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    • Featured The Living Tradition

    Selby & Friends: The Living Tradition

    Bowral Memorial Hall 16-24 Bendooley St,, Bowral, NSW
    The 20th Season of Selby & Friends in its current format opens with a return of two special guests who wowed audiences two years ago – Alexandra Osborne and Clancy Newman. This dynamic duo joins Kathy for a concert comprising two works that pay tribute to an earlier popular tune…

    • Bach Akademie Australia: Collegium Musicum

    Bowral Memorial Hall 16-24 Bendooley St,, Bowral, NSW
    An atmosphere of musical and scientific enlightenment. In 1702 in Leipzig, Bach’s great friend and colleague Telemann recognised the need for an environment in which his students could perform in public and where musical and academic pursuits could be fostered. The Collegium Musicum was born. When Bach arrived in 1723,…

    • Sydney Mandolin Orchestra: In The Southern Highlands

    Bowral Memorial Hall 16-24 Bendooley St,, Bowral, NSW
    Sydney Mandolin Orchestra (SMO) is a rare 25-piece plucked string orchestra of mandolins, mandolas, mandocello, classical guitars, double bass and percussion.  For its debut performance in Bowral, SMO will present an afternoon of classical, romantic and contemporary mandolin and guitar orchestral music at its finest!  SMO’s precision plucking, shimmering tremolo,…
    Featured From Romance to Reckoning

    Selby & Friends: From Romance to Reckoning

    Bowral Memorial Hall 16-24 Bendooley St,, Bowral, NSW
    This concert opens with an extraordinary Suite by eight accomplished Australian composers from every state and territory. Entitled Fire Dances and commissioned by the ABC, it follows the distinctive voices from across the country to create a narrative arc that journeys through the trajectory of a bushfire, from the haze…

    • Australian Haydn Ensemble: Divine Bohemain – Haydn, Richter, Mysliveček & Beethoven

    Bowral Memorial Hall 16-24 Bendooley St,, Bowral, NSW
    Composers hailing from the now proud Czech Republic were surprisingly numerous in the 18th century and, while far from household names today, had a significant impact on some that are. These Bohemians were neither the free’n’easy chums who kissed tiny frozen hands in garrets nor the future pictorial romantics devoted…
    Bush, Borscht & Bonn

    Selby & Friends: Bush, Borscht & Bonn

    Bowral Memorial Hall 16-24 Bendooley St,, Bowral, NSW
    Listening to Beethoven’s own wonderful piano trio arrangement of his famous Septet, one gets a real sense of what it must have been like to desperately want to play something at home you had only heard played by many artists publicly. This tradition of changing the forces to accommodate everyday…

    • First Things First

    Selby & Friends: First Things First

    Bowral Memorial Hall 16-24 Bendooley St,, Bowral, NSW
    This concert was especially requested by guest artists, Timo-Veikko Valve and Andrew Haveron – both principal leaders in two of Australia’s finest large ensembles. S&F is thrilled to have them both back again, especially in this blockbuster program dedicated to the chamber music of the mighty Johannes Brahms. Incredibly soulful,…

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Haydn’s London Symphonies: Part 1

    Bowral Memorial Hall 16-24 Bendooley St,, Bowral, NSW
    Part 1! How enticing. If a CD revival eventually eclipses the current vinyl vogue, can we look forward to a 300th birthday /Brisbane Olympics “boxed set” of all 12 by 2032? Violinist and impresario Peter Salomon was the guardian angel (slash shrewd businessman) who put Haydn on a boat to…

    • Creation of the World

    Selby & Friends: Creation of the World

    Bowral Memorial Hall 16-24 Bendooley St,, Bowral, NSW
    Our 2026 Season-ending concert program highlights one of Selby & Friends’ most important commitments – to foster the talents and experiences of the next generations of Australia’s artists. With this program, we welcome two young newcomers in Louise Turnbull and Ariel Postmus, and welcome back the superb skills of Kristian…