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SXS Celebrate Music of Birds and Beasts

Southern Cross Soloists | Carnival of the Animals 14 June, 2026, QPAC, Brisbane, QLD Birdsongs ring through the air. In an ancient rainforest, we walk under a canopy of green. […]

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Melbourne’s Romeo and Juliet a theatrical experience of rare beauty

The Australian Ballet & Orchestra Victoria | Romeo and Juliet June 11, 2026, Regent Theatre, Melbourne The Occasion There are certain works in the ballet canon that transcend repertoire and […]

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TwoSet Violin – great experience, happy faces, a delightful evening of fun music making

TwoSet Violin | Sacrilegious Games World Tour June 9, 2026, Sydney Opera House, NSW TwoSet Violin performed their sacrilegious concert at the Sydney Opera House. ‘How do we turn a […]

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Bach Akademie Australia epitomises the true spirit of the Collegium Musicum

Bach Akademie Australia | Collegium Musicum 13 June 2026, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW Performers: Madeleine Easton – Artistic Director, Solo violin Simone Slattery – Solo violin Rafael Font – Violin […]

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Volare Ensemble’s premiere concert shows a choir we hope to hear more from

Volare Ensemble | Ripples and Reflections 8 June 2026, Glebe Town Hall, NSW In 20 years’ time, I hope I’ll be saying I was at the first concert of Volare […]

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Thunderous response to TMO’s world premiere commission by Graeme Brown

The Metropolitan Orchestra | Flare June 6, 2026, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney, NSW The Metropolitan Orchestra’s second ‘Met’ concert for 2026 promised a night of dazzling colour and elemental rhythm. […]

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A spellbinding Oracle of new music from Ensemble Offspring

Ensemble Offspring | The Oracle June 2, 2026, ACO Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW Before Ensemble Offspring’s The Oracle began, the audience gathered in a small rehearsal room at ACO […]

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Selby & Friends’ The Living Tradition amazes and delights

Selby & Friends | The Living Tradition 28 May 2026, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Kathryn Selby – pianoforte Alexandra Osborne – violin Clancy Newman – violoncello Programme […]

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In Paradisum: Sydney Chamber Choir shines in earthly and heavenly light

Sydney Chamber Choir | In Paradisum May 30, 2026, St James’ Church, Sydney, NSW I was intrigued and excited by the prospect of Sydney Chamber Choir’s In Paradisum, on paper […]

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River City Voices: Faure’s Requiem in the Heart of Western Sydney

River City Voices | Faure’s Requiem May 29, 2026, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta, NSW River City Voices Guest Conductor: Dr Philip Eames Assistant Conductor: Oscar Balle-Bowness Organ: Simon Nieminski Baritone […]

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WSO. Magic Flute. Magic program.

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Magic Flute 24 May, 2026, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW Mozart, Hindson and Brahms Dr Nicholas Milton AM – Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Mozart: Overture to […]

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Coro Innominata’s concert The VocaLiszt – a revelation!

Coro Innominata | The VocaLiszt 24 May 2026, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, NSW Conductor & Musical Director: Dr Philip Eames Pianists: Harry Tai & Silvina Wong Baritone: Matt Gaskin Soloists […]

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Delightfully performed ‘Take Six’ by Genesis Baroque

Genesis Baroque | Take Six 19 May 2026, Victorian Artists’ Society, East Melbourne, VIC Performers: Meg Cohen & Jennifer Kirsner, violins Steven King & Anna Webb, violas Josephine Vains & Natasha […]

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MUCS’ Bruckner and Dvořák – a marvellous thing

Melbourne University Choral Society + Box Hill Chorale | Te Deum (Bruckner) and Mass in D Major (Dvořák) 23 May 2026, All Saints East St Kilda, VIC Helena Dix, Soprano; […]

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Der Schwanengesang with Song Company’s near perfect intonation – very dramatic!

The Song Company | Der Schwanengesang May 21, 2026, St James’ Church, Sydney, NSW Artists: The Song Company Conductor: Roland Peelman Continuo: Nathan Cox   Schütz wrote this setting of […]

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Pinchgut’s The First Murder is a tender and devastating triumph

Pinchgut Opera | The First Murder May 23, 2026, Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay, NSW Pinchgut’s invitation was simple and rather bold: “To understand the world we live in, let’s […]

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Great Passions, Great Opposites – Bravo MSO and ANAM

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Great Passions 21 May, 2026, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC MSO + ANAM Conductor – Jaime Martín The Occasion A balmy Thursday night in Melbourne set against […]

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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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Claire Matthews

SXS Celebrate Music of Birds and Beasts

Southern Cross Soloists | Carnival of the Animals 14 June, 2026, QPAC, Brisbane, QLD Birdsongs ring through the air. In an ancient rainforest, we walk under a canopy of green. Beams of sunlight fall between the trees. A quiet moment, where we can stop to appreciate the melodies and rhythms of nature.  This was the setting for Southern Cross Soloists’

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Warren Wills

Melbourne’s Romeo and Juliet a theatrical experience of rare beauty

The Australian Ballet & Orchestra Victoria | Romeo and Juliet June 11, 2026, Regent Theatre, Melbourne The Occasion There are certain works in the ballet canon that transcend repertoire and become cultural events. John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet is one such masterpiece. Returning to Melbourne only four years after its last appearance, this magnificent production arrives not merely as a

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Richard Wong

TwoSet Violin – great experience, happy faces, a delightful evening of fun music making

TwoSet Violin | Sacrilegious Games World Tour June 9, 2026, Sydney Opera House, NSW TwoSet Violin performed their sacrilegious concert at the Sydney Opera House. ‘How do we turn a 10-minute YouTube video into a one-hour-plus live experience?’ Eddy Chen asked during an interview. Well, you guys (I am a huge fan by the way, so please appreciate my take-down)

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Pepe Newton

Bach Akademie Australia epitomises the true spirit of the Collegium Musicum

Bach Akademie Australia | Collegium Musicum 13 June 2026, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW Performers: Madeleine Easton – Artistic Director, Solo violin Simone Slattery – Solo violin Rafael Font – Violin James Tarbotton – Violin John Ma – Viola Anthea Cottee – Cello Pippa MacMillan – Double bass Nathan Cox – Harpsichord Mikaela Oberg – Flute Jessica Lee – Flute Program:

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Pepe Newton

Volare Ensemble’s premiere concert shows a choir we hope to hear more from

Volare Ensemble | Ripples and Reflections 8 June 2026, Glebe Town Hall, NSW In 20 years’ time, I hope I’ll be saying I was at the first concert of Volare Ensemble. This was the first outing of a young choir with real musical instincts, strong foundations and a great deal of potential. Their concert, Ripples and Reflections, introduced Volare as

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Thunderous response to TMO’s world premiere commission by Graeme Brown

The Metropolitan Orchestra | Flare   June 6, 2026, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney, NSW The Metropolitan Orchestra’s second ‘Met’ concert for 2026 promised a night of dazzling colour and elemental rhythm. That didn’t explain the explosive start to their performance titled Flare, conducted by vivacious Sarah-Grace Williams. I love the acoustical delivery of the Verbrugghen Hall at the Sydney Conservatorium that’s

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Pepe Newton

A spellbinding Oracle of new music from Ensemble Offspring

Ensemble Offspring | The Oracle June 2, 2026, ACO Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW Before Ensemble Offspring’s The Oracle began, the audience gathered in a small rehearsal room at ACO on the Pier, looking out across Sydney Harbour as Vivid flickered beyond the glass. It was the perfect threshold for a concert about forces greater than us: water, weather, rock,

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Peter Hagen

Selby & Friends’ The Living Tradition amazes and delights

Selby & Friends | The Living Tradition 28 May 2026, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Kathryn Selby – pianoforte Alexandra Osborne – violin Clancy Newman – violoncello  Programme Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) – Variations on ‘Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu’, Op. 121a (1824) Elena Kats-Chernin (1957 – ) – Variations on Schubert Trauerwalzer (2009) Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

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Pepe Newton

In Paradisum: Sydney Chamber Choir shines in earthly and heavenly light

Sydney Chamber Choir | In Paradisum May 30, 2026, St James’ Church, Sydney, NSW I was intrigued and excited by the prospect of Sydney Chamber Choir’s In Paradisum, on paper we were promised a journey from Baltic and Nordic stillness to Australian warmth, through faith, light and love. All true. But the program only fully revealed itself in performance as,

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Adriel Sukumar

River City Voices: Faure’s Requiem in the Heart of Western Sydney

River City Voices | Faure’s Requiem May 29, 2026, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta, NSW River City Voices Guest Conductor: Dr Philip Eames Assistant Conductor: Oscar Balle-Bowness Organ: Simon Nieminski Baritone Solo: Benjamin Caukwell Soprano Solo: Ayako Ohtake Solo Quartet: Teresa Cheung, Amanda Karen, Richard Heagren-Gibbs, Will Bond Program: Nicole Smede: Padla Alice Chance: Holy Dreaming Joseph Romeo: The Lord’s Prayer

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Richard Wong

WSO. Magic Flute. Magic program.

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Magic Flute 24 May, 2026, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW Mozart, Hindson and Brahms Dr Nicholas Milton AM – Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute Hindson: House Music, concerto for flute and orchestra Kitchen, Garage, Workshop, Foyer, Swimming Pool (Interlude), Lounge, Nursery, Games Room Solo Flautist: Meret Louisa Vogel Brahms: Symphony 2

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Coro Innominata’s concert The VocaLiszt – a revelation!

Coro Innominata | The VocaLiszt 24 May 2026, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, NSW Conductor & Musical Director: Dr Philip Eames Pianists: Harry Tai & Silvina Wong Baritone: Matt Gaskin Soloists from choir: James Cox, Lynne Hancock, David Hoffman, Ari Romanenko, Tony Roscioli, Michael van der Kolff.   For most of us, mention of Franz Liszt conjures up his enormous output

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Richard Excell

Delightfully performed ‘Take Six’ by Genesis Baroque

Genesis Baroque | Take Six 19 May 2026, Victorian Artists’ Society, East Melbourne, VIC Performers: Meg Cohen & Jennifer Kirsner, violins Steven King & Anna Webb, violas Josephine Vains & Natasha Kraemer, cello MOZART/Anon & BRAHMS   This was very much a case of Genesis Post-Baroque, as, like a welcome number of period instrument ensembles, the performers explored the delights of

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David Hood

MUCS’ Bruckner and Dvořák – a marvellous thing

Melbourne University Choral Society + Box Hill Chorale | Te Deum (Bruckner) and Mass in D Major (Dvořák) 23 May 2026, All Saints East St Kilda, VIC Helena Dix, Soprano; Dimity Shepherd, Mezzo; Michael Petruccelli, Tenor; Christopher Hillier, Baritone; Bruckner Chamber Orchestra; Conductor Andrew Wailes   Bruckner took a long time to get established and recognised in Imperial Vienna for

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Daniel Kaan

Der Schwanengesang with Song Company’s near perfect intonation – very dramatic!

The Song Company | Der Schwanengesang May 21, 2026, St James’ Church, Sydney, NSW Artists: The Song Company Conductor: Roland Peelman Continuo: Nathan Cox   Schütz wrote this setting of Psalm 119 right at the end of his very long life. The title of this large work is Der Schwanengesang (“The Swansong”), was posthumously assigned. He is reputed however to

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Pepe Newton

Pinchgut’s The First Murder is a tender and devastating triumph

Pinchgut Opera | The First Murder May 23, 2026, Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay, NSW Pinchgut’s invitation was simple and rather bold: “To understand the world we live in, let’s return to where it began.” In The First Murder, that beginning was not a exactly the Garden of Eden, but a scrubby Aussie beach campsite: sand, rocks, flannel flowers, an

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Warren Wills

Great Passions, Great Opposites – Bravo MSO and ANAM

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Great Passions 21 May, 2026, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC MSO + ANAM  Conductor – Jaime Martín The Occasion  A balmy Thursday night in Melbourne set against ongoing seismic global upheaval and commotion. Tonight, here at Hamer Hall, the opposites were united.  The youth with the pros, the precocious Viennese gifted upstart alongside the pained ever-fresh Russian

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Daniel Brace

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 John Rutter’s 18 minute Gloria, one of his most challenging outputs both for the performers and listeners. Not quite filling out an hour, the program was rounded out by the

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