For its second year of touring, Music in the Regions collaborates with the Inventi Ensemble to connect with regional communities.

A spirit of friendship, openness and innovation fuelled Inventi Ensemble's exploration of the many colours of music.

Festival directors Ben Opie and Melissa Doecke unveil a Peninsula Summer Music Festival that will appeal to all the senses.

Small is beautiful as Mornington’s boutique festival goes online

Bartsch's Merlyn Myer Commission, along with arrangements of selections from her solo classical/jazz hybrid albums, provides a subtle submergence in a range of lush lullabies and flowing lattices of chamber writing.

Nat Bartch's new work The Glasshouse, the 2021 Merlyn Myer Commission, is inspired by portraits taken by Victorian-era photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. 

Shane Lestideau, Artistic Director and violinist of Evergreen Ensemble, tells Limelight about the group's collaboration with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for its digital platform MSO.LIVE.

Inventi Ensemble steps up to break the silence of a COVID lockdown.

Adrian Tamburini leapt at the chance when Inventi Ensemble asked him to perform in online concerts for aged care homes – and the response from the residents has warmed his heart.

The Peninsula Summer Music Festival’s new director encourages audiences to “soak it up”.

Inventi Ensemble enriches the live of Melbourne immigration detainees with music. It was in early 2014 when Melissa Doecke and I were discussing the fact that as musicians, we spend so much time practicing and playing at home, and that surely we could be playing for people who might not have access to music as readily as us. This inspired us to contact the welfare and engagement coordinator at Melbourne’s immigration detention centres. Our initial plan was to bring in some of Melbourne’s many talented musicians to perform regular concerts for the detainees, but following our very first session, we realised the people in these centres had a burning desire to join in, not just listen! After some generous donations and hunting, we were able to source instruments that people could use to join in. We have been running weekly workshops now for over a year in both of the detention centres in Melbourne and have seen how valuable it is for the detainees to have music in their lives and to be able to collaborate with us on a regular basis. An average workshop will find us bringing in Inventi Ensemble musicians and multi-instrumentalists playing traditional woodwind, brass and…