One of Australia’s leading community orchestras celebrates a milestone year with ambitious concerts and an international guest star.

Three festival programs and two mainland tours mark a broad season for the Quartet, with more programs and appearances yet to be announced.

With six world premieres from Australian composers, the Metropolitan Orchestra offers a new Chamber Music Festival alongside its mainstage program.

Festival directors Ben Opie and Melissa Doecke unveil a Peninsula Summer Music Festival that will appeal to all the senses.

With a world premiere work from Daniel Rojas, the season welcomes Sam Weller, Rosa Donata Milton and Avan Yu for six programs brimming with audience favourites and grand masterworks.

Co-Artistic Directors Trish and Paul Dean have created a fascinating season, in which each of the three programs has a strong theme, with visual elements enhancing the experience.

Eight international and Australian artists, including The Gesualdo Six, the Brodsky Quartet, Andrea Lam and James Morley, will perform in the intimate SOH space.

The quartet renews its commitment to gender-balanced programming across three mainstage concerts, featuring three new premieres from Australian composers and tours across urban and regional Victoria.

Celebrating his 20th year as Artistic & Music Director, Brett Weymark has put together a program that focuses on voice, energy and joy, and features popular favourites along with new commissions by First Nations and Australian composers.

Titled Dark With Excessive Bright, the Australian Haydn Ensemble's 11th season offers programs of Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn and Boccherini, along with some rarer selections.

The lineup includes Carmen in the WACA, Sondheim's Into the Woods, a new Bohème and a world premiere by Lachlan Skipworth, with a new work in the Noongar language scheduled for 2024.

Launching over 20 world premieres from emerging and established Australian composers, the ensemble touts new music across NSW and Victoria, as well as internationally in Helsinki and Berlin.