Gesualdo Six: Tallis, Byrd, Sheryngham, des Prez, Brumel, Tomkins, Marenzio, Gesualdo and more

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

Gesualdo Six present a wide-ranging selection of inspiring vocal consort works from Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Josquin des Prez, Judith Weir, Eleanor Daley and more. The first half of the program explores sacred music from the Renaissance in Europe, written at a time of great change and fuelled by religious division. Works by Byrd and ... Read more

$59 – $79

Henbest, Black + ANAM musicians

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

MOSTLY MOZART: BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS ANAM Faculty Caroline Henbest and Zoë Black perform with and direct ANAM musicians in a dynamic program of Brahms and Mozart, as part of our Mostly Mozart series. Commencing with one of Brahms’ most celebrated works, String Quintet no. 2 showcases a mastery of Romantic writing, coupled with motific gesture and technical ... Read more

$42 – $49

Melbourne Bach Chamber Choir: Bach

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

ST JOHN PASSION ON GOOD FRIDAY Following Melbourne Bach Choir’s highly successful St Matthew Passion last Easter, MBC presents Bach’s St John Passion, for the first time performed by a small choir. Melbourne Bach Chamber Choir is joined by a superb group of soloists. Andrew Goodwin’s masterful narration as the Evangelist and Christopher Hillier’s moving Jesus frame ... Read more

$50 – $130

Melbourne Bach Choir: Handel

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

HANDEL'S MESSIAH Halleluja! Melbourne audiences will have the opportunity to experience Handel’s Messiah at Easter, the festival for which Handel conceived this masterpiece, and with which it was most associated until the 20th century. Melbourne Bach Choir and Orchestra conducted by Rick Prakhoff, with soloists Lorina Gore (soprano), Belinda Paterson (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Goodwin (tenor) and ... Read more

$50 – $130

Lacey, McGrath, Go, Robinson + ANAM strings: Thorvaldsdottir, Adès, Dunstable, Davies, Dillon, Byrd, Robinson & Illean

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

FINDING OUR VOICE Finding Our Voice is a nationwide project that invites eight Australian artists to create ambitious new musical compositions, illustrating a remarkable range of music-making. This program sets the pristine beauty of a handful of cult contemporary pieces alongside the aching clarity of renaissance music. Performed by ever-changing constellations of piano, strings and electronics, ... Read more

$29 – $49

Brodsky Quartet: Bach, Britten & Schubert

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

Brodsky Quartet celebrate their 50th anniversary with a brilliantly imagined program of Bach, Britten and Schubert. Weaving musical magic, the legendary string quartet will demonstrate to audiences the fiercely focused and blazing integrity that comes from 50 years of collaboration and imagination. ‘How has it been 50 years since we started this lifelong journey together? ... Read more

$59 – $79

Walker + Ridout + Lenaerts: Debussy, Benjamin, Telemann, Takemitsu, Messaien & Gubaidulina

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

Sometimes a concert can be like a walk through a beautiful garden, with gorgeous blooms, intriguingly patterned ferns, and now and then a dramatic grass tree shooting skywards. The rather unusual line-up of instruments for this program offers just such an experience for the listener: a world of glowing sounds, with something entrancing around every ... Read more

$58 – $158

MCO + Polyphonic Voices: Bach, Vasks, Ross Edwards & Vivaldi

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

HIGHER POWER Soul and story; serenity and ecstasy. Across time and place, composers have been inspired to serve a spiritual vision, and pursue expression that transcends words alone. You don’t need to believe in a higher power to experience it. We depart with Bach in his relentless quest for perfection in the Brandenburg concertos, and ... Read more

$30 – $140

MCO + Polyphonic Voices: Bach, Vasks, Ross Edwards & Vivaldi

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

HIGHER POWER Soul and story; serenity and ecstasy. Across time and place, composers have been inspired to serve a spiritual vision, and pursue expression that transcends words alone. You don’t need to believe in a higher power to experience it. We depart with Bach in his relentless quest for perfection in the Brandenburg concertos, and ... Read more

$30 – $140

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

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

PARISIENNES Quatuor Van Kuijk celebrate 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. ... Read more

$59 – $79

Walker + Ridout + Lenaerts: Debussy, Benjamin, Telemann, Takemitsu, Messaien & Gubaidulina

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

Sometimes a concert can be like a walk through a beautiful garden, with gorgeous blooms, intriguingly patterned ferns, and now and then a dramatic grass tree shooting skywards. The rather unusual line-up of instruments for this program offers just such an experience for the listener: a world of glowing sounds, with something entrancing around every ... Read more

$58 – $158

ABO + Brandenburg Choir: Vivaldi

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

VIVALDI UNPLUGGED Known as ‘The Red Priest’ for his shocking mane of red hair and bursting with energy, Antonio Vivaldi was a Baroque rock star. In Vivaldi Unplugged, the Brandenburg bring two of his masterpieces roaring to life. Gloria and The Four Seasons are given theatrical adrenaline shots of colour, movement and light to reveal both the ... Read more

$40 – $185

ABO + Brandenburg Choir: Vivaldi

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

VIVALDI UNPLUGGED Known as ‘The Red Priest’ for his shocking mane of red hair and bursting with energy, Antonio Vivaldi was a Baroque rock star. In Vivaldi Unplugged, the Brandenburg bring two of his masterpieces roaring to life. Gloria and The Four Seasons are given theatrical adrenaline shots of colour, movement and light to reveal both the ... Read more

$40 – $185

ABO + Brandenburg Choir: Vivaldi

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

VIVALDI UNPLUGGED Known as ‘The Red Priest’ for his shocking mane of red hair and bursting with energy, Antonio Vivaldi was a Baroque rock star. In Vivaldi Unplugged, the Brandenburg bring two of his masterpieces roaring to life. Gloria and The Four Seasons are given theatrical adrenaline shots of colour, movement and light to reveal both the ... Read more

$40 – $185

Australian String Quartet: Adès, Mozart & Shostakovich

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

UTOPIAS Vanishing visions of the idyll—a Utopian world of natural splendour, both aquatic and pastoral—are conjured by an intricate and highly original string soundscape from Thomas Adès, titled Arcadiana. Following this is Mozart’s String Quartet in D minor—intensely personal in its expression, moments of intimately sublime sorrow give way to bursts of playful radiance, in only ... Read more

$33 – $78

Ensemble Liaison + Tim Munro: Cerrone, Wesley-Smith, C Schumann & Brahms

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

ENSEMBLE LIAISON are delighted to be back for their 18th season to present an exciting collaboration with triple-Grammy-award winning artist Tim Munro. Flutist with the internationally acclaimed Eighth Blackbird for ten years, Tim joins Ensemble Liaison in a program that brings emotional immediacy in Christopher Cerrone’s mesmerizing, New Addresses, inspired by the poetry of Kenneth Koch. Martin ... Read more

$45 – $55

ACO + Gregory: Carlos/Bach, Messiaen, Waxman, Carlos, Vangelis, Williams, Zimmer, Artemyev/Bach & Derbyshire/Grainer

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

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE & BEYOND We go to the movies to explore the innovations that shaped a generation of trailblazing composers and their unique sound worlds for the screen. Joining the ACO is electronic artist Will Gregory, co-founder and member of internationally revered English electronic music duo Goldfrapp, and an ensemble of Moog Synthesisers. Pioneers ... Read more

$25 – $139

ACO + Gregory: Carlos/Bach, Messiaen, Waxman, Carlos, Vangelis, Williams, Zimmer, Artemyev/Bach & Derbyshire/Grainer

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

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE & BEYOND We go to the movies to explore the innovations that shaped a generation of trailblazing composers and their unique sound worlds for the screen. Joining the ACO is electronic artist Will Gregory, co-founder and member of internationally revered English electronic music duo Goldfrapp, and an ensemble of Moog Synthesisers. Pioneers ... Read more

$25 – $139

La Compañia: “Baroque of Mexico”

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

In this concert, La Compañia explore the Baroque gateway to the Americas, Mexico. It was a thriving hub of cultural connections where exhilarating and captivating music emerged. Folk traditions from a sophisticated and ancient culture artfully infused with the Baroque brilliance of the Iberian Peninsula is spiced with African rhythms. This beautiful and fascinating music ... Read more

$45 – $55

Event Series ACO + friends: Mozart

ACO + friends: Mozart

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

MOZART SYMPHONIES Mozart’s Paris Symphony was such an instant success that its first audience was in rapturous applause before the opening movement had even ended. The ceremonial Haffner and mercurial Linz are further testament to the miraculous scope of Mozart’s genius. Joining the ACO for this unmissable spectacle are wind and brass players hand-picked by Richard Tognetti from the world’s finest period-instrument orchestras, and string ... Read more

$25 – $139
Event Series ACO + friends: Mozart

ACO + friends: Mozart

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

MOZART SYMPHONIES Mozart’s Paris Symphony was such an instant success that its first audience was in rapturous applause before the opening movement had even ended. The ceremonial Haffner and mercurial Linz are further testament to the miraculous scope of Mozart’s genius. Joining the ACO for this unmissable spectacle are wind and brass players hand-picked by Richard Tognetti from the world’s finest period-instrument orchestras, and string ... Read more

$25 – $139

MCO + Genevieve Lacey: Byrd, Purcell, Elgar, Walton & more

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

THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD The two great gardens of English music, separated by two centuries, are the theme of this concert experience co-curated by Sophie Rowell and the incomparable Genevieve Lacey. The beautiful, intricate music of Elizabethan & Stuart England is an escape to a world far from our own. In this first flowering ... Read more

$30 – $140

MCO + Genevieve Lacey: Byrd, Purcell, Elgar, Walton & more

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

THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD The two great gardens of English music, separated by two centuries, are the theme of this concert experience co-curated by Sophie Rowell and the incomparable Genevieve Lacey. The beautiful, intricate music of Elizabethan & Stuart England is an escape to a world far from our own. In this first flowering ... Read more

$30 – $140

Omega Ensemble + Gould: Montgomery, Edwards & Glass

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

ECSTATIC DANCES When Ross Edwards composed his first Ecstatic Dance in 1978, he discovered an idiosyncratic and kinetic way of writing. It was a formative moment, from which emerged the composers’ iconic and infectiously jubilant style that defined a generation of Australian classical music. In his 80th birthday year, Omega Ensemble gives the world premiere ... Read more

$39 – $119

ABO + Brandenburg Choir + Dyer: Ottoman baroque music

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

OTTOMAN BAROQUE Beautiful, graceful, peaceful – the Whirling Dervishes of the Sufi Mevlevi Order from Konya, Turkey join the Brandenburg onstage. The lights dim and the mystic ceremony begins. The sounds of the Ottoman instruments, rare, pure and ravishing, the choral sounds of the Brandenburg Choir chanting the poems of Jalaluddin Rumi, the exotic mystic ... Read more

$40 – $185

ABO + Brandenburg Choir + Dyer: Ottoman baroque music

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

OTTOMAN BAROQUE Beautiful, graceful, peaceful – the Whirling Dervishes of the Sufi Mevlevi Order from Konya, Turkey join the Brandenburg onstage. The lights dim and the mystic ceremony begins. The sounds of the Ottoman instruments, rare, pure and ravishing, the choral sounds of the Brandenburg Choir chanting the poems of Jalaluddin Rumi, the exotic mystic ... Read more

$40 – $185

ABO + Brandenburg Choir + Dyer: Ottoman baroque music

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

OTTOMAN BAROQUE Beautiful, graceful, peaceful – the Whirling Dervishes of the Sufi Mevlevi Order from Konya, Turkey join the Brandenburg onstage. The lights dim and the mystic ceremony begins. The sounds of the Ottoman instruments, rare, pure and ravishing, the choral sounds of the Brandenburg Choir chanting the poems of Jalaluddin Rumi, the exotic mystic ... Read more

$40 – $185

Silk, Metal, Wood: Bach, Kengyo, Jankowski, Williamson, Britten & Offenbach

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

This program started with an invitation to the fascinating French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras – a human vessel of his instrument’s soulful beauty, and a musician known for his sense of artistic adventure. He leapt at the chance to work with one of Australia’s musical treasures: Satsuki Odamura, a grand master of the koto – a ... Read more

$40 – $158

Silk, Metal, Wood: Bach, Kengyo, Jankowski, Williamson, Britten & Offenbach

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

This program started with an invitation to the fascinating French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras – a human vessel of his instrument’s soulful beauty, and a musician known for his sense of artistic adventure. He leapt at the chance to work with one of Australia’s musical treasures: Satsuki Odamura, a grand master of the koto – a ... Read more

$40 – $158

MCO: Stamitz, Britten, Duarte, Martin & Haydn

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

THE ART OF THE SYMPHONY From the ancient Greek for ‘sounded harmoniously’, the words ‘sinfonia’ and ‘symphony’ have been used for centuries. Leonora Duarte, a Flemish composer who died before Bach was born, used it to describe her haunting works for viol ensemble. Johann Stamitz was a visionary, writing some of the first works that ... Read more

$30 – $140

MCO: Stamitz, Britten, Duarte, Martin & Haydn

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

THE ART OF THE SYMPHONY From the ancient Greek for ‘sounded harmoniously’, the words ‘sinfonia’ and ‘symphony’ have been used for centuries. Leonora Duarte, a Flemish composer who died before Bach was born, used it to describe her haunting works for viol ensemble. Johann Stamitz was a visionary, writing some of the first works that ... Read more

$30 – $140

Event Series ABO + de Swarte:

ABO + de Swarte: 17th century music

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

THE LOVER Théotime Langlois de Swarte, a rising star and an intrepid Baroque violinist mentored by William Christie Les Arts Florissants, makes his Australian debut in a sensual, beautiful and ultimately explosive pasticcio curated by Théotime and Paul Dyer. Baroque harps, violins, lutes and theorbos take a starring role in the haunting first act. The second ... Read more

$40 – $185

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

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

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
Event Series ABO + de Swarte:

ABO + de Swarte: 17th century music

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

THE LOVER Théotime Langlois de Swarte, a rising star and an intrepid Baroque violinist mentored by William Christie Les Arts Florissants, makes his Australian debut in a sensual, beautiful and ultimately explosive pasticcio curated by Théotime and Paul Dyer. Baroque harps, violins, lutes and theorbos take a starring role in the haunting first act. The second ... Read more

$40 – $185
Event Series ABO + de Swarte:

ABO + de Swarte: 17th century music

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

THE LOVER Théotime Langlois de Swarte, a rising star and an intrepid Baroque violinist mentored by William Christie Les Arts Florissants, makes his Australian debut in a sensual, beautiful and ultimately explosive pasticcio curated by Théotime and Paul Dyer. Baroque harps, violins, lutes and theorbos take a starring role in the haunting first act. The second ... Read more

$40 – $185

ACO: Adés, Bach, Sollima, Boccherini & Tchaikovsky

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

POSTCARDS FROM ITALY Join ACO as they travel to Italy, a destination rich with art, music and life that has cultivated and inspired generations of composers and musicians. Bach’s popular Italian Concerto reveals his lasting fascination with the country’s musical innovations, while the great Tuscan cello virtuoso and composer Luigi Boccherini embodies its elegance and grace. Tchaikovsky ... Read more

$25 – $124

ACO: Adés, Bach, Sollima, Boccherini & Tchaikovsky

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

POSTCARDS FROM ITALY Join ACO as they travel to Italy, a destination rich with art, music and life that has cultivated and inspired generations of composers and musicians. Bach’s popular Italian Concerto reveals his lasting fascination with the country’s musical innovations, while the great Tuscan cello virtuoso and composer Luigi Boccherini embodies its elegance and grace. Tchaikovsky ... Read more

$25 – $124

Vision String Quartet: Bloch, Bartók & Dvořák

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

The conductor Jeffrey Tate once described the string quartet as ‘the most perfect expression of human behaviour’. Composers from Haydn to Adès have revelled in this most intimate and virtuosic of musical forms, awed by the sight of four musicians moving across a tightrope at speed. The four young musicians that make up the Vision ... Read more

$40 – $158

La Compañia: Renaissance Rhythms

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

Come join the dance! …from a spicy tarantella to stately pavane, a vivacious galliard or a joyous chacona. La Compania glides pass Mediterranean shores to visit aristocratic parlours, boisterous taverns, town plazas and royal courts discovering the highly fashionable dances that transfixed society. So rich in variety these alluring tunes along with poetic soulful songs ... Read more

$45 – $55

MCO + Jumppanen: Greenbaum, Rautavaara, Beethoven & Mozart

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

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