Season Preview: Your guide to the arts in 2023

In 2023, the Flinders Quartet turns 23. With three mainstage programs to tour across metro and regional Victoria, a boldly gender-balanced program and new commissions from Brenda Gifford, Julian Yu and Maria Grenfell, its season for next year is another blazing showcase from an ensemble that is firmly aware and embracing of its role as an Australian quartet in the modern age. It also marks its final tour with violinist Thibaud Pavlovic-Hobba, who has been a member of FQ since 2019.

Flinders Quartet 2023

The Flinders Quartet announces its 2023 season. Photo © Pia Johnson.

Each of these programs will premiere on the Quartet’s online platform, FQ Digital, and be made available for on-demand viewing. It will also add another pathway to its compositional development with the debut of its Emerge program in February 2023, offering a study program and workshops in writing for string quartet to bear fruit with the recording and performance of a...