String quartets

Partridge String Quartet + Laussade: Spruance & Brahms

Come hear sublime masterpieces and enjoy an intimate soiree with great music and wonderful friends.

With Elyane Laussade, Partridge String Quartet are performing one of the most beloved chamber music works of all time - Brahms’ profound Piano Quintet.

Before joining forces with Elyane, they will be performing a quartet favourite- Trey Spruance’s Seraphita, an exciting work full of surprises!

Reservations can be made by contacting: htelyanelaussade@outlook.com. Please include your phone number for confirmation. If you do not receive confirmation within 3 days, please text 0408 626 808.

Venue address will be provided when you make a reservation.

Admission cost includes post-concert party.

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Artamidae Quartet: Beethoven – Project Ludwig

BUILD YOUR OWN BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTET!

Join stars-on-the-rise, the Artamidae Quartet, for a family-friendly, interactive journey through Beethoven’s Opus 18 string quartets, where you decide the program!

Dive headfirst into Beethoven’s sound-world in this special choose-your-own-adventure style event, culminating in a new and unique Beethoven concert experience every time, performed live by the Artamidae Quartet.

In this approx 50-minute experience you will be able to learn about music of Ludwig van Beethoven’s famous Opus 18 string quartets and have the opportunity to speak personally with the musicians about their favourite music, before choosing what you’d like to hear and experiencing your very own, unique, Beethoven string quartet!

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Artamidae Quartet: Beethoven – Project Ludwig

BUILD YOUR OWN BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTET!

Join stars-on-the-rise, the Artamidae Quartet, for a family-friendly, interactive journey through Beethoven’s Opus 18 string quartets, where you decide the program!

Dive headfirst into Beethoven’s sound-world in this special choose-your-own-adventure style event, culminating in a new and unique Beethoven concert experience every time, performed live by the Artamidae Quartet.

In this approx 50-minute experience you will be able to learn about music of Ludwig van Beethoven’s famous Opus 18 string quartets and have the opportunity to speak personally with the musicians about their favourite music, before choosing what you’d like to hear and experiencing your very own, unique, Beethoven string quartet!

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Artamidae Quartet: Beethoven – Project Ludwig

BUILD YOUR OWN BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTET!

Join stars-on-the-rise, the Artamidae Quartet, for a family-friendly, interactive journey through Beethoven’s Opus 18 string quartets, where you decide the program!

Dive headfirst into Beethoven’s sound-world in this special choose-your-own-adventure style event, culminating in a new and unique Beethoven concert experience every time, performed live by the Artamidae Quartet.

In this approx 50-minute experience you will be able to learn about music of Ludwig van Beethoven’s famous Opus 18 string quartets and have the opportunity to speak personally with the musicians about their favourite music, before choosing what you’d like to hear and experiencing your very own, unique, Beethoven string quartet!

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Artamidae Quartet: Beethoven – Project Ludwig

BUILD YOUR OWN BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTET!

Join stars-on-the-rise, the Artamidae Quartet, for a family-friendly, interactive journey through Beethoven’s Opus 18 string quartets, where you decide the program!

Dive headfirst into Beethoven’s sound-world in this special choose-your-own-adventure style event, culminating in a new and unique Beethoven concert experience every time, performed live by the Artamidae Quartet.

In this approx 50-minute experience you will be able to learn about music of Ludwig van Beethoven’s famous Opus 18 string quartets and have the opportunity to speak personally with the musicians about their favourite music, before choosing what you’d like to hear and experiencing your very own, unique, Beethoven string quartet!

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Artamidae Quartet: Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Op. 18 string quartets stand as a testament to his mastery of the genre and his bold departure from classical conventions. They represent a bridge between the classical style of Haydn and Mozart and the revolutionary spirit of his later works.

String Quartet in G Major, Op.18 No.2 possesses a youthful spirit containing undercurrents of the musical innovations the composer was on the cusp of realising. It is a work of witty exchanges, intertwining themes, and playful conversation between the four instruments.

String Quartet in C minor, Op.18 No.4 is, in contrast to the G Major, is a work of greater emotional depth. Dramatic gestures, turbulent emotions, and introspective explorations of the melancholy are juxtaposed against moments of playful respite and spirited triumph.

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ANAM Musicians: Bozza & Farrenc

Presented by St Silas Anglican Church in Albert Park, ANAM musicians return to this beautiful venue for an exciting chamber music performance.

BOZZA Sonatine (for brass ensemble)
FARRENC Nonet in E-flat major, op.38 (for string quartet plus wind quintet)

Tickets available to book at the door.

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Partridge String Quartet

The Partridge Quartet comprises highly accomplished Melbourne based musicians who have had engagements and received accolades around the world. This concert in Mount Beauty will be a unique event as David Hush's latest composition,'The 4th Quartet" , will have its World Premiere performance. The Upper Kiewa Valley Regional Arts Inc is delighted to be able to bring this performance to you. It will be held in the Mount Beauty Community Centre, a venue which regularly receives very positive feedback as an acoustic venue.

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Affinity Quartet: Haydn & Beethoven

BEETHOVEN'S 'RAZUMOVSKY'

Fresh from their Grand Prize win at the 2023 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, in which they also won the Audience Prize and the Robert Salzer String Quartet First Prize, Melbourne’s own Affinity Quartet performs a new program at Tempo Rubato for one night only.

Straddling the 18th and 19th centuries and composed less than 10 years apart, Haydn’s Emperor and Beethoven’s 2nd Razumovsky Quartet capture the creative explosion of the Golden Age of the string quartet.

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Penny Quartet: Bartók, Dutton & Haydn

Penny Quartet are thrilled to be returning to Ballarat, bringing their signature joyous approach to a program celebrating the sublime, some grit and all that lies between.

Masterpieces by Bartók and Haydn bookend the Penny Quartet’s Viva Edge offering, providing a study in contrasts. Where Bartók’s Fourth String Quartet has a muscular, driving power, Haydn’s String Quartet in F Major is a diaphanous beauty, akin to a serenade. Both are unforgettable, especially when played by such vibrant musicians.

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Conservatorium Strings: Dvořák, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart & Schubert

MIMIR EMERGING ARTISTS CONCERT

The Mimir Chamber Music Festival will celebrate its ninth season in 2023. Featuring a collection of prominent performing artists from North America joined by Conservatorium staff from Strings, Woodwind and Keyboard. The event works intensively with the Conservatorium String Ensemble in quartet configuration, and offers masterclasses and demonstrations for the Strings cohort as well as at Performance Class and with secondary school students.

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Conservatorium musicians + guests: Rachmaninov, Esmail & Brahms

MIMIR CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT 3

The Mimir Chamber Music Festival will celebrate its ninth season in 2023. Featuring a collection of prominent performing artists from North America joined by Conservatorium staff from Strings, Woodwind and Keyboard. The event works intensively with the Conservatorium String Ensemble in quartet configuration, and offers masterclasses and demonstrations for the Strings cohort as well as at Performance Class and with secondary school students.

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Conservatorium Strings + guests: Shostakovich, Beethoven & Schoenfield

MIMIR CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT 2

The Mimir Chamber Music Festival will celebrate its ninth season in 2023. Featuring a collection of prominent performing artists from North America joined by Conservatorium staff from Strings, Woodwind and Keyboard. The event works intensively with the Conservatorium String Ensemble in quartet configuration, and offers masterclasses and demonstrations for the Strings cohort as well as at Performance Class and with secondary school students.

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Flinders Quartet + Dong Ma: Bach/Yu & Gifford

A marriage of musicians and culture matched with times past, present, and future to create a soundscape that is unexpectedly homogeneous and extraordinarily beautiful. Dong Ma’s virtuosity on the erhu is perfectly matched with Julian Yu’s arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and together they create a mesmerizing performance that transcends time and cultural barriers. Yuin woman Brenda Gifford’s heartfelt work “Dissipate” adds depth and meaning to the overall program, resulting in a strikingly successful musical fusion that will leave audiences in awe.

This very special concert program is the culmination of extensive creative development, and represents a true collaboration between talented musicians from different cultural backgrounds. It is a remarkable celebration of diversity, creativity, and the unifying power of music.

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Flinders Quartet + Dong Ma: Bach/Yu & Gifford

A marriage of musicians and culture matched with times past, present, and future to create a soundscape that is unexpectedly homogeneous and extraordinarily beautiful. Dong Ma’s virtuosity on the erhu is perfectly matched with Julian Yu’s arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and together they create a mesmerizing performance that transcends time and cultural barriers. Yuin woman Brenda Gifford’s heartfelt work “Dissipate” adds depth and meaning to the overall program, resulting in a strikingly successful musical fusion that will leave audiences in awe.

This very special concert program is the culmination of extensive creative development, and represents a true collaboration between talented musicians from different cultural backgrounds. It is a remarkable celebration of diversity, creativity, and the unifying power of music.

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Flinders Quartet + Dong Ma: Holst, Bach/Yu & Gifford

A marriage of musicians and culture matched with times past, present, and future to create a soundscape that is unexpectedly homogeneous and extraordinarily beautiful. Dong Ma’s virtuosity on the erhu is perfectly matched with Julian Yu’s arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and together they create a mesmerizing performance that transcends time and cultural barriers. Yuin woman Brenda Gifford’s heartfelt work “Dissipate” adds depth and meaning to the overall program, resulting in a strikingly successful musical fusion that will leave audiences in awe.

This very special concert program is the culmination of extensive creative development, and represents a true collaboration between talented musicians from different cultural backgrounds. It is a remarkable celebration of diversity, creativity, and the unifying power of music.

Ticket price includes light refreshments.

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Flinders Quartet + Dong Ma: Bach/Yu & Gifford

A marriage of musicians and culture matched with times past, present, and future to create a soundscape that is unexpectedly homogeneous and extraordinarily beautiful. Dong Ma’s virtuosity on the erhu is perfectly matched with Julian Yu’s arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and together they create a mesmerizing performance that transcends time and cultural barriers. Yuin woman Brenda Gifford’s heartfelt work “Dissipate” adds depth and meaning to the overall program, resulting in a strikingly successful musical fusion that will leave audiences in awe.

This very special concert program is the culmination of extensive creative development, and represents a true collaboration between talented musicians from different cultural backgrounds. It is a remarkable celebration of diversity, creativity, and the unifying power of music.

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Flinders Quartet + Piccolo Quartet: Beethoven & Mendelssohn

One of Australia's most loved chamber ensembles is returning to Avenel for a very special concert.

They bring with them young, up and coming performers, the Piccolo String Quartet, winners of the 2022 Musica Viva Strike a Chord Flinders Quartet Mentorship Prize.

A light supper will be served from 6pm prior to the concert. Ticket price includes supper.

The concert will commence at 7pm.

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Affinity Quartet: Haydn & Bartók

INNOVATORS

Join Affinity Quartet as they perform a program of innovative treasures for string quartet by Haydn and Bartók. Opening with Haydn’s String Quartet Op.76, No.3 in C ‘Emperor’, witness this ground-breaking composition which was lauded at the time as being ‘full of invention, fire, good taste, and new effects.’ At the turn of the twentieth century, Bartók’s first String Quartet looks back to Beethoven’s monumental String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op.131, to forge a visceral, haunting musical language that he would expand upon over the next thirty years.

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Affinity Quartet: Haydn, Kurtag & Beethoven

Affinity musicians bring considerable experience from previous ensembles including Flinders Quartet, Momentum Ensemble, as well as holding Principal and Contract roles with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Chamber Opera and Australian World Orchestra.

Affinity Quartet won Second Prize at the 2023 Mozart International String Quartet Competition, Salzburg, where they also received a Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of a Contemporary Work for their Finals performance of Brett Dean’s (AU) String Quartet no.3 ‘Hidden Agendas’. Also recently, they received Third Prize at the 2022 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, London.

AND they were the Grand Prize winners at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2023.

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Invictus Quartet: morning music

Join us for this special Morning Music performance by the Invictus Quartet. They will perform a program of beloved string quartet pieces along with a few of their signature surprise arrangements!

The Invictus Quartet is a group of four young women who are passionate about connecting with people through music of all genres. They they have performed in Austria, America and across Victoria.

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Conservatorium Musicians: Kouvaras

ALBUM LAUNCHES

This year marks the release of the first two albums, presented as a double-release, of the complete solo and chamber music 1993-2023 of Linda Kouvaras, on renowned international, UK-based label Toccata Classics. This large-scale recording project, curated by pianist Coady Green, is a significant international celebration of Australian music, and of the music of one of the Conservatoriums's senior professorial staff members. The 6-album project involves numerous performance staff from the Conservatorium. This concert proposal acts as the launch of the first two albums, and a celebration for the many Conservatorium staff involved in this project.

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Conservatorium Strings: tba

MIMIR CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT 1

The Mimir Chamber Music Festival will celebrate its ninth season in 2023. Featuring a collection of prominent performing artists from North America joined by Conservatorium staff from Strings, Woodwind and Keyboard. The event works intensively with the Conservatorium String Ensemble in quartet configuration, and offers masterclasses and demonstrations for the Strings cohort as well as at Performance Class and with secondary school students.

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MICMC String Quartets Grand Final

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION

STRING QUARTETS GRAND FINAL

Grand Finalists of MICMC 2023 perform Live in Concert from the Melbourne Recital Centre competing for a prize pool of over $150,000, and a Grand Prize worth $30,000.

String Quartets perform one complete work of the quartet’s own choice.

Following jury deliberations at the end of the String Quartet Grand Final Concert, all prizes will be announced.

You can book for single concerts, purchase a Grand Final Day Pass, or purchase a package for the entire competition. Price listed below is for one concert.

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Mosaicas: Klein, Gallos, Zamboni & more

Introducing Mosaicas - a four piece string ensemble dedicated to the performance of early and modern tango, interwoven with Argentinian folk, in a contemporary chamber music setting. Paloma Bica (violin), Rose Kavanagh (violin), Nadia Barrow (cello) and Chris Gelok (double bass) perform regularly together as part of the Melbourne Tango Orchestra. Now, Mosaicas sees them fusing their love of Tango with chamber music.

With works by Guillermo Klein through to Ramiro Gallos and Ernesto Zamboni, Mosaicas will present an evening of quartets and duets displaying the breadth of possibilities of Tango for strings.

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Mitchell + Jaffe + quartet: Jaffe & Mitchell

With a unique voice that has made her a promising upcoming act in the Australian folk scene, award winning songwriter, Ailsa Mitchell, has a sound that pairs well with knitted jumpers, scenic road trips and a place by the fire on a frosty day. Fresh off the release of her debut EP 'Orange and Blue', Ailsa will be joined by a string quartet to reinterpret the EP's songs with new arrangements by Pat Jaffe (previously string arranger for Hiatus Kaiyote's Nai Palm and Academy Award winning singer-songwriter Markéta Irglová).

The opening set will feature Pat's chamber works for piano and string quartet from his debut album 'Eldorado' and newer works composed as a part of his Angus Gray Piano Performance Grant in 2021.

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MICMC SEMI FINAL

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION SEMI FINAL

Following highly competitive Live Rounds, five String Quartets and five Piano Trios perform in the Semi Final concerts at Hawthorn Arts Centre.

String Quartets and Piano Trios will all perform a complete quartet by Beethoven or Schubert.

Following the Semi Finals, the jury will select three (3) string quartets and three (3) piano trios to proceed to the Finals.

There are 5 concerts in the Semi Final, at 10am, 12pm, 2:30pm, 4:30pm and 7:30pm.

You can book for single concerts, purchase a Semi Final Day Pass, or purchase a package for the entire competition. Price listed below is for one single concert.

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MICMC ROUND 2

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION ROUND 2

Watch Round Two of this incredible competition live at Hawthorn Arts Centre.

String Quartets and Piano Trios are required to perform the MICMC commissioned work; and a complete 19th or 20th century Romantic work.

In addition to the required repertoire above, all competitors may perform a work of their own choice in either Round One or Round Two.

Following Round Two, the jury will select five (5) string quartets and five (5) piano trios to proceed to the Semi Finals Day.

There are 5 concerts in Round 2, three on Wednesday at 10am, 2:30pm and 7:30pm, and two on Thursday at 10am and 3pm. To see which ensembles are playing in each concert, click here.

You can book for single concerts, or purchase a package for the entire competition. Price listed below is for one single concert.

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MICMC ROUND 1

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION ROUND 1

Round One opens this prestigious competition live at Hawthorn Arts Centre.

String Quartets are required to perform a complete quartet by Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven Op.18; and a complete 20th century quartet.

Piano Trios are required to perform a complete trio by Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven Op.1; and a complete 20th century trio.

In addition to the required repertoire above, all competitors may perform a work of their own choice in either Round One or Round Two.

There are 6 concerts in Round 1, three each day at 10am, 3pm and 6:30pm. To see which ensembles are playing in each concert, click here.

You can book for single concerts, or purchase a package for the entire competition. Price listed below is for one single concert.

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Affinity Quartet: Haydn, Misson & Beethoven

Affinity Quartet return to the Primrose Potter Salon for a program featuring two seminal string quartets. Opening with Haydn’s String Quartet Op.50, No.5 ‘Dream’, this work beautifully showcases the dance between violin, viola and cello. Beethoven’s String Quartet No.11 however, was considered an experiment on compositional techniques of the time with the composer himself rumoured to believe it too extreme for audience consumption, quoted as saying ‘[the piece] is never to be performed in public.’

Sandwiched between these two great and vastly different works is the world premiere of a piece that brings together both the progressive and popular elements of string quartet composition: Tom Misson’s Melbourne Recital Centre and the University of Melbourne commissioned Infinite Affinities.

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Affinity Quartet

The Melbourne Athenaeum welcome Josephine, Nicholas, Ruby, and Mee Na of Affinity Quartet to perform in the Athenaeum Library.

Last time Affinity Quartet performed in the library we had to talk them into a second performance in the same week because they proved so popular. Don't miss your chance this time.

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Affinity Quartet: Mendelssohn & Beethoven

Returning by popular demand, Affinity Quartet performs three programs at Aireys Inlet Community Hall this May 26-29 promising audiences a diverse selection of repertoire from their recent 4 month European sojourn - works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Janáček and Kurtag. Aireys Inlet holds treasured memories for Affinity Quartet since their 2021 lockdown adventures and they are very excited to return.

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Affinity Quartet: Schubert

Returning by popular demand, Affinity Quartet performs three programs at Aireys Inlet Community Hall this May 26-29 promising audiences a diverse selection of repertoire from their recent 4 month European sojourn - works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Janáček and Kurtag. Aireys Inlet holds treasured memories for Affinity Quartet since their 2021 lockdown adventures and they are very excited to return.

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Affinity Quartet: Mozart, Kurtag & Janáček

Returning by popular demand, Affinity Quartet performs three programs at Aireys Inlet Community Hall this May 26-29 promising audiences a diverse selection of repertoire from their recent 4 month European sojourn - works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Janáček and Kurtag. Aireys Inlet holds treasured memories for Affinity Quartet since their 2021 lockdown adventures and they are very excited to return.

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Van Kuijk Quartet: Mozart, Debussy, de Chizy & Mendelssohn.

The Van Kuijk Quartet’s performance  as part of the 2023 Chamber Now series celebrates the quartet’s ten-year anniversary with a program of Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn and the Australian premiere of Edith Canat de Chizy’s String Quartet No.5 Oh God, written specially for the quartet.

Quatuor Van Kuijk are a fresh voice imbuing new energy and interpretations to the master works of the chamber catalogue. Join them for an evening traversing classical refinement in Mozart, the early Romantic explorations of Mendelssohn, the new Impressionist sounds of Debussy, and the thrilling and unsettling textural explorations of a new Edith Canat de Chizy work.

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Australian String Quartet: Mozart, Westlake & F Mendelssohn

Off the back of their 2022 visit to Sale, the Australian String Quartet returns with a program featuring a selection of melodic and rhapsodic musical gems.

This concert opens with Mozart’s String Quartet in D minor—intensely personal in its expression, it features moments of intimately sublime sorrow which give way to bursts of playful radiance, showcasing this incredible composer’s gift for melody.

Following Mozart is Australian composer Nigel Westlake’s Sacred Sky, commissioned by the ASQ and inspired by the seascape paintings of Westlake’s late sister Kate.

Finishing this concert is Fanny Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in E-flat Major. This extraordinarily stunning, dreamlike composition is one of the earliest known string quartets written by a woman, and its rousing finale is the perfect conclusion to this performance.

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Affinity Quartet: Kurtág & Schubert

'DEATH AND THE MAIDEN'

Affinity Quartet performs two masterworks linked by a poetic sense of time. The Hungarian living composer Gyorgy Kurtag’s ‘Six Moments Musicaux’ takes its form from music made famous by Schubert and others in the 19th century, where an entire world of emotions could be conveyed in literally just a ‘moment’.

Following Kurtag, Affinity Quartet performs Schubert’s epic 45 minute String Quartet no.14 ‘Death and the Maiden’, which was not publicly performed during his lifetime. When composing it in 1824, the 27 year old Schubert struggled with knowledge of his imminent death from syphilis. His imagining of ‘Death and the Maiden’ is inspired by the 18th century poem of the same name by Matthias Claudius. Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ conveys an intoxicating dialogue between present, past and future.

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Affinity Quartet: Mozart & Mendelssohn

"It tells a lot about the dedication of Affinity Quartet and about the quality of the individual players that after less than a year of playing together, they were awarded 3rd Prize at the 2022 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition in London, an incredible achievement.

They continue to further their development at prestigious international courses and we are very lucky to nab them on home turf. Their program features one of Mendelssohn's last and most dramatic works, written after the death of his beloved sister, Fanny, herself an accomplished composer. They were extremely close and it was not long after Fanny's death that Felix himself died." (Wilma Smith)

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ANAM Quartetthaus at Melbourne Museum

The biggest celebration of Australian and British string quartet music ever presented, ANAM Quartetthaus at Melbourne Museum will be staged on the Melbourne Museum Plaza.

Three Australian ensembles with connections to ANAM and three British ensembles with connections to London's Royal College of Music (RCM) – including a professional, early-career, and emerging ensemble from each country – will be performing:

  • Australian String Quartet (Australia), includes 3 ANAM alumni
  • Affinity Quartet (Australia), ANAM alumni
  • Artamidae Quartet (Australia), current ANAM musicians
  • Marmen String Quartet (United Kingdom), RCM alumni
  • Alkyona Quartet (United Kingdom), RCM string quartet fellows
  • Oriole String Quartet (United Kingdom), current RCM musicians

The season includes two works composed specially for the celebration by Jack Symonds (Australia) and Hannah Kendell (UK). The season includes music from Australia by Alice CHANCE, Brett DEAN, Ross EDWARDS, Jack FRERER, Alfred HILL, Miriam HYDE, Liza LIM, Matt LAING, Richard MEALE, Kate MOORE, Peter SCULTHORPE, Harry SDRAULIG, Paul STANHOPE, Jack SYMONDS and Nigel WESTLAKE.

Music from the United Kingdom in the season is by Thomas ADÈS, Sally BEAMISH, Benjamin BRITTEN, Rebecca CLARKE, Samuel COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, Edward ELGAR, Imogen HOLST, Hannah KENDALL, Elizabeth MACONCHY, Henry PURCELL, Michael TIPPETT and William WALTON.

Each of 52 concerts comprises different combinations of these works. Concerts are scheduled at 11am, 1pm, 2:30pm, 4pm, 6:30pm and 8pm each day. Four 9pm performances with a different spin – After Dark – are presented on the Friday and Saturday evenings during the season, making 56 concerts in all.

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Prices are for individual concerts, packages are also available.

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Penny Quartet: Bartók, Dutton & Haydn

Masterpieces by Bartók and Haydn bookend the Penny Quartet’s Viva Edge offering, providing a study in contrasts. Where Bartók’s Fourth String Quartet has a muscular, driving power, Haydn’s String Quartet in F Major is a diaphanous beauty, akin to a serenade. Both are unforgettable, especially when played by such vibrant musicians.

More info and bookings