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February 2019
Evergreen Ensemble: Flying Dutchman Sessions
Special guest Krishna Nagaraja joins Evergreen Ensemble on Baroque viola with folk baroque music from Sweden and Finland.
Find out more »Evergreen Ensemble: Flying Dutchman Sessions
Special guest Krishna Nagaraja joins Evergreen Ensemble on Baroque viola with folk baroque music from Sweden and Finland.
Find out more »Flinders Quartet 2019 Concert Season Subscription
For 2019, Flinders Quartet has curated a season program that takes musical risks, adds lashes of quartet favourites and continues to push the creative boundaries
Find out more »Flinders Quartet: Quartet
Impressed by his unique and engaging concept of sound and gift of musical architecture, Flinders asked Matthew to choose which works best pair with his compositional voice.
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Root Position
Selby & Friends’ season-opener incorporates works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Smetana which outline a basic musical chord in root position
Find out more »Flinders Quartet: Quartet
Impressed by his unique and engaging concept of sound and gift of musical architecture, Flinders asked Matthew to choose which works best pair with his compositional voice.
Find out more »Jovian Worlds
Laureate of the Paganini Competition and former first violin of the famed Brodsky Quartet, Sydney Symphony concertmaster Andrew Haveron is one of the most accomplished and sought after violinists on the planet. A masterpiece even among Tchaikovsky’s masterpieces, the Violin Concerto in D is the ideal vehicle for a violinist so utterly at home in Romantic repertoire. Offering both pyrotechnic virtuosity and melting beauty, don’t miss this intimate and fiery journey into the Russian soul. What could compliment such astonishing…
Find out more »March 2019
ANAM Opening Concert
TICKETS: Full $62 / Senior $48 / Concession* $35 / Under 30s* $25 This festive opening concert to the 2019 ANAM Season begins with not one but two fanfares: Richard Strauss’, created for the inaugural Vienna Philharmonic Ball in 1924, and the equally spectacular one from Wagner’s opera Lohengrin. The festivities then move from multiple brass to multiple pianos for British composer Graham Fitkin’s funky Flak, which has a neat trick up its sleeve – it only uses the pianos’ white notes. But there’s…
Find out more »Jovian Worlds
Laureate of the Paganini Competition and former first violin of the famed Brodsky Quartet, Sydney Symphony concertmaster Andrew Haveron is one of the most accomplished and sought after violinists on the planet. A masterpiece even among Tchaikovsky’s masterpieces, the Violin Concerto in D is the ideal vehicle for a violinist so utterly at home in Romantic repertoire. Offering both pyrotechnic virtuosity and melting beauty, don’t miss this intimate and fiery journey into the Russian soul. What could compliment such astonishing…
Find out more »20th Century Masters – ANAM
TICKETS: Full $62 / Senior $48 / Concession* $35 / Under 30s* $25 This brass-centred showcase focuses on music by four 20th century masters, including rarely-played music by Ravel’s contemporary Albert Roussel. You’ll also experience four ages of Stravinsky; his 1950s Septet, which marked a bold change in his compositional priorities; one of his happiest works of the 1920s, his Octet; his gentle, youthful Pastorale and his Symphonies of Wind Instruments. Hindemith’s Konzertmusik is a piano concerto in all but name, in…
Find out more »Women in Music Festival
From 12-4pm, our fabulous Festival market stalls will offer gorgeous hand-made cupcakes, vegan body scrubs, hand-painted cards, pottery and much more, all for sale. The stalls will be complemented by a free chocolate fountain, free professional photographic head shots, free live music and two magnificent free lectures by composers Cat Hope and Jessica Wells. The evening concerts - curated by Artistic Director Monica Curro - will feature World Premiere compositions by Jessica Wells, Maize Wallin and Anne Cawrse and magnificent…
Find out more »Women in Music Festival
From 12-4pm, our fabulous Festival market stalls will offer gorgeous hand-made cupcakes, vegan body scrubs, hand-painted cards, pottery and much more, all for sale. The stalls will be complemented by a free chocolate fountain, free professional photographic head shots, free live music and two magnificent free lectures by composers Cat Hope and Jessica Wells. The evening concerts - curated by Artistic Director Monica Curro - will feature World Premiere compositions by Jessica Wells, Maize Wallin and Anne Cawrse and magnificent…
Find out more »Time Travelling for Winds and Brass – ANAM
TICKETS: Full $35 / Senior $35 / Concession* $35 / Under 30s* $25 Under the direction of Stefan Dohr, Principal Horn of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, this program takes us on a journey from Mozart’s Vienna to 21st-century Paris; for, as Romantic as they are, the works by the young Richard Strauss, and Liszt’s pupil Joachim Raff, are infused with the spirit of Mozart’s wind music. Berio’s piece is a set of fractured fairy tales for speaker and wind quintet:…
Find out more »Goran Bregovic and his Wedding and Funeral Band ‘Three Letters from Sarajevo’
Goran Bregovic returns to Australia to continue the Balkan party, so grab your dancing shoes and get ready to go crazy! Goran Bregovic has done it all. A rock star in the former Yugoslavia, he went on to write film scores and ride the fashion for brassy Balkan Gypsy music, selling over 6m albums and collaborating with everyone from Iggy Pop to the Gipsy Kings. Anyone who has experienced a concert by the Balkan virtuoso knows that they are triumphant…
Find out more »Musica Borealis/Australis : Nordic Baroque and Folk
TICKETS: Available online or at the door - $25 / $15, children under 12 free Musica Borealis/Australis will take audiences on a celestial journey through time and place, exploring the baroque and traditional folk music of the Nordic countries. The north wind has blown our special guest violist Krishna Nagaraja (Italy/Finland) to this side of the globe, and together with The Muses’ Delight, will explore a colourful program combining well known and rarely heard baroque composers, as well as Krishna’s…
Find out more »Zelman Symphony Orchestra: Sibelius and Elgar
In this concert, we feature two works from the turn of the 20th century. Sibelius’s only concerto will be performed by violinist Ji Won Kim who received the ABC Young Performers Award in 2009, playing this very concerto. Ji Won has performed extensively in Australia, Asia and Europe and we welcome her back after fabulous concerts with us in 2013 and 2014. Enigma Variations established Elgar’s international reputation. It is a unique work where each variation reflects the character of…
Find out more »Shostakovich, Raff and Brahms
Three works showing the full dramatic, virtuosic and emotional possibilities of chamber music: Shostakovich’s theatrical, short octet; Raff's joyous Octet, and Brahms’ youthful and sonorous second sextet. A performance of enthralling energy and compelling intimacy. PROGRAM: SHOSTAKOVICH Two Pieces for String Octet Op 11 RAFF Octet in C major Op 176 BRAHMS Sextet No 2 in G major Op 36 PERFORMERS: Australian Octet
Find out more »April 2019
Surround Sound
TICKETS: Full $62 / Senior $48 / Concession* $35 / Under 30s* $25 This sonic spectacular for percussion and plural pianos includes four 20th century classics – works so dynamic they could have been written yesterday. Bartók’s fascination for the combination of keyboards and percussion reached its climax in this Sonata. The Rite of Spring, too, has lost none of its power since its riotous premiere in 1913, and this fascinating arrangement throws new light on the score’s visceral rhythmic…
Find out more »May 2019
Bach Concertos
Recently praised for his “simply gorgeous” playing and “crystalline phrasing” by the Washington Post, pianist David Fung is an ideal match for two of Bach's immaculate keyboard concertos. Program includes Bartók’s folk-flecked Divertimento and music of Telemann & Dvořák. PROGRAM: DVOŘÁK Three Miniatures Op 75a TELEMANN Concerto for four violins TWV54:A1 BACH Keyboard Concerto No 7 in G minor BWV1058 BACH Keyboard Concerto No 4 in A major BWV1055 BARTÓK Divertimento Sz113 PERFORMERS: William Hennessy AM, DIRECTOR & VIOLIN David Fung, PIANO
Find out more »Bach Concertos
Recently praised for his “simply gorgeous” playing and “crystalline phrasing” by the Washington Post, pianist David Fung is an ideal match for two of Bach's immaculate keyboard concertos. Program includes Bartók’s folk-flecked Divertimento and music of Telemann & Dvořák. PROGRAM: DVOŘÁK Three Miniatures Op 75a TELEMANN Concerto for four violins TWV54:A1 BACH Keyboard Concerto No 7 in G minor BWV1058 BACH Keyboard Concerto No 4 in A major BWV1055 BARTÓK Divertimento Sz113 PERFORMERS: William Hennessy AM, DIRECTOR & VIOLIN David Fung, PIANO
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Love & Devotion
A powerful program presented by three extraordinary performers, this concert explores the music of both Clara and Robert Schumann
Find out more »Piano Pictures
TICKETS: Full $62 / Senior $48 / Concession* $35 / Under 30s* $25 Two modern American classics to open: John Adams’ jubilant Hallelujah Junction, inspired by the name of a truck stop near the California-Nevada border, and a seminal work of minimalism, Steve Reich’s Six Pianos. On the other hand, the epic riff on Chopin’s Prelude by young, New Mexico-born composer Ben Wallace might be called ‘So Chopin walked into a bar, ordered a whiskey and headed straight for the pinball machine.’…
Find out more »July 2019
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 »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.
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