International Horn Symposium Krakow
Lecture Presentation “Making the French Horn Australian” and Recital of Don Banks Horn Concerto arr. Cathy Likhuta for horn and piano.
Quercus Trio: Out of the Woods
Quercus Trio take the listeners on another stroll through the woods, following on from their successful 2024 concert "Quercus in the Forest." This concert continues their project of recording a retrospective of Australian horn trios, building on their critically aclaimed album Australian Horn Trios released by ABC Classic in 2023.
This concert presents trios by three celebrated Australian composers: John Polglase's "Trio Number 6,", James Ledger "Wood" and Catherine Likhuta "Out of the Woods."
Melbourne Conservatorium Winds
Wind faculty David Griffiths, Lyndon Watts and Carla Blackwood perform wind sextets with students of the Conservatorium. Details coming soon.
Bourgeois Baroque with Genesis Baroque (Bendigo)
Genesis Baroque presents a dazzling program featuring some of the most celebrated masterworks of the French and German Baroque.
The program opens with Georg Philipp Telemann’s elegant and triumphant suite for oboes, horns, and strings, followed by J.S. Bach’s glorious Brandenburg Concerto No.1, coloured with the sounds of hunting horns, oboes, and bassoon. And rounding out the program is Jean-Baptiste Lully’s glittering, foot-stomping suite of dances from the Bourgeois Gentilhomme; music that will transport you straight to the outrageously gregarious, lavish Palace of Versailles!
The ensemble welcomes our 2026 emerging artists, joining us for this program, including a Cushion Concert for toddlers and caregivers in Bendigo, and full programs presented both in Bendigo and Melbourne.
Program
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN Suite for 2 horns, 2 oboes, strings, and b.c., TWV 55:D21
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F Major, BWV 1046
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite, LWV 43
Performers
ALICE KEATH Host*
DONALD NICOLSON Music Director
*Cushion Concert (Bendigo)
Bourgeois Baroque with Genesis Baroque (Wesley Church Melbourne)
Genesis Baroque presents a dazzling program featuring some of the most celebrated masterworks of the French and German Baroque.
The program opens with Georg Philipp Telemann’s elegant and triumphant suite for oboes, horns, and strings, followed by J.S. Bach’s glorious Brandenburg Concerto No.1, coloured with the sounds of hunting horns, oboes, and bassoon. And rounding out the program is Jean-Baptiste Lully’s glittering, foot-stomping suite of dances from the Bourgeois Gentilhomme; music that will transport you straight to the outrageously gregarious, lavish Palace of Versailles!
The ensemble welcomes our 2026 emerging artists, joining us for this program, including a Cushion Concert for toddlers and caregivers in Bendigo, and full programs presented both in Bendigo and Melbourne.
Program
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN Suite for 2 horns, 2 oboes, strings, and b.c., TWV 55:D21
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F Major, BWV 1046
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite, LWV 43
Performers
ALICE KEATH Host*
DONALD NICOLSON Music Director
*Cushion Concert (Bendigo)
Mahler 5th Symphony with University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Details coming soon.
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra "Dusklit"
MCO + Andrea Lam.
Known for her expressive depth and brilliant technique - as well as her warm presence on ABC's The Piano - Andrea Lam brings Mozart's beloved Piano Concerto No.21 to life with elegance and joy.
Mendelssohn's sun-drenched Italian Symphony also shines, along with the premiere of a moving new work by Miriama Young, created from field recordings by young people in climate-affected communities.
With students from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music joining the orchestra, this concert celebrates connection - to land, music and the next generation.
Program
Miriama Young
DuskLit Meditations *
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No.21 in C K467
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No.4 in A Op.90 Italian
* MCO premiere commission
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra "Dusklit"
MCO + Andrea Lam.
Known for her expressive depth and brilliant technique - as well as her warm presence on ABC's The Piano - Andrea Lam brings Mozart's beloved Piano Concerto No.21 to life with elegance and joy.
Mendelssohn's sun-drenched Italian Symphony also shines, along with the premiere of a moving new work by Miriama Young, created from field recordings by young people in climate-affected communities.
With students from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music joining the orchestra, this concert celebrates connection - to land, music and the next generation.
Program
Miriama Young
DuskLit Meditations *
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No.21 in C K467
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No.4 in A Op.90 Italian
* MCO premiere commission
Quercus Trio: Macedon Music Concert
From the poise and luminous clarity of Mozart’s Horn Trio, this program opens onto a landscape of sound shaped by nature, colour and imagination. At its heart lies Shivelight, a new work by Melody Eötvös written for Quercus, inspired by the shifting glimmers of light that filter through leaves and branches. Like a walk through woodland—passing through shade, brightness and sudden clearings—the music reveals the many expressive colours of the horn, violin and piano trio.
Program
W.A. Mozart Horn Trio in E Flat, K. 407
Larry Sitsky Barerq
Cathy Likhuta Into the Woods
Charles Koechlin Quatre petites pièces
Melody Eötvös Shivelight
Daniel Schnyder Walden
Handel Semele with Pinchgut Opera
Semele
by George Frideric Handel
Directed by Neil Armfield
Seduction, ambition and divine consequence
Pinchgut Opera closes its season with a thrilling new staging of Handel’s Semele, a work of seductive beauty, dramatic intrigue, and dazzling vocal fireworks.
Nearly 25 years after Semele became the very first opera Pinchgut presented, its return is a celebration of how the company has evolved, and the ambition that continues to drive it forward. Acclaimed Australian director Neil Armfield, whose visionary productions of Platée (2021) and Julius Caesar (2024) were hailed as landmark achievements, now turns his insight and theatrical flair to Semele. The story is at once mythic and human: a mortal woman becomes the lover of Jupiter, king of the gods. Driven by her longing for immortality, she demands to see him in his true, divine form— a choice that seals her fate when Jupiter’s jealous wife,
Juno, intervenes. A powerhouse cast brings Handel’s richly drawn characters to life. Beloved Pinchgut artists Alexandra Oomens and Catherine Carby return after unforgettable past performances, joined by British tenor David Webb and countertenor Austin Haynes in their exciting Pinchgut debuts. Together with the emotional force of Cantillation and the Orchestra of the Antipodes, they create a performance of grandeur, intimacy, and colour.
Handel’s score brims with moments of rapture, wit, and aching beauty, charting a journey from ecstasy to ruin. In Semele, the line between desire and destruction has never sounded so thrilling, bringing the season to a spectacularly triumphant close.
Dates
7:00PM, Thursday November 26
2:00PM, Saturday November 28
5:00PM, Sunday November 29
12:00PM, Tuesday December 1
7:00PM, Wednesday December 2
Australian Chamber Orchestra: Bach Christmas Oratorio (Sydney)
A performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is a transformative experience. Sublime choral and orchestral magic culminate in a feast for the senses. Bach wrote his Christmas cantatas to be performed on six different days. Here, you will immerse yourself in his masterpiece over one night.
The ACO presents a blockbuster performance of Bach’s glorious oratorio, featuring exultant choral passages, a tenor soloist/narrator and magnificent orchestral forces. Bach canvases the joy and wonder of the nativity story as Mary contemplates motherhood, the angels appear in triumphant glory before the shepherds and wise men bow before a tiny babe.
Tognetti’s affinity for Bach is famous and the ACO’s last presentation of this work, nearly a decade ago, blew critics and audiences away. With only three performances, book early to secure your seat to the ultimate event of the festive season.
Photo: Zan Wimberley
Program
Johann Sebastian Bach Christmas Oratorio, BWV428
Australian Chamber Orchestra: Bach Christmas Oratorio (Melbourne)
A performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is a transformative experience. Sublime choral and orchestral magic culminate in a feast for the senses. Bach wrote his Christmas cantatas to be performed on six different days. Here, you will immerse yourself in his masterpiece over one night.
The ACO presents a blockbuster performance of Bach’s glorious oratorio, featuring exultant choral passages, a tenor soloist/narrator and magnificent orchestral forces. Bach canvases the joy and wonder of the nativity story as Mary contemplates motherhood, the angels appear in triumphant glory before the shepherds and wise men bow before a tiny babe.
Tognetti’s affinity for Bach is famous and the ACO’s last presentation of this work, nearly a decade ago, blew critics and audiences away. With only three performances, book early to secure your seat to the ultimate event of the festive season.
Photo: Zan Wimberley
Program
Johann Sebastian Bach Christmas Oratorio, BWV428
