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    • Melbourne Recital Centre: nyilamum song cycles

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    nyilamum song cycles is a concert experience featuring string quartet and voice that intertwines ancient stories and a celebration of language with contemporary reflections on land, identity, and resilience showcasing music from Yorta Yorta Dja Dja Wurrung Dr Lou Bennett AM, and Paul Stanhope. Two works composed and performed by…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Thomas Dunford

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Strings that speak centuries. When Thomas Dunford's fingers meet lute strings, four centuries combine into one moment of pure presence. Hailed as the ‘Eric Clapton of the lute’ (BBC Music Magazine), this master of Renaissance and Baroque repertoire transforms Elisabeth Murdoch Hall into an intimate salon where John Dowland's melodies…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: John Cameron Mitchell

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Theatrical icon John Cameron Mitchell celebrates the music and lyrics of David Bowie with Jude York and Amber Martin. Two-time Tony Award-winning star and creator of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Shortbus, John Cameron Mitchell makes his Melbourne Recital Centre debut with I’m Afraid of Americans – A Bowie…
    Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane – Night I

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A trilogy through time. Pieter Wispelwey and Piers Lane excavate hidden codes embedded within Soviet-era masterworks, framed by Benjamin Britten's First Cello Suite. Wispelwey, celebrated for his fearless interpretations, reveals how Britten's seemingly straightforward variations contain their own quiet revolutions. From the rebellious wit and restrained elegance of Sergei Prokofiev's…
    Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane – Night II

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A trilogy through time. Enter a realm where Romantic lyricism meets modernist exploration as Pieter Wispelwey and Piers Lane bridge the delicate balance between tradition and transformation. Franz Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata, written for the now extinct instrument, enters a new era on the cello. The gentle dialogue between instruments, embodying…
    Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane – Night III

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A trilogy through time. Pieter Wispelwey's concert trilogy concludes as he and Piers Lane delve into music's most profound emotional territories, anchored by Benjamin Britten's haunting Third Cello Suite. César Franck's radiant Violin Sonata, equally compelling on cello, unfolds with soaring expression. Frédéric Chopin's final published work, his only Cello…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: ZÖJ – May the Devil’s Ear Be Deaf

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A powerful cross-cultural journey through deep listening, improvisation, and Persian poetry. ZÖJ returns with their captivating fusion of neo-classical Persian music and experimental rhythms. Launching their third album, May The Devil's Ear Be Deaf, recorded live at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada, ZÖJ invite listeners into…

    • Melbourne Recital Centre: Sonya Lifschitz – Duet for One

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A visually and sonically breathtaking duet across time and place. Duet for One is a collaboration between virtuoso pianist Sonya Lifschitz, composer/media artist Damian Barbeler and pioneering interactive media artist Tim Gruchy. Pairing spectacular imagery of the Australian landscape with Barbeler's colouristic and inventive score, this immersive work is a…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Chad Lawson & Priya Singh-Kaushal

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Across two separate sets, immerse yourself in an evening of original piano music by Chad Lawson and Priya Singh-Kaushal, where contemporary classical music meets stillness, reflection, and quiet beauty. Chad Lawson is an American pianist and composer whose music has been heard more than a billion times worldwide. A Steinway…

    • Melbourne Recital Centre: Australian String Quartet x Parvyn

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A genre-defying performance where contemporary Punjabi music meets the string quartet. The Australian String Quartet teams up with award-winning singer Parvyn and multi-instrumentalist Josh Bennett for a concert that blends the sounds of contemporary Punjabi music with the string quartet. Hear Parvyn’s vocals soar in a set of her own…

    • Melbourne Recital Centre: KIN – Lotte Betts-Dean and Joseph Havlat

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Folksong reimagined across generations, borders, and eras. After forging a close musical bond in contemporary repertoire, Lotte Betts-Dean and Joseph Havlat turn to a tradition that is anything but fixed. KIN explores folksong as a living, evolving art, melodies and stories passed between generations, reshaped by memory, place, and imagination.…