Melbourne Youth Orchestra: Triumph of the Human Spirit

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Infused throughout with joyous musical echoes of Russia’s religious and peasant past, Borodin’s popular Symphony No.2 is a bold and brilliant work; the perfect vehicle for MYO’s passionate young musicians. Together with Sibelius’ Karelia Suite, it will create a concert overflowing with melody, pageantry, and power. Both works are much…

Melbourne Recital Centre: Neurodivergent Meetup

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Melbourne Recital Centre’s 2024 Artist-in-Residence Nat Bartsch hosts her first Artist Meet Up to connect neurodivergent members of the Melbourne music scene. Hosted in the centre’s foyer, this informal get-together seeks to build a community amongst neurodivergent music industry folk, to create an atmosphere that caters to a diverse array…

Orchestra Victoria: The Eight Seasons

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Join the musicians of Orchestra Victoria as they explore two extraordinary interpretations of nature’s beauty and the seasons that shape our world. Play-directed by one of Australia’s most remarkable violinists, Sulki Yu (Concertmaster), The Eight Seasons intertwines two works of unparalleled charisma, journeying audiences throughout the world and around the…
Event Series Jane Austen’s Music

Melbourne Recital Centre: Jane Austen’s Music

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
There is no charm equal to the world that Jane Austen has created through her words, where timeless tales of love and society’s intricacies collide with melodies that transcend centuries. Austen’s words have left an indelible mark on literature, and her influence extends beyond the pages of her books, shaping…
Event Series Jane Austen’s Music

Melbourne Recital Centre: Jane Austen’s Music

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
There is no charm equal to the world that Jane Austen has created through her words, where timeless tales of love and society’s intricacies collide with melodies that transcend centuries. Austen’s words have left an indelible mark on literature, and her influence extends beyond the pages of her books, shaping…
Editor's Choice Event Series Baroque Kaleidoscope

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Baroque Kaleidoscope

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Headlined by Vivaldi, Telemann and Handel, this Baroque celebration sees the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra return to its musical roots. Showcasing the talents of the orchestra’s principal musicians including Concertmaster Shaun Lee-Chen, Principal Second Baroque Violin Ben Dollman and Principal Baroque Flute Melissa Farrow, the program includes The Arrival of the Queen…
Editor's Choice Event Series Joyce Yang

Piano+: Joyce Yang

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Grammy-nominated pianist Joyce Yang joins the SSO under Kevin John Edusei for two performances of Grieg’s iconic piano concerto alongside Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds in Us and Dvořák’s New World Symphony. A solo recital in Sydney follows with selections from Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons and Rachmaninov’s Preludes, as well as Agosti’s arrangement…
Editor's Choice Event Series Baroque Kaleidoscope

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Baroque Kaleidoscope

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Headlined by Vivaldi, Telemann and Handel, this Baroque celebration sees the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra return to its musical roots. Showcasing the talents of the orchestra’s principal musicians including Concertmaster Shaun Lee-Chen, Principal Second Baroque Violin Ben Dollman and Principal Baroque Flute Melissa Farrow, the program includes The Arrival of the Queen…
Editor's Choice Event Series Baroque Kaleidoscope

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Baroque Kaleidoscope

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Headlined by Vivaldi, Telemann and Handel, this Baroque celebration sees the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra return to its musical roots. Showcasing the talents of the orchestra’s principal musicians including Concertmaster Shaun Lee-Chen, Principal Second Baroque Violin Ben Dollman and Principal Baroque Flute Melissa Farrow, the program includes The Arrival of the Queen…
Editor's Choice Event Series Mahler’s Song of the Earth

Australian Chamber Orchestra: Mahler’s Song of the Earth

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
“I have got to accept the horrors of loneliness,” Mahler wrote to Bruno Walter before working on Das Lied von der Erde. He had just lost his daughter Maria to scarlet fever and been diagnosed with an incurable heart condition, yet he still wrote what musicologist Deryck Cook described as…