Australian Chamber Choir & Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Bach’s Mass in B minor 22 March 2026 3pm, The Scots’ Church Melbourne, VIC Directed by Douglas Lawrence J. S. Bach’s B minor Mass is one of the wonders of music history. Composed and repurposed for various reasons over many years, it somehow became an organic monument of his choral art. If
Australian Chamber Choir | Baroque Christmas December 7, 2025, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park, VIC The Australian Chamber Choir were beautifully balanced and in top form for their end of year Christmas concert under the direction of Douglas Lawrence and Elizabeth Anderson. The program of mainly baroque music was stretched to include a few very early baroque works
Australian Chamber Choir | Palestrina 500 Sunday 25 May, 2025, Middle Park, VIC It’s Palestrina’s 500th birthday this year. Born in 1525, Giovanni Pierluigi (as he was known to his friends) da Palestrina was just as famous in his lifetime as in the 500 years since his birth. His music has long been synonymous with church and worship, and with
Alan Holley reviews three new CD’s on the MOVE record label Zoe Knighton, cello + Amir Farid, piano | Brahms Cello Hamish Strathdee, Guitar | Impulses – A CD of of Guitar Australian Chamber Choir | Keys to Heaven Brahms Cello Zoe Knighton, cello and Amir Farid, piano Catalogue number MD 3451 Johannes Brahms 1833–1897 Cello Sonata No. 1
Australian Chamber Choir, directed by Douglas Lawrence 2025 Program “These programs are designed to make you feel like you’ve just taken a holiday in heaven and come back to earth”, says the ACC’s Manager, Elizabeth Anderson. A subscription to just two of the concerts listed below gives you subscribers’ benefits and up to 20% discount. Baroque Christmas 2024 Saturday 7
Australian Chamber Choir | Encores November 3, 2024, St Mary of the Angels Basilica, Geelong, VIC It’s marvellous, you know that moment at the end of a concert when the audience goes mad with applause and everyone claps and claps in the hope of one last parting gift: an encore. Usually it’s a party piece, sometimes familiar or new or
International Organ Series | Final Concert 27 September, 2024, | Scots’ Church, Melbourne, VIC The final concert of this year’s International Organ Series at The Scots’ Church in Melbourne, which is held across the month of September each year, was dedicated to organist Lachlan Redd who was scheduled to perform before his untimely death earlier this year. In his place
The Scots’ Church International Organ Series | Concert 4: Student Recital September 14, 2024, The Scots’ Church, Melbourne, VIC Organ and harpsichord students from Thomas Heywood, Jennifer Chou, Elizabeth Anderson and Douglas Lawrence Opportunities for performance are an essential part of the development of young musicians, they are also a wonderful opportunity for us as listeners to hear loved or
In July, the Australian Chamber Choir takes off on its eighth concert tour of Europe. A group of Friends is invited to travel with the Choir through Belgium, Germany, Austria and Italy. Founding Director, Douglas Lawrence, a veteran of eighteen such tours, explains “There is something powerful about making friends with people when you’re in their country. It’s been a
Australian Chamber Choir | Baroque Christmas 2023 Sunday, 10 December, 2023, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park Directed by Douglas Lawrence Soprano: Katherine Lieschke, Kate McBride Alto: Elizabeth Anderson, Isobel Todd Tenor: Will Carr, Sam Rowe Bass: Thomas Drent, Kieran Macfarlane Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Middle Park, Melbourne, has an outstanding acoustic. The elegant and very wide
classikON MD Pepe Newton caught up with Australian composer (and classikON Ambassador) Alan Holley to chat about his upcoming world premieres. Pepe Newton: Alan, over the next few weeks, new vocal compositions by you to texts by Mark Tredinnick will be premiered in Carol Concerts in Victoria. Are Christmas Carols your new thing? Alan Holley: A few years back I
Australian Chamber Choir | Buckingham Palace November 4, 2023, Basilica of St Mary of the Angels, Geelong A coronation is a religious ceremony of the highest order, and, over several hundred years, the British monarchy have a storehouse of fine music from such royal occasions. Buckingham Palace (the title says it all) is the latest concert from the Australian Chamber
Australian Chamber Choir | Mozart Requiem May 27, 2023, Scots’ Church, Melbourne It is so much fun watching a choir in full song. Mouths moving, chests heaving, and heads bobbing in time to the music. Everyone together in perfect unison. It’s a beautiful thing. So it was at the Australian Chamber Choir’s performance of the Mozart Requiem at Scots’ Church
Australian Chamber Choir | A Ceremony of Carols Sunday 11 December, 2022, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park Douglas Lawrence – musical director Melina van Leeuwen – harp soloist It is Christmas time and carols are everywhere! They seem as ever present as the deafening racket of the cicadas around my suburb or the screeching of the koels as
Australian Chamber Choir | Secret Chamber May 22, 2022, Art Gallery of NSW On a cool and damp Sunday evening, it was a pleasure to enter the Art Gallery of NSW to hear the Australian Chamber Choir. The theme and title of this concert was “Secret Chamber”, performed in the not so secret entrance court of the Art Gallery of
Australian Chamber Choir Vivaldi’s Gloria, Agata’s Cantata Live streamed from the Scots’ Church, Melbourne on 7 May, 2022 and available on demand at access.auschoir.org Vivaldi’s well-known Gloria is one of my favourite choral works to sing. Joyful and exuberant it’s my regular go to for a quick pick-me-up. As soon as I hear that blasting trumpet fanfare-like opening it puts a
During Vivaldi’s time teaching at the Ospedale della Pietà (1703-40), this orphanage developed an international reputation for its concerts, presented exclusively by the young women who were educated there. His Gloria and Four Seasons were among hundreds of works performed for the first time by the orphans of the Pietà. Around 1720, Agata, a baby born without fingers on her
The Australian Chamber Choir Scots Church Melbourne, Sunday April 18, 2021 Music by Brahms, John Tavener and Fauré In 2016, on a wonderful adventure of art and music, I spent six weeks in Paris and one of my treats was to visit churches where great composers worked and important repertoire was premiered. To be where the legendary Olivier Messiaen played
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Join the Sydney Art Quartet for an unforgettable evening of chamber music as they perform Franz Schubert’s final chamber work, his String Quintet in C major, alongside guest cellist Paul […]
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Music & Tea at Wolllongong Art Gallery hosts the monthly Emerging Artist Concert Series. In June, we present City Tidda, a bold and personal project from trumpeter Sophia Rose. Created […]
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Since 2003, Opera Bites Co-Founder Murray Dahm has delivered accessible, friendly and informative lectures, drawing on its history, culture and music. Enjoy exploring a variety of areas of operatic history from […] |
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In Humour & Horizons, Alexander Yau traverses wit, lyricism, and drama across eras. Beethoven’s intimate Op. 101 and Schumann’s mercurial Humoreske reveal playful introspection, while Debussy’s evocative Préludes paint shifting sonic landscapes. […]
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Internationally acclaimed British violinist Daniel Hope joins pianist Marie-Sophie Hauzel for a captivating recital in Melbourne inspired by his mentor, Yehudi Menuhin. For more than 35 years, Hope has been […]
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Internationally acclaimed British violinist Daniel Hope returns to Sydney... for the first time since 2014, joining pianist Marie-Sophie Hauzel for a compelling recital inspired by his mentor, Yehudi Menuhin. For […]
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Welcome back Musica Viva Australia FutureMakers the Partridge String Quartet when they perform an irresistible program featuring Debussy's eloquent String Quartet and the Australian premiere of Holly Harrison's small but […]
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El Palacio Español invites listeners into the sound world of the Spanish court, where poetry, dance, and song flourished in richly expressive forms. This programme gathers music from Spain’s Golden […] |
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Melbourne Bach Choir sings Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil (Opus 37), plus Art Songs by Ukrainian composer Jul'ij Meitus. Proudly presented by the MBC Chamber Choir, the second of four celebratory […]
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A concert of diverse new music, Of Rivers & Trees brings together works by eight Australian composers in an evocative program exploring landscape, memory and imagination. The concert features music […]
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Step into the coffee houses and concert halls of 1720s London where fashionable society argued passionately over two rival composers: Giovanni Bononcini and George Frideric Handel, inspiring the epigram that […] |
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A program of pulse and poetry, rhythm and resonance, this concert showcases the daring artistry and genre-defying imagination that define Ensemble Offspring — where every sound is alive, and every […]
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A celebration of light, darkness and the shifting skies above us, Sun, Moon and Stars traces a radiant choral arc from dawn to dusk and back again. With works exploring […]
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A Concert Tour 18-21 June 2026 A Winter Solstice | Fantasies, Nocturnes & Lullabies for Cello & Piano is an intimate concert for cello and piano featuring reflective classical and […]
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20 June 2026- 7:00pm Lux Aeterna A poignant, hopeful sequence of sacred music from across the centuries Award-winning British vocal ensemble The Gesualdo Six present a poignant, hopeful sequence of sacred music […]
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20 June 2026- 7:00pm Lux Aeterna A poignant, hopeful sequence of sacred music from across the centuries Award-winning British vocal ensemble The Gesualdo Six present a poignant, hopeful sequence of sacred music […]
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In the first of two concerts during his residency at ANAM, superstar violinist Richard Tognetti brings together the fascinating sound worlds of American composers Charles Ives and Ruth Crawford Seeger, alongside […]
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Something extraordinary is coming to Manly this winter. The Sydney Chamber Music Festival returns to Manly Art Gallery and Museum on 27–28 June, with four unmissable concerts featuring some of […]
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Tudor music meets winter celebration from the 13th century to the present, featuring Tomás Luis de Victoria’s mass and motet O magnum mysterium. From reflective midwinter stillness to festive revelry, […]
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An original composition by acclaimed composer Ian Munro based on the children’s book written by Jodie McLeod and illustrated by Eloise Short, Leonard the Lyrebird is a popular Australian bush animal story […]
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2026 is the 42nd year the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra (KPO) has run the NSW Secondary Schools Concerto Competition. 6 individual finalists in the 2026 NSW Secondary Schools Concerto Competition and […]
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Oriana Choir at Their Finest The Sunshine Coast’s premier vocal group, Oriana Choir presents An Oriana Songbook on Sunday 28 June at 2:00pm at Sella Maris Primary School Hall, Maroochydore, […]
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In July, the Emerging Artist Concert Series features soprano Mackenzie Lawrence with acclaimed pianist-composer John Martin. Together they present a program exploring the richness, humour, and dramatic range of vocal music. […]
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The 2026 Keys of Gold Festival Launch Concert, in the historic Lauriston Chapel at Langley Estate, brings together a glorious program of operatic favourites with renowned soprano Merlyn Quaife AM […]
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Now based in Paris, Tasmanian pianist Sarah Cabrol-Douat is returning to perform at Tempo Rubato, Melbourne. The program includes works of Mozart, Schubert and Scriabin PROGRAM W.A.MOZART Sonata no. 12 […]
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Join the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra on a thrilling journey of musical discovery, featuring selections from two of Mussorgsky’s best-loved works, in a delightful one-hour concert for the young and young […]
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Stroll through Mussorgsky’s musical art gallery with Dr Nicholas Milton AM and the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra in an unforgettable concert of Russian classics. Ravel’s colourful orchestration of Mussorgsky’s piano masterpiece Pictures […]
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Stroll through Mussorgsky’s musical art gallery with Dr Nicholas Milton AM and the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra in an unforgettable concert of Russian classics. Ravel’s colourful orchestration of Mussorgsky’s piano masterpiece Pictures […]
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Long live The King (of Instruments) - as the great Mozart called the pipe organ! And then Beethoven famously said that "Organists are the greatest of all virtuosos"! The recently […]
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Prepare to be kissed by a fairy, haunted by a dream and transformed by music when Canadian virtuoso violinist Leila Josefowicz and fellow-Canadian pianist John Novacek bring their fantastical tales […]
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