• 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…