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    • Flinders Quartet: New Light

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The final concert of the year shines a “new light” on the quartet tradition. Beethoven’s String Quartet in E-flat major, Op.127 - the first of his groundbreaking late quartets - opens the program with majestic chords and profound emotional range. This is complemented by Grażyna Bacewicz’s String Quartet No.3, a…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: John Cameron Mitchell

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Theatrical icon John Cameron Mitchell celebrates the music and lyrics of David Bowie with Jude York and Amber Martin. Two-time Tony Award-winning star and creator of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Shortbus, John Cameron Mitchell makes his Melbourne Recital Centre debut with I’m Afraid of Americans – A Bowie…
    Julian Lage (USA)

    Top Shelf Productions: Julian Lage (USA)

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    In 2015, Julian Lage walked into a New York studio and recorded his first solo acoustic album in two days. World's Fair arrived pared back to its essentials: one guitar, one room, and twelve tracks that felt closer to a private recital than a record release. The album defies genre, drawing classical…
    Julian Lage (USA)

    Top Shelf Productions: Julian Lage (USA)

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    In 2015, Julian Lage walked into a New York studio and recorded his first solo acoustic album in two days. World's Fair arrived pared back to its essentials: one guitar, one room, and twelve tracks that felt closer to a private recital than a record release. The album defies genre, drawing classical…
    Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane – Night I

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A trilogy through time. Pieter Wispelwey and Piers Lane excavate hidden codes embedded within Soviet-era masterworks, framed by Benjamin Britten's First Cello Suite. Wispelwey, celebrated for his fearless interpretations, reveals how Britten's seemingly straightforward variations contain their own quiet revolutions. From the rebellious wit and restrained elegance of Sergei Prokofiev's…
    Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane – Night II

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A trilogy through time. Enter a realm where Romantic lyricism meets modernist exploration as Pieter Wispelwey and Piers Lane bridge the delicate balance between tradition and transformation. Franz Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata, written for the now extinct instrument, enters a new era on the cello. The gentle dialogue between instruments, embodying…
    Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Pieter Wispelwey with Piers Lane – Night III

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A trilogy through time. Pieter Wispelwey's concert trilogy concludes as he and Piers Lane delve into music's most profound emotional territories, anchored by Benjamin Britten's haunting Third Cello Suite. César Franck's radiant Violin Sonata, equally compelling on cello, unfolds with soaring expression. Frédéric Chopin's final published work, his only Cello…

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Handel & Bach

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    It’s the 1700s and you’re sipping a glass of champagne. Beautiful music is playing through the open air, and you listen to the instruments while cruising gently down the river with your friends. It’s a scene fit for a king, which is exactly why George Frideric Handel composed Water Music.…
    Bryce Dessner & the Sydney Symphony

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Bryce Dessner & the Sydney Symphony

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Known to many from American rock band The National, Dessner is also a leading figure in contemporary classical music. He ‘slips in and out of musical guises with disarming ease…his gorgeous and full-hearted music’ (NPR) blurring the lines between genres, shaped by collaborations with icons like Steve Reich and Philip…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: ZÖJ – May the Devil’s Ear Be Deaf

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A powerful cross-cultural journey through deep listening, improvisation, and Persian poetry. ZÖJ returns with their captivating fusion of neo-classical Persian music and experimental rhythms. Launching their third album, May The Devil's Ear Be Deaf, recorded live at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada, ZÖJ invite listeners into…

    • DuskLit

    Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: DuskLit

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Known for her expressive depth and brilliant technique — as well as her warm presence on ABC’s The Piano — Andrea Lam brings Mozart’s beloved Piano Concerto No 21 to life with elegance and joy. Mendelssohn’s sun-drenched Italian Symphony also shines, along with the premiere of a moving new work by Miriama Young, created…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Sonya Lifschitz – Duet for One

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A visually and sonically breathtaking duet across time and place. Duet for One is a collaboration between virtuoso pianist Sonya Lifschitz, composer/media artist Damian Barbeler and pioneering interactive media artist Tim Gruchy. Pairing spectacular imagery of the Australian landscape with Barbeler's colouristic and inventive score, this immersive work is a…