Music sparks emotion like nothing else; live music especially so. Here’s a concert with all the feelings: there’s loss, longing, love, and a bit of foot-stomping fandango flamboyance. Our guides into this other world are experts.
The Flinders Quartet is renowned for unpretentious brilliance, with two decades of experience in old music and new. Classical guitar is a beautiful but famously difficult instrument to master, and most players sit very still in utmost concentration – which is why Karin Schaupp stands out. With incredible warmth and expressiveness, she welcomes us into her emotional world, and we leave enriched and heartened.
Of special note in this program is a world premiere from composer and Musica Viva Australia’s previous Artistic Director Carl Vine, commissioned by a longstanding audience member to immortalise the joyous memory of her late daughter.
Guitar Karin Schaupp
Flinders Quartet
Violin Thibaud Pavlovic-Hobba
Violin Wilma Smith
Viola Helen Ireland
Cello Zoe Knighton
Carulli Guitar Concerto in A Major, Op. 8
Richard Charlton Southern Cross Dreaming (2007)
Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitar Quintet, Op. 143
Carl Vine Endless for Guitar and String Quartet (2021)*
Imogen Holst Phantasy Quartet
Boccherini Guitar Quintet in D Major, G. 448 (mvts III and IV)
*World premiere performance. Commissioned for Musica Viva Australia in loving memory of Jennifer Bates.
David Helfgott bids a fond farewell to his fans, performing Rachmaninov’s third piano concerto for two pianos with Rhodri Clarke.
Join Queensland Symphony Orchestra for a rapturous performance of Heroic Tales conducted by Nicholas Carter.
Ensemble Q presents a boots and all style exploration of the earthy influence of music from countries including Ireland, America, Japan, Italy and more.
A rare opportunity to witness the magic of these two phenomenal artists, who have been thrilling crowds across the world.
Join the world’s finest violinist Maxim Vengerov for an insightful masterclass.
Soprano Siobhan Stagg performs with Nico de Villiers at the Ian Hanger Recital Hall in an intimate recital of Lieder.
Tiempo y Herida is a concert of new works by Bernardo Alviz, Felix Hughes Chivers and Paul Dean, performed by QCGU staff and students.
Come see the Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra: Concertos Festival, performed at the Queensland Symphony Orchestra Studio.