Australian Chamber Choir | Baroque Christmas December 7, 2025, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park, VIC The Australian Chamber Choir were beautifully balanced and in top form for their end of year Christmas concert under the direction of Douglas Lawrence and...
Albury Chamber Music Festival | 2025 November 7 to 9, 2025, Albury, NSW That ‘festival feeling’, in my opinion, starts well in advance of the event itself. So much goes into planning and coordinating travel, booking accommodation, seeking out tips from seasoned...
Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Celebrating 10 Years of Melbourne Baroque November2, 2025, Church of All Nations, Carlton, VIC “While music is my field and plow, and serves to give me many of my keenest pleasures, I have lately attached myself to a new suitor, namely...
Victorian Opera | Katya Kabanova October 14, 2025, Palais Theatre, St Kilda, VIC Leoš Janáček’s masterpiece Katya Kabanova tells the unhappy story of Katya, a woman trapped in a miserable marriage with an interminable nightmare of a mother-in-law. The poor woman...
Musica Viva Australia | Trio Isimsiz October 7, 2025 | Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne, VIC It’s ironic that musicians that play with the intimacy, drama and playfulness of closest friends should be called the Trio Isimsiz, which translates to ‘Anonymous Trio’...
Luminescence Chamber Singers | Garden of Earthly Delights 3 October, 2025, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Deliciously decadent. Taking inspiration from the famous Dutch painting of great excesses of the same name, Garden of Earthly Delights was...
Polyphonic Voices | Path of Miracles 19 September, 2025, St Patricks Catherdral, East Melbourne, VIC Several of my friends have recently walked the Camino de Santiago, the Way of St James, treading the paths countless pilgrims have trod over hundreds of years. It...
The Royal Melbourne Philharmonic | Aria Awards 16 August, 2025 | The Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC The Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Aria Awards celebrate emerging singers performing music from the oratorio genre and other sacred works for solo voice....
Victorian Opera | Mozart’s Abduction 12 August 2025, Palais Theatre, St Kilda, VIC There was something fresh, cheeky and wonderfully entertaining about the Victorian Opera’s sensual and saucy production of Mozart’s Abduction (The abduction from the Seraglio of...
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto 7 August, 2025, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC A spiritual journey, the inner conflict of a romantic and a bucolic romp. Now that’s what I call an evening’s entertainment, which is exactly what was delivered by...