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    • Enigma Variations

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Enigma Variations

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Love letters, journeys and friendship... This concert begins with single, pulsing note – brilliant and compelling – that surges into a ‘love letter to train journeys’ from Alice Chance, one of Australia’s top young composers. The journey is the destination as the gorgeous colours and irresistible rhythms of her music…
    Enigma Variations

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Enigma Variations

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Love letters, journeys and friendship... This concert begins with single, pulsing note – brilliant and compelling – that surges into a ‘love letter to train journeys’ from Alice Chance, one of Australia’s top young composers. The journey is the destination as the gorgeous colours and irresistible rhythms of her music…

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Spark, Bloom!

    National Museum of Australia Lawson Crescent, Acton, ACT, Australia
    Percussion meets K-pop. After her exhilarating performances of Dances with Devils in 2023, star percussionist Claire Edwardes returns to the CSO for a new collaboration. The inspiration is the National Museum of Australia’s upcoming K-pop exhibition Hallyu! The Korean Wave, and Claire will be joined by charismatic South Korean jazz vocalist Sunny…

    • Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Schubert’s Death and the Maiden

    Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia 30 Parkes Pl E, Parkes, ACT, Australia
    The heart of this program is a song that won’t be sung. When Schubert wrote his ‘Death and the Maiden’ it was ‘just’ a deliciously morbid song by a 20-year-old Romantic. By the time he transformed it for the slow movement of his D minor string quartet he was facing…

    • Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Rediscovering the Recorder

    Ainslie Football & Social Club 52 Wakefield Avenue, Ainslie, ACT, Australia
    A free concert series focused on finding the joy in listening to music with any degree of hearing loss. Created by CSO bassoonist and audiologist Kristen Sutcliffe, Rediscovering Music is particularly impactful for those with hearing aids or Cochlear Implants. Community members with any degree of hearing loss will benefit…
    Sea and Stars

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Sea and Stars

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Look up at night and you’ll see the stars – tiny fires in the sky. But for Yorta Yorta composer Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, the spaces between the stars are as important as the stars themselves and this was the inspiration for Dutala – Star Filled Sky. The final stanza of Schiller’s text from Beethoven’s Choral Symphony…
    Sea and Stars

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Sea and Stars

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Look up at night and you’ll see the stars – tiny fires in the sky. But for Yorta Yorta composer Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, the spaces between the stars are as important as the stars themselves and this was the inspiration for Dutala – Star Filled Sky. The final stanza of Schiller’s text from Beethoven’s Choral Symphony…

    • Meet the Endangered Instruments

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Meet the Endangered Instruments

    Tuggeranong Community Centre 245 Cowlishaw Street, Greenway, ACT, Australia
    Get ready to meet some of the most fascinating and unique instruments you've ever seen! Explore the Orchestra offers fun, relaxed performances that introduce our littlest audience members and their families to the world of music – ideal for children up to 9 years. Perfect for first-time concertgoers, these events…
    Meet the Endangered Instruments

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Meet the Endangered Instruments

    Tuggeranong Community Centre 245 Cowlishaw Street, Greenway, ACT, Australia
    Get ready to meet some of the most fascinating and unique instruments you've ever seen! Explore the Orchestra offers fun, relaxed performances that introduce our littlest audience members and their families to the world of music – ideal for children up to 9 years. Perfect for first-time concertgoers, these events…
    Meet the Endangered Instruments

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Meet the Endangered Instruments

    Ainslie Arts Centre 30 Elouera St, Braddon, ACT, Australia
    Get ready to meet some of the most fascinating and unique instruments you've ever seen! Explore the Orchestra offers fun, relaxed performances that introduce our littlest audience members and their families to the world of music – ideal for children up to 9 years. Perfect for first-time concertgoers, these events…
    Meet the Endangered Instruments

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Meet the Endangered Instruments

    Ainslie Arts Centre 30 Elouera St, Braddon, ACT, Australia
    Get ready to meet some of the most fascinating and unique instruments you've ever seen! Explore the Orchestra offers fun, relaxed performances that introduce our littlest audience members and their families to the world of music – ideal for children up to 9 years. Perfect for first-time concertgoers, these events…
    Arts of the Score: The Music of Hans Zimmer

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Arts of the Score: The Music of Hans Zimmer

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Today, when you go to the movies, you’ll probably hear Hans Zimmer. If you don’t hear Zimmer, you’ll hear a composer under his influence. Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan has described him as a minimalist composer with a maximalist production sense – someone who can take a simple idea and expand it to…