chamber music

EVENTS // Grand Final of Strike A Chord at the Melbourne Recital Centre

August 9, 2024

CONTENT COURTESY MUSICA VIVA Join audiences for the Grand Final of Strike A Chord on Saturday 31 August at the Melbourne Recital Centre. Selected from […]

56 concerts in 10 days? Welcome to ANAM Quartetthaus

April 28, 2023

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A portable timber cube seats 52 audience members, and they’re positioned in circles around a tiny stage. A string quartet is stationed […]

Bach in a bar (with beer) is the concert we’ve needed all along

November 18, 2019

BY SYLVIE WOODS, LEAD WRITER (NSW) Move over Justin. It’s Heinrich Biber who’s getting played in this underground bar. Evan Streater’s next concert in The […]

Chris Howlett explains how Beethoven “changed Western music forever”

November 14, 2019

BY JASMINE MIDDLETON Have you ever liked the idea of a doing a marathon, but your couch remains awfully and conveniently enticing? Fear not, for […]

Behind the scenes with the Chrysalis Trio

September 25, 2019

CONTENT COURTESY AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC Melina van Leeuwen (harp), Katie Yap (viola, pictured above), and Kiran Phatak (flute) form the Chrysalis Trio. These […]

Affinity Quartet has found a venue that mixes “intimacy, adrenaline, and realness”

September 9, 2019

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Musicians, how would you feel if you could feel your audiences eyes on you — so closely that you could watch their […]

The Firebird Trio will play music from this beautiful 1990s novel

July 1, 2019

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE There is little that can beat the joy of a good book. A few years ago, a friend wrapped up a book […]

Twiggy from Arcadia Winds on music education and Australian composition

May 16, 2019

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE (EDITOR) WITH LAURA BIEMMI (TRENDS EDITOR) David ‘Twiggy’ Reichelt reckons the wind quintet can be a “formidable” concoction of instruments for any composer. […]