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Classic Jazz in Four Hands sets St James’ swinging

Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi | Classic Jazz in Four Hands February 11 2026, St James’ Church, Phillip St, Sydney, NSW It’s not every day you walk into one of […]

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Danaë Killian’s ‘My Heart’ a transcendental and sensory journey

Danaë Killian | My Heart January 22, 2026, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC There are times, not very often, when a concert or recital turns out to be […]

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Rieko Makita’s piano artistry debuts in Melbourne

Pianist Rieko Makita | Night & Reflections January 30, 2026, Tempo Rubato, Brunswick, VIC If you saw the Paris olympics Opening ceremony, you might remember a young pianist, sailing down […]

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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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Review of new MOVE records CD: True Romantics

CD Review Philip Arkinstall and Kristian Chong | True Romantics Clara Schumann Romances Op. 22 Arr: Roger Young Johannes Brahms Sonata Op.120, No.1 in F minor and […]

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ACO’s delightful marriage of music and film – Mountain

Australian Chamber Orchestra | Mountain October 30, 2025, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC The Occasion Falling on the eve of All Hallows’ Eve, Mountain was well-timed for a little seasonal “trick […]

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Franck’s Symphony beautifully performed by MSO under the baton of Rodolfo Barráez

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Impressions of Paris October 25, 2025, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC César Franck might have said, as a certain diminutive, dapper detective did: “I am not Frrench, […]

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet + QSO thrilled the crowd

Queensland Symphony Orchestra | Franck and Ravel 18 October, 2025, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, QLD Conductor: Lionel Bringuier Soloist: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet This Maestro concert transported QSO subscribers to France […]

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s electrifying Ravel – recipe for a brilliant recital

SSO – International Pianists in Recital | Jean-Efflam Bavouzet 20 October, 2025, City Recital Hall, Sydney MAURICE RAVEL (1875–1937) Sérénade grotesque (1893) Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899) Miroirs (1904–05) […]

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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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Orix Duo showcase the beauty and conviction of the cello

Orix Duo | Europe from East to West September 25, 2025, St Johns Camberwell, VIC The Occasion Hot on the heels of International Peace Day, the Jewish New Year, and […]

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Stephen McIntyre plays Schumann: a great musician honours a great composer

Stephen McIntyre plays Schumann 18 September, 2025, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Robert Schumann originally planned his Fantasy in C., Opus 17 to be used to fundraise for […]

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Selby & Friends presented a concert that beautifully surprised and delighted

Selby & Friends | Songs Without Words 15 September, 2025, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Alexandra Osborne – violin | Catherine Hewgill – cello | Kathryn Selby – piano Anne Cawrse: […]

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Zelman’s organ concert – verve, vim and vigour

Zelman Symphony Orchestra | French Organ September 13th, 2025, St John’s Anglican Church, Camberwell, VIC A somewhat misleading title for the evening, “French Organ”, as it suggests we are in […]

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SSO, Young and Lam produce piano pyrotechnics

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Simone Young conducts Richard Strauss 3 September, 2025, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, NSW EMIRATES MASTERS SERIES Simone Young conductor Andrea Lam piano RICHARD […]

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Music for Medicine’25, an inspiring evening of generous artistry

Music for Medicine ’25 28 August, 2025, Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW Nearly 600 people gathered at Wollongong Town Hall for a concert, raising over $20,000 in support of Médecins Sans […]

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MBO presents a delicious tapestry of sound

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Le Bellezze D’Italia 24 August 2025, Toorak Uniting Church, VIC Baroque Harp: Hannah Lane; Theorbo: Nicholas Pollock; Violins: Tim Willis, Shane Lestideau, Stephanie Eldridge, Taé Heine; […]

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SMS presents a satisfying program for the musically curious

Sydney Mozart Society |Timo-Veikko Valve & Aura Go 19 August 2025, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW Program BEETHOVEN: Horn Sonata in F major, Op.17 (arr. Beethoven) MOZART: Andantino in B-flat major, […]

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Classic Jazz in Four Hands sets St James’ swinging

Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi | Classic Jazz in Four Hands February 11 2026, St James’ Church, Phillip St, Sydney, NSW It’s not every day you walk into one of Sydney’s oldest churches and feel as though you’ve wandered into an underground jazz club – that was the delicious contradiction of St James’ musical offering this week. St James’ has

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Danaë Killian’s ‘My Heart’ a transcendental and sensory journey

Danaë Killian | My Heart January 22, 2026, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC There are times, not very often, when a concert or recital turns out to be much more than its title suggests. Pianist Danaë Killian’s concert My Heart was such an event. Presented to celebrate the launch of her latest album My Heart (Move Records, 2026),

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Rieko Makita’s piano artistry debuts in Melbourne

Pianist Rieko Makita | Night & Reflections January 30, 2026, Tempo Rubato, Brunswick, VIC If you saw the Paris olympics Opening ceremony, you might remember a young pianist, sailing down the Seine, on a barge, in the rain!, playing Ravel. This – Jeux d’eau (Water Play) – was one of the two water-pieces in Makita’s programme, the other was Ondine,

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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; 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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Alan Holley

Review of new MOVE records CD: True Romantics

CD Review Philip Arkinstall and Kristian Chong | True Romantics Clara Schumann     Romances Op. 22 Arr: Roger Young Johannes Brahms   Sonata Op.120, No.1 in F minor and Sonata Op.120, No.2 in E flat Philip Arkinstall – clarinet,  Kristian Chong – piano   MOVE Records       Catalogue number     MCD 668 The inspired coupling of music

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ACO’s delightful marriage of music and film – Mountain

Australian Chamber Orchestra | Mountain October 30, 2025, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC The Occasion  Falling on the eve of All Hallows’ Eve, Mountain was well-timed for a little seasonal “trick or treat.” Halloween, as it is currently known, has recently found firmer footing in Australian life – more a playful import than a cultural fixture, but growing nonetheless. The performance

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David Hood

Franck’s Symphony beautifully performed by MSO under the baton of Rodolfo Barráez

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Impressions of Paris October 25, 2025, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC César Franck might have said, as a certain diminutive, dapper detective did: “I am not Frrench, I am Belgian!” Living most of his life in Paris, including being organist at a posh Paris church, he took required French nationality when becoming head of organ studies at

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet + QSO thrilled the crowd

Queensland Symphony Orchestra | Franck and Ravel 18 October, 2025, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, QLD Conductor: Lionel Bringuier Soloist: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet This Maestro concert transported QSO subscribers to France as the conductor, Lionel Bringuier and concert pianist, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and repertoire were all French and yet the program wasn’t a casual stroll by the river Seine on a balmy

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Alan Holley

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s electrifying Ravel – recipe for a brilliant recital

SSO – International Pianists in Recital | Jean-Efflam Bavouzet  20 October, 2025, City Recital Hall, Sydney  MAURICE RAVEL (1875–1937) Sérénade grotesque (1893) Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899) Miroirs (1904–05) Gaspard de la nuit (1908) Le tombeau de Couperin (1914–17) For many of the concertgoers at the piano recital of the music of Ravel, pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet would have touched

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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 should be called the Trio Isimsiz, which translates to ‘Anonymous Trio’ from Turkish. Formed in London in 2009, Trio Isimsiz comprises Pablo Hernán Benedí on violin, Edward Pogossian on cello

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Orix Duo showcase the beauty and conviction of the cello

Orix Duo | Europe from East to West September 25, 2025, St Johns Camberwell, VIC The Occasion Hot on the heels of International Peace Day, the Jewish New Year, and a high-profile UN General Assembly meeting came Europe from East to West with the Orix Duo — a captivating musical journey across the continent. Held at St John’s Anglican Church, Camberwell, the

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David Hood

Stephen McIntyre plays Schumann: a great musician honours a great composer

Stephen McIntyre plays Schumann 18 September, 2025, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Robert Schumann originally planned his Fantasy in C., Opus 17 to be used to fundraise for the Beethoven Monument in Bonn, giving copies to the overseeing Committee to sell. Later, he removed several Beethoven written comments on the score and dedicated the work to Liszt, who

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Selby & Friends presented a concert that beautifully surprised and delighted

Selby & Friends | Songs Without Words 15 September, 2025, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Alexandra Osborne – violin | Catherine Hewgill – cello | Kathryn Selby – piano Anne Cawrse: Songs Without Words (2000) – Ornamental, Lied, Swan Song Frederic Chopin: Piano Trio in G minor – Allegro confuoco, Scherzo Vivace, Adagio Sostenuto, Finale Allegretto Franz Schubert: Piano Trio no

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Warren Wills

Zelman’s organ concert – verve, vim and vigour

Zelman Symphony Orchestra | French Organ September 13th, 2025, St John’s Anglican Church, Camberwell, VIC A somewhat misleading title for the evening, “French Organ”, as it suggests we are in for a stolid performance of Messiaen and Bach, (and a host of other bit part composers who had a great deal of expertise writing for the organ). In fact, the

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Alan Holley

SSO, Young and Lam produce piano pyrotechnics

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Simone Young conducts Richard Strauss 3 September, 2025, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, NSW EMIRATES MASTERS SERIES Simone Young   conductor Andrea Lam   piano RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949) – Metamorphosen – Study for 23 solo strings (1945) Burleske  (1885–86) Also sprach Zarathustra  Op.30  (1896) Introduction: Sunrise Of the backworldsmen iii. Of the great longing Of joys

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Music for Medicine’25, an inspiring evening of generous artistry

Music for Medicine ’25 28 August, 2025, Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW Nearly 600 people gathered at Wollongong Town Hall for a concert, raising over $20,000 in support of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF).  What unfolded was an evening of thoughtful programming, striking artistic contrasts, and heartfelt commitment bound together by a thematic focus on children’s right to freedom and

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MBO presents a delicious tapestry of sound

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Le Bellezze D’Italia 24 August 2025, Toorak Uniting Church, VIC Baroque Harp: Hannah Lane; Theorbo: Nicholas Pollock; Violins: Tim Willis, Shane Lestideau, Stephanie Eldridge, Taé Heine; Cello: Josephine Vains; Viola da Gamba: Laura Vaughan; Harpsichord: Linda Kent. Works by Allegri, Marini, Uccellini, Merula, Legrenzi, Falconieri, Vivaldi, Bassani, Corelli and Handel. The Melbourne Baroque Orchestra continued their

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SMS presents a satisfying program for the musically curious

Sydney Mozart Society |Timo-Veikko Valve & Aura Go 19 August 2025, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW Program BEETHOVEN: Horn Sonata in F major, Op.17 (arr. Beethoven) MOZART: Andantino in B-flat major, K 374g (cmpl. Annette Isserlis) MOZART: Allegro in A major, K 480a (cmpl./arr. Ian Munro) MOZART: Andante and Fugue, K 402 (cmpl. Maximilian Stadler, arr. Ian Munro) LISA ILLEAN: ever-weaver

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