Past Concerts

Imagine a grand piano, exploded and spinning in a ballet of fragments, with John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes playing beneath a slowly whirling sculpture.

Jess Hitchcock and Penny Quartet perform her songs, arranged for voice and strings by top Australian composers. Dreams and memories, grace and groove — step into a new world of musical possibilities.

Discover the art of the impossible when Kirill Gerstein, poet of the piano, plays Liszt, Chopin, Schumann and Lim. 

Old meets new and new meets old when a crack team of classical virtuosos team up with the endless inventiveness of William Barton.  

What happens when silk meets metal meets wood?

In this special program for Perth, local artists Jonathan Paget and the Darlington Quartet come together for a selection of beloved classics for guitar and string quartet.

Musica Viva Australia’s current FutureMakers, the brilliant Partridge Quartet, are sure to wow audiences with this knockout of a program in Melbourne this March.

Join us in Adelaide for an evening of Beethoven and Shostakovich with pianist Konstantin Shamray and the Australian String Quartet.

Bernadette Harvey and Harry Bennetts will present a violin recital in Newcastle, and the wonderful Umberto Clerici will be jumping in to fill in on cello for the Saturday program.

We have had to reschedule the national tour of Karin Schaupp and the Flinders Quartet to 2023, due to the increased complexities and disruption created by the Omicron variant.  

Van Diemen’s Band comes from an island state. And perhaps it’s the absence of land borders that empowers its musicians to view the world in a distinctive light.

In this concert Andrea Lam and Paul Grabowsky present their very different takes on the resultant work, the Goldberg Variations.