• Australian National Academy of Music: Mirrors in Mirror

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Spiegel im Spiegel is one of Arvo Pärt’s most well-known and most performed minimalist works. Evoking the spectacular image of ‘a mirror in a mirror’, allow our ANAM musicians to lull you into a state of meditation and tranquillity to start this evening. Australian composer Kate Moore’s The Art of Levitation presents an…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Schubert Octet

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Franz Schubert composed his Octet as a commission from Ferdinand Troyer for whom the clarinet part was written for. One hour, six movements, and eight musicians, the Octet is Schubert’s largest chamber composition. Having undertaken this significant work in 2025, ANAM musicians are proud to present the complete work in…
    ANAM at the Convent: Kurtág & Friends

    Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM at the Convent: Kurtág & Friends

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    In 2026, we will be celebrating the centenary of one of the great living composers – György Kurtág. Heard at several ANAM concerts over the years, Kurtág's music can feel like overhearing a whispered confession, a sudden cry, or a fleeting memory. All condensed into crystalline form. Kurtág’s artistic language…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Kurtág & Friends

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    “Reducing music to its intense essentials, Mr. Kurtág cultivated a style of precisely controlled intensity.”– The New York Times In 2026, we will be celebrating the centenary of one of the great living composers – György Kurtág. Heard at several ANAM concerts over the years, Kurtág's music can feel like overhearing…

    Australian National Academy of Music: In Conversation with Paavali Jumppanen – Kurtág & Friends

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Before our much-anticipated performance commemorating 100 years of the esteemed composer, György Kurtág, join us for a special conversation session with ANAM Artistic Director, Paavali Jumppanen. In 2026, we will be celebrating the centenary of one of the great living composers – György Kurtág. Heard at several ANAM concerts over the…
    ANAM at the Convent: Kurtág & Friends

    Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM at the Convent: Kurtág & Friends

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    In 2026, we will be celebrating the centenary of one of the great living composers – György Kurtág. Heard at several ANAM concerts over the years, Kurtág's music can feel like overhearing a whispered confession, a sudden cry, or a fleeting memory. All condensed into crystalline form. Kurtág’s artistic language…

    Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM Recital – Stephanie Sheridan

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    As a musician’s instrumental proficiency develops, so too does their artistic taste and temperament. Each ANAM musician’s recital is a snapshot in time – simultaneously summarising their year of training and revealing glimpses of their future selves. What music excites them? What do they want to communicate? How does their…
  • Harmonies Du Soir – Festival of French Chamber Music

    Australian National Academy of Music: Versailles – Centre Pompidou – Notre-Dame

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Could the Adagio of Gabriel Fauré’s first piano quartet have inspired the Vinteuil’s fictional sonata, the “little phrase” of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time? In the novel, the sonata marks the deepening love between Swann and Odette before twisting into a motif for the heartache of their separation.  Fauré himself was grieving after the end of his engagement to Marianne Viardot, and…
    Harmonies Du Soir – Festival of French Chamber Music

    Australian National Academy of Music: In Search of Lost Time

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Could the Adagio of Gabriel Fauré’s first piano quartet have inspired the Vinteuil’s fictional sonata, the “little phrase” of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time? In the novel, the sonata marks the deepening love between Swann and Odette before twisting into a motif for the heartache of their separation.  Fauré himself was grieving after the end of his engagement to Marianne Viardot, and…
    Harmonies Du Soir – Festival of French Chamber Music

    Australian National Academy of Music: Poème

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Two young artists, one a painter and one a musician, both in love with the same woman, compelled and tormented by a single violin melody. It’s no wonder that this story, from Ivan Turgenev’s novella Le Chant de l’amour triomphant (‘The Song of Triumphant Love’), provided inspiration for Ernest Chausson’s haunting Poème, with the violin soloist echoing the novella’s recurring theme.…
    Harmonies Du Soir – Festival of French Chamber Music

    Australian National Academy of Music: Rousseau vs. Rameau

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    La Querelle des Bouffons is a musical scandal that rattled Paris in the mid-18th century.  The dispute (literally “the quarrel of the comic actors”) pitted the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau against philosopher-musician Jean-Jacques Rousseau. What began as an argument over the merits of French opera versus the lighter, more playful Italian comic style…
    Harmonies Du Soir – Festival of French Chamber Music

    Australian National Academy of Music: Un Cabaret Sérieux

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    This concert is an exhibition of 20th- and 21st-century French works, from wunderkind Lili Boulanger to jazz-influenced Guillaume Connesson. Henri Dutilleux brings a pinch of avant-garde flair, a tradition carried on by the ever-experimental Pascal Dusapin. This opening concert captures the threads running through the festival, an invitation to explore the diversity of chamber music, from incidental pieces to the avant-garde…