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Instrumental, Visual Art
features

Palette Pieces: Turning Colour into Music

Palette Pieces is a new collection of mix-and-match solo pieces, inspired by watercolour paints. Composer-painter Cameron Lam explains the process.

September 20, 2024
Chamber, Classical Music, Festivals
news

Peninsula Summer Music Festival announces 2024 lineup

International guests from the Netherlands, Sweden and the USA join an eclectic roster of emerging and established Australian artists.

November 7, 2023
Chamber, Classical Music
features

Magic in the Regions: Inventi Ensemble

For its second year of touring, Music in the Regions collaborates with the Inventi Ensemble to connect with regional communities.

May 1, 2023
Classical Music, Festivals
Live Review

Review: Inventi Ensemble: Art and Music (Peninsula Summer Music Festival)

A spirit of friendship, openness and innovation fuelled Inventi Ensemble's exploration of the many colours of music.

January 10, 2023
Classical Music, Festivals
features

Music on the cape for Peninsula Summer Music Festival

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

December 16, 2022
Classical Music, Instrumental
news

Applications open for the 2023 Homophonic! Pride Prize

Applicants for the 2023 Prize are asked to submit a work for solo oboe, which will be developed in collaboration with oboist Ben Opie.

October 24, 2022
Chamber, Classical Music, Jazz
Live Review

Review: Peninsula Summer Music Festival

Small is beautiful as Mornington’s boutique festival goes online

January 5, 2022
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: The Glasshouse (Nat Bartsch & Inventi Ensemble)

Bartsch's Merlyn Myer Commission, along with arrangements of selections from her solo classical/jazz hybrid albums, provides a subtle submergence in a range of lush lullabies and flowing lattices of chamber writing.

November 25, 2021
Chamber, Classical Music
features

World Premiere: Nat Bartsch’s The Glasshouse

Nat Bartch's new work The Glasshouse, the 2021 Merlyn Myer Commission, is inspired by portraits taken by Victorian-era photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. 

November 16, 2021
Chamber
CD and Other Review

Review: Women of the Earth (Inventi Ensemble)

Inventi Ensemble steps up to break the silence of a COVID lockdown.

February 26, 2021
Chamber, Classical Music
features

Music zooms into nursing homes

Adrian Tamburini leapt at the chance when Inventi Ensemble asked him to perform in online concerts for aged care homes – and the response from the residents has warmed his heart.

August 14, 2020
Chamber, Classical Music
features

From hot springs to Haydn Seek

Artistic Director Ben Opie explains why there's more than ever to explore at the 2020 Peninsula Summer Music Festival.

December 19, 2019
Classical Music
features

Ben Opie on Bathing with Bach

The Peninsula Summer Music Festival’s new director encourages audiences to “soak it up”.

December 18, 2018

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