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Event Series RISING 2024

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Blazing Trails

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Join us as we celebrate composers who made the world better through music and amplified overlooked voices — whether it was Vivaldi’s work in music education, Mahler’s reappraisal of the work of Beethoven, or Florence Price’s tireless advocacy for women of colour. Claire Edwardes is Australia’s most recognisable percussionist, a…

Event Series RISING 2024

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Blazing Trails

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Join us as we celebrate composers who made the world better through music and amplified overlooked voices — whether it was Vivaldi’s work in music education, Mahler’s reappraisal of the work of Beethoven, or Florence Price’s tireless advocacy for women of colour. Claire Edwardes is Australia’s most recognisable percussionist, a…

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Dvorak’s Eighth Symphony is, simply, a joy. The music has a natural, unforced quality that belies its complexity, and layers of truly original textures and ear-worm-worthy melodies shine with sparkling clarity. Learn more about this marvellous work, with presenter Nicholas Bochner giving context and meaning to the music, as the…
Event Series RISING 2024

RISING Festival: Good Morning

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Stalwarts of the indie underground, worldwide. The high school friends-turned-band-mates Stefan Blair and Liam Parsons now live in Los Angeles and London, respectively. But they’re playing a rare hometown show at the Melbourne Recital Centre for RISING. It’s an acoustically deluxe venue befitting the orchestral sounds and crackles on Seven,…
Event Series Kirill Gerstein

Musica Viva Australia: Kirill Gerstein

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Kirill Gerstein is a showman, a philosopher, and a poet of the piano. He grew up playing jazz, switched to classical and won the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition at just 22. Since then, he has carved out a formidable reputation as a fearless artist who makes the impossible…

Event Series Vanguard

Australian String Quartet: Vanguard

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
When premiered in 1825, Beethoven’s Op.127 quartet stunned listeners with its innovation of expression and form. This work heralded a dramatic shift in Beethoven’s trajectory, having already taken the string quartet to unprecedented heights. The first of his late quartets, here we glimpse a far more personal, philosophical, and inward-looking…

Andrew Kay and Associates: David Helfgott – Farewell Tour

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Acclaimed pianist David Helfgott returns to bid a fond farewell to his long-performing career which has been closely associated with Melbourne Recital Centre. Playing some of his favourite solo piano works of Chopin and Liszt and performing Rachmanioff’s third piano concerto in its version for two pianos with British pianist,…
Event Series Jewels in the Crown

Selby & Friends: Jewels in the Crown

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
A S&F favourite, violinist Natalie Chee returns in 2024 for a brilliant and unusual program featuring Beethoven’s mighty ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata with Kathryn Selby. Accomplished performer and mentor Lloyd Van’t Hoff opens the program with what is considered the greatest work composed for clarinet and piano with Brahms’ second sonata followed…
Event Series Jewels in the Crown

Selby & Friends: Jewels in the Crown

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
A S&F favourite, violinist Natalie Chee returns in 2024 for a brilliant and unusual program featuring Beethoven’s mighty ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata with Kathryn Selby. Accomplished performer and mentor Lloyd Van’t Hoff opens the program with what is considered the greatest work composed for clarinet and piano with Brahms’ second sonata followed…
Event Series Night in Versailles

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Night in Versailles

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Treat yourself to a sumptuous sonic and visual palette of immersive theatrical staging inspired by Château de Versailles, and be awakened by the bold, rousing power of Baroque. Pure energy. Pure delight. Suspend your imagination and be rewarded with a captivating sensory experience. In an ode to the harpsichord brought…
Event Series Night in Versailles

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Night in Versailles

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Treat yourself to a sumptuous sonic and visual palette of immersive theatrical staging inspired by Château de Versailles, and be awakened by the bold, rousing power of Baroque. Pure energy. Pure delight. Suspend your imagination and be rewarded with a captivating sensory experience. In an ode to the harpsichord brought…
Event Series Night in Versailles

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Night in Versailles

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Treat yourself to a sumptuous sonic and visual palette of immersive theatrical staging inspired by Château de Versailles, and be awakened by the bold, rousing power of Baroque. Pure energy. Pure delight. Suspend your imagination and be rewarded with a captivating sensory experience. In an ode to the harpsichord brought…