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June 2019
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Baroque Oboe
With its lucid, penetrating tone, the oboe captivates the ear and touches the heart. Australia’s greatest oboe star, Diana Doherty, joins MCO for oboe masterpieces from the Italian Baroque by Vivaldi & Albinoni, with a new double concerto by popular Melbourne composer Joe Chindamo. PROGRAM: CORELLI Concerto Grosso in C minor Op 6 No 3 AVISON Concerto Grosso in E flat major Op 9 No 7 JOE CHINDAMO Sanctuary for oboe, cor anglais & orchestra* (*Victorian première season) VIVALDI Concerto…
Find out more »Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Baroque Oboe
With its lucid, penetrating tone, the oboe captivates the ear and touches the heart. Australia’s greatest oboe star, Diana Doherty, joins MCO for oboe masterpieces from the Italian Baroque by Vivaldi & Albinoni, with a new double concerto by popular Melbourne composer Joe Chindamo. PROGRAM: CORELLI Concerto Grosso in C minor Op 6 No 3 AVISON Concerto Grosso in E flat major Op 9 No 7 JOE CHINDAMO Sanctuary for oboe, cor anglais & orchestra* (*Victorian première season) VIVALDI Concerto…
Find out more »Plexus Collective: Psalmodic
Tickets: $50 adults | $40 concession PLEXUS heralds its newly minted choral ensemble, Vox Plexus, as guest artists for a world premiere arrangement of Stravinsky’s epic neoclassical masterpiece Symphony of Psalms, a Russian émigré’s response to the atheism of his motherland. Of the same decade, but from the opposite pole of the Soviet aesthetic sphere are drawn selections from Shostakovich’s lush Suites for Jazz Orchestra, in a world premiere reimagining for PLEXUS. Shostakovich’s onetime pupil Galina Ustvolskaya was later acknowledged…
Find out more »July 2019
Fauré Requiem and works by Debussy, Ravel, Saint Saëns and Fauré
This concert combines Fauré's sublime Requiem, one of the best-loved of all choral works, with shorter secular pieces from the French repertoire. Debussy's sensitive settings of 15th century poems by Charles d'Orleans contrast with Ravel's exquisite Trois Chansons, where both the composer's own texts and music are full of archaic references. Fauré's witty Madrigal and a selection of Saint-Saëns' expressive songs complete the program. Rick Prakhoff conducts the Melbourne Bach Choir and Orchestra, with soloists Emilia Bertolini, soprano, and Jeremy…
Find out more »Selby & Friends: From Russia with Love
Selby & Friends takes listeners on a musical tour of composers who were influenced by Russia, either by having been born and bred there or receiving patronage or assistance from Russian nobles.
Find out more »Australian World Orchestra
The Australian World Orchestra returns to Hamer Hall for 1 spectacular performance Friday 26 July. This award-winning orchestra features Australia's finest musicians who play in the world's greatest orchestra, together on stage for their annual Australian concert tour. 2019 Guest Conductor Alexander Briger will lead the orchestra in a performance of: WESTLAKE, Nigel – Flying Dream JANÁČEK, Leoš – Taras Bulba, a Rhapsody for Orchestra SIBELIUS, Jean – Symphony No. 2, Op.43, D major Nigel Westlake’s Flying Dream is an original composition by Westlake,…
Find out more »Polyphonic Voices & Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Schubert Mass in G
Inspired by Schubert's divine gift for melody, Schubert's Mass in G is a pure ray of heaven on Earth. Melbourne choir Polyphonic Voices has gained a reputation for collaborations, and joins forces with Melbourne Chamber Orchestra for these concerts, which also feature Schubert's joyous Symphony No 3 William Hennessy AM DIRECTOR & VIOLIN Michael Fulcher DIRECTOR Polyphonic Voices Program: BACH Violin Concerto in E major BWV 1042 SCHUBERT Mass No 2 in G major D167 SCHUBERT Symphony No 3 in…
Find out more »Flinders Quartet: Shostakovich – through the lens of the string quartet
Selected movements from the string quartets of Shostakovich, curated by Flinders Quartet with dramaturge, Richard Piper
Find out more »August 2019
Polyphonic Voices & Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Schubert Mass in G
Inspired by Schubert's divine gift for melody, Schubert's Mass in G is a pure ray of heaven on Earth. Melbourne choir Polyphonic Voices has gained a reputation for collaborations, and joins forces with Melbourne Chamber Orchestra for these concerts, which also feature Schubert's joyous Symphony No 3. William Hennessy AM DIRECTOR & VIOLIN Michael Fulcher DIRECTOR Polyphonic Voices Program: BACH Violin Concerto in E major BWV 1042 SCHUBERT Mass No 2 in G major D167 SCHUBERT Symphony No 3 in…
Find out more »Flinders Quartet: Shostakovich – through the lens of the string quartet
Selected movements from the string quartets of Shostakovich, curated by Flinders Quartet with dramaturge, Richard Piper.
Find out more »Flinders Quartet: Shostakovich – through the lens of the string quartet
Selected movements from the string quartets of Shostakovich, curated by Flinders Quartet with dramaturge, Richard Piper.
Find out more »Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra: New Constellations
Tickets: Premium $95 | A Reserve $75 | A Reserve Concession $65 | Student $30 Berlin-based violinist Jakob Lehmann leads an ensemble of specialist local and international chamber musicians through the expansive sounds and pioneering ideas of New Constellations. The Octet for Strings was written when Mendelssohn was just 16, and illustrates the transformation of performance techniques in the chamber music of the early-Romantic period. Brahms destroyed the nonet version of his Serenade, but based on archives and written accounts,…
Find out more »September 2019
Selby & Friends: The Game Changers
Exploring composers whose influence made a significant impact upon the world of classical music is the premise behind this extraordinary program of sonatas and trios by Kats-Chernin, Ravel, Britten and Dvorak.
Find out more »October 2019
Evergreen Ensemble: Baroque Birds & Beasts
Seamlessly cross the genres and performance styles of folk and art-music with Evergreen Ensemble
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Beethoven’s Back!
Selby & Friends’ 2019 season finale revisits the great master with a return to the music of all-Beethoven by popular demand.
Find out more »November 2019
Plexus Collective: Paracosm
Tickets: $50 adults | $40 concession PLEXUS is joined by esteemed soloists Daniel Carison, Deborah Cheetham and Liane Keegan, as well as guest instrumentalists, conductor Michael Dahlenburg and newly formed choral ensemble Vox Plexus, as it inhabits the possessed paracosm of John of Patmos in his instant of apocalyptic epiphany, with Stefan Cassomenos’ Requiem for the End of Time. Combining English texts from the Book of Revelation with the Latin Mass for the Dead, this twenty-first-century Requiem was glowingly received…
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