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New festival takes music out of a theatre and into a warehouse

November 1 - Festivals, Music

Taking some of Australia’s finest performers out of the concert hall and into an inner-city warehouse, the new Melbourne Warehouse Music Festival will smash barriers between classical and modern music with back-to-back c...

Julia Messenger Quintet

October 30 - Latest Reviews, Music, Performance

Julia Messenger has a jazz style all of her own, her recent performance at the Melbourne Recital Centre felt like a turning of the tide – with a coolness and as some remarked ‘a bent to the avant-garde’, she showed...

TaikOz Ian Cleworth - photo by Matt Devlin

Taikoz 20: Land-Sea-Sky-Home

October 17 - Music, Performance

Australia’s leading taiko drumming ensemble Taikoz will present a very special concert, Taikoz 20: Land-Sea-Sky-Home in celebration of an incredible 20 years of music making and performance at Sydney’s City Recital...

Melb Fest Requiem For Cambodia - photo by Tey Tat Keng

Melbourne Festival – A Requiem For Cambodia: Bangsokol

October 17 - Latest Reviews, Music, Performance

Australians might know a little of the genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. But what do we know of the survivors, and what followed? We had a glimpse of this in A Requiem For Cambodia: Bangsokol, intended ...

ABC wins big at the 2017 ARIA Awards

October 10 - Latest News, Music

ABC Classics & Jazz were announced winners of the 2017 ARIA Awards for Best Classical, Best Jazz, Best Original Soundtrack and Best Comedy albums at a ceremony this morning at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Guit...

Melbourne Festival – Voyage of Time

October 7 - Latest Reviews, Music, Performance

The rising sound of an orchestra tuning is always an engaging one, and can often be a small-yet-magnificent moment before the sonic finery to come. Here, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, along with their Chorus, does th...

Live Nation Together Michael Ball and Alfie Boe

Michael Ball & Alfie Boe – Together

October 5 - Music, Performance

Musical theatre legends Michael Ball and Alfie Boe have arrived in Australia to begin the national tour of their concert Together – starting in Brisbane tonight (Thursday 5 October), before heading to Melbourne, Sy...

Australian Art Orchestra: Diomira

October 5 - Music, Performance

One of Australia’s leading contemporary music ensembles, the Australian Art Orchestra, will give the world premiere performance of Diomira at The Substation, Newport on Saturday 7 October as part of the 2017 Melbourne Fe...