Daniel Brace

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Daniel Brace

Daniel Brace is Organist and Music Director at St Bartholomew's Anglican Church in Richmond, Melbourne. He's also a writer and blogger (www.undamaris.me), a committee member on the Royal Society of Church Music (Victoria) and and Council member of the Society of Organ Music Victoria, who is passionate about community music making and keeping culture alive.
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Mass of Deliverance an uplifting program from the MSO Chorus

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Mass of Deliverance May 17, 2026, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Australian composer Dan Walker’s Mass of Deliverance was composed with the aim of being paired with […]

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Wonderful opaqueness of sound from Tudor Choristers

The Tudor Choristers | Lenten Contemplations: Music of Faith, Shadow and Light 25 March 202, St John’s Anglican Church, Camberwell, VIC The first full program of incoming Music Director Christopher […]

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Anna Lapwood at Melbourne Town Hall – one very special performer…

Anna Lapwood | Recital in Town Hall March 13, 2026, Melbourne Town Hall, VIC When Anna bounds onto the stage, her energy is infectious. Greeted like a rock star at […]

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ABO’s Baroque Masters, exhilarating to watch

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra | Baroque Masters February 12, 2026, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC I was reminded of my life-long love of baroque music as I took my […]

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The Australian Chamber Choir – beautifully balanced and in top form!

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 […]

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Albury Chamber Music Festival – a festival of fun and fine music

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 […]

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Downright fabulousness for MBO’s 10th anniversary

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 […]

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VO’s Katya Kabanova – a masterpiece of opera

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 […]

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Trio Isimsiz a joy to watch

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 […]

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The deliciously decadent Luminescence Chamber Singers

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 […]

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Polyphonic Voices Path of Miracles exceeded my wildest expectations

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 […]

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Soprano Amanda Hargreaves takes out the 2025 RMP Aria Award

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 […]

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VO’s Abduction fresh, cheeky and wonderfully entertaining

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 […]

Shiyeon Sung with MSO shows great synergy and virtuosity

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 […]

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The Royal Organist at SOH, a night of glittering jewels

The Royal Organist at the Sydney Opera House – a rare solo organ recital by James O’Donnell July 29, 2025, Sydney Opera House, NSW Like all the great concert halls […]

Moonlite, an Australian true-crime queer love story in oratorio form – first class!

Homophonic! and the Consort of Melbourne | Moonlite 26 July, 2025, Fitzroy Town Hall, VIC Based on The Moonlite Papers, the letters and statements of Andrew George Scott, which were […]

Inaugural Keys of Gold festival turns heads!

Castlemaine Double | Keys of Gold Festival | Bendigo Fine Music 12 July, 2025 Castlemaine Uniting Church and Christ Church, Castlemaine, VIC Bendigo Chamber Choir, Michael Bottomley (Director), Thomas Heywood […]

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Organist Thomas Heywood celebrates 200 years of the organ in Australia

Thomas Heywood | Grand Organ Recital 20 June 2025, Melbourne Town Hall, VIC The first organ arrived in Australia on a convict ship and was delivered to Van Dieman’s Land, […]

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