Lucas Jervies, created in partnership with ANAM. Under the direction of…

    Australian National Academy of Music: En Pointe with the Australian Ballet School

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) continues its collaboration with The Australian Ballet School through the national ARTS8 initiative, bringing together some of Australia’s most talented emerging dancers and musicians. This performance presents a new work by choreographer Lucas Jervies, created in partnership with ANAM. Under the direction of Yoram…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Masterclass – Lutosławski Quartet

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Each year, ANAM presents a series of masterclasses by some of the world’s leading classical instrumentalists and pedagogues, given as part of their work with our musicians on repertoire, technique and performance. These are up-close, 'open lesson' style masterclasses open to a public audience, offering priceless insights into the secrets…

    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…