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    • Editor's Choice Piotr Anderszewski

    Musica Viva Australia: Piotr Anderszewski

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Fresh from his triumphant performances at the Edinburgh Festival, pianist Piotr Anderszewski brings his intelligence, restless curiosity and joy to Brahms’ 12 pieces from Opp. 116– 119, selections from JS Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 and Beethoven’s Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major. Known for his uncompromising standards – he famously walked out…
    Editor's Choice Cocteau’s Circle

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Cocteau’s Circle

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Richard Tognetti and the ACO close their 50th- anniversary season in style, stepping into the surreal world of 1920s Paris. Directed by Circa’s Yaron Lifschitz, this concert-cum-cabaret features soprano Chloe Lankshear with drag artist and baritone Le Gateau Chocolat as maître d’. Inspired by Jean Cocteau’s avant-garde circle and the…
    • Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    When Rachmaninoff first performed his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, it had the audience in raptures. The extraordinary pianist had written a showstopper, and audiences have loved its lush, romantic melodies for nearly 100 years. Now, the ever-adventurous pianist Dejan Lazić returns to the ACO to play it, in a new…
    A Winter’s Journey

    Musica Viva Australia: A Winter’s Journey

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Franz Schubert’s last song cycle, A Winter’s Journey, sets the poems of Wilhelm Müller as a landscape of emotions from loneliness to courage. Roadside features – a linden tree, an icy river, a malevolent crow – become characters in the drama, triggering old memories and new hope. And throughout it all,…
    • The Devil’s Violin

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: The Devil’s Violin

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    The devil played the violin for Tartini in a dream. The music was charismatic, electrifying, fiendishly difficult and utterly transfixing. Tartini awoke and transcribed the melody, penning the Devil’s Trill sonata. It can only be played by someone astounding. Ilya Gringolts is that player, returning with his dazzling virtuosity and commanding stage presence for…
    • Beethoven’s Ghost

    Musica Viva Australia: Beethoven’s Ghost

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    What makes a great piano trio? Is it celebrity? Is it longevity? Or is it serendipity? Three magnificent musicians, brought together at the right time and the right place? Aura Go, Australian pianist, storyteller and FutureMaker, has worked with Finnish/Australian-based cellist Timo-Veikko (Tipi) Valve for many years, performing nationally and…
    Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Schubert composed like an oil painter, drawing from a rich palette of melodic and harmonic colours. With a divine lyricism at its heart, his music is imbued with an intimacy and intensity that taps into the full range of human emotion. Richard Tognetti’s affinity for Schubert is evident in every…
    • Isles of Light

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Isles of Light

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    The British Isles boast a magnificent anthology of music grounded in lush, poetic landscapes and thriving cities. This concert will transport you there. British violin and viola virtuoso Lawrence Power makes his ACO debut directing music from Thomas Tallis’ evocative theme - made famous by Vaughan Williams - to the…
    Doric String Quartet & Lloyd Van’t Hoff

    Musica Viva Australia: Doric String Quartet & Lloyd Van’t Hoff

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Thomas Adès' Alchymia has been hailed as ‘simply one of the best chamber music compositions of our time’ (Guardian). Inspired by the music of Shakespearean England, but with a voice all of its own, this major work for string quartet and basset clarinet was premiered in 2021 and has become…
    • From Winter’s Stillness

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: From Winter’s Stillness

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    From the cold, clear quiet of a wintery morning, comes the music of an ancient landscape: the snow-strewn mountains and shores along the Baltic and Nordic seas. Richard Tognetti directs this extraordinary collaboration between the international vocal phenomenon Trio Mediæval, jazz trumpeter Arve Henriksen and the ACO. Playing with a…
    • From Winter’s Stillness

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: From Winter’s Stillness

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    From the cold, clear quiet of a wintery morning, comes the music of an ancient landscape: the snow-strewn mountains and shores along the Baltic and Nordic seas. Richard Tognetti directs this extraordinary collaboration between the international vocal phenomenon Trio Mediæval, jazz trumpeter Arve Henriksen and the ACO. Playing with a…
    From Winter’s Stillness

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: From Winter’s Stillness

    Llewellyn Hall Building 100, William Herbert Pl, Canberra, ACT, Australia
    From the cold, clear quiet of a wintery morning, comes the music of an ancient landscape: the snow-strewn mountains and shores along the Baltic and Nordic seas. Richard Tognetti directs this extraordinary collaboration between the international vocal phenomenon Trio Mediæval, jazz trumpeter Arve Henriksen and the ACO. Playing with a…