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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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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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Violist Ella Beard’s premiere work is a “reinvention of the classical form”

Ella Beard | Hear us Now 30 May, 2026, Goodwood Books, Goodwood, SA I have been dreading writing about this show. Words have never felt so futile as they do […]

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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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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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Phoenix Collective Quartet opens an enchanted gateway into Hisaishi’s music

Phoenix Collective Quartet | The Art Music of Joe Hisaishi 17 May, 2026, The Utzon Room | Sydney Opera House NSW As devotees of soirées at the Utzon Room, Sydney […]

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Baroque Without Borders at the Utzon Room a fascinating concert

Utzon Music | From Prague to Tasmania: Baroque Without Borders 10 May, 2026, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW Helena Zemanová – Violin Julia Fredersdorff – Violin Jane Gower – […]

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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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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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Pinchas Zukerman – a brief two hours of exultant musical pleasure

Classical Music Australia | Pinchas Zukerman 20th April 2026, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC The Occasion A trip to Hamer Hall on the cusp of Anzac Day — a time for […]

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SSO with María Dueñas and Anna Lapwood – never better!

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony With Bruch’s First Violin Concerto March 19, 2026, Sydney Opera House Bruch’s First Violin Concerto – Soloist María Dueñas Max Bruch was a […]

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Duo de Graaf Connie bring sparkling Art Song to the intimate Athenaeum Library

Christelise de Graaf and Meredith Connie | Splendid: Art Songs through the Ages 13 March, 2026, Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Melbourne VIC The Melbourne Atheneum Library was treated to a beautiful […]

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Australian Haydn Ensemble’s Spring is truly magnificent

Australian Haydn Ensemble | Mozart’s Spring March 8, 2026, Paintings Room, State Library, Sydney, NSW AHE 2026, the first program for their year, consisted of Haydn, Mendelssohn and Mozart string […]

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Recorders the star in Salut! Baroque’s opening concert

Salut! Baroque | Concord of Sweet Sounds February 1, 2026, Customs House, Sydney, NSW Musicians: Anna Stegmann, Sally Melhuish, Alana Blackburn, Alicia Crossley – Recorders John Ma, Sarah Papadopoulos, Jared Adams – […]

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Viva La Cello! Summer concerts return to Eudlo

Summer Concerts 2026 | Viva La Cello! 16–18 January 2026 • Eudlo Hall, Sunshine Coast Hinterland The Sunshine Coast’s favourite summer classical music event is back. Summer Concerts 2026 – […]

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Daniel Müller-Schott – What a consummate musician!

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | A Masterclass with Daniel Müller-Schott 21 October 2025, St James Church, Sydney, NSW Daniel Müller-Schott performs Tchaikovsky 23 October 2025, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, NSW […]

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CD Review: Elysian Fields | Swirling Flame

Elysian Fields | Swirling Flame Released 24 October, 2025 Swirling Flame is the latest release from Elysian Fields, a self-described ‘genre-defying’ ensemble. This is an apt description of a chamber […]

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ASQ celebrates forty years of artistry from Elegy to Ecstasy

Australian String Quartet | Convergence October 21, 2025, The Neilson, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW There’s something that feels just right about hearing a string quartet in The Neilson. The […]

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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 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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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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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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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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Phoenix Collective Quartet opens an enchanted gateway into Hisaishi’s music

Phoenix Collective Quartet | The Art Music of Joe Hisaishi 17 May, 2026, The Utzon Room | Sydney Opera House NSW As devotees of soirées at the Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House heed, the early bird gets the best seats. Packed house with 20 minutes to go before the accomplished members of the Phoenix Collective Quartet strode onto the stage

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Baroque Without Borders at the Utzon Room a fascinating concert

Utzon Music | From Prague to Tasmania: Baroque Without Borders 10 May, 2026, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW Helena Zemanová – Violin Julia Fredersdorff – Violin Jane Gower – Dulcian Lars Ulrik Mortensen – Harpsichord   At one point during this remarkable Utzon Music recital, harpsichordist Lars Ulrik Mortensen described the repertoire as “a kind of written-out improvisation.” It

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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 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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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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Pinchas Zukerman – a brief two hours of exultant musical pleasure

Classical Music Australia | Pinchas Zukerman 20th April 2026, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC The Occasion A trip to Hamer Hall on the cusp of Anzac Day — a time for reflection, gratitude and memory of service. How fitting, then, to bear witness to a towering force who has loomed large on the artistic landscape for five decades. Zukerman has done

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SSO with María Dueñas and Anna Lapwood – never better!

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony With Bruch’s First Violin Concerto March 19, 2026, Sydney Opera House Bruch’s First Violin Concerto – Soloist María Dueñas Max Bruch was a contemporary of Brahms and early in his career was equally as renowned. He also shared a friendship with violinist Joseph Joachim who encouraged him to write not one but three

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Duo de Graaf Connie bring sparkling Art Song to the intimate Athenaeum Library

Christelise de Graaf and Meredith Connie | Splendid: Art Songs through the Ages 13 March, 2026, Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Melbourne VIC The Melbourne Atheneum Library was treated to a beautiful concert presented by Christelise de Graaf (soprano) and Meredith Connie (classical guitarist and composer) on Friday evening. The duo explored repertoire that is not often given an airing but showed

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Richard Wong

Australian Haydn Ensemble’s Spring is truly magnificent

Australian Haydn Ensemble | Mozart’s Spring March 8, 2026, Paintings Room, State Library, Sydney, NSW AHE 2026, the first program for their year, consisted of Haydn, Mendelssohn and Mozart string quartets. Here, the AHE performs as a string quartet, whereas in last year’s incarnation, they were a symphony orchestra! Never mind, they are playing Beethoven’s fourth symphony as part of

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Pepe Newton

Recorders the star in Salut! Baroque’s opening concert

Salut! Baroque | Concord of Sweet Sounds February 1, 2026, Customs House, Sydney, NSW Musicians: Anna Stegmann, Sally Melhuish, Alana Blackburn, Alicia Crossley – Recorders John Ma, Sarah Papadopoulos, Jared Adams – Baroque Violin Brad Tham – Baroque Viola; Tim Blomfield – Bass Violin, Cello Piccolo; Jude Hill – Baroque Double Bass George Wills – Theorbo, Baroque Guitar Monika Kornel – Harpsichord

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Viva La Cello! Summer concerts return to Eudlo

Summer Concerts 2026 | Viva La Cello! 16–18 January 2026 • Eudlo Hall, Sunshine Coast Hinterland The Sunshine Coast’s favourite summer classical music event is back. Summer Concerts 2026 – Viva la Cello! returns to Eudlo Hall from 16–18 January, presenting three intimate and uplifting concerts that celebrate the expressive power, versatility, and sheer beauty of the cello. Now in

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Daniel Kaan

Daniel Müller-Schott – What a consummate musician!

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | A Masterclass with Daniel Müller-Schott 21 October 2025, St James Church, Sydney, NSW Daniel Müller-Schott performs Tchaikovsky 23 October 2025, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, NSW Program: Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme Stravinsky: Petrushka Artists: Lionel Bringuier: conductor Daniel Müller-Schott: cello Sydney Symphony Orchestra Considering both a masterclass and a concert

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CD Review: Elysian Fields | Swirling Flame

Elysian Fields | Swirling Flame Released 24 October, 2025 Swirling Flame is the latest release from Elysian Fields, a self-described ‘genre-defying’ ensemble. This is an apt description of a chamber jazz ensemble fronted by an electric Viola da Gamba alongside all the other instruments you’d expect from a jazz ensemble – piano, saxophones, bass, vocals and some violin and double

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ASQ celebrates forty years of artistry from Elegy to Ecstasy

Australian String Quartet | Convergence October 21, 2025, The Neilson, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW There’s something that feels just right about hearing a string quartet in The Neilson. The warm wood panelling, the intimacy of the space, the sense of shared stillness between audience and performers, even from the balcony it feels close. It’s the ideal setting for the

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