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    • Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Distant Worlds: Music from FINAL FANTASY

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Distant Worlds: Music from FINAL FANTASY

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Join legendary Maestro Arnie Roth and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for this special presentation celebrating FINAL FANTASY X! Highlights will include iconic music by Nobuo Uematsu, including “Hymn of the Fayth/The Sending,” “Zanarkand,” and “Suteki da ne,” sung by original vocalist RIKKI for the first time in Australia!…
    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Distant Worlds: Music from FINAL FANTASY

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Distant Worlds: Music from FINAL FANTASY

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Join legendary Maestro Arnie Roth and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for this special presentation celebrating FINAL FANTASY X! Highlights will include iconic music by Nobuo Uematsu, including “Hymn of the Fayth/The Sending,” “Zanarkand,” and “Suteki da ne,” sung by original vocalist RIKKI for the first time in Australia!…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Old Ideas, New Stories (Relaxed Performance)

    Primrose Potter Salon 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    In our current culture, artistic lines between different voices are increasingly blurred. We draw inspiration from one another across nations and time, but this may be a double-edged sword. New stories are difficult to tell when like begets like. Composers today walk a fine line between old and new ideas.…
    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Distant Worlds: Music from FINAL FANTASY

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Distant Worlds: Music from FINAL FANTASY

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Join legendary Maestro Arnie Roth and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for this special presentation celebrating FINAL FANTASY X! Highlights will include iconic music by Nobuo Uematsu, including “Hymn of the Fayth/The Sending,” “Zanarkand,” and “Suteki da ne,” sung by original vocalist RIKKI for the first time in Australia!…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Old Ideas, New Stories

    Iwaki Auditorium 130 Southbank Blvd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    In our current culture, artistic lines between different voices are increasingly blurred. We draw inspiration from one another across nations and time, but this may be a double-edged sword. New stories are difficult to tell when like begets like. Composers today walk a fine line between old and new ideas.…
    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Winter Gala

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Winter Gala

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Our Winter Gala will warm you up with a trip to Buenos Aires for Ginastera's Variaciones concertantes, which expertly combines classical and Latin music in the Argentinian composer's unique (and ultra-cool) style. Also playing it cool is Leonard Bernstein’s suite of symphonic dances from West Side Story. You’ll want to…

    • Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Winter Gala

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Winter Gala

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Our Winter Gala will warm you up with a trip to Buenos Aires for Ginastera's Variaciones concertantes, which expertly combines classical and Latin music in the Argentinian composer's unique (and ultra-cool) style. Also playing it cool is Leonard Bernstein’s suite of symphonic dances from West Side Story. You’ll want to…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Masterclass with Sheku Kanneh-Mason

    Iwaki Auditorium 130 Southbank Blvd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s mission is to make music accessible to all, whether that's performing for children in a school hall, at an underground club, or in the world’s leading concert venues. Sheku is a graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Hannah Roberts and in May…
    Editor's Choice Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Finnis

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Finnis

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Chief Conductor Jaime Martín leads the MSO in Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune – composed in 1894 and inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé’s symbolist poem – and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, written in 1888 during a period of self-doubt and personal turmoil. The program also features the Australian premiere of Edmund Finnis’s…
    Editor's Choice Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Finnis

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Finnis

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Chief Conductor Jaime Martín leads the MSO in Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune – composed in 1894 and inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé’s symbolist poem – and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, written in 1888 during a period of self-doubt and personal turmoil. The program also features the Australian premiere of Edmund Finnis’s…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Quick Fix – Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Tchaikovsky’s decisive Symphony No.5 will leave you firmly grounded in the human experience as it travels through the universal experiences of challenge and triumph. The opening notes establish the role of ‘fate’ (much like another famous 'Fifth' Symphony by Beethoven). While the reoccurring theme throughout this work may reflect Tchaikovsky's…
    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Jaime conducts Mahler 6

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Jaime conducts Mahler 6

    Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Mahler’s Sixth Symphony is a spectacle. The percussionist will flex their muscles, raise a massive hammer in the air, and blow it down with full force inside the concert hall! It’s a climactic point in the symphony that explores philosophical themes of fate and existential angst. Mahler composed it before…