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    • 3MBS Classically Kids

    3MBS: 3MBS Classically Kids

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Join 3MBS Classically Kids this July for Once Upon A Storytime—an interactive musical adventure created and performed by flautist extraordinaire Eliza Shephard. Designed especially for young audiences, this joyful concert blends storytelling, theatre, movement and live music from around the world, inviting children to sing, dance, play and imagine alongside…
    3MBS Classically Kids

    3MBS: 3MBS Classically Kids

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Join 3MBS Classically Kids this July for Once Upon A Storytime—an interactive musical adventure created and performed by flautist extraordinaire Eliza Shephard. Designed especially for young audiences, this joyful concert blends storytelling, theatre, movement and live music from around the world, inviting children to sing, dance, play and imagine alongside…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Steve Reich Sextet

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    American composer Steve Reich is celebrated in this specially curated performance at the Abbotsford Convent. The ANAM Percussion cohort are joined by their colleagues in the ANAM Piano department to present a trio of works, highlighting and sharing the versatility of their craft. Aiming to breach the limitations of the…

    • In-Conversation & The Alchemy of Alban Berg with Jeffree Means

    Australian National Academy of Music: In-Conversation & The Alchemy of Alban Berg with Jeffrey Means

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    American conductor Jeffrey Means (Berklee College of Music) leads ANAM musicians in a pre-show talk and performance tracing the musical world of Alban Berg — a composer who stood between centuries, traditions and ideas. The concert program begins with Berg’s Seven Early Songs, a work written in his twenties and…
    In-Conversation & The Alchemy of Alban Berg with Jeffree Means

    Australian National Academy of Music: In-Conversation & The Alchemy of Alban Berg with Jeffrey Means

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    American conductor Jeffrey Means (Berklee College of Music) leads ANAM musicians in a pre-show talk and performance tracing the musical world of Alban Berg — a composer who stood between centuries, traditions and ideas. The concert program begins with Berg’s Seven Early Songs, a work written in his twenties and…

    Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM Percussion with Jeffrey Means

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Percussionist and conductor Jeffrey Means joins ANAM Percussion for a program that tests the limits of sound, silence, and performance. The evening opens with James Tenney’s Having Never Written a Note for Percussion — a single, slowly rising and falling roll that transforms from near-silence to a wall of resonance,…

    • ELISION Ensemble: Sorcerer

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    The culimination of a three-year residency at ANAM, ELISION Ensemble returns with a program that captures the precision, intensity and imagination that define their work. Recognised as Australia’s leading new music ensemble, ELISION unites musicians based across Europe, the United States and Australia, known for their technical mastery and commitment…

    Australian National Academy of Music: ELISION: Sorcerer

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    The culimination of a three-year residency at ANAM, ELISION Ensemble returns with a program that captures the precision, intensity and imagination that define their work. Recognised as Australia’s leading new music ensemble, ELISION unites musicians based across Europe, the United States and Australia, known for their technical mastery and commitment…

    ELISION Ensemble: Silent Noise

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    ELISION’s three-year partnership with ANAM has become a meeting point between generations of performers who share a drive to explore new forms of musical expression. At the centre of Silent Noise is Helmut Lachenmann’s Mouvement (– vor der Erstarrung) (1982–84), a work that transforms the smallest gestures into sound —…

    Australian National Academy of Music: ELISION & ANAM

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    This program begins with Milica Djordjević's Nalet, introducing a gripping and persevering energy as the ensemble pushes determinedly against an unseen resistance, delineative of Djordjević's struggle when composing this piece. Xenakis puts a spin on the sound an orchestra can create in Jalons, each movement developing upon rhythmic construction and…

    Australian National Academy of Music: The Spanish Piano

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    ANAM Pianos bring the colours of Spain to the Abbotsford Convent in a wonderfully intimate performance of Romantic Spanish repertoire. Tonight’s program is an ode to the Spanish greats, offering a vivid snapshot of their works. Journey across the Iberian Peninsula with Enrique Granados and see through the eyes of…

    • Australian National Academy of Music: In Conversation with Claire Edwardes

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Claire Edwardes OAM — described as Australia’s “sorceress of percussion” (City News, Canberra) — is the only artist to have received the APRA Art Music Luminary Award four times. A charismatic percussion virtuoso, Claire moves fluidly between her roles as Artistic Director of Ensemble Offspring (Australia’s leading new music ensemble),…