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    • Canberra Symphony Orchestra: Archduke Trio

    Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia 30 Parkes Pl E, Parkes, ACT, Australia
    A monumental classic of the chamber music repertoire paired with a rare musical gem. What do you do when your aristocratic piano student has a sore finger and skips out on his weekly lesson? Write him a new piano trio to play, of course. Jessica Cottis offers one word for…

    • Canberra Symphony Orchestra: French Accents

    Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia 30 Parkes Pl E, Parkes, ACT, Australia
    An ever-changing musical kaleidoscope suffused with joy and affection. You’ll hear Mozart and Poulenc at their self-declared best and all four composers are writing music for instruments they adored, playing to their strengths. Mozart’s Quintet was an experiment: a concerto for piano and winds that won him ‘extraordinary applause’ at…

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

    Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia 30 Parkes Pl E, Parkes, ACT, Australia
    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…

    • Beethoven, Mozart & Boccherini

    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven, Mozart & Boccherini

    Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia 30 Parkes Pl E, Parkes, ACT, Australia
    How does that one go again? Neglected even amongst Beethoven’s even-numbered “B-side” symphonies, No. 4 in B flat can be a little slow to spring to mind, but once that effervescent first subject banishes the portent of the mock-gloomy introduction, the delights of this work come flooding back. Really remarkable…
    Editor's Choice

    Canberra International Music Festival: Schubert & Syrah

    Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia 30 Parkes Pl E, Parkes, ACT, Australia
    Artistic Director Eugene Ughetti’s 2026 program is deeply rooted in place, from site-specific bell works at Parliament House and the National Carillon to chamber and choral premieres. Anna-Louise Cole sings Wagner Lieder and Strauss’s Four Last Songs, the Australian String Quartet surveys British music from Purcell to Britten and Rebecca…
    Editor's Choice

    Canberra International Music Festival: Folías de España

    Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia 30 Parkes Pl E, Parkes, ACT, Australia
    Artistic Director Eugene Ughetti’s 2026 program is deeply rooted in place, from site-specific bell works at Parliament House and the National Carillon to chamber and choral premieres. Anna-Louise Cole sings Wagner Lieder and Strauss’s Four Last Songs, the Australian String Quartet surveys British music from Purcell to Britten and Rebecca…
    Editor's Choice Interwoven

    Canberra International Music Festival: Interwoven

    Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia 30 Parkes Pl E, Parkes, ACT, Australia
    This program of vivid contrasts is anchored by Elizabeth Younan’s Interwoven, a recent work exploring connection and expression. Haydn’s String Quartet in A major – part of his revolutionary Sun series – brings wit and invention, while Prokofiev’s wartime Second Quartet in F major draws on Caucasian folk idioms. Clara Schumann’s Variations,…