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Robbie Melville’s smallCHESTRA

July 13, 2022
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Featuring Melbourne jazz veterans Ronny Ferella (drums), Tamara Murphy (bass), Robbie Melville (guitar), Gideon Brazil (tenor saxophone, alto flute) and Flora Carbo (alto saxophone/bass clarinet), and classical cellist Zoe Knighton, the smallCHESTRA creates a spectacular range of dynamic and timbral possibilities in a relatively small package, and blurs the barriers between contemporary folk, jazz and classical.

1863: The Birth of Impressionism

July 6, 2022
theatre

Songmakers Australia - soprano Merlyn Quaife AM, bass-baritone Nicholas Dinopoulos and pianist Andrea Katz - perform a program of stunning French repertoire by Debussy, Fauré, Duparc, Chausson and Poulenc.

The Herring Island Piano Sonata

May 12, 2022
theatre

The world premiere of Linda Kouvaras' new work, the Herring Island Sonata for Piano and Narrator, performed by pianist Coady Green and narrator Tiriki Onus.

Art and Life, Domestic and Sublime

April 1, 2022
theatre

Pianist Coady Green and mezzo-soprano Linda Barcan perform two major song cycles by Melbourne-based composers Linda Kouvaras and Katy Abbott.

Viola, Viola

March 31, 2022
theatre

Fellow violists Wenhong Huo and William Vyvyan Murray present an exciting program of viola duets.

Jane Hammond’s ‘Songs of the Helmeted Honeyeater’ and Ross Edwards’ ‘Full Moon Dances’

March 19, 2021
theatre

LIVE AT VENUE OR LIVESTREAM AT HOME The world premiere of Jane Hammond's homage to the Helmeted Honeyeater; and a new arrangement of Ross Edwards’ vibrant saxophone concerto

Fantastique! The Life and Loves of Hector Berlioz

March 19, 2021
theatre

LIVE AT VENUE OR LIVESTREAM AT HOME Created using journal entries, letters and articles from Berlioz’s life, combined with a selection of his songs, and transcriptions of his orchestral works

Kavisha Mazzella with Irine Vela

March 18, 2021
theatre

LIVE AT VENUE OR LIVESTREAM AT HOME Kavisha Mazzella returns briefly to Melbourne for an intimate concert at fortyfivedownstairs with guitarist Irine Vela

Old Friends | New Beginnings

March 24, 2021
theatre

Luke Severn and Elyane Laussade will make their triumphant return to performing as a duo with a concert of some of their favourite works for cello and piano.

Franz Liszt: The Complete Hungarian Rhapsodies for Piano Four Hands

December 2, 2020
theatre

The first complete Australian performance of this dazzlingly virtuosic set of pieces, known for their fiendish technical demands

Trouble in a Monochromatic Town

December 2, 2020
theatre

A lush and gritty program inspired by a palette of shifting drones, acid house, electronics, Dada and silk scarves

Shostakovich and Schumann

December 2, 2020
theatre

Kyla Matsuura-Miller, Madeleine Jevons, Molly Collier O’Boyle & Harry Ward are joined by virtuoso pianist Tamara Smolyar for one of Shostakovich’s best known chamber works, the G minor Piano Quintet.

Unity

December 2, 2020
theatre

Collide will share with you their blend of colour, fervour, and spirit, with works of Mozart, Glinka, Milhaud

Solicitude

November 26, 2020
theatre

What a way to welcome live performance back to the venue! A stunning program, performed by Coady Green and Justin Kenealy, featuring new commissions, Australian premieres and a sneak preview of a special new work.