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Daniel Hope

Faultless musicality and refinement from Daniel Hope

Daniel Hope | Violin Recital 10 June 2026, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW Presented by Classical Music Australia Program: George Enescu: Impromptu Concertante Gabriel Fauré: Andante Antonin Dvořák: Sonatina op. 100 […]

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Mina Yu’s Love Letter to a Japanese Modern-Day Pentatonic Impressionist

Nightingale Performing Arts | Mina’s Kado June 6, 2026, Nightingale Gallery, Armadale, VIC In many ways, the small recital of Mina Yu was, in fact, a love letter to the […]

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Lucas Debargue – an absolute virtuoso…

Live at Yours | Lucas Debargue June 2 Toorak Synagogue, Toorak, VIC What to expect from the French artist Monsieur Lucas Debargue? Factor in the fourth-prize winner at the XVth […]

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Melbourne’s new intimate classical venue…Nightingale Gallery’s first monthly Piano Series

Nightingale Performing Arts | Kristian Chong & Cameron Roberts May 28, 2026, Nightingale Gallery, Armadale, VIC I asked myself, thinking of Schubert, did those short-lived 19th Century composers, such as […]

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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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Sophie Rowell & Kristian Chong truly excellent performers

Sydney Mozart Society | Sophie Rowell & Kristian Chong 20 May 2026, The Concourse Concert Hall, Chatswood, NSW 4 violin sonatas: MOZART Sonata for piano and violin in G major, […]

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CIMF goes out with a BANG! Bravo

Canberra International Music Festival | Pianos & Percussion: Festival Finale 3 May, 2026, Snow Concert Hall, Red Hill, ACT The Canberra International Music Festival drew to a close in the […]

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Forty-Five Downstairs Chamber Music Festival – a beautifully selected programme by Coady Green

Forty-Five Downstairs Chamber Music Festival | BRAHMS, LISZT & MENDELSSOHN: Hungarian Fire and Italian Light 28 April, 2026, Forty-Five Downstairs, Melbourne, VIC Coady Green – Piano Ricardo Roche Idini – […]

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Jenny Duck-Chong + Jo Allan = Delightful.

Jenny Duck-Chong mezzo soprano + Jo Allan piano | Recital 18 April, 2026, St John’s Darlinghurst, NSW Two of Sydney’s cultural warriors for the ‘new’ Jenny Duck-Chong and Jo Allan […]

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SURIDI Trio premieres new Australian works in dazzling salon style

SURIDI Trio | Recital March 22, 2026, Church Street Studios, Camperdown, Sydney Diane Berger (flutes), Richard Rourke (clarinet) and Sumiko Yamamura (piano) Program Chôros No. 2 – Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 […]

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MSO opening gala with Jean Yves Tibaudet – audience knew musical stars when they heard them

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Opening Gala March 5, 2026, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC The “wonderful” MSO took us on an enthralling aural voyage to Hollywood (via Northern Russia); Tin Pan […]

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Ensemble Offspring’s 2026 opener – Epic, Up Close

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens Summer March 1, 2026, Glebe, NSW Ensemble Offspring opens its 2026 season not in a concert hall but in a generous supporter’s living room. The […]

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Extraordinary. Jean-Yves Thibaudet – Debussy Preludes

Jean-Yves Thibaudet in Recital February 23, 2026, Sydney Opera House, NSW Two iconic paragons in the one night. Jean-Yves Thibaudet the French pianist par excellence, one of the leading exponents […]

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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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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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Faultless musicality and refinement from Daniel Hope

Daniel Hope | Violin Recital 10 June 2026, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW Presented by Classical Music Australia Program: George Enescu: Impromptu Concertante Gabriel Fauré: Andante Antonin Dvořák: Sonatina op. 100 Felix Mendelssohn: On Wings of Songs Edward Elgar: Sonata for Violin and Piano op. 82 Artists: Daniel Hope (violin) Marie-Sophie Hauzel (piano   The renowned British violinist Daniel Hope was

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Warren Wills

Mina Yu’s Love Letter to a Japanese Modern-Day Pentatonic Impressionist

Nightingale Performing Arts | Mina’s Kado June 6, 2026, Nightingale Gallery, Armadale, VIC In many ways, the small recital of Mina Yu was, in fact, a love letter to the considerable talents and influence of Ryuichi Sakamoto. Part of a school of new-age composers who took their influence from the French Impressionists such as Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, and Gabriel

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David Hood

Lucas Debargue – an absolute virtuoso…

Live at Yours | Lucas Debargue June 2 Toorak Synagogue, Toorak, VIC What to expect from the French artist Monsieur Lucas Debargue? Factor in the fourth-prize winner at the XVth Tchaikovsky Competition; started piano at 10 years of age, initially with no teacher; an impressive CD repertoire with Sony; played piano at jazz bars, back in the day; loves different

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David Hood

Melbourne’s new intimate classical venue…Nightingale Gallery’s first monthly Piano Series

Nightingale Performing Arts | Kristian Chong & Cameron Roberts May 28, 2026, Nightingale Gallery, Armadale, VIC I asked myself, thinking of Schubert, did those short-lived 19th Century composers, such as Chopin (39 yrs); Mendelssohn (38 yrs) etc., know (in some part of their psyche) that their time was limited? And, in consequence, were driven to produce an enormous body of

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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 Wong

Sophie Rowell & Kristian Chong truly excellent performers

Sydney Mozart Society | Sophie Rowell & Kristian Chong 20 May 2026, The Concourse Concert Hall, Chatswood, NSW 4 violin sonatas: MOZART Sonata for piano and violin in G major, K301 BEETHOVEN Sonata for piano and violin in C minor, op. 30 no. 2 BRAHMS Sonata for piano and violin in A major, op. 100 RAVEL Sonata for violin and

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Pepe Newton

CIMF goes out with a BANG! Bravo

Canberra International Music Festival | Pianos & Percussion: Festival Finale 3 May, 2026, Snow Concert Hall, Red Hill, ACT The Canberra International Music Festival drew to a close in the Snow Concert Hall with a program that felt very true to the overall spirit of the festival — ambitious, diverse and immersed in culture. With lawns outside inviting a glass

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David Hood

Forty-Five Downstairs Chamber Music Festival – a beautifully selected programme by Coady Green

Forty-Five Downstairs Chamber Music Festival | BRAHMS, LISZT & MENDELSSOHN: Hungarian Fire and Italian Light 28 April, 2026, Forty-Five Downstairs, Melbourne, VIC Coady Green – Piano Ricardo Roche Idini – Piano Sophia Kirsanova – Violin Josephine Vains – Cello   Hungarian Dances by a German/Austrian (Brahms); Hungarian Rhapsodies by Liszt, who couldn’t speak Hungarian; Italian music from another German (Mendelssohn)

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Alan Holley

Jenny Duck-Chong + Jo Allan = Delightful.

Jenny Duck-Chong mezzo soprano + Jo Allan piano |  Recital 18 April, 2026, St John’s Darlinghurst, NSW Two of Sydney’s cultural warriors for the ‘new’ Jenny Duck-Chong and Jo Allan performed a salon style vocal concert in the historic St John’s Darlinghurst built in the 1850’s. Some of the 19 works performed were nigh on a minute and none outstayed

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SURIDI Trio premieres new Australian works in dazzling salon style

SURIDI Trio | Recital March 22, 2026, Church Street Studios, Camperdown, Sydney Diane Berger (flutes), Richard Rourke (clarinet) and Sumiko Yamamura (piano) Program Chôros No. 2 – Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 -1959) Flute and clarinet Parallax – Paul Moulatlet (b.1955) Flute, clarinet & piano Clarinet concerto K622 slow mvt – Mozart (1756- 1791) Leaves . . . . in . .

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David Hood

MSO opening gala with Jean Yves Tibaudet – audience knew musical stars when they heard them

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Opening Gala March 5,  2026, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC The “wonderful” MSO took us on an enthralling aural voyage to Hollywood (via Northern Russia); Tin Pan Alley (New York) and Outer Space (John Williams), where our audience DID get to scream – “Bravos”! Starting with John William’s 11-minute Star Wars Suite, the Main Title certainly “smacked

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Pepe Newton

Ensemble Offspring’s 2026 opener – Epic, Up Close

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens Summer March 1, 2026, Glebe, NSW Ensemble Offspring opens its 2026 season not in a concert hall but in a generous supporter’s living room. The Avant Gardens series – this year spanning summer, autumn and spring – is salon culture revived with new music at its heart. The exact address is only revealed the week

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Richard Wong

Extraordinary. Jean-Yves Thibaudet – Debussy Preludes

Jean-Yves Thibaudet in Recital February 23, 2026, Sydney Opera House, NSW Two iconic paragons in the one night. Jean-Yves Thibaudet the French pianist par excellence, one of the leading exponents of the craft of, not just classical music, but all sorts of worldwide and inter-genre music. He and a Steinway & Sons grand piano (from Theme and Variations Piano Services)

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Pepe Newton

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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Paul Moulatlet

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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David Hood

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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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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Warren Wills

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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