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    • Australian National Academy of Music: Millennium Canticles

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    ANAM alumna Kaylie Melville, Artistic Director of Speak Percussion and Co-Artistic Director of Rubiks Collective, returns to direct ANAM’s percussionists in Missy Mazzoli’s Millennium Canticles — a post-apocalyptic song cycle that reimagines ritual in a fractured world. Written in 2022 for the Chicago ensemble Third Coast Percussion, the work blends ancient chant…

    Australian National Academy of Music: In Conversation with Kaylie Melville

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    ANAM alumna and Melbourne-based percussionist Kaylie Melville is a soloist and chamber musician dedicated to new music performance. Noted for her “extraordinary ability to impart a sense of musicality to even the smallest gestures” (Partial Durations), Kaylie is Artistic Director of the new-music organisation Speak Percussion and of the contemporary…

    • Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM at the Convent: Scarlatti and the Italian Mavericks

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    From the early Baroque to the edge of the avant-garde, Scarlatti and the Italian Mavericks traces three centuries of Italian keyboard invention. Led by Timothy Young, ANAM’s Head of Piano, this program brings together ANAM pianists performing across four instruments — clavichord, harpsichord, fortepiano, and modern piano. We begin with…
    Sacred: Seven Last Words

    Australian National Academy of Music: Sacred: Seven Last Words

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Based in Melbourne, and originally comprising of musicians who all once graced the halls of ANAM, Affinity Quartet have blazed their own trail internationally. They make their return to ANAM after representing Australia at Rheingau Music Festival with acclaimed violist, composer and former ANAM Artistic Director, Brett Dean, where they…
    Sacred: Seven Last Words

    Australian National Academy of Music: Sacred: Seven Last Words

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Based in Melbourne, and originally comprising of musicians who all once graced the halls of ANAM, Affinity Quartet have blazed their own trail internationally. They make their return to ANAM after representing Australia at Rheingau Music Festival with acclaimed violist, composer and former ANAM Artistic Director, Brett Dean, where they…

    • 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…