• Evolving Perspectives

    Tempo Rubato: Haneulle Lovell and Reuben Tsang

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    Haneulle is a violinist and musical collaborator whose sensitive and intuitive touch has garnered her a diverse performance portfolio as an emerging Australian performer. Having successfully completed the Queensland Symphony Orchestra Academy in 2024, Haneulle appears regularly with the orchestra as a casual violinist and looks forward to being on…
  • Tempo Rubato: Joshua Hyde & Alex Waite

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    Following a 2025 tour in Japan, pianist Alex Waite and saxophonist Joshua Hyde return to Australia for a rare program devoted to French chamber music and the classical saxophone repertoire. Best known for their work with the Elision Ensemble and performances of contemporary music internationally, this concert presents the duo…

    Tempo Rubato: Khalida De Ridder & Konrad Olszewski

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    Copenhagen-based Australian violinist Khalida De Ridder returns to Melbourne in partnership with pianist Konrad Olszewski to perform one of the giants of the violin and piano sonata repertoire: Richard Strauss’s Op.18. Also on the program, Khalida performs with Danish classical guitarist Simon Thielke; works by Filippo Gragnani and Niccolo Paganini.

    Tempo Rubato: Solo Recital

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    Now based in Paris, Tasmanian pianist Sarah Cabrol-Douat is returning to perform at Tempo Rubato, Melbourne as part of her Australian tour. The program includes works of Mozart, Schubert and Scriabin
  • Luke Zhang and Sean Kim: Restless Forms

    Luke Zhang and Sean Kim: Restless Forms

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    Restless Forms is a contemporary classical piano recital by Luke Zhang and Sean Kim exploring instability, transformation, and the search for artistic identity. Emerging from years immersed in conservatorium life shaped by discipline, obsession, uncertainty, and continual refinement, this program reflects the uneasy transition beyond institutional structure into a more…

    Tempo Rubato: Ensemble Liber: Schumann, Clarke and Mendelssohn

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    This winter, Ensemble Liber returns to Tempo Rubato for the third time with a captivating program of music for strings and piano. Featuring Rebecca Clarke’s Dumka for violin, viola and piano, Mendelssohn’s Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano, and Schumann’s Piano Quartet No. 1. Violist Haram Kim, cellist Josh…

    Tempo Rubato: Anna da Silva Chen – Obsession

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    Mostly unknown yet strangely familiar gems from three centuries of solo violin music, featuring composers whose voices are too singular to be ignored. Works by Nicola Matteis Jr, Thomas Green, Max Reger, Johann Georg Pisendel and Eugène Ysaÿe. Anna da Silva Chen is widely regarded as one of Australia’s most…

    Courtenay Cleary, Connor D’Netto: Reminiscence

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    Violinist Courtenay Cleary performs works from her debut album "Reminiscence", joined by Connor D’Netto on synth/electronics. Featuring works by Stephen Chin, Connor D'Netto, Elena Kats-Chernin, Missy Mazzoli, Chris Perren, and Katherine Rawlings.
  • Tempo Rubato: Australian Harp Fest: Mark 2

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    Australian Harp Fest: Mark 2... the celebration continues! Harpists and composers Natalia Mann (Queensland), Paul Nicolaou (NSW) and Katia Mestrovic (VIC), converge at Tempo Rubato, to share an exciting program of new music for harp solo and trio. All of the works are Australian, from Lisa Cheney, Ross Edwards, Nigel…

    Ensemble Mania: Michael Finnissy @ 80

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    A portrait concert to celebrate the 80th birthday of renowned English composer and friend of the ensemble, Michael Finnissy. Soloists and chamber groups will present works from across Finnissy’s diverse output, including several composed while in Australia, showcasing the composer’s significant contributions to contemporary music and his continued influence on…
  • Tempo Rubato: Lee Dionne Solo Piano Recital: States of the Soul

    Tempo Rubato 34 Breese St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia
    In 1898 Scriabin composed his Third Sonata depicting a soul’s journey, “” With successive works, his spiritual explorations reached new heights, culminating in his ‘Insect’ Sonata (No. 10), which he imbued with the “ceaseless activity, fluttering, illumination, and seduction” of insects, imagining them as potent symbols of enlightenment. In this…