Upcoming Events

Tuesday 24 July, 7pm Saturday 28 July, 7pm "Her attention to detail and clarity is as impressive as her agility, balance and velocity."  Washington Post Joyce Yang is one of the leading pianists in the newest generation of virtuosi. As the youngest competitor in the 2005 Van Cliburn Competition, she was awarded a silver medal and she has since gone on to countless other accolades and a skyrocketing career. On her first full Australian recital tour, she presents a program of music…

Tuesday 24 July, 7pm Saturday 28 July, 7pm "Her attention to detail and clarity is as impressive as her agility, balance and velocity."  Washington Post Joyce Yang is one of the leading pianists in the newest generation of virtuosi. As the youngest competitor in the 2005 Van Cliburn Competition, she was awarded a silver medal and she has since gone on to countless other accolades and a skyrocketing career. On her first full Australian recital tour, she presents a program of music…

...let all my senses spread out and touch this world at thy feet, like a raincloud of July hung low with its burden of unshed showers. ​Rabindranath Tagore Uģis Prauliņš’ spectacular Mass for Riga Cathedral forms the backbone of this extraordinary program of music from Spain, Estonia, Sweden, Italy and Slovakia. Movements from the Mass are interspersed with exquisite motets: Handl’s Ecce quomodo; Palestrina’s ethereal vision Sicut Cervus and Tarrodi’s setting of Yeats’ ‘The Falling of the Leaves’. The program tapestry culminates in…

Friends of Music Series returns in 2018 with a stellar lineup of top Melbourne emerging musicians, boasting a variety of styles ranging from classical, folk to jazz and contemporary performances. In August, we welcome pianist Tim Buckland. Recipient of numerous scholarships, Tim Buckland has played and studied piano since the age of five. In Adelaide, he studied with Professor Stefan Ammer, and at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music under Professor Ian Holtham. He holds a Licentiate of Music Australia, and in…

Friends of Music Series returns in 2018 with a stellar lineup of top Melbourne emerging musicians, boasting a variety of styles ranging from classical, folk to jazz and contemporary performances. In August, we welcome dynamic duo, Laura Barton and Dale Vail. Having met while studying together at the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington, Laura Barton and Dale Vail both went on to complete a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours, and are now in their second year of…

Julia Fredersdorff baroque violin Laura Vaughan viola da gamba Donald Nicolson organ with guest artists David Greco baritone Lizzy Welsh baroque violin Hannah Lane triple harp The ARIA-nominated Baroque trio Latitude 37 teams up with three esteemed colleagues for De Profundis, a spellbinding program of sacred and secular music from 17th- and 18th-century Germany. The program’s centrepiece is Nicolaus Bruhns’ deeply moving psalm setting De Profundis, performed by guest baritone David Greco. Be transported by the candlelit atmosphere of Baroque vocal music, performed with the ear for detail and beautiful period…

Come to hear the splendid works of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and Brahms' Liebeslider Waltzes. The Heidelberg Choral Society, under the direction of Peter Bandy, will be joined on stage by eminent soloists Margaret Orr (Soprano), David Rogers-Smith (Tenor) and Simon Meadows (Baritone). “Carmina Burana was first staged in Germany in 1937”, says Peter Bandy, HCS’s Musical Director. “It quickly gained popularity, and today is a classic in any choir’s repertoire. O Fortuna has to be the best known and…

Outstanding Australian violinists Miki Tsunoda  (formerly a member of Duo Sol with Caroline Almonte) and Anne Harvey-Nagl (leader of the Vienna Volksoper Orchestra) return from Europe to play Bach's extremely popular Double Violin Concerto in D minor and two equally fine double concertos by Vivaldi which inspired Bach and were arranged by him for keyboard. The program includes typically lively concertos for string orchestra by Vivaldi