The 2023 Marathon TOGETHER allows the community to experience the electric outpouring of musical creativity from all over Melbourne during one extraordinary day.

This concert is live streamed from the Melbourne Recital Centre on Australian Digital Concert Hall

To attend this concert in person, please visit the Melbourne Recital Centre website here.

Opening with Arcadia Winds playing Ravel and the engaging Animalia by Australian composer, Natalie Williams, the concert then segues to the different and exquisitely expressive sound world of Melbourne veena master, Hari Sivanesan, and his Indian classical trio. No chamber music party is complete without the masterpiece written by the 16-year-old Felix Mendelssohn and this marathon performance of his famous Octet by the formidable, combined forces of Flinders and Penny Quartets promises virtuosity and fireworks galore.

Artists and Programs: 

Ravel – Sonatine

Natalie Williams – Animalia

Arcadia Winds

Lily Bryant – Flute

Rachel Bullen – Oboe

Justin Beere – Clarinet

Rachel Shaw – Horn

Matthew Kneale – Bassoon

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Muthuswami Dikshitar – Maha Ganapathim Manasa Smarami ‘My mind meditates on Ganesha, the Great’

Hari Sivanesan – Veena

Thabo Mohanakumar – Mridangam

Bala Shastri – Ganjira/ghatam

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Felix Mendelssohn – String Octet in Eb Major Op. 20

Flinders Quartet

Thibaud Pavlovic-Hobba – Violin

Wilma Smith – Violin

Helen Ireland – Viola

Zoe Knighton – Cello

Penny Quartet

Madeleine Jevons – Violin

Amy Brookman – Violin

Anthony Chataway – Viola

Jack Ward – Cello