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MSO presents a glorious celebration of the Lunar New Year

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Chinese New Year Concert – Lunar New Year Celebration Saturday February 21, 2026, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC The Occasion Saturday night in Melbourne, and so many […]

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Nobody Does It Better! WSO goes to Hollywood

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Hollywood February 14, 2026, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW The grand sweep of our majestic Willoughby Symphony Orchestra in full flight, with an Imperial Cruiser hovering over […]

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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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Willoughby Symphony end the year full of festive cheer

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Spirit of Christmas Sunday 14 December, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW Willoughby Symphony Orchestra and Choir conducted by Peter Ellis It was a performance full of festive […]

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Carols at the House – What a show!

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs | Carols at the House 12 December, 2025, Sydney Opera House, NSW What a show! Over two and a half hours of entertainment – closer to three […]

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MSO presents a moving and brilliant Messiah

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Handel’s Messiah December 13, 2025, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC CAN YOU IMAGINE – I cannot – Handel’s great contemporary, JS Bach (both born 1685), recycling some […]

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Bach’s Christmas Oratorio a truly festive, world-class afternoon of music making

Sydney Philharmonia Chamber Singers | Bach’s Christmas Oratorio 13 December 2025, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, NSW Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ presentation of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Parts IV–VI) – a six-part […]

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Royal Melbourne Philharmonic’s Messiah – sumptuous, stirring, moving…

Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra | Handel’s Messiah December 7, 2025, Melbourne Town Hall The Occasion On December 7th, as fires raged through NSW, the Ashes nearly decided in […]

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QSO’s season closing concert, a reflection on the meaning of life

Queensland Symphony Orchestra | Mahler 9 November 29, 2025, Brisbane, QLD The stormy weather in Brisbane finally cleared on Saturday night, in time for QSO’s season closing concert in the […]

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SSO’s Beethoven 9 – Simone Young’s conducting is like watching poetry…

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Simone Young conducts Beethoven 9 November 27, 2025, Sydney Opera House, NSW What is an example of great music? Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Why is it great? […]

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MSO’s New World: eclectic, diverse, rich, elevating

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | New World Symphony November 26, 2025, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC The Occasion Thursday night to brighten and inspire the Melbourne denizens as we enter the final […]

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MCO gives us treasures of the highest value in ‘Nightingale’

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra | Nightingale November 23, 2025, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC THE GREAT J.S. Bach, renowned as a master organist certainly knew his way around a harpsichord, as well; […]

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ACO’s Cocteau’s Circle – Encore Chloe Lankshear!

Australia Chamber Orchestra | Cocteau’s Circle November 17, 2025, Melbourne Recital Hall The Occasion A Monday night in the inventive and exploratory hands of Richard Tognetti and the ingenious ACO, […]

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The KPO, progressing in leaps and bounds!

Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra | Mozart Strauss & Beethoven November 16, 2025, Turramurra Uniting Church, NSW The Uniting Church at Turramurra is obviously not designed for Orchestral concerts – players and […]

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BAA’s exceptionally audacious program pays off

Bach Akademie Australia | The Brandenburg Concertos 15 November 2025, The Neilson, Walsh Bay, NSW Program J.S. Bach: Concerto No. 1 in F major BWV 1046 Concerto No. 2 in […]

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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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SSO farewells 2025 Fellows with rising stars in concert

SSO | Farewelling Our Fellows 2025 31 October 2025, Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney, NSW Presented by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellowship 2025 SSO Fellows Liam Pilgrim violin, Natalie Mavridis violin, Ariel […]

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“Amazing, absolutely amazing!” MSO’s Sibelius

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | A Celebration of Sibelius October 30, 2025, Melbourne Town Hall, VIC Benjamin Northey – Conductor Edward Walton – Violin A night of Sibelius works, large and […]

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Warren Wills

MSO presents a glorious celebration of the Lunar New Year

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Chinese New Year Concert – Lunar New Year Celebration Saturday February 21, 2026, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC The Occasion Saturday night in Melbourne, and so many reasons to celebrate. Tonight marks the fifth day of the Lunar New Year — the Year of the Horse. Indeed, a heartfelt gong xi fa cai to our Mandarin-speaking friends.

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Richard Wong

Nobody Does It Better! WSO goes to Hollywood

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Hollywood February 14, 2026, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW The grand sweep of our majestic Willoughby Symphony Orchestra in full flight, with an Imperial Cruiser hovering over the rebel spaceship. Well, we didn’t get the Imperial Cruiser (or the rebel spaceship), but Dr Nicholas Milton was dressed all in black, and he does play a mean air

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Daniel Brace

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 seat at the first concert of the Melbourne series of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, featuring works by Handel, Bach and Vivaldi. Artistic Director Paul Dyer’s program included some of the

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Richard Wong

Willoughby Symphony end the year full of festive cheer

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Spirit of Christmas Sunday 14 December, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW Willoughby Symphony Orchestra and Choir conducted by Peter Ellis It was a performance full of festive cheer, incredible performances and community spirit. Peter Ellis conducted the brilliant orchestra and choir – and there were some notable highlights which I will reminisce on soon – and he

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Richard Wong

Carols at the House – What a show!

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs | Carols at the House 12 December, 2025, Sydney Opera House, NSW What a show! Over two and a half hours of entertainment – closer to three – but the time flew by this marathon because there were so many highlights. I swear that I am going to miss some of them because it was just too

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David Hood

MSO presents a moving and brilliant Messiah

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Handel’s Messiah December 13, 2025, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC CAN YOU IMAGINE – I cannot – Handel’s great contemporary, JS Bach (both born 1685), recycling some of his own music, from Cantatas on, ahem, erotic themes, for his masterpiece “Messiah”!? Handel wrote the work in 3 weeks, so, presumably, that self-theft was necessary. There’s no “standard”

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Pepe Newton

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio a truly festive, world-class afternoon of music making

Sydney Philharmonia Chamber Singers | Bach’s Christmas Oratorio 13 December 2025, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, NSW Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ presentation of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Parts IV–VI)  – a six-part sequence of cantatas that unfolds the Christmas story through reflection rather than drama – thoughtfully interwoven with two new Australian works commissioned through SPC’s inaugural Emerging Composer Awards, was a

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Warren Wills

Royal Melbourne Philharmonic’s Messiah – sumptuous, stirring, moving…

Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra | Handel’s Messiah December 7, 2025, Melbourne Town Hall  The Occasion  On December 7th, as fires raged through NSW, the Ashes nearly decided in the cricket, the Underworld revered at the Regent (by Opera Australia), the Good Food and Wine Festival bringing calorific delight at the Convention Centre, a sure-fire Chrissy staple re-emerged for

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Claire Matthews

QSO’s season closing concert, a reflection on the meaning of life

Queensland Symphony Orchestra | Mahler 9 November 29, 2025, Brisbane, QLD The stormy weather in Brisbane finally cleared on Saturday night, in time for QSO’s season closing concert in the QPAC Concert Hall. Conducted by Umberto Clerici, QSO presented Mahler’s turbulent Ninth Symphony, expressing the full range of human emotions. This was a special evening as it was the final

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Richard Wong

SSO’s Beethoven 9 – Simone Young’s conducting is like watching poetry…

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Simone Young conducts Beethoven 9 November 27, 2025, Sydney Opera House, NSW What is an example of great music? Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Why is it great? It never grows old. It inspires loyalty. We hear this piece multiple times, and never get tired of it. Despite repeated hearings, it always sounds exciting and fresh. It is

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Warren Wills

MSO’s New World: eclectic, diverse, rich, elevating

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | New World Symphony November 26, 2025, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC The Occasion Thursday night to brighten and inspire the Melbourne denizens as we enter the final stretch of a tumultuous 2025. Heading to Hamer Hall to hear the illustrious MSO present a new work by the Uber talented First Nation’s female musical colossus, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon

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David Hood

MCO gives us treasures of the highest value in ‘Nightingale’

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra | Nightingale November 23, 2025,  Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC THE GREAT J.S. Bach, renowned as a master organist certainly knew his way around a harpsichord, as well; so much so that one of his employers hired him to repair some of His Lordship’s instruments. Although he’d arranged some of Vivaldi’s concertos previously, Bach, single-handedly (both hands actually),

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Warren Wills

ACO’s Cocteau’s Circle – Encore Chloe Lankshear!

Australia Chamber Orchestra | Cocteau’s Circle November 17, 2025, Melbourne Recital Hall The Occasion A Monday night in the inventive and exploratory hands of Richard Tognetti and the ingenious ACO, Australia Chamber Orchestra. Having scaled the West face of Everest in ‘Mountain’ merely a fortnight ago, we have now migrated to the Melbourne Recital Centre, and set our Time Machine

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Tony Burke

The KPO, progressing in leaps and bounds!

Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra | Mozart Strauss & Beethoven November 16, 2025, Turramurra Uniting Church, NSW The Uniting Church at Turramurra is obviously not designed for Orchestral concerts – players and soloists have to use the same entrance. This is more than compensated for however by superb acoustics and the KPO programme made full use of this. Mozart’s Symphony in D

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Daniel Kaan

BAA’s exceptionally audacious program pays off

Bach Akademie Australia | The Brandenburg Concertos 15 November 2025, The Neilson, Walsh Bay, NSW Program J.S. Bach: Concerto No. 1 in F major BWV 1046 Concerto No. 2 in F major BWV 1047 Concerto No. 3 in G major BWV 1048 Concerto No. 4 in G major BWV 1049 Concerto No. 5 in D major BWV 1050 Concerto No.

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Daniel Brace

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 many of my keenest pleasures, I have lately attached myself to a new suitor, namely the love of flowers.” (1742) – Georg Phillip Telemann  The stage was set with two

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Pepe Newton

SSO farewells 2025 Fellows with rising stars in concert

SSO | Farewelling Our Fellows 2025 31 October 2025, Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney, NSW Presented by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellowship 2025 SSO Fellows Liam Pilgrim violin, Natalie Mavridis violin, Ariel Postmus viola, Noah Lawrence cello, Harry Young double bass, Dana Alison flute, Amy Clough oboe, Oliver Crofts clarinet, Bailey Ireland bassoon, Bryn Arnold horn, Isabella Thomas trumpet, Jeremy Mazurek trombone – with guest artists Marcus Michelsen

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David Hood

“Amazing, absolutely amazing!” MSO’s Sibelius

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | A Celebration of Sibelius October 30, 2025, Melbourne Town Hall, VIC Benjamin Northey – Conductor Edward Walton – Violin A night of Sibelius works, large and small, with a brilliant young soloist and the commanding presence at the podium of Benjamin Northey, for the last of the Melbourne Town Hall MSO series; not to be repeated

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