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    • Markiyan Melnychenko and Rhodri Clarke

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Markiyan Melnychenko and Rhodri Clarke

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Violin Sonatas by Douglas Weiland. In a world-premiere event, experience the complete sonatas of Douglas Weiland along with a newly composed work on Ukrainian folk themes. Douglas Weiland is the late Sir Neville Marriner's most-commissioned composer and has been hailed in the international press for his "music of palpable humanity…
    Farzad Fazin
    Farzad Farzin

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Farzad Farzin

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Persian pop sensation Farzad Farzin returns to Australia with an electrifying concert at Melbourne Recital Centre as part of his Australia Tour 2026. Renowned for his powerful voice, captivating stage presence and emotional depth, Farzin delivers an unforgettable musical journey that moves effortlessly from vibrant pop and dance rhythms to…
    Elision musician blowing horn

    ELISION Ensemble: Elision – Ghosts Making Form

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    These performances bring to the stage new work from composers Liza Lim, Victor Arul, Cat Hope, Einar Torfi Einarsson and Hakan Ulus. Written specifically for the musicians of ELISION, their sonorities glitter, constantly transform and shift, and embrace the ferocious and the magic of quiet stillness in equal measure. They…

    Pinchgut Opera: Goldberg Variations

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Step into a world of intricate beauty and sublime artistry as Erin Helyard performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations. This monumental work, composed to soothe and enchant, offers a meditative journey through 30 variations on a single, elegant aria. It remains a testament to Bach’s musical genius and continues to enthral audiences…

    Pinchgut Opera: Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach – Performed by Erin Helyard

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Experience one of the greatest works in the keyboard repertoire – Bach's Goldberg Variations – in the hands of Erin Helyard, Australia's most distinguished harpsichordist and Artistic Director of Pinchgut Opera. Originally composed to soothe and enchant, the Goldberg Variations offers a vast musical universe built from a single elegant…
    Omega Ensemble – Starburst

    Omega Ensemble: Starburst

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Heralding an exhilarating start to Omega Ensemble's 2026 Season, this program pulsates with the idiosyncratic sounds of the world around us, traversing the human experience in all its wonderful chaos and brilliance. Led by Shostakovich's brilliant Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, a whirlwind of jazz hall…
    Editor's Choice A Winter’s Journey

    Musica Viva Australia: A Winter’s Journey

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Allan Clayton, one of the finest tenors on the world stage, returns for a substantial national tour of Winterreise. Lindy Hume’s evocative staging, titled A Winter’s Tale, imagines Schubert’s increasingly disillusioned wanderer trekking through a desolate landscape made up of Fred Williams’ paintings of Australia and brought to life by…
    Jack Liebeck annd Kristian Chong

    Kristian Chong & Friends: Brahms with Jack and Kristian

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Star U.K. violinist and Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Jack Liebeck, reunites with Kristian in the complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Brahms. Enjoy the ethereal, spirited, passionate and simply beautiful elements of these three masterworks in the hands of two skilled and renowned musicians…
    Editor's Choice A Winter’s Journey

    Musica Viva Australia: A Winter’s Journey

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Allan Clayton, one of the finest tenors on the world stage, returns for a substantial national tour of Winterreise. Lindy Hume’s evocative staging, titled A Winter’s Tale, imagines Schubert’s increasingly disillusioned wanderer trekking through a desolate landscape made up of Fred Williams’ paintings of Australia and brought to life by…
    Editor's Choice Baroque Masters

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Baroque Masters

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Led from the harpsichord by Artistic Director Paul Dyer, the Brandenburg begins the year with a tribute to composers central to its identity. The program features Pachelbel’s Canon, composed around 1680 and a model of counterpoint; Vivaldi’s virtuosic La Folia from Violin Sonata RV 63; Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, written between 1717…
    Editor's Choice Baroque Masters

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Baroque Masters

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Led from the harpsichord by Artistic Director Paul Dyer, the Brandenburg begins the year with a tribute to composers central to its identity. The program features Pachelbel’s Canon, composed around 1680 and a model of counterpoint; Vivaldi’s virtuosic La Folia from Violin Sonata RV 63; Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, written between 1717…
    Editor's Choice Baroque Masters

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Baroque Masters

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Led from the harpsichord by Artistic Director Paul Dyer, the Brandenburg begins the year with a tribute to composers central to its identity. The program features Pachelbel’s Canon, composed around 1680 and a model of counterpoint; Vivaldi’s virtuosic La Folia from Violin Sonata RV 63; Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, written between 1717…