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    • Apeiron Baroque: Little Sounds and Great Noises

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    Concert 4 for our 2025 Season: More details coming soon! Shakespeare Sonnets meet Baroque Music With special guest artists: Duncan Driver (Presenter)

    Apeiron Baroque: Little Sounds, Great Noises

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    2025 Chamber Series Baroque Music Meets Shakespeare Sonnets! Sonnets have historically been associated with love and desire, but what inspires a person to write over 150 sonnets? Surely not 150 different loves? Join Apeiron and our special guest, Duncan Driver, as we pair Shakespeare Sonnets with our Baroque Music! With…

    Apeiron Baroque: Children’s Concert: The Ellery String Quartet

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    Pre-concert concert catering for young children and families. 30 minutes of music, and instrumental show and tell in a relaxed and informal setting. Perfect for young ones who are curious about music but might not have the attention to sit through the full main concert! With special guest artists: Brad…
    • Voice, Rejoice!

    Salut! Baroque: Voice, Rejoice! (Canberra)

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    The versatility of the voice has fascinated composers through the ages, from its purest form to its most virtuosic. This concert presents music of extraordinary variety and exquisite beauty – from the rhythms and colours of Spanish song, the majesty of the German choral tradition, the refinement of French opera,…

    Wesley Music Centre: Love Songs

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    Tenor Andrew Goodwin joins Alice Giles in a heart-warming recital of works by Caccini, Britten, Donizetti, Grieg, Handel, Ravel and more.
    Garden of Earthly Delights

    Luminescence Chamber Singers: Garden of Earthly Delights

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    A garden teeming with temptation and desire, grotesque creatures and improbable scenes of surrender: the uninhibited world of Hieronymus Bosch’s 500-year-old triptych “De tuin der lusten”. Baffling his Dutch contemporaries and the casual tourists in Madrid’s Prado in equal measure (not to mention generations of art critics) Bosch’s Garden of…
    Reflections on Gubaidulina

    Ronan Apcar: Reflections on Gubaidulina

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-2025) emerged from the Soviet Union as an innovative composer to keep an eye on. She proved herself to be one of the most foremost composers not just from Russia but internationally. Gubaidulina was a composer who fully committed herself to music of emotional intensity. To step into…

    Canberra Choral Society: Songs of Open Country

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    Canberra Choral Society (CCS) welcomes the arrival of Spring with a concert of beautiful choral music that evokes a sense of place, tells stories of vast landscapes, and celebrates the celestial forces that shape them. Both intimate and expansive, the program features traditional Icelandic and Appalachian songs alongside contemporary works…

    • Art Song Canberra: From Argentina With Love

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    Andrew Blanch is one of Australia’s top guitarists, famously trained in Canberra. On this occasion Andrew returns to Canberra after successfully touring through the Americas with the Argentinian singer Maria Eugenia Nieva. Born in Mendoza, Maria Eugenia embodies the broad range of Argentina’s singing traditions, as enticing and fiery as…

    Wesley Music Centre: Piano and the Spoken Word

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    Arnan Wiesel is joined by performance poet Moran Wiesel to present Enoch Arden by Richard Strauss, as well as selections intertwining poetry and music. Enoch Arden is a Melodrama for a narrator and piano by Richard Strauss set to the narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The music complements the…
    Pairings & Odd Couples

    The Song Company: Pairings & Odd Couples

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    Pairings and Odd Couples is a bold exploration of musical contrasts, curated by Guest Director Huw Belling. This eclectic program brings together works from different countries and eras, placing composers in fascinating dialogue. Estonian chant meets Irish modernism, while the premiere of Belling’s Pru Vir offers a fresh response to Guerrero’s Prudentes Virgines. The program…

    Canta Viva: Shimmying with the Schumanns

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    A charming art song concert featuring the works of the Schumanns and Brahms. The Schumann household was one of intense creativity, music, love and devotion, with the two creative titans Robert and Clara. When the young Brahms arrives to learn from the two greats, the brilliance and emotional intensity is…