ANAM | The Alchemy of Alban Berg with Jeffrey Means

American conductor Jeffrey Means (Berklee College of Music) leads ANAM musicians in this program tracing the musical world of Alban Berg — a composer who stood between centuries, traditions and ideas. His music mixes late-Romantic beauty with the sharper edges of modernism, finding feeling within structure and clarity within chaos. The program begins with Berg’s Seven Early Songs, a work

ANAM June 20, 2026

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CIMF’s Tissages du temps a mind-bending exploration of sound and time

Canberra International Music Festival | Tissages du temps May 2, 2026, Snow Concert Hall, Canberra, ACT There is something particularly satisfying about a program that doesn’t simply present music across time, but actively reimagines it. Tissages du temps (“weavings of time”) did exactly that, tracing a distinctly French lineage across some 300 years, not through historical reconstruction, but through transformation.

Pepe Newton May 3, 2026

Australia Ensemble UNSW | Concert 3, 2026

Praised as a child by Ravel, Françaix became one of the most prolific composers of the twentieth century. His aim was ‘to give pleasure… to be jolly most of the time – even comical.’ His Dixtuor is a sparkling showpiece for ten instruments. American composer Valerie Coleman often pays homage to earlier music, in this case the virtuosic Tzigane by Ravel, which Coleman –

[email protected] January 13, 2026

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‘AE’ presents truly memorable concert + world premiere from Lachlan Skipworth

Australia Ensemble UNSW | Concert 4 October 25, 2025, Sir John Clancy Auditorium, UNSW, NSW The Australia Ensemble UNSW held its final concert for the year on Saturday October 25 in the Sir John Clancy Auditorium. Catch the light rail from Central Train station like me, it drops you off virtually at the front door step. The program notes provided

Richard Wong October 28, 2025

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CD Review: Stuart Greenbaum | A Trillion Miles of Darkness

David Griffiths (clarinet) Timothy Young (piano) Ken Murray (guitar) CD released by ABC Classics If you were reviewing a CD of Beethoven Piano Sonatas or a CD of Brahms chamber music all the attention would be on the performers and not the composer but when a CD is by a contemporary composer the performers are often relegated to the end

Alan Holley September 23, 2022

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Review: Timothy Young – Artistic Virtuosity and Devilish Waltzes

Kawai Piano Series 1 | Timothy Young Plays Lizst Melbourne Digital Concert Hall, February 24, 2021 It was a pleasant surprise to hear a recital with an audience, albeit a socially distanced one. Timothy Young is head of the Australian Academy of Music. He studied at Melbourne University and then in Europe where the high point of his career was

Tony Burke February 26, 2021

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