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ANAM musicians: Styles, Paredes, Barrett, Varèse, Likhuta & Bhat

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

INFLECTIONS The ANAM Encounters series in Primrose Potter Salon at Melbourne Recital Centre showcases outstanding performers from the class of 2022 and connects them with audiences as they embark on their professional careers as leading creative artists. This concert features Aditya Bhat, 2022 winner of David Richards Performance Award for the Most Outstanding Performance of a Contemporary ... Read more

$30 – $37

Event Series Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Melbourne Recital Centre opens the doors of its intimate Primrose Potter Salon on one day each month from March to December for FREE open rehearsals featuring the very best of Melbourne’s chamber musicians. On each selected day the artists will use this opportunity to rehearse new works, new programs and try out new ideas for you, in ... Read more

Free

Divisi Chamber Singers: Gesualdo, Rowarth, Monteverdi, Bryars, Chance & Schütz

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

THE TURN Divisi’s debut in Melbourne Recital Centre’s Primrose Potter Salon explores the intrigue of madrigals, taking six narrators’ individual interpretations and coordinating them into a beautiful, cohesive story. Divisi Chamber Singers will take four hundred years of madrigal storytelling tradition and weave masterworks with contemporary comparisons. Ben Rowarth’s The Turn, an Australian premiere, gives ... Read more

$20 – $25

He + Lallo: Mozart, Rameau, Henryson, Greenbaum & Connesson

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

EXTRA/ORDINARY Chinese-born artist Yelian He (aka the Kung Fu Cellist) and Joseph Lallo, saxophone come together for this concert. This uncommon pairing of instruments will explore the theme behind the central works in the program. Swedish composer, bassist and cellist Svante Henryson’s Suite Off Pist explores challenges faced when wandering away from the beaten path ... Read more

$30 – $37

Event Series Benaud Trio: Cawrse & Fanny Mendelssohn

Benaud Trio: Cawrse & Fanny Mendelssohn

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

ORNAMENTAL While Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn were as prodigious musicians as one can imagine, Fanny was regularly left standing in her brother’s shadow. Felix’ talent was celebrated, while their father declared Fanny’s musicianship to be an ornament to her domestic life. This performance title Ornamental celebrates the life, the music, and the relationship between these ... Read more

$40 – $50
Event Series Benaud Trio: Cawrse & Fanny Mendelssohn

Benaud Trio: Cawrse & Fanny Mendelssohn

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

ORNAMENTAL While Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn were as prodigious musicians as one can imagine, Fanny was regularly left standing in her brother’s shadow. Felix’ talent was celebrated, while their father declared Fanny’s musicianship to be an ornament to her domestic life. This performance title Ornamental celebrates the life, the music, and the relationship between these ... Read more

$40 – $50
Event Series Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Melbourne Recital Centre opens the doors of its intimate Primrose Potter Salon on one day each month from March to December for FREE open rehearsals featuring the very best of Melbourne’s chamber musicians. On each selected day the artists will use this opportunity to rehearse new works, new programs and try out new ideas for you, in ... Read more

Free

Quartz: Webern & Beethoven

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

LANGSAMER Quartz present emotional works for the string quartet by Webern and Beethoven. Anton Webern’s utterly ravishing Langsamer Satz (Slow Movement) for string quartet was written when he was madly in love. Inspired by a hiking trip in the Austrian mountains with his future wife, the influence of Brahms in both romanticism and tonality are evident ... Read more

$30 – $37
Event Series Selby & Friends: :Haydn, Schoenberg & Dvořák

Selby & Friends: :Haydn, Schoenberg & Dvořák

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

ICONIC 'FATHERS' Selby & Friends’ is delighted to welcome back Natalie Chee and Julian Smiles after a Covid- interrupted tour in 2022. In this special program, Kathy and her friends present three iconic trailblazing composers whose influence exploded previous conceptions to pave an entirely new path forward. Haydn was a prolific piano trio composer who ... Read more

$59 – $77
Event Series Selby & Friends: :Haydn, Schoenberg & Dvořák

Selby & Friends: :Haydn, Schoenberg & Dvořák

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

ICONIC 'FATHERS' Selby & Friends’ is delighted to welcome back Natalie Chee and Julian Smiles after a Covid- interrupted tour in 2022. In this special program, Kathy and her friends present three iconic trailblazing composers whose influence exploded previous conceptions to pave an entirely new path forward. Haydn was a prolific piano trio composer who ... Read more

$59 – $77

Songmakers Australia: Schubert

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

THE BEAUTIFUL MILLER'S DAUGHTER Songmakers Australia celebrate 200 years of Die schöne Müllerin (The Fair Maid of the Mill), a song cycle based on 20 poems written by Wilhem Müller. ‘I feel myself to be the most unhappy and wretched creature in the world. Imagine a man whose health will never be right again, and who ... Read more

$30 – $37
Event Series Flinders Quartet: Maconchy & Beethoven

Flinders Quartet: Maconchy & Beethoven

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

"The chance to play one of Beethoven’s incomparable Op. 59 Razumovsky quartets, named after their commissioner, Count Razumovsky, the Russian Ambassador in Vienna, is something akin to a religious experience for quartet players, such is the consummate artistry of Beethoven in his middle period. I’m excited to pair Maconchy’s Quartet No. 5 with Beethoven’s Opus 59. ... Read more

$30 – $40
Event Series Flinders Quartet: Maconchy & Beethoven

Flinders Quartet: Maconchy & Beethoven

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

"The chance to play one of Beethoven’s incomparable Op. 59 Razumovsky quartets, named after their commissioner, Count Razumovsky, the Russian Ambassador in Vienna, is something akin to a religious experience for quartet players, such is the consummate artistry of Beethoven in his middle period. I’m excited to pair Maconchy’s Quartet No. 5 with Beethoven’s Opus 59. ... Read more

$30 – $40

Affinity Quartet: Haydn, Misson & Beethoven

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

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 ... Read more

$30 – $37

Event Series Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Melbourne Recital Centre opens the doors of its intimate Primrose Potter Salon on one day each month from March to December for FREE open rehearsals featuring the very best of Melbourne’s chamber musicians. On each selected day the artists will use this opportunity to rehearse new works, new programs and try out new ideas for you, in ... Read more

Free

Bowman: JS Bach

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

A CONTRAPUNTAL CORNUCOPIA: WELL-TEMPERED KLAVIER, BOOK 1 Revered by the greatest musicians of every age since their composition, the two books of Bach’s Das wohltemperierte Klavier are considered contrapuntal masterworks. A series of forty-eight preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys, both books are celebrated and beloved by keyboardists and audiences alike. While regarded ... Read more

$30 – $37
Event Series Selby & Friends: Boulanger, Brahms & Rachmaninov

Selby & Friends: Boulanger, Brahms & Rachmaninov

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

THREE STAGES OF MAN Selby & Friends’ fourth program of the year celebrates the three stages of man – to begin, the very youthful Lilly Boulanger, sister of the famous Nadia, whose untimely death in her twenties brought an end to a spectacularly gifted artist whose talents are easily displayed in this powerful set. We ... Read more

$59 – $77
Event Series Selby & Friends: Boulanger, Brahms & Rachmaninov

Selby & Friends: Boulanger, Brahms & Rachmaninov

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

THREE STAGES OF MAN Selby & Friends’ fourth program of the year celebrates the three stages of man – to begin, the very youthful Lilly Boulanger, sister of the famous Nadia, whose untimely death in her twenties brought an end to a spectacularly gifted artist whose talents are easily displayed in this powerful set. We ... Read more

$59 – $77

Event Series Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Melbourne Recital Centre opens the doors of its intimate Primrose Potter Salon on one day each month from March to December for FREE open rehearsals featuring the very best of Melbourne’s chamber musicians. On each selected day the artists will use this opportunity to rehearse new works, new programs and try out new ideas for you, in ... Read more

Free
Event Series Omega Ensemble: Mazzoli, Cerrone, Corigliano, Dessner & Prokofiev

Omega Ensemble: Mazzoli, Cerrone, Corigliano, Dessner & Prokofiev

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

BLOOD LORE Dark myths and disturbing forces are often the source of great music. Strange, peculiar and at times cataclysmic, this music transports you beyond our physical world and forces you to question the things you know to be true. Featuring that goes against the grain, this powerful program includes works by the worlds leading ... Read more

$59 – $69
Event Series Omega Ensemble: Mazzoli, Cerrone, Corigliano, Dessner & Prokofiev

Omega Ensemble: Mazzoli, Cerrone, Corigliano, Dessner & Prokofiev

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

BLOOD LORE Dark myths and disturbing forces are often the source of great music. Strange, peculiar and at times cataclysmic, this music transports you beyond our physical world and forces you to question the things you know to be true. Featuring that goes against the grain, this powerful program includes works by the worlds leading ... Read more

$59 – $69
Event Series Omega Ensemble: Mazzoli, Cerrone, Corigliano, Dessner & Prokofiev

Omega Ensemble: Mazzoli, Cerrone, Corigliano, Dessner & Prokofiev

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

BLOOD LORE Dark myths and disturbing forces are often the source of great music. Strange, peculiar and at times cataclysmic, this music transports you beyond our physical world and forces you to question the things you know to be true. Featuring that goes against the grain, this powerful program includes works by the worlds leading ... Read more

$59 – $69

Bowman: JS Bach

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

A CONTRAPUNTAL CORNUCOPIA: WELL-TEMPERED KLAVIER, BOOK 2 Revered by the greatest musicians of every age since their composition, the two books of Bach’s Das wohltemperierte Klavier are considered contrapuntal masterworks. A series of forty-eight preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys, both books are celebrated and beloved by keyboardists and audiences alike. While regarded ... Read more

$30 – $37
Event Series Flinders Quartet: Shostakovich, Grenfell & Smetana

Flinders Quartet: Shostakovich, Grenfell & Smetana

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

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

$30 – $40
Event Series Flinders Quartet: Shostakovich, Grenfell & Smetana

Flinders Quartet: Shostakovich, Grenfell & Smetana

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

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

$30 – $40

Duo Eclettico: Hofmeyr, Edwards/Neville & Martin

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

MAGIC Duo Eclettico celebrate the magical, the ethereal, the demonic, and the ‘other’, with works from South Africa and Australia. Hendrik Hofmeyr, arguably South Africa’s most celebrated living composer, is represented with Necromancer, a virtuosic yet beautifully colourful work evoking the magic of a necromancer, in Hofmeyr’s writing a symbol for LGBTIQ+ sexuality and attempted repression of ... Read more

$40 – $50

Event Series Selby & Friends: Copland, Arensky & Schubert

Selby & Friends: Copland, Arensky & Schubert

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

FINAL STATEMENTS This extraordinary final program for the 2023 Season brings together two highly accomplished guest artists of the younger generation who are making great waves now they are back in Australia – the brilliant violinist Ike See, previously Assoc. Concertmaster of the Adelaide Symphony and now a core member of the tightly knit ACO, and ... Read more

$59 – $77
Event Series Selby & Friends: Copland, Arensky & Schubert

Selby & Friends: Copland, Arensky & Schubert

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

FINAL STATEMENTS This extraordinary final program for the 2023 Season brings together two highly accomplished guest artists of the younger generation who are making great waves now they are back in Australia – the brilliant violinist Ike See, previously Assoc. Concertmaster of the Adelaide Symphony and now a core member of the tightly knit ACO, and ... Read more

$59 – $77
Event Series Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Melbourne Recital Centre opens the doors of its intimate Primrose Potter Salon on one day each month from March to December for FREE open rehearsals featuring the very best of Melbourne’s chamber musicians. On each selected day the artists will use this opportunity to rehearse new works, new programs and try out new ideas for you, in ... Read more

Free

Event Series Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Free Music at Primrose Potter Salon

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Melbourne Recital Centre opens the doors of its intimate Primrose Potter Salon on one day each month from March to December for FREE open rehearsals featuring the very best of Melbourne’s chamber musicians. On each selected day the artists will use this opportunity to rehearse new works, new programs and try out new ideas for you, in ... Read more

Free

Quartz: Mozart & Mendelssohn

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

SWEET DISPOSITION Quartz present notable works for the string quartet by Mozart and Mendelssohn. Finding himself in dire financial straits, Mozart set out to write six quartets for the Prussian King, Friedrich Wilhelm II. The quartets paid poorly, forcing Mozart to give them away ‘for a mere song’. The first of these quartets is a ... Read more

$30 – $37
Event Series Omega Ensemble: Adams, Harrison & Shostakovich

Omega Ensemble: Adams, Harrison & Shostakovich

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

LIONHEART Shostakovich’s profound Piano Quintet represents a period of writing where the young composer, who was then 34, was his most purely musical. The resulting work is an unusual yet unapologetic neo-classical piece that has since become the jewel in the crown of the 20th-century chamber music repertory. Showcasing the sincerity of three musical mavericks, ... Read more

$59 – $69
Event Series Omega Ensemble: Adams, Harrison & Shostakovich

Omega Ensemble: Adams, Harrison & Shostakovich

Primrose Potter Salon Corner Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

LIONHEART Shostakovich’s profound Piano Quintet represents a period of writing where the young composer, who was then 34, was his most purely musical. The resulting work is an unusual yet unapologetic neo-classical piece that has since become the jewel in the crown of the 20th-century chamber music repertory. Showcasing the sincerity of three musical mavericks, ... Read more

$59 – $69