UPCOMING + PAST EVENTS
85 seconds to Midnight | presented by Melbourne Recital Centre & Changing Wilds Ensemble
A space for contemplation and agency at a time when every second counts.
On January 27, 2026, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds before midnight, the closest it has ever been to the symbolic threshold of global catastrophe. This unprecedented setting reflects a sharply heightened risk of civilisational collapse driven by escalating nuclear tensions, unregulated development of AI, continuing failures of global leadership, and the most enduring issue of our time - climate change.
Led by artistic director and composer Robert McIntyre and pianist Georgina Lewis, Changing Wilds Ensemble blends post-minimalism, art music, and neoclassical works to contemplate these wicked problems. Looking through a shared lens of environmental precarity and internal reckoning, 85 seconds to Midnight features the music of Australians Robert McIntyre, Stuart Greenbaum, Laura Abraham and Alex Turley, alongside prolific Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and renowned Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds.
This concert invites audiences to listen closely, feel the passage of time in sound, and experience how such music can hold tension, tenderness, and hope all at once. In this way, 85 seconds to Midnight doesn’t seek to illustrate catastrophe and apportion blame, but to hold open a collaborative space for contemplation, responsibility, and agency at a time when, as the Doomsday Clock suggests, every second counts.
Praise for Changing Wilds Ensemble
‘McIntyre proved the intersection between music and law is sustainability…’ — ClassikON
‘Place, feeling, memory, and the environment were all explored in a stunningly curated concert from McIntyre’s ensemble.’ — Classic Melbourne
Dates & Times
Tuesday 10 November 2026 - 6:00pm
Duration: 1 hour (no interval). Please note, running times are approximate and subject to change.
There will be a 30 minute post-concert talk immediately following the concert in the Primrose Potter Salon, concluding at 7:30pm.
This curation and post-concert talk is in collaboration with CLIMARTE & The Wattle Fellowship.
Tickets: Standard $55 ($45 Concession)
PROGRAMME
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Please note, seating in the Primrose Potter Salon is General Admission.
A Transaction Fee between $4 and $8.50 applies to orders made online and by phone. Delivery Fees may also apply. A ticket limit of six is in place online to ensure fair ticket access for all. Want to bring a bigger party? Call our Box Office during business hours on (03) 9699 3333 to book.
A Living Voice – Alta Collective
TICKETS: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1649712
What remains of us when we are gone? From the intimate pages of Anne Frank's diary to a letter written to one's future self, ‘A Living Voice’ will reflect on the way voices, stories, mempories and ideas endure.
At the centre of the program is Linda Tutas Haugen’s powerful ‘Anne Frank: A Living Voice’ for treble voices and string quartet, an emotional song cycle drawn from excerpts of Anne Frank’s diary, tracing her psychological journey through more than two years in hiding, from fear and despair towards strength and hope.
Melbourne composer Robert McIntyre’s new piece ‘Us across planes’, takes the form of an introspective, conversational diary entry with oneself, reflecting on who we were, who we are now and who we hope to become. It explores how our lives and selves contain multitudes, like a prism refracting light over time, with experiences both light and dark making up the sum of who we are.
Come and share this special evening with Alta Collective in the Reading Room. A beautiful space where generations of words and stories have found a place to be heard.
Date
Saturday 21 November 2026 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM (UTC+10)
Location
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Reading Room, Fitzroy Town Hall
201 Napier St, Fitzroy Victoria 3065
Queer Nights at Nightingale: Concert Three - 'Fault Lines', presented by Aether Duo, curated by Robert McIntyre
Nightingale Gallery presents the inaugural Queer Nights at Nightingale, a finely curated festival under the artistic direction of internationally acclaimed pianist Coady Green.
Concert Three: Fault Lines curated by Robert McIntyre
Curated by composer Robert McIntyre, Aether Duo presents Fault Lines, an evening of flute and piano works by LGBTQIA+ composers Robert McIntyre, Sally Whitwell, Sam Williams and more – dealing both subtly and directly with elements pertaining to the lived queer experience and the environments and space we rightly take up.
With queerness often viewed (and experienced) as an epicentre of both tension and generative force, Fault Lines explores queer life through that geology. In a culture that treats straightness as the stable ground beneath us, queerness is often framed as deviation or rupture to that ground — something “across the line” that is disparate to the status quo. But fault lines aren’t anomalies: they are structures, pathways, and truth made visible at the surface. Across this curation, we invite you to listen for the crack, the shift, and the new landscape that follows – when acceptance becomes the normalisation of divergence.
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Aether Duo
Robert McIntyre, flute
Sam Williams, piano
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Each June, Pride Month invites a renewed encounter with queer culture, celebrating its richness and power to shape the artistic landscape. In this spirit, Nightingale Gallery presents the inaugural Queer Nights at Nightingale, a finely curated festival under the artistic direction of internationally acclaimed pianist Coady Green.
Across four Friday evenings, leading Australian artists assume the role of curator-performer, each shaping a program of distinctive voice and vision. Drawing on music by LGBTQIA+ composers from Australia and abroad, these concerts traverse a wide and evocative terrain, foregrounding queer perspectives, reimagining inherited traditions, and illuminating histories too often left unheard.
Featuring Coady Green (Concert One), Meta Cohen (Concert Two), Robert McIntyre (Concert Three) and Cameron Lam (Concert Four), Queer Nights at Nightingale unfolds as a space of artistry, inquiry, and celebration, where music becomes a living expression of identity and imagination.
Join us at Nightingale Gallery in Armadale for an intimate festival experience, with drinks and opportunities to meet artists following each performance.
Tickets can be purchased for each event individually, or as a package of four tickets for the whole festival.
Recital Series @ Graduate House: Georgina Lewis
https://www.3mbs.org.au/3mbs-events/2026/georgina-lewis
Tickets are now on sale for all three performances in this year’s recital series at Graduate House.
Young Chilean pianist Ricardo Roche Idini opens the series on Thursday 19 March with an impassioned program of works by Beethoven, Liszt and South American composers Heitor Villa-Lobos and Violeta Parra.
Share a three-course meal and recital, alongside fellow 3MBS subscribers—for just $40.
Thursday 19 March: Ricard Roche Idini
Thursday 4 June: Georgina Lewis (lunchtime recital)
Thursday 29 October: Coady Green (twilight recital)
KC VITAs presents 'Shimmer!'
General Admission - Friday, April 12th, 3:00pm - tickets
"Shimmer," a bold and collaborative event featuring singers from KC VITAs, North Kansas City High School, and OUTside Voices KC.
THE LAVENDER SCORES PROJECT
This program features only music submitted for this most recent call, and will be brought to life in meaningful collaboration with the choirs at North Kansas City High School and OutKC Voices in Kansas City in April.
“Syrup and Silicone” - Robert McIntyre
“Bikrat Shalom” - Arturo Tapia-Minchez
“Sappho’s Prayer” - Claire Stephenson
“Little Things” - Grace Coberly
"Message Out to Sea (Dear Mom)" - Saunder Choi
"Cuando El Rey Nimrod" - Arturo Tapia-Minchez
"An Irish Blessing" - Nick Pattilio
"The Light We Hold" - Carlos LaLonde
"Dragonflies" - Alex Temple
"Follow the Rose" - Jadie Reeves
"speak" - Shane Scott Cook
"Credo" - Jessica Rudman
KC VITAs presents 'Shimmer!'
General Admission - Friday, April 10th, 7:00pm - tickets
"Shimmer," a bold and collaborative event featuring singers from KC VITAs, North Kansas City High School, and OUTside Voices KC.
THE LAVENDER SCORES PROJECT
This program features only music submitted for this most recent call, and will be brought to life in meaningful collaboration with the choirs at North Kansas City High School and OutKC Voices in Kansas City in April.
“Syrup and Silicone” - Robert McIntyre
“Bikrat Shalom” - Arturo Tapia-Minchez
“Sappho’s Prayer” - Claire Stephenson
“Little Things” - Grace Coberly
"Message Out to Sea (Dear Mom)" - Saunder Choi
"Cuando El Rey Nimrod" - Arturo Tapia-Minchez
"An Irish Blessing" - Nick Pattilio
"The Light We Hold" - Carlos LaLonde
"Dragonflies" - Alex Temple
"Follow the Rose" - Jadie Reeves
"speak" - Shane Scott Cook
"Credo" - Jessica Rudman
3MBS 2026 Gala Concert: Music of the Seasons
A tribute to the rhythms of nature and the artistry of our city.
Tickets: https://tickets.boroondara.vic.gov.au/Events/3MBS-Gala-Concert-Music-of-the-Seasons
Join 3MBS for a spectacular afternoon of music—presented in collaboration with the City of Boroondara—celebrating the beauty and power of nature through music in Hawthorn Arts Centre's majestic Main Hall.
Music of the Seasons brings together some of Victoria’s finest classical artists in a vibrant program inspired by the changing seasons.
Evocative art song, intimate solo works, rich chamber music and stirring choral pieces come together in performances by a dynamic lineup, including mezzo-soprano Chloe James, the Choir of Trinity College Melbourne, pianist Coady Green and Collide Ensemble.
A tribute to the rhythms of nature and the remarkable artistry of our city, this concert embodies 3MBS’s mission to share the beauty of classical music with all Melburnians.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Open Academy Rising Stars & Conservatorium High School Performance Platform – 3pm Concert
The Rising Stars at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music is a program for pre-tertiary lovers of music. Here at the Sydney Conservatorium, our focus is on educating young musicians for a profession in music and a lifetime of musical appreciation. We aim to educate and develop inspiring artists who will bring enrichment to the listening audience. The Rising Stars is a dynamic performance and education-based music program supported by the Conservatorium faculty. The Rising Stars strives to identify and accelerate talent from an early age with an aim to establish a constructive foundation for a lifetime of musical enrichment and enjoyment. Individual instrumental lessons, group music skills classes, and regular performance opportunities are the basis of the Rising Stars program. These components facilitate our students to become well-educated and confident musicians.
To provide opportunities for steady development there are three categories starting with the Foundation program, developing to the Emerging program, and culminating in the demanding Premier Rising Stars. Chamber music and composition classes are also offered as crucial scholastic electives, accelerating learning and personal relationships.
The Rising Stars program is a 14-week semester, with 2 semesters each year and entry is by audition. For more information, please refer to the Rising Stars web page.
Lindsay Hicks, Laura Abraham & Molly Jenkins - Salon Music
Lindsay Hicks, flute
Laura Abraham, piano
with guest Molly Jenkins, flute
This program takes inspiration from the 19th century tradition of salon music: works composed not for concert halls, but for intimate social gatherings in the home. As housemates and friends, the performers offer a glimpse into their living room with works for flute and piano composed from 1940s Paris to modern-day Melbourne.
Dutilleux’s Sonatina, a cornerstone of the flute repertoire, is presented both in it’s original form and re-imagined by Melbourne based composer Robert McIntyre, complemented by works that capture the spirit of the salon.
Music by Sally Greenaway, Samuel Barber, Richard Meale, Sam Williams, Robert McIntyre, Takashi Yoshimatsu and Henri Dutilleux.
TICKETS $30 | $20
Online sales close at 7:30pm on the day of the concert. Tickets can be purchased at the door, dependent on availability. Tempo Rubato is a cashless venue.
Saturday 7 February 2026 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM (UTC+11)
Tempo Rubato
34 Breese St, Brunswick VIC 3056
Divisi Chamber Singers – Compose Queer BIG SING 2026
Help Divisi Create a Brighter Future for Australian Music
This Cup Day, Divisi brings you the inaugural Big Sing — a joyful, one-night celebration of queer voices, community, and music-making.
The concert features performances by the Divisi sextet, the newly-formed Big Sing community choir, drag superstar Opal Essence, and local funk favourites Tracksuit Larry. Together, we’ll eat, drink, play games, watch some amazing performances, and record some new works for emerging Queer's portfolio's.
The Big Sing is a fundraiser to support Divisi’s future projects, commissions, and recordings. Every ticket helps us continue championing queer voices in classical music and beyond.
Sing with us!
We are still welcoming singers until October 4 — so if you’d like to join the Big Sing choir and add your voice to this special night, you can still sign up here.
On cup day 2024, Punters spent $221.6 mil on torturing horses.
Say nup to the cup, and yup to some gay-ass singing.
Tue, 4 Nov, 4:30pm - 7:30pm AEDT
75 Reid St, Fitzroy North VIC, Australia
Hosted by Divisi Inc. https://events.humanitix.com/bigsing2026
Lyrical Lunchtimes in the Library at Law Library Victoria
“Law Library Victoria and BottledSnail Productions present Lyrical Lunchtimes in the Library, a music concert series.
Performed in the historic Supreme Court Library, this wonderful program features piano, flute, violin, and more performed by members of the legal profession and friends.
Please note attendees must pass through court security before the event.”
Featuring Aether Duo (Robert McIntyre & Sam Williams) performing 2 works:
Chameleon on the wind, by Sam Williams
Sky-Stained Waves, by Robert McIntyre
Music Matinee Fundraiser Concert
A Celebration of Music - Music Matinee Fundraising Concert 2025
A CELEBRATION OF MUSIC
Join Music Matinee for a Sunday afternoon of fine music with accomplished musicians, including the beautiful sounds of the grand piano, oboe, violin and cello. The music playing will be paused while a delicious afternoon tea is served.
All ticket sales help bring live and free music to Melbourne's CBD, providing performance opportunities and financial support for our most talented musicians. Music Matinee free concerts are held at lunchtime on Tuesdays throughout the year.
Ticket prices for the fundraiser concert include afternoon tea, supported by the Old Wesley Collegians Association.
Entry to the school is from Moubray Street.
Metamorphose 2025 - Idee
Program:
Nino Rota - Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano (arr. for Soprano Saxophone)
Max Bruch - From the 8 Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano (arr. for Saxophone and Cello)
No. 1 – Andante
No. 2 – Allegro con moto
No. 5 – Romanian Melody. Andante
No. 6 – Night Song. Andante con moto
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Ellen Lindquist - Groundings for Alto Saxophone, Cello and Piano
Daniel Schnyder - Worlds beyond
Robert McIntyre - Phoenix for Alto Saxophone, Cello and Piano
Performers:
Simon Schuller – Piano
Stephanie Schoiswohl – Saxophone
Sigrid Narowetz – Cello
Production Team:
Teresa Katharina Binder – Impulse Contribution
Wolfgang Radl – Moderation
Matthias Pöschl – Light
https://www.eventpicker.at/event/show/metamorphose-2025-idee/168167
Our Duty to Care at the Melbourne Recital Centre
A cross-disciplinary, cross-genre blend of introspective music designed to enable exploration within and beyond yourself.
Spanning the realms of Australian and Icelandic composition, Our Duty to Care is the third instalment in Robert McIntyre’s climate-change concert curations, following acclaimed performances in recent years.
In this Melbourne Recital Centre exclusive, the 2025 instalment covering themes relating to climate change, empathy, loss, hope, and more, Our Duty to Care features the music of renowned Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds alongside Australians Robert McIntyre, Laura Abraham, Anne Cawrse, and Melbourne Recital Centre’s 2024 Artist in Residence Nat Bartsch.
Featuring project ensemble Changing Wilds Ensemble, led by artistic director and composer Robert McIntyre, this curated performance in the Primrose Potter Salon blends wide-ranging genres to convey powerful messages. Centered around Robert McIntyre’s Our Duty to Care, with text by Savanna Wegman, this cross-disciplinary work for soprano voice and piano trio is based on Sharma v Minister for the Environment [2021] FCA 560. This groundbreaking environmental law case, which proved climate change to be legally real in the courts, has been the catalyst for further climate change litigation globally and even legislative action locally.
Praise for Changing Wilds Ensemble
‘Art produced in the realm of climate activism often conforms to a set script… But the overwhelming message of Our Duty to Care was one of reflection. McIntyre took an introspective tack, and was rewarded by a captivated audience.’ – classikON
TICKETS: AVAILABLE HERE
Standard $45 ($35 Concession)
ARTISTS
Changing Wilds Ensemble
Robert McIntyre composer, curator, flute
Bridgette Kelsey soprano
Georgina Lewis piano
Isabel Hede violin
Stephanie Arnold cello
Savanna Wegman poet
PROGRAM
Robert McIntyre
A Sea Spray of Ash
Ólafur Arnalds / Nanna
Particles
Nat Bartsch
Homecoming
Laura Abraham
A Hazy Memory
Robert McIntyre / Savanna Wegman
Every third dawn
Ólafur Arnalds / Josin
The Bottom Line
Anne Cawrse
Time’s long ruin
Robert McIntyre / Savanna Wegman
Our Duty to Care
Ólafur Arnalds / Ella McRobb
And we’ll leave it there…
Part of series:
Tom Pugh & Peninsula Chamber Musicians present 'Italian Echoes'
Italian Echoes
Our program opens with Schubert’s vibrant exploration of the Italian style and concludes with Stravinsky’s masterpiece Pulcinella, inspired by the music of Italian composer Pergolesi. Providing a striking contrast, we are joined by the exceptional Melbourne pianist Caroline Almonte for Shostakovich’s dynamic First Piano Concerto. The program also features When Thunder Speaks Softly by Robert McIntyre, winner of the prestigious Dorian Le Gallienne Composition Award, promising a truly compelling and diverse musical experience.
Sunday 15 June, 2pm
Peninsula Community Theatre
91 Wilsons Rd, Mornington
Schubert
Overture in D Major, in the Italian Style, D. 591
Shostakovich
Concerto in C Minor for Piano, Trumpet and String Orchestra, Op. 35
Robert McIntyre
When Thunder Speaks Softly
Stravinsky
Pulcinella Suite, K034
LINK: HERE
“Continuing our long tradition of bringing together musicians from all over the Peninsula to perform beautiful music for local residents under our motto "Live Local, Listen Local".
Please browse our season program below, or head to www.peninsulachambermusicians.com.au”
2025 ISCM World New Music Days Festival (Portugal) Concert 17: Duo Komorebi
2025 ISCM World New Music Days Festival (Portugal): CONCERT NO. 17 DUO KOMOREBI (Camila Mandillo (sp), João Casimiro (pn))
The Gallery Series: Georgina Lewis
Wed 16 April 2025
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Georgina Lewis - piano
Event details
Immerse yourself in live music at this free pop-up music series designed to brighten your lunch hour. Escape into a world of melody as talented local musicians perform amongst the beautiful gallery spaces of Hawthorn Arts Centre.
Perfect for a lunch break or a relaxing pause in your day, these hourly performances will take place each Wednesday from 12 March to 16 April. There’s no need to book, just come along and enjoy this unique experience featuring music and art.
All ages are welcome.
This event is part of our Art+ program.
Accessibility at this space
accessible car parking
automatic doors
accessible toilets
ramps
clear signage
tactile signage
lifts
wide passageways.
3MBS 50th Anniversary Gala Concert
3MBS 50th Anniversary Gala Concert
Join 3MBS Melbourne 103.5FM at Hawthorn Arts Centre for a free gala concert as the station celebrates 50 years of broadcasting.
The concert features some of 3MBS's favourite performers and the premiere of a composition by Robert McIntyre commissioned especially for the station's birthday.
2pm Saturday 22 March 2025
Hawthorn Arts Centre
Admission is free, however bookings are essential. You can book here or via the link below:
https://www.3mbs.org.au/3mbs-events/2024/50th-anniversary-gala-concert
This concert is generously supported by the City of Boroondara and Limelight
Griffith University and Queensland Conservatorium present: Chamber Music with Voice
‘Every third dawn’ (2024) for soprano, flute and piano will be performed by Bridgette Kelsey, Jenna Choi and Jennifer Enchelmaier. More details on the program and how to book to be released soon.
https://www.queenslandconservatorium.com.au/chamber-music-with-voice/
Changing Wilds Ensemble: Music Matinee at Scots' Church
1.00pm on Tuesday 18th of February – Live and Free at Scots’ Church
Host: Joel Crotty
Changing Winds Ensemble
Isabel Hede- Violin
Gemma Kneale- Cello
Georgina Lewis
PROGRAM
1.Notturno in E Flat major, Op.148 - Franz Schubert
2. See through me - Robert McIntyre
3. Piano Trio in D minor Op.120 - Gabriel Fauré
4. Homecoming - Nat Barsch
5. Après un rêve Op.7 - Gabriel Fauré
https://www.musicmatinee.org/feb-18
Collide at Cowes: Bass Coast Cultural Venues
Collide is going to Cowes!
Chamber music lovers come join us on Sunday 24th November for a programme of intimate delights ranging from Claude Debussy to Keyna Wilkins:, from Leonard Cohen to Robert McIntyre, and it's going to be a brilliant time.
Tickets here - https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1214376
Come and make a weekend of it down at Bass Coast Cultural Venues this November!
Bridgette Kelsey's Honours Recital
Soprano Bridgette Kelsey: 2024 Honours Final Year Recital
Featuring Australian Premiere of McIntyre’s ‘Every third dawn’ (2024) composed for soprano, flute and piano (words by Savanna Wegman).
VYSO: Atmospheric Shifts
Event + Ticket Link
Atmospheric Shifts explores the nature of the air we breathe, the daily shifts in our atmosphere which are responsible for the weather, the shifting atmospheric patterns which are connected to global climate change, and how music can hang in the air and affect the atmosphere around us.
We have sought out collaborators from classical music, electronics, and digital art to create a performance that goes beyond classical music, and beyond music as the sole artistic medium, to ask audiences to contemplate the atmosphere around them. Not only in what they can hear, but also see and feel.
Join us for several world premieres, utilising traditional and extended techniques as well as live electronics and visuals to extend the sound of the orchestra and explore new ways of creating and experiencing music.
Audiences of all ages are welcome and encouraged to engage in this exploration with us, allowing their focus to shift and settle on whatever aspect of the performance feels most natural.
Program
Kaleidescope* (2024) - Shelby Rose
Two Pieces for Small Orchestra (1912) - Frederick Delius
FG (Fog)* (2024) - Misha Machlak
Out of C* (2024) - VYSO
Rayn* (2024) - Brian KM
When wind washes water away (2021) - Robert McIntyre
Tickets
Standard: $30
Students: $20
Children under 12: $10
This concert is generously sponsored by the City of Yarra.
*World Premieres
Aether Duo – New Dawn: 29/06/24 Tempo Rubato
EVENT LISTING: https://www.temporubato.com.au/tempo-concerts/aether-duo-new-dawn
ANNOUNCING: AETHER DUO – NEW DAWN
Robert McIntyre, flute
Sam Williams, piano
Saturday 29 June 2024 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM (UTC+11) – Tempo Rubato, Brunswick VIC
LAUNCHING: Aether Duo an ensemble focused on the delivery of new and existing flute and piano repertoire consisting of Robert McIntyre on flute(s) and Sam Williams on piano. We are especially concerned with the promotion of Australian composers as well as curating offerings covering a range of important themes, such as climate change and LGBTQIA+ issues.
New Dawn will be our duo launch event excitingly held at @temporubato_au on SAT 29/06/2024, musically canvassing current and historically significant LGBTQIA+ composers, dealing with numerous elements pertaining to the lived queer experience, including the notion of ‘coming out’, in a world where the accepted standard is that we are all straight, and it is somehow divergent to be otherwise.
Performing snippets from the past, present and future celebrating Queer music, with works by Sally Whitwell, Aaron Copland, John Cage and Samuel Barber; and 3 world premieres by Sam Williams, Robert McIntyre and a newly commissioned work by Christine Pan.
: $30 full, $20 concession
We cannot wait to see you there for a night of incredibly affecting and diverse music, officially launching Rob & Sam’s new duo grab your tix while they last! X
Sally WHITWELL Road Trip (2010)
Francis POULENC Flute Sonata mvt. 1 Allegro malinconico (1957)
John CAGE In a Landscape (1948) solo piano
Robert MCINTYRE Feathers Taking Flight (2022)
Christine PAN Pilot Q solo flute and tape (2024) *world premiere
INTERVAL
Robert MCINTYRE Codifying Neutralities (2024) solo flute and tape *world premiere
Samuel BARBER Excursions, Op 20: Un poco allegro (1942) solo piano
Sam WILLIAMS chameleon on the wind (2024) *world premiere
Aaron COPLAND Duo mvt 1. Flowing (1971)
Sam WILLIAMS Tarkine (2023) solo piano
Robert MCINTYRE Sky-Stained Waves (2023)
Image: Rudi Lorimer
Tempo Rubato is a cashless venue, please bring a card/electronic device if you plan to purchase your ticket on the door.
LOCATION: Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese St, Brunswick VIC 3056
Chamber Queer 2024: Constellation ft. Coady Green (June 14, MITU580, Brooklyn NY, USA)
CQ 2024: CONSTELLATION
June 14, 2024
MITU580
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cq-2024-coady-green-piano-tickets-890478915407?aff=oddtdtcreator
580 Sackett St, Unit A - Ground Fl, Brooklyn NY 11217
ChamberQUEER’s SIXTH annual Pride Month festival is a Fringe Festival-style event providing a platform for experimental chamber music from a lineup of stellar queer musical artists. Full lineup details are coming soon!
Coady says: “New York in June! Performing for the amazing ChamberQUEER festival, a recital of Nico Muhly, Cameron Lam, Robert McIntyre, Meta Cohen, Connor D'Netto, Sal Whitwell, Bryn Renard, James Rushford, and Caerwen Martin. Then later in the month, Liszt, Rubinstein and Linda Kouvaras at Bargemusic in New York.”
‘Kaleidoscope - Sugarbag! The Music of LGBTQI+ Composers’ Arafura Music Collective – 2024 Sugarbag Festival, NT Supreme Court
Kaleidoscope- a concert that refracts the ideas of emotions, colours, and melodies through performance. You will experience an unforgettable journey through sound with the amazing Arafura Music Collective. Kaleidoscope will weave together works by acclaimed Australian LGBTQI+ composers, Robert McIntyre*, Cheryl Durongpisitkul, and Felicity Wilcox alongside songs by Darwin based singer-songwriter, Alice Cotton.
We love to bring you musical experiences which are unique! With this performance Ben Opie and the musicians of Arafura Music Collective bring you contemporary art music from the perspectives of the LGBTQI+ creative community. Experience the music and hear the stories of local queer experiences brought to life through brand new compositions by Ben Opie, premiered at this concert.When: Sunday 2nd June
Time: 4.00pm to 5.15pm
Location: Supreme Court
Ages: All Ages
Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1205919?
Bar facilities available.
*featuring my work ‘the distance between’ (2022) for mixed quartet
‘Kaleidoscope’ by Arafura Music Collective – Palmerston Gray Community Hall
ABOUT
Join us for a celebration of inclusivity, creativity, and sheer musical brilliance!
Kaleidoscope- a concert that refracts the ideas of emotions, colours, and melodies through performance. Join us for an unforgettable journey through sound with the amazing Arafura Music Collective. Kaleidoscope will weave together works by acclaimed Australian LGBTQI+ composers, Robert McIntyre, Cheryl Durongpisitkul, and Felicity Wilcox alongside songs by Darwin based singer-songwriter, Alice Cotton.
We love to bring you musical experiences which are unique! With this performance Ben Opie and the musicians of Arafura Music Collective bring you contemporary art music from the perspectives of the LGBTQI+ creative community. Experience the music and hear the stories of local queer experiences brought to life through brand new compositions by Ben Opie, premiered at this concert.
DATE
Saturday 1 June 2024 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC+09:30)
LOCATION
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Gray Community Hall Palmerston
Cnr Essington Avenue and Victoria Drive, Gray Community Hall, Gray NT 0830
*featuring my work ‘the distance between’ (2022) for mixed quartet
2024 QVC Festival (Queensland Vocal Competition) ft. entrant Bridgette Kelsey
Soprano Bridgette Kelsey performing ‘A Sea Spray of Ash’ (2019) in open age Australian art song section on 26th of May 2024.
Queensland Vocal Competition Festival! This year it will be held at the University of Queensland School of Music on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May 2024.
The QVC Festival is an exciting event, and has attracted a list of renowned Ambassadors for this event, from Katie Noonan, to international opera star Jessica Pratt to this year’s extraordinary Australian opera singer, Alexandra Flood. QVC Festival 2024 is excited to have mezzo-soprano Milijana Nikolič as our adjudicator of the Operatic Aria heats and final.
COMPETITION - Where and when
Where: UQ School of Music
When: Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May, 2024
Lyrical Lunchtimes in the Library at Law Library Victoria – May 2024
“Law Library Victoria and BottledSnail Productions present Lyrical Lunchtimes in the Library, a music concert series.
Performed in the historic Supreme Court Library, this wonderful program features piano, voice, flute, and violin, performed by members of the legal profession.
Please note attendees must pass through court security before the event.”
UPDATE 8/5/24: This event is now booked out! The next Lyrical Lunchtimes event will be on 22 August 2024.
Featuring Aether Duo (Robert McIntyre & Sam Williams) performing 3 works:
Road Trip, by Sally Whitwell
Sonata mvt. 1, by Francis Poulenc
Feathers Taking Flight, by Robert McIntyre
Contrasts: Music for Flute and Bassoon (Simone Maurer & Lyndon Watts)
This recital is presented as part of the Hanson Dyer Hall Concert Series. All concerts in this series can also be streamed live via FFAM website.
Contrasts: Music for Flute and Bassoon
Featuring the contrasting heights and depths of woodwind sounds, this concert for flute and bassoon gives a tour of solo and duo works of contrasting styles and musical colours - including the Australian premiere of Žilvinas Smalys' Duettino for Flute and Bassoon and the world premiere of a new work by Robert McIntyre - composer and Associate Artist of the Australian Music Centre.
Join flutist, Simone Maurer, and bassoonist, Lyndon Watts, in this performance for a rare, but vibrant, instrument combination.
Artists
Simone Maurer, flute
Lyndon Watts, bassoon
Program
Eugene BOZZA
Contrastes I for flute and bassoon (1977)
Žilvinas SMALYS
Duettino for Flute and Bassoon (2022) Australian premiere
i. Allegretto scherzando
ii. Cantabile
iii. Con anima
Elizabeth YOUNAN
Fantasia No. VIII for solo bassoon (2022)
Lora AL-AHMED
Two Skazkas for Solo Flute (2017)
Robert MCINTYRE
Remnants of a Resonance: duo for flute and bassoon (2024) world premiere*
Heitor VILLA-LOBOS
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6, W 392 for flute and bassoon (1938)
i. Ária (chôro)
ii. Fantasia (Allegro)
About the artists
Simone Maurer
Simone Maurer is a classical-contemporary flutist, music psychology researcher, and tertiary educator based in Melbourne (Naarm). Her early career encompassed orchestral performance with state and national youth orchestras and an internship with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. After completing a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours and receiving two university medals from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Simone relocated to the UK. During her MPhil degree at the University of Cambridge, Simone continued orchestral and chamber performance, including projects with the Britten Sinfonia—an associate ensemble at the Barbican in London. It was at this time that Simone began collaborating with composers to assist the creation of new works for and with flute. On returning to Australia, she began a PhD in Music Performance at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Simone’s doctoral thesis investigated the body language of flute players and explored contemporary works for solo flute. In Melbourne, Simone continues to perform as a soloist and chamber musician with Forest Collective, Six Degrees Ensemble, and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music New Music Studio at the Melbourne Recital Centre and Melba Hall. Simone recently toured the USA for a month, presenting and performing at universities and flute festivals in Mississippi, Atlanta, New York City, and Virginia.
Lyndon Watts
Lyndon Watts became principal bassoonist of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 22. After 18 years in this position Lyndon chose to move back to his home country Australia to accept the position of lecturer in music (bassoon) at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM). Since 2019 he has been Convenor of the annual MCM Concerto-Aria Competition, and since 2020 Convenor of the MCM Early Music Studio. He is a founding member of the Australian World Orchestra and has performed as a soloist or guest principal with numerous European and Australian ensembles on both modern and period instruments. In 2002 he became the first Australian woodwind player to win a prize in the prestigious ARD International Music Competition, in combination with a special prize for the best interpretation of a newly commissioned solo work by Heinz Holliger, who has described Lyndon’s playing as possessing “an ideal balance between utmost precision and wild spontaneity.” From 2005 to 2015 he was professor of bassoon in Switzerland at the Berne University of the Arts, where he also taught chamber music and contemporary music. Lyndon has premiered many compositions for bassoon by composers from his hometowns Munich and Melbourne. Most recently these included Elliott Gyger’s Elude for solo bassoon, two new works for bassoon and percussion by Miriama Young and Linda Verrier, Elizabeth Younan’s wind quintet Kismet, and the first performance of the bassoon and piano version of a new bassoon concerto by Matt Laing. Lyndon loves living close to the Australian bush and surf, and enjoys keeping fit with his partner and their son.
Banner L-R: Simone Maurer, Image by Daniel Rabin. Lyndon Watts.
ACCESSIBILITY
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SUMMARY OF EVENTS
2025 - SO FAR & UPCOMING
04/06/2025 Komorebi Duo at 2025 ISCM World New Music Days Festival, Lisbon Portugal, performed at São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Lisbon
01/08/2025 Changing Wilds Ensemble presents ‘Our Duty to Care’ at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon
18/02/2025 Georgina Lewis, Isabel Hede and Gemma Kneale at Scots Church Melbourne
25/01/2025 ‘Cybec Showcase’ by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Weiss, Iwaki Auditorium ABC Building
2024
11//11/2024 Soprano Bridgette Kelsey’s 2024 Honours Recital
01/09/2024 Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra presents ‘Atmospheric Shifts’ at Fitzroy Town Hall
29/06/2024 Aether Duo (Robert McIntyre & Sam Williams) presents ‘New Dawn’ at Tempo Rubato
14/06/2024 Chamber Queer 2024: Constellation ft. Coady Green (Brooklyn NY, USA) at MITU580
02/06/2024 ‘Kaleidoscope’ by Arafura Music Collective – 2024 Sugarbag Festival (Darwin, NT) at NT Supreme Court
01/06/2024 ‘Kaleidoscope’ by Arafura Music Collective (Darwin, NT) at Palmerstone Gray Community Hall
29/06/2024 Aether Duo (Robert McIntyre & Sam Williams) presents ‘New Dawn’ at Tempo Rubato
26/05/2024 Soprano Bridgette Kelsey competing in Queensland Vocal Competition Festival (Australian Art Song Category) at UQ School of Music
21/05/2024 Contrasts: Music for Flute and Bassoon (Simone Maurer & Lyndon Watts), Hanson Dyer Series, University of Melbourne
05/05/2024 Collide presents ‘Sundays in the Sound Gallery’ at David Li Sound Gallery, The Ian Potter Southbank Centre for Performing Arts (Monash University)
01/05/2024 ChamberFest RIAM (Royal Irish Academy of Music) concert presented by Martina Rosaria O’Connell, David Vesey and Sarah VDH (Dublin, IRELAND)
24/02/2024 3MBS Marathon Transfigured at Melbourne Recital Centre (Concert 4: Universal, Collide)
23/02/2024 Flinders Fringe Festival 2024 – Coady Green Recital
11/02/2024 Invisible Spirits presented by Simone Maurer, Amber Evans & Jeremy Chan (New York, USA)
03/02/2024 OUR DUTY TO CARE: Worlds Collide | Tempo Rubato (Curator: Robert McIntyre, Performers: Bridgette Kelsey, Isabel Hede, Stephanie Arnold & Georgina Lewis), 2024 National Sustainability Festival Partner
29/01/2024 Simone Maurer – Solo flute recital at the University of Southern Mississippi, (USA)
27/01/2024 Simone Maurer – 'Guest artist recital' at the Southern Flute Festival, (Gulf Port, Mississippi, USA)
21/01/2024 Symphony in a Day Project Orchestra | conductor and curator Nicole Marshall
2023
15/12/2023 TEMPO QUEER 5: Curated by Coady Green, Tempo Rubato
29/11/2023 Mentone Grammar School Awards Night ft. world premiere performance of 'Trying to Catch a Will-o'-the-Wisp'
23/10/2023 Australian Global Health Alliance 2023 Film Festival screening Our Duty to Care (Canberra, ACT)
30/09/2023 Australian Flute Festival (Sydney, NSW)
1/09/2023 50th Annual Leslie Barklamb Scholarship 2023 FINALS
27/08/2023 50th Annual Leslie Barklamb Scholarship 2023 Preliminaries Round
09/06/2023 TEMPO QUEER 2: In Praise of the Vulnerable Man, curated by Leigh Harrold
23/05/2023 Wattle Fellowship – Spotlight 1 @ EY
29/04/2023 Victorian Flute Guild Fundraiser Concert, Boxhill.
19/04/2023 Our Duty to Care – Solstice Trio & Bridgette Kelsey @ Hanson Dyer Hall, curated and presented by Robert McIntyre in partnership with the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and the Melbourne Law School.
12/03/2023 Australian Art Song for Chamber Choir – Divisi Chamber Singers @ fortyfivedownstairs Chamber Music Festival
08/03/2023 Melody At My Will – Solstice Trio @ fortyfivedownstairs, Chamber Music Festival
27/01/2023 Expanses – Sam Williams (piano) ft. guest artist Robert McIntyre (flutes) @ Tempo Rubato
2022
20/11/2022 “On This Earth We Dance” – Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra, St Ambrose Hall.
23/010/2022 3MBS Victorian Young Performer Award – ft. Australian premiere of McIntyre's 'the distance between', Abbotsford Convent
22/10/2022 “Sound of Water” – MCM Saxophone Ensemble, Hanson Dyer Hall
21/10/2022 Leading Edge Guitar Ensemble presents “Melbourne Originals”, Hanson Dyer Hall
14/09/2022 ‘rising’ Commission World Premiere Concert @ Our Lady of Sion Boxhill College
31/07/2022 Composing in the Wilderness – Denali National Park and Preserve Visitor Center Concert (Denali, Alaska, USA)
30/07/2022 Composing in the Wilderness Premiere Concert – Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival (Fairbanks, Alaska, USA)
20/06/2022 TEMPO QUEER 8pm MON 20/06 – Curated by Coady Green
17/06/2022 Belvedere Chamber Music Festival (Concert #4)(Memphis, USA)
28/05/2022 "ELEMENTS" - Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra (VYSO)
15/05/2022 “GLOW” – Jasper Ly (oboe) and Peter Dumsday (piano), fortyfivedownstairs
10/05/2022 “Phoenix” – Collide Trio, Hanson Dyer Hall
06/05/2022 “EnviroSound” | Music For Our Home, curated by Helen Shen, Hanson Dyer Hall
20/03/2022 "Come As You Are: Vulnerability in the Concert Space” - No Divide KC, (Kansas City, USA)
16/03/2022 Divisi Chamber Singers: Spectrum Album Launch, The MC Showroom.
11/02/2022 Homophonic! BYOB (Midsumma Festival @ La Mama Courthouse
2021
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2020
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2019
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