Mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean celebrates the solo voice in a dazzling yet contemplative expression of contemporary music mixed with some hints of the medieval and impressionistic. 'Four White Walls' is an intimate film-recital delving into the inner language and emotional landscape of solitude; of searching for and finding the calmness and joy of being alone with…
The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra is delighted to present the Young Mannheim Symphonists National ONLINE Spring Academy, directed by Rachael Beesley and Nicole van Bruggen. Students are welcome to register for the two-day program featuring guest speakers Anthea Cottee and Dr Neal Peres da Costa, masterclasses by Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s Principal Musicians…
This concert is live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall A concert of philosophically-inspired Australian works – Sati and Satya contemplates Sanskrit Buddhist concepts of mindfulness and truthfulness, while Violin Sonata No. 2 responds to the mantra of the patron who commissioned the piece: “Across land and sea, the ship of my life has brought…
This concert is live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall A beloved work interpreted by most of the great pianists across the ages, Schubert’s stirring last piano sonata in B-flat Major D 985 is a passionate journey that not only reflects the entire spectrum of emotions, but in this performance, captures the essence of the…
This concert is live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Yasmin Rowe makes her solo debut at MDCH with an electrifying program including the Allegro de Concierto by Granados, the exquisite Schumann Arabesque Op 18 and Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 6 - one of the three ‘war sonatas’. Artists: Yasmin Rowe - Piano Program: Granados…
Program to be announced The acclaimed performances of the Australian String Quartet are an everlasting highlight of the lunchtime concert series in Elder Hall. Join us for another eagerly anticipated appearance by the highly regarded ASQ. Season Two Lunchtime Gold Passes on sale now. Elder Hall is currently operating at 75% capacity - masks not…
Experience Vivaldi's virtuosic Four Seasons in a uniquely intimate chamber music setting, with Bremer Trio and soloist Courtenay Cleary About this event The Bremer Trio will once again perform Vivaldi’s virtuosic Four Seasons. This unique arrangement was created by the trio for an intimate chamber music setting, whilst honouring the integrity of its original solo…
The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra is delighted to announce a new initiative to provide Professional Development for music educators around the country. The unique National ONLINE HIP Professional Development Program will feature internationally respected speakers and educators, including Co-Artistic Directors Rachael Beesley and Nicole van Bruggen. Along with guest speakers Dr Charles MacInnes, Dr…
The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra is delighted to announce a new initiative to provide Professional Development for music educators around the country. The unique National ONLINE HIP Professional Development Program will feature internationally respected speakers and educators, including Co-Artistic Directors Rachael Beesley and Nicole van Bruggen. Along with guest speakers Dr Charles MacInnes, Dr…
This concert is live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Kristian Chong returns for a provoking program culminating in one of the greatest Schubert piano sonatas – D784 – a profound and obsessively tragic work, written after Schubert found out about the disease that would eventually take him. Opening the concert is the key of…
This concert is live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Two of Melbourne’s most lauded chamber musicians present a heartfelt program of intimate repertoire guaranteed to satiate the soul. In reference to Langston Hughes’ poem as we emerge from winter hibernation into spring, the program features reflective solo Bach, Lutoslawski’s lively Partita, Brahms’ most uplifting…
FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP The physical and emotional benefits of choral singing have been widely documented in recent decades: from lowering stress levels to strengthening your immune system. How can you reap the health benefits of singing in your life? In this interactive webinar, singer and choral director Alex Siegers will lead you through the ways…
This concert is live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall An evening of well-balanced humours awaits you in this fine feast of a program with Baroque aficionados Laura Vaughan (viola da gamba) and Donald Nicolson (harpsichord). Until the late 18th century, great importance was placed on maintaining a balance amongst the bodily humours, and therefore…
This concert is live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Live studio audience tickets are also available at the Athenaeum Theatre In this recital, pianist Tristan Lee explores three masterworks for piano spanning over two hundred years of music. Commencing with Haydn’s epic final piano sonata, followed by Melbourne based composer, Linda Kouvaras’ evocative ‘Shoalhaven Nightpainters’, the recital…
Join the Adelaide Connection, Australia’s first jazz choir, and its acclaimed director Luke Thompson, for a celebration of vocal jazz. Featuring songs made famous by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Jazzmeia Horn, Gretchen Parlato, Cécile McLorin and more. ARTISTS The Adelaide Connection Jazz Choir Luke Thompson - director Season Two Lunchtime Gold Passes on…
Ensemble Offspring’s core members Claire Edwardes (marimba) and Jason Noble (bass clarinet) team up with acclaimed harpist Emily Granger to unearth masterpieces from the depths of living musical imagination. Originally conceived as a live concert for the Seymour Centre’s Seymour Nights series, the complete performance of Blue Silence has since been recorded to present via…
None of our angels have cancelled their flights. We’ll transport you to another place. Come with us! The angel, a supernatural protector or guide, is a symbol of hope. Often depicted in art as a person of astounding beauty, the angel reminds us of all that is good about humanity. Responding to our second live…
German composer George Frideric Handel lived in London for most of his career. Aged only 27 when he moved to England, Handel would be at the centre of musical activity in London for the next 40 years. Handel’s London features roles created by the great English Tenor John Beard in three of Handel’s most popular…
This concert has been postponed until February 9, 2022 Sydney’s musical mavericks Ensemble Offspring present a charming and beguiling collection of highlights from their 2020 album Songbirds in Melbourne and Noosa. An intimate trio setting brings together an array of original chamber works by the who’s-who of Australian composers, capturing the calls and songs of…
This concert is live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall “Passion, grandeur and reverie” THE AGE Stephen McIntyre, known nationally and internationally as one of Australia’s most treasured pianists, takes audiences on a grand voyage across a most exquisite selection of masterpieces by Frédéric Chopin. From the gentle wonderment of the Berceuse to the sweepingly…
This concert is live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Friend of MCO and regular collaborator Igor Machlak is joined by fellow pianist Olga Kharitonova in a colour program of old favourites and new creations. Igor and Olga - a multi-award winning duet celebrating more than three decades of performance - will showcase a selection…
Bright Tank Brewing Co and Australian Baroque present Bach and Beer - includes 4 generous beer tasters and an amazing program of Bach! Don’t doubt us on this one, there is more to this than just alliteration, honestly. Are you more certain of your love for an artisanal ale than you might be for the…
This concert is live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Live studio audience tickets are also available at the Athenaeum Theatre Lithuanian born, Melbourne based pianist Gintaute Gataveckaite performs a recital of demanding pictorial miniatures by Auerbach and Rachmaninoff. Starting with a selection of Preludes by contemporary Russian/American composer Lera Auerbach, Gataveckaite will then explore…
Ensemble Trivium presents a program of outstanding music for flute and string quartet by three of the world’s most celebrated female composers. Grandes Dames Joan Tower and Amy Beach are joined by the youngest ever Pulitzer Price winner Caroline Shaw in an evening of evocative, dynamic and exciting chamber music. Come and join Ensemble Trivium…
SPRING RAIN Helen Ayres violin Lucinda Collins piano Mozart Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 21 in E minor KV 304 Brahms Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78 for Violin and Piano Individual tickets available at the door on the concert day, or you may purchase them online: https://uofa.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/sales/sales... Elder Hall is currently operating…
The final program of 2021 opens with Franz Schubert’s remarkable first movement of the unfinished twelfth String Quartet. Composed at a time of mixed receptions to his work and the successful premieres of his beloved songs Erlkönig and Die Forelle, this quartet is characterised by an intensity of emotion that was new in Schubert’s output. Holly Harrison’s Slipstream, commissioned…
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID LOCKDOWN Allegri Ensemble’s October concert showcases the wonderful partsongs which flourished across Europe during the Renaissance and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Our hour-long program features choral songs in four languages, all exploring the essential themes of human existence: the joys of love and good company, the sorrows…
Ensemble Trivium presents a program of outstanding music for flute and string quartet by three of the world’s most celebrated female composers. Grandes Dames Joan Tower and Amy Beach are joined by the youngest ever Pulitzer Price winner Caroline Shaw in an afternoon of evocative, dynamic and exciting chamber music. Come and join Ensemble Trivium…
This final concert in our inaugural Chamber Classics Series comprises beloved works by Rossini, Grainger, Haydn, Dukas and Shostakovich. Each piece is arranged for wind quintet, a versatile ensemble capable of both flamboyant extroversion and delicate sensitivity. Highlights of the program include the overture from The Barber of Seville, one of Rossini’s numerous, well-loved operas, and…
Sue Collins has appeared numerous times in the ABC's Sunday Live series. She has recorded many times for radio, and has performed as soloist and recitalist throughout Australia, the USA and Europe. She has recorded Raymond Hanson Violin Music (Tall Poppies) with David Miller, having completed reconstructive editions of the Hanson works, published by Reed Music. "...Susan…
This concert will be live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall - LIVE STREAM TICKETS HERE Ensemble Trivium presents a program of outstanding music for flute and string quartet by three of the world’s most celebrated female composers. Grandes Dames Joan Tower and Amy Beach are joined by the youngest ever Pulitzer Price winner Caroline…
Southern Cross Soloists return to the Sydney Mozart Society with a program of masterworks by composers renowned for their bold risk-taking, brazen originality and demands on their musicians. Virtuosity abounds with Telemann’s gypsy-inspired Trio Sonata, Mozart’s ground-breaking Oboe Quartet and Weber’s dazzlingly Clarinet Concerto No 1 as well as Bruch’s exotic Kol Nidrei and Berlioz’s…
This concert is live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Extraordinary pianist Simon Tedeschi returns to the MDCH stage with violist and conductor Roger Benedict, performing evocative works by Debussy and Ravel. With transcriptions by Benedict of Debussy’s kaleidoscopic cello sonata and preludes, Ravel’s wistful and lyrical violin sonata, and brooding, melancholy Kaddisch, all works…
Bright Tank Brewing Co and Australian Baroque present Bach and Beer - includes 4 generous beer tasters and an amazing program of Bach! Don’t doubt us on this one, there is more to this than just alliteration, honestly. Are you more certain of your love for an artisanal ale than you might be for the…
BRILLIANT BRAHMS Lachlan Bramble violin Helen Ayres violin Michael Robertson viola Heidi von Bernewitz viola Simon Cobcroft cello Thomas Marlin cello Rob Nairn double bass Brahms String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 36 Bottesini Elegie No. 1 in D Major Individual tickets available at the door on the concert day, or you may…
FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP Join UNSW Alumna Aashna Mittal to learn about the world’s second most popular form of classical music: Indian Classical Music. India has a particularly rich tradition of highly sophisticated classical music forms that have come down through the ages. Listening to, appreciating and performing Indian classical music can be a particularly rewarding…
Opera star soprano, Amelia Farrugia performs best-loved French arias & songs. Joined by international concert pianist Vivian Choi and French Knight, Jane Rutter, ‘Madame Flute’, this fabulous female trio of Divas perform Classical and Cabaret works by Fauré, Hahn, Gounod, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Martini, Offenbach, Satie, Chopin, Satie and others. Join Jane and the performers for lunch after the concert…
This concert is live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall In the past two years, Nat Bartsch’s soothing neo-romantic piano compositions have found increasing relevance. For this concert Nat will perform selections from her newest ABC Classic release, Hope, as well as her acclaimed album of lullabies, Forever and No Time At All. Artists: Nat…
This concert is live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Live studio audience tickets are also available Join musicians and faculty from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) as they perform a selection of chamber works in a series of concerts – streamed and with a live audience. ARTISTS Claire Weatherhead, violin Henry Justo,…
This concert is live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Popular cabaret entertainer Trevor Jones shares his favourite songs from years of performances around the world. After taking requests in piano bars and livestream shows, Trevor finally gets to choose the repertoire, combining his unique blend of storytelling and song with classics by Lloyd Webber,…
FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP - Limited to 15 participants per session Learn the background and history of various types of Javanese folksong and learn to sing traditional Javanese music with renowned Javanese Gamelan and shadow puppet master Dr Joko Susilo as part of UNSW Diversity Fest. Among the splendours of the world, the sound of traditional…
This concert is live streamed from the Athenaeum Theatre on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall “They are all love stories, in one sense or another, because love lies at the heart of our experience in the world.” - Alexander McCall Smith Chloe and Alan explore the tales of Cupids, lovers, mourners, those facing turmoil and those…
Bright Tank Brewing Co and Australian Baroque present Bach and Beer - includes 4 generous beer tasters and an amazing program of Bach! Don’t doubt us on this one, there is more to this than just alliteration, honestly. Are you more certain of your love for an artisanal ale than you might be for the…
Ensemble Offspring are Australia’s musical lightning rod, drawing the most electric and spectacular talent from around the world and setting it loose in our very own harbour-side backyard. Postponed from 2020 and June 2021, Shivers on Speed is the latest showcase of what is hot right now, featuring three world premieres of sparkling new works by Nicole Murphy, Jack Symonds…
Chopin’s Second Concerto is the work of a young, yet profound, artistic spirit reaching deeply into his own soul, finding moments of poetic lyricism contrasted with rapturous passages of transcendental virtuosity. In many ways, Lutoslawski’s Fourth Symphony is his swan song – being his last work in the genre and his final large-scale piece. It’s…
FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP If you dread the thought of getting up in front of a group of people and performing, you are not alone. Millions of people suffer from performance anxiety, commonly called "stage fright." Studies have shown that most people would rather get the flu than perform. Athletes, musicians, actors, and public speakers often…
During JS Bach’s lifetime, in Germany and throughout Europe, the music that was performed publicly was almost always new works by living composers. The Bach motets were held in such high regard that they continued to be performed after the composer’s death. The publication of Forkel’s On Johann Sebastian Bach’s Life, Genius and Works in…