• Editor's Choice

    Peninsula Summer Music Festival: Nature Stories

    Main Ridge Estate 80 William Rd, Red Hill, VIC, Australia
    Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula once again comes to life with classical music, world premieres and cross-genre collaborations. In 2026, co-Artistic Directors Melissa Doecke and Ben Opie present 18 events over nine days, including the world premiere of Aaron Wyatt’s Every Plant Has Its Own Dreaming at Peninsula Hot Springs, inspired by…
    Editor's Choice

    Peninsula Summer Music Festival: Every Plant Has Its Own Dreaming

    Peninsula Hot Springs 140 Springs Ln, Fingal, VIC, Australia
    Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula once again comes to life with classical music, world premieres and cross-genre collaborations. In 2026, co-Artistic Directors Melissa Doecke and Ben Opie present 18 events over nine days, including the world premiere of Aaron Wyatt’s Every Plant Has Its Own Dreaming at Peninsula Hot Springs, inspired by…
  • Avant Gardens Summer

    Ensemble Offspring: Avant Gardens Summer

    A voice, a piano, a salon setting in a private home… It could be Schubert circa 1826, but add a percussionist and fresh new sounds and it’s Summer 2026. The heart of the program is drawn from Pascal Dusapin’s O Mensch! – a song cycle to words by Nietzsche. It’s theatrical in…
  • Avant Gardens Summer

    Ensemble Offspring: Avant Gardens Summer

    A voice, a piano, a salon setting in a private home… It could be Schubert circa 1826, but add a percussionist and fresh new sounds and it’s Summer 2026. The heart of the program is drawn from Pascal Dusapin’s O Mensch! – a song cycle to words by Nietzsche. It’s theatrical in…
  • Ensemble Offspring: To Listen To Sing

    Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre Tarcutta Street, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
    To Listen To Sing features composers from the Ngarra-Burria: First Peoples Composers program. Ngarra-Burria has built bridges for Indigenous musicians to step sideways into instrumental chamber composition over the past 9 years, altering the Australian landscape of art music composers and importantly giving a new voice to First Nations composers.…

    Ensemble Offspring: Ruthless Jabiru x Ensemble Offspring: Black Ice

    IKLECTIK Peckham Levels, 95a Rye Lane, London, England, United Kingdom
    Ruthless Jabiru and Ensemble Offspring’s combined musical programme represents an imagined foray into the sound and emotional landscape of bushfire. Repertoire includes the world premiere of a Ruthless Jabiru-commissioned orchestration of Florence Maunders’ 2021 string quartet, Not Getting Out; regional premieres of four works commissioned by Ensemble Offspring for its…
  • Editor's Choice The Oracle

    Ensemble Offspring: The Oracle

    The Neilson, Pier 2/3 13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
    Conducted by Clark Rundell, Ensemble Offspring showcases its commitment to expanding the repertoire with four Australian premiere co-commissions including Tobias Broström’s Dream Variations, Tansy Davies’ Lost Science and two works by Kate Moore – Rose of roses, flower of flowers, first heard in New York in 2025 and now presented for co-commissioner…
    Editor's Choice The Oracle

    Ensemble Offspring: The Oracle

    The Street Theatre 15 Childers St, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Conducted by Clark Rundell, Ensemble Offspring showcases its commitment to expanding the repertoire with four Australian premiere co-commissions including Tobias Broström’s Dream Variations, Tansy Davies’ Lost Science and two works by Kate Moore – Rose of roses, flower of flowers, first heard in New York in 2025 and now presented for co-commissioner…