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.

Firebird Trio brings to life the Spanish-flavoured fantasia by Cassado, a work full of bravura and colour with spicy harmonies and catchy rhythms. Melbourne Chamber Orchestra directed by Sophie Rowell presents a fabulous program of luscious string music and an incredible day of celebration is wrapped up with Ensemble Anja & Zlatna in a program of Balkan folk songs guaranteed to finish the TOGETHER Marathon with a smile.

Artists and Programs: 

Gaspar Cassado – Piano Trio in C

Firebird Trio

Curt Thompson – Violin

Josephine Vains – Cello

Rhodri Clarke – Piano

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Margaret Sutherland – Concerto for Strings

Dvorák – Serenade for Strings in E Major Op. 22

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra directed by Sophie Rowell

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Dance Me ’til the End of Night!:

Traditional Serbian – Ruse Kose

Traditional Macedonian – Belo Lice

Traditional Serbian – Vranjanski Čoček

Romani Russian – Androverdan

Anja & Zlatna

Aleksandra (Anja) Acker – Artistic Director and voice

Kirsty Morphett – Voice

Donald Nicholson – Harpsichords, synthesisers

Ryan Williams – Recorders

Andrew Tanner – Acoustic bass, balalaika, Jew’s harp

Tim Nikolsky – Guitars, acoustic bass, balalaika