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    • Sacred: Seven Last Words

    Australian National Academy of Music: Sacred: Seven Last Words

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Based in Melbourne, and originally comprising of musicians who all once graced the halls of ANAM, Affinity Quartet have blazed their own trail internationally. They make their return to ANAM after representing Australia at Rheingau Music Festival with acclaimed violist, composer and former ANAM Artistic Director, Brett Dean, where they…
    Sacred: Seven Last Words

    Australian National Academy of Music: Sacred: Seven Last Words

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Based in Melbourne, and originally comprising of musicians who all once graced the halls of ANAM, Affinity Quartet have blazed their own trail internationally. They make their return to ANAM after representing Australia at Rheingau Music Festival with acclaimed violist, composer and former ANAM Artistic Director, Brett Dean, where they…

    Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM at the Convent: Scarlatti and the Italian Mavericks

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    From the early Baroque to the edge of the avant-garde, Scarlatti and the Italian Mavericks traces three centuries of Italian keyboard invention. Led by Timothy Young, ANAM’s Head of Piano, this program brings together ANAM pianists performing across four instruments — clavichord, harpsichord, fortepiano, and modern piano. We begin with…

    • Australian National Academy of Music: Mostly Mozart: Mozart and the Bach Sons

    Elisabeth Murdoch Hall
    In this Monday morning performance, take a deep dive into the Bach family tree and the family's impact on Mozart. Featuring the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) Orchestra, under the direction of violinist Shaun Lee-Chen (Concertmaster, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra), experience a rare treat of a program featuring the Bach…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Music Matinee 1

    Scots' Church, Melbourne Corner of Collins and Russell Sts, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Each year, ANAM musicians take part in a series of free lunchtime concerts at The Scots’ Church, bringing live classical music to the centre of Melbourne. Presented in partnership with the church’s long-running community music program, these concerts are open to everyone and offer a moment of calm and connection…

    Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM at the Convent: Interstellar Call

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Messiaen's Appel Interstellaire (Interstellar Call) sits at the heart of this program: a solo horn work that transforms breath and resonance into something vast and otherworldly. Alongside it, music by Dukas, Tomasi, Boulanger, and Bizet reveal how French composers reimagined the brass ensemble as ceremonial and spiritual — capable of…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Interstellar Call

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Taking its title from Olivier Messiaen’s Appel Interstellaire (Interstellar Call), this program traces the evolution of the modern French brass sound — from the grandeur of early 20th-century fanfares to Messiaen’s cosmic lyricism. Written in 1971 as part of Des canyons aux étoiles..., Messiaen’s solo horn piece sits at the heart of the…

    Australian National Academy of Music: In Conversation with Kaylie Melville

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    ANAM alumna and Melbourne-based percussionist Kaylie Melville is a soloist and chamber musician dedicated to new music performance. Noted for her “extraordinary ability to impart a sense of musicality to even the smallest gestures” (Partial Durations), Kaylie is Artistic Director of the new-music organisation Speak Percussion and of the contemporary…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Millennium Canticles

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    ANAM alumna Kaylie Melville, Artistic Director of Speak Percussion and Co-Artistic Director of Rubiks Collective, returns to direct ANAM’s percussionists in Missy Mazzoli’s Millennium Canticles — a post-apocalyptic song cycle that reimagines ritual in a fractured world. Written in 2022 for the Chicago ensemble Third Coast Percussion, the work blends ancient chant…

    Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM at the Convent – Millennium Canticles

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    ANAM alumna Kaylie Melville, Artistic Director of Speak Percussion and Co-Artistic Director of Rubiks Collective, returns to direct ANAM’s percussionists in Missy Mazzoli’s Millennium Canticles — a post-apocalyptic song cycle that reimagines ritual in a fractured world. Written in 2022 for the Chicago ensemble Third Coast Percussion, the work blends…

    Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM at Elgee Park: Autumn

    Elgee Park 310 Wallaces Rd, Dromana, VIC, Australia
    The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is thrilled to announce that it will be returning to the Peninsula in 2026 as part of its multi-year collaboration with Elgee Park. Come along and enjoy an autumnal afternoon of chamber music performed by the ANAM musicians, and appreciate the stunning sculpture…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Recital: Angus Pace

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    As a musician’s instrumental proficiency develops, so too does their artistic taste and temperament. Each ANAM musician’s recital is a snapshot in time – simultaneously summarising their year of training and revealing glimpses of their future selves. What music excites them? What do they want to communicate? How does their…