Ensemble Liaison + Campbell Diamond: Westlake, Debussy, Greenbaum, Paganini, de Falla & Piazzolla

Melbourne Recital Centre - Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Ensemble Liaison welcome internationally award-winning guitarist Campbell Diamond for a unique program of arrangements and original works for guitar and chamber ensemble. Originally from Canberra, Campbell has won prizes in over 30 international competitions and has performed across Asia, South America, Australia and Europe where he is Professor of Guitar at the Anton Bruckner University of ... Read more

$45 – $55

Igor and Olga Piano Duo: Rachmaninov

Melba Hall, Parkville Gate 12, Royal Parade, Parkville, Vic, Australia

THE LAST ROMANTIC Igor and Olga Piano Duo (Igor Machlak and Olga Kharitonova) present a program for two pianos celebrating the double anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninov, featuring original compositions and arrangements for two pianos by the great Russian composer as well as Olga and Igor's own transcriptions of his music. This year is significant for ... Read more

Free

Ensemble e21: 12th century music

Hanson Dyer Hall, Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street, Southbank, Vic, Australia

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA AND THE MUSIC OF PILGRIMAGE A program of liturgical and devotional music associated with the great European pilgrimage route commonly referred to today as 'El Camino'. The manuscript, the Codex Calixtinus, from the Cathedral of St James in Compostela, Galicia, contains polyphonic and monophonic works, and is a rare source of music ... Read more

Free

MCO Chamber musicians: von Bingen, Strozzi, Clearfield & Bottesini

Nurses Memorial Centre Fawkner Towers, 11/431 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Vic

ILLUMINATIONS This program showcases rarely performed works for string quintet. It features three brilliant female composers from three different musical eras – Hildegard of Bingen (Medieval), Barbara Strozzi (Baroque) and Andrea Clearfield (21st century). Clearfield’s quintet, “Women of Cyprus” was inspired by courage, beauty and strength of the thousands of Cypriot women who marched in ... Read more

$30 – $40

Barcan + Davis + Green + Wong: Chopin & Viardot

Hanson Dyer Hall, Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street, Southbank, Vic, Australia

THE SPIRIT OF SONG: MAZURKAS BY CHOPIN & VIARDOT Musical kindred spirits, pianist Frédéric Chopin and mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot were introduced to each other by their mutual friend, the writer George Sand. Chopin was flattered when Pauline presented him with transcriptions of his mazurkas arranged for voice, set to texts by the poet Louis Pomey. ... Read more

Free

Choi and Tao: Martinů, Debussy & Li-San

Melba Hall, Parkville Gate 12, Royal Parade, Parkville, Vic, Australia

DUO RECITAL This double bill recital begins with Martinů's Cello Sonata No. 3 performed by Ye Jin Choi and Kevin Suherman, followed by works by Debussy and Li-San performed by Yilan Tao. Ye Jin Choi, cello Kevin Suherman, piano Yilan Tao, piano More info and bookings

Free

Brennan + Murray: Sainsbury, Charlton, Sanz, Rodrigo, Gerhard, Barrios & Martin

Hanson Dyer Hall, Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street, Southbank, Vic, Australia

WORKS FOR TRUMPET & GUITAR Joel Brennan and Ken Murray perform a variety of works for trumpet and guitar. Featuring originals as well as arrangements of Spanish and Australian works. Drawing heavy inspiration from Spanish music across the centuries and contemporary Australian reflections on this unique combination of instruments, this concert offers a variety of ... Read more

Free

Chinese Orchestra: tba

Melba Hall, Parkville Gate 12, Royal Parade, Parkville, Vic, Australia

CHINESE ORCHESTRA Students of the Chinese Music Ensemble will play a concert featuring traditional and contemporary music from the East and West. More info and bookings

Free

Ensemble Liaison + Rowell: Pärt & Messiaen

Hanson Dyer Hall, Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street, Southbank, Vic, Australia

QUARTET FOR THE END OF TIME Ensemble Liaison team up with artistic director of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Sophie Rowell to present Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. After the success of their internationally acclaimed recording on the Melba Recordings label praised for their 'impassioned and committed performance', Ensemble Liaison have gone on to ... Read more

Free

MCO + Jumppanen: Greenbaum, Rautavaara, Beethoven & Mozart

Melbourne Recital Centre - Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

MOZART & BEETHOVEN CONCERTOS In 1787, a 17-year-old Beethoven made the journey from Bonn to Vienna—further than Melbourne to Sydney. Did he meet the 30-year-old Mozart, in the few weeks they were in the same city? Was there a metaphorical handing over of the baton of Classical music? Escape with us to this bright, elegant ... Read more

$30 – $140

Conservatorium Chamber Music Competition Winners

Melba Hall, Parkville Gate 12, Royal Parade, Parkville, Vic, Australia

The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music presents the finalists of the 2023 Conservatorium Chamber Music Competition. Current students have the opportunity each year to form a small ensemble with their peers, and perform a work of their choice in the Melba Hall Lunch Hour Concert Series. More info and bookings

Free

Chong + Roberts + Miller + Cossom: Barreau & Bartók

Hanson Dyer Hall, Ian Potter Southbank Centre 43 Sturt Street, Southbank, Vic, Australia

 TWO PIANOS AND PERCUSSION Kristian Chong and Cameron Roberts team up with Brent Miller and Robert Cossom to deliver a powerful double bill of music for pianos and percussion from the composers Gisèle Barreau (Australian Premiere) and Béla Bartók. Award-winning French composer Gisèle Barreau is a professor at the Paris Conservatoire and a former student ... Read more

Free

The Song Company: Byrd, Lang, Cull, Gudmunsen-Holmgreen & Jackson

Trinity College Chapel 100 Royal Parade, Parkville, Vic, Australia

SONGS FROM A STRANGE LAND In the 400th anniversary year of the death of renowned English Renaissance composer William Byrd, The Song Company celebrates Byrd's own music and his legacy that continues to influence contemporary composers such as David Lang, Jeremy Cull, and Pelle Gudmunsen-Holmgreen. These composers have taken inspiration from Byrd's unique style and ... Read more

$39 – $89

Ensemble Liaison + Australian Wind Quintet: Ligeti, Paul Dean, Glinka, Poulenc & Françaix

Melbourne Recital Centre - Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

For their final concert of the year, Ensemble Liaison is excited to collaborate with the newly formed Australian Wind Quintet. Combining some of Australia’s leading wind players, including Ensemble Liaison’s own David Griffiths, the AWQ made their debut at the 2022 Adelaide Festival receiving critical praise for their ‘precision, nuanced sensitive phrasing and captivating performance’. This program ... Read more

$45 – $55

Flinders Quartet: Shostakovich, Grenfell & Smetana

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MUSICAL PORTRAITS Shostakovich’s incredibly powerful String Quartet No.8 was officially dedicated ‘to the memory of the victims of fascism and war’ but there is much to suggest that Shostakovich meant it as a musical self-portrait. Smetana’s String Quartet No.1 ‘From My Life’ is a different type of musical portrait, taking us on a vivid, programmatic ... Read more

Marwood + ANAM Musicians: Schumann & Mozart

Melbourne Recital Centre - Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

MOSTLY MOZART: LEGACY Legendary violinist, Anthony Marwood performs/directs ANAM musicians in a hypnotic program of Mozart and Schumann, continuing his longstanding relationship with ANAM. As one of his most revered works, Mozart’s ‘Jupiter’ symphony is known to represent the peak of his compositional brilliance. The final movement’s theme embodies the unique elements of spiritual divinity ... Read more

$42 – $49

Australian Chamber Choir: Bach, Byrd, Palestrina, Schütz & more

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park 210 Richardson St, Middle Park, Vic, Australia

BAROQUE CHRISTMAS In this fabulously entertaining hour of music for the Christmas season, the ACC8 treats you to a historical ‘pick of the pops’, from the late 1400s to the end of the Baroque period and beyond, including works from their Baroque Christmas CD. The possibilities are endless, so the program will be strikingly different from ... Read more

$26.50 – $86.50

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra + Australian Boys Choir: Bach

Melbourne Recital Centre - Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

MISSA BREVIS Nicholas Dinopoulos leads nearly 200 singers of the Australian Boys Choral Institute and The Vocal Consort in this unmissable traditional festive gala event. Featuring the Melbourne Baroque Orchestra on period instruments, as well as Fiore Chamber Ensemble: Monika Harris, Alexander Ritter, Anish Nair, and Lachlan McDonald in J.S. Bach’s joyous Missa Brevis in ... Read more

$34 – $60