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CIMF’s MOSSO: a feast of great new music

Canberra International Music Festival | MOSSO: music in motion 2 May, 2026, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, ACT An early and chilly start to Day 4 of the Canberra […]

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CIMF, Folías de España – 5 stars!

Canberra International Music Festival | Folías de España Friday 1 May, 2026, Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia, ACT Lina Tur Bonet, violin Neal Peres Da Costa, harpsichord   Folías […]

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CIMF Folk and Tango – Chamber music of the highest order

Canberra International Music Festival | Folk and Tango MAY 1, 2026, Manning Clark Hall, ACT ARTISTS James Crabb – accordion Lina Tur Bonet – violin David Campbell – double bass […]

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Austral Harmony: a wonderful and sensitive relief from the busy city outside

Austral Harmony | Paul’s Steeple April 29, 2026, St James’ Church, Sydney, NSW Austral Harmony’s Paul’s Steeple: a wonderful and sensitive relief from the busy city outside In the heart […]

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Music and dance are all you need… Salut! Baroque – well played!

Salut! Baroque | Invitation to the Dance 26 April, 2026, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney, NSW Artists: Aimee Brown – Baroque Dance Sally Melhuish, Alana Blackburn – Recorder Sally Walker – Baroque […]

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Fun and frolics in MSO’s Jurassic Park adventure

MSO | Jurassic Park in Concert 23rd April 2026, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC The Occasion The weekend of 25th April 2026 was devoted to honouring and remembering history — the […]

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Chamber version of Das Rheingold a resounding success

Shaumet Music | Das Rheingold, arr. Jonathan Dove and Graham Vick 24 April, 2026, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Artistic Directors: Anke Hoeppner-Ryan, Barry Ryan Music Director & Conductor: Toby […]

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ABO’s Choral Splendour sheer brilliance and skill – Bravo!

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Brandenburg Choir | Choral Splendour April 16, 2026, Melbourne Recital Hall, VIC Given that music and the arts often represent the best of humanity, it is […]

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Celata’s clarinet was miraculous – Sydney Soloists presented by SMS

Sydney Mozart Society | Sydney Soloists 14 April 2026, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW Program: MOZART | Clarinet Quintet in A major, K 581 SCHUBERT | The Shepherd on the Rock, […]

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Donald Runnicles conducts SSO in Mahler 6 – Stunning all round

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Donald Runnicles conducts Mahler 6 9 April, 2026, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, NSW With musicians of the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) GUSTAV MAHLER […]

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Melbourne Bach Choir continues a wonderful tradition in exemplary fashion

Melbourne Bach Choir and Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | St Matthew Passion Johann Sebastian Bach 3 April 2026, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC with Ripieno Choir from The Yarra Voices Conductor, Rick Prakhoff […]

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World class ‘Chamber Music with a View’ at Megalong Music Festival

Megalong Music Festival | Folk and Fancy 5 April 2026, Megalong Valley, NSW Guest Artists Asmira Woodward-Page – violin (Artistic Director) Jacqui Cronin – viola Timothy Nankervis – cello Frank […]

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Bravo NSSO – Beethoven would have been happy!

North Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Rossini, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven 28 March, 2026, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney, NSW Rossini – Semiramide Overture, Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto 1 with Phillip Shovk, Beethoven – 5th […]

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Magnificals present a concert of inclusiveness and opportunity

The Magnificals Chamber Orchestra | Gala ’26 29 March, 2026, Hurstville Civic Theatre, NSW The Hurstville Civic Theatre was thronging with visitors plus women in beautiful Asian costumes. A folksinging […]

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WSO’s ‘Frozen’ in Concert a hugely successful event!

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Disney’s Frozen in Concert March 21, 2026, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW FROZEN was performed by the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra to the movie soundtrack (a bit strange, […]

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Concertos and Sonatas – a thrilling opening for Pinchgut Opera

Pinchgut Opera | Concertos and Sonatas 28 March, 2026, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Program: Georg Philipp Telemann – Sonata à 4 in A major, TWV 40:200 Johann Friedrich Fasch […]

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St Mary’s Cathedral Scholars at BAMF – a perfectly balanced, impressive musical outcome

Bowral Autumn Music Festival concert 2: Music for Tenebrae March 27, 2026, St Jude’s Church, Bowral, NSW St Mary’s Cathedral Scholars Conductor: Richard Butler Organist: Daniel Justin   Program Vexilla […]

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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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Jacqui Smith

CIMF’s MOSSO: a feast of great new music

Canberra International Music Festival | MOSSO: music in motion 2 May, 2026, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, ACT An early and chilly start to Day 4 of the Canberra International Music Festival, with a festival within a festival at the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA). MOSSO: music in motion was a feast of great new music, moving image

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Jacqui Smith

CIMF, Folías de España – 5 stars!

Canberra International Music Festival | Folías de España Friday 1 May, 2026, Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia, ACT Lina Tur Bonet, violin Neal Peres Da Costa, harpsichord   Folías del Fuego I first heard Spanish violinist Lina Tur Bonet in late 2024, after we had newly arrived to live in Canberra. On tour with Musica Viva Australia, Lina led

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Pepe Newton

CIMF Folk and Tango – Chamber music of the highest order

Canberra International Music Festival | Folk and Tango MAY 1, 2026, Manning Clark Hall, ACT ARTISTS James Crabb – accordion Lina Tur Bonet – violin David Campbell – double bass Australian String Quartet Dale Barltrop — violin Francesca Hiew — violin Christopher Carolinge — viola Michael Dahlenburg — cello Ensemble Liaison David Griffiths — clarinet Svetlana Bogosavljevic — cello Timothy

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Adriel Sukumar

Austral Harmony: a wonderful and sensitive relief from the busy city outside

Austral Harmony | Paul’s Steeple April 29, 2026, St James’ Church, Sydney, NSW Austral Harmony’s Paul’s Steeple: a wonderful and sensitive relief from the busy city outside In the heart of Sydney’s CBD, I found myself once again at the beautiful St James’ Church for my second lunchtime concert experience there. This time the program was presented by Austral harmony

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Pepe Newton

Music and dance are all you need… Salut! Baroque – well played!

Salut! Baroque | Invitation to the Dance 26 April, 2026,  Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney, NSW Artists: Aimee Brown – Baroque Dance Sally Melhuish, Alana Blackburn – Recorder Sally Walker – Baroque Flute Jane Downer – Baroque Oboe John Ma, Jared Adams – Baroque Violin Brad Tham – Baroque Viola Tim Blomfield – Bass Violin George Wills – Theorbo / Baroque Guitar

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Warren Wills

Fun and frolics in MSO’s Jurassic Park adventure

MSO | Jurassic Park in Concert 23rd April 2026, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC The Occasion The weekend of 25th April 2026 was devoted to honouring and remembering history — the service and sacrifice of those ANZACs who gave everything so that we might enjoy a quality of life and freedom that, in troubled times, remain the envy of the world.

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Daniel Kaan

Chamber version of Das Rheingold a resounding success

Shaumet Music |  Das Rheingold, arr. Jonathan Dove and Graham Vick 24 April, 2026, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Artistic Directors: Anke Hoeppner-Ryan, Barry Ryan Music Director & Conductor: Toby Wong Shaumet Chamber Orchestra Cast: Wotan: Shane Lowrencev Alberich: Simon Lobelson Loge: Raphael Hudson Fricka: Livia Brash Donner: Bernard Leong-Lokman Freia: Aleta Shang Erda: Jill Sullivan Fasolt: Tristan Entwistle Fafner:

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Paul Moulatlet

ABO’s Choral Splendour sheer brilliance and skill – Bravo!

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Brandenburg Choir  | Choral Splendour April 16, 2026, Melbourne Recital Hall, VIC Given that music and the arts often represent the best of humanity, it is perhaps unfair to invoke a geo-political analogy with a concert, particularly in the present world circumstances. However, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra is undoubtedly a musical superpower, ably flexing its formidable

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Daniel Kaan

Celata’s clarinet was miraculous – Sydney Soloists presented by SMS

Sydney Mozart Society | Sydney Soloists 14 April 2026, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW Program: MOZART | Clarinet Quintet in A major, K 581 SCHUBERT | The Shepherd on the Rock, D 965 DVOŘÁK | Piano Quintet in A major, Op.81 Artists: Julie Lea Goodwin (soprano) Andrew Haveron (violin 1) Alexandra Osborne (violin 2) Tobias Breider (viola) Catherine Hewgill (cello) Francesco

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Alan Holley

Donald Runnicles conducts SSO in Mahler 6 – Stunning all round

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Donald Runnicles conducts Mahler 6 9 April, 2026, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, NSW With musicians of the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) GUSTAV MAHLER (1860–1911) Symphony No.6 in A minor (1903–04) Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Heftig, aber markig Scherzo: Wuchtig iii. Andante moderato Finale. Allegro moderato – Allegro energico    Mahler created some

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Richard Excell

Melbourne Bach Choir continues a wonderful tradition in exemplary fashion

Melbourne Bach Choir and Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | St Matthew Passion Johann Sebastian Bach 3 April 2026, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC with Ripieno Choir from The Yarra Voices Conductor, Rick Prakhoff  Evangelist, Andrew Goodwin; Jesus, Adrian Tamburini; soprano, Lorina Gore; mezzo-soprano, Sally-Anne Russell; tenor Henry Choo; bass-baritone, Simon Meadows; bass-baritone, Christopher Hillier   J.S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion is literally the

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Pepe Newton

World class ‘Chamber Music with a View’ at Megalong Music Festival

Megalong Music Festival | Folk and Fancy 5 April 2026, Megalong Valley, NSW Guest Artists Asmira Woodward-Page – violin (Artistic Director) Jacqui Cronin – viola Timothy Nankervis – cello Frank Celata – clarinet Ieva Jokubaviciute – piano Fellows (2026) Ellen Choung – violin Maggie Zeng – violin Daniel Casey – viola Arjun Singh – cello Reuben Johnson – piano Jeremy

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Richard Wong

Bravo NSSO – Beethoven would have been happy!

North Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Rossini, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven 28 March, 2026, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney, NSW Rossini – Semiramide Overture, Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto 1 with Phillip Shovk, Beethoven – 5th Symphony Conducted by Steven Hillinger   It was a very interesting concert because as the concert progressed, the music compositions increased in quality. Steven Hillinger has done a wonderful job

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Heidi Hereth

Magnificals present a concert of inclusiveness and opportunity

The Magnificals Chamber Orchestra | Gala ’26 29 March, 2026, Hurstville Civic Theatre, NSW The Hurstville Civic Theatre was thronging with visitors plus women in beautiful Asian costumes. A folksinging group was performing in the foyer. The artwork used for the front cover of the program was up for silent auction. This melée of people came to see, experience and

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Richard Wong

WSO’s ‘Frozen’ in Concert a hugely successful event!

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Disney’s Frozen in Concert March 21, 2026, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW FROZEN was performed by the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra to the movie soundtrack (a bit strange, I will explain later). As I entered the huge, cavernous and reverberant concert hall of The Concourse in Willoughby City Council, I couldn’t help but notice that there were lots

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Eli Beverley Schack

Concertos and Sonatas – a thrilling opening for Pinchgut Opera

Pinchgut Opera | Concertos and Sonatas 28 March, 2026, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Program: Georg Philipp Telemann – Sonata à 4 in A major, TWV 40:200 Johann Friedrich Fasch – Lute Concerto in D minor, FaWV L:d1 Georg Philipp Telemann – Sonata à 5 in E minor, TWV 44:5 Johann Sebastian Bach – Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV

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Daniel Kaan

St Mary’s Cathedral Scholars at BAMF – a perfectly balanced, impressive musical outcome

Bowral Autumn Music Festival concert 2: Music for Tenebrae March 27, 2026, St Jude’s Church, Bowral, NSW St Mary’s Cathedral Scholars Conductor: Richard Butler Organist: Daniel Justin   Program Vexilla regia prodeunt – Gregorian Chant Organ improvisation on Vexilla regis Psalm 4 – Gregorian Chant Victoria: Sepulto domino Bach: Erbarm dich mein, O Herre Gott (BWV 721) Victoria: Tenebrae factae

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Daniel Brace

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 Watson for The Tudor Choristers juxtaposed two of the great Catholic Renaissance composers, William Byrd of England and originally from Spain, Tomás Luis de Victoria. Movements of William Byrd’s much

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