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    • Melbourne Conservatorium of Music: Doomed to an Eternal Present? – Callas’s Studio Recordings

    Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The Melbourne Conservatorium welcomes Professor Giorgio Biancorosso (University of Hong Kong) presenting a Macgeorge Bequest public lecture titled "Doomed to an Eternal Present?: Callas’s Studio Recordings". The release of Warner’s Maria Callas: The Complete Studio Recordings, 1949-1969 (2015) provides a unique opportunity to revisit the oft-cited claim that live performances…
    Editor's Choice University of Melbourne Wind Symphony National Tour

    Melbourne Conservatorium of Music: University of Melbourne Wind Symphony National Tour

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The University of Melbourne Wind Symphony features the very best student wind instrumentalists from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, led by Associate Professor Jackie Hartenberger. In August 2025, the Wind Symphony will perform its first interstate tour, with energetic programs highlighting compositions by Paul Hindemith, Katherine Parker and more.
    Editor's Choice University of Melbourne Wind Symphony National Tour

    Melbourne Conservatorium of Music: Queensland and Melbourne Conservatorium Winds

    Queensland Conservatorium 140 Grey St, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    The Queensland Conservatorium Wind Orchestra joins forces with The University of Melbourne Wind Symphony to present a program of epic contemporary works for wind, brass and percussion, including the world premiere of Symphony No. 4 for Winds by Paul Dean.
    Editor's Choice University of Melbourne Wind Symphony National Tour

    Melbourne Conservatorium of Music: The University of Melbourne Wind Symphony National Tour

    Verbrugghen Hall Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Join The University of Melbourne Wind Symphony for their first concert in Verbrugghen Hall! The energetic program kicks off with the Hindemith Symphony in B-flat. The concert will also feature two Australian composer premieres and horn soloist, Carla Blackwood. The evening will conclude with Kevin Day’s Pulitzer nominated, Concerto for…

    • Melbourne Conservatorium of Music: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Chiang Wen-yeh

    Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    In modern Chinese history, composers were dislocated by war, exile, studies abroad, competing ideologies, and the Cultural Revolution, and expressed their cultural and ideological constructions of home, isolation, and war resistance, while being caught in intersecting webs of forces that compelled them through both coercion and affiliation. “Heaviness,” in this…