Events

Today

    • 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…

    • 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…
    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…

    • The Cat Empire with Canberra Symphony Orchestra

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: The Cat Empire with Canberra Symphony Orchestra

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    The Cat Empire brings their acclaimed orchestral collaboration to Canberra for the very first time, joining forces with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra in a special premiere performance at Llewellyn Hall. This landmark concert sees the band re-imagining their catalogue on a grand orchestral scale, blending beloved Cat Empire classics with bold new arrangements written…
    The Cat Empire with Canberra Symphony Orchestra

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: The Cat Empire with Canberra Symphony Orchestra

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    The Cat Empire brings their acclaimed orchestral collaboration to Canberra for the very first time, joining forces with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra in a special premiere performance at Llewellyn Hall. This landmark concert sees the band re-imagining their catalogue on a grand orchestral scale, blending beloved Cat Empire classics with bold new arrangements written…

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: French Accents

    Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia 30 Parkes Pl E, Parkes, ACT, Australia
    An ever-changing musical kaleidoscope suffused with joy and affection. You’ll hear Mozart and Poulenc at their self-declared best and all four composers are writing music for instruments they adored, playing to their strengths. Mozart’s Quintet was an experiment: a concerto for piano and winds that won him ‘extraordinary applause’ at…

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Rediscovering Acoustic & Electric Violin

    Ainslie Football & Social Club 52 Wakefield Avenue, Ainslie, ACT, Australia
    Discover the range of sound possibilities when a violinist uses extended techniques on their instrument. Then hear what happens when they layer the sound using amplification and a loop station. The loop station allows the musician to become a one-man-band, creating their own accompaniment in anything from soundscapes to dance…
    Psycho

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Psycho

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    An immersive night watching the iconic film with live orchestra. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho contains one of the most chilling and memorable movie scenes ever made – the shocking shower scene. But equally chilling is Bernard Herrmann’s musical underscore with its shrieking, stabbing violins. Few film and music partnerships have surpassed…
    Psycho

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Psycho

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    An immersive night watching the iconic film with live orchestra. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho contains one of the most chilling and memorable movie scenes ever made – the shocking shower scene. But equally chilling is Bernard Herrmann’s musical underscore with its shrieking, stabbing violins. Few film and music partnerships have surpassed…

    • Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Archduke Trio

    Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia 30 Parkes Pl E, Parkes, ACT, Australia
    A monumental classic of the chamber music repertoire paired with a rare musical gem. What do you do when your aristocratic piano student has a sore finger and skips out on his weekly lesson? Write him a new piano trio to play, of course. Jessica Cottis offers one word for…

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Rediscovering Jazz

    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…

    • Verdi’s Requiem

    Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Verdi’s Requiem

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Everything we love about Verdi’s great operas (Rigoletto, La traviata, Aida…) can be found in his Requiem mass: drama, mighty choruses, heart-wrenching solos and the thrilling power of the human voice. More than that, says Jessica Cottis, Verdi’s music goes right to the heart of the human condition. Verdi understands…