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Editor's Choice Event Series Canberra International Music Festival

Canberra International Music Festival: American Modern

National Gallery of Australia Parkes Place East, Parkes, ACT, Australia
In his final year as Artistic Director, Roland Peelman has chosen to open the festival with William Barton, Persian tar player Hamed Sadeghi and Belgian jazz pianist Bram De Looze, as well as Lior and Nigel Westlake’s Compassion. Guitar virtuoso Pavel Ralev, violist Florian Peelman, France’s Trio Karénine and Dudok Quartet…
Featured Featured Event Series Luminaries

Selby & Friends: Luminaries

National Gallery of Australia Parkes Place East, Parkes, ACT, Australia
Iconic Australian ensemble, the Goldner String Quartet in their farewell season, joins our Artistic Director for this stunning program of gorgeous favourites performed by musicians extraordinaire! Beginning with a rarely played early Mozart Piano Concerto in the composer’s own arrangement for piano and string quartet followed by Tchaikovsky’s great String…

Salut! Baroque: The Historian

National Gallery of Australia Parkes Place East, Parkes, ACT, Australia
Travelling widely throughout Europe and befriending musicians from Handel to Haydn, it is hard to believe that Charles Burney began his career as an indentured servant musician. With his intellect and extensive networking, Burney embarked on cultural pilgrimages, leaving a legacy of strongly opinionated letters, three books and four volumes…

Event Series Jewels in the Crown

Selby & Friends: Jewels in the Crown

National Gallery of Australia Parkes Place East, Parkes, ACT, Australia
A S&F favourite, violinist Natalie Chee returns in 2024 for a brilliant and unusual program featuring Beethoven’s mighty ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata with Kathryn Selby. Accomplished performer and mentor Lloyd Van’t Hoff opens the program with what is considered the greatest work composed for clarinet and piano with Brahms’ second sonata followed…

Event Series Triple Treat

Selby & Friends: Triple Treat

National Gallery of Australia Parkes Place East, Parkes, ACT, Australia
Beethoven once again features prominently in this incredibly diverse program featuring two of our favourite guest artists – Susie Park and Timo-Veikko Valve. The highlight of this program is a work that wowed audiences when programmed years ago – Beethoven’s virtuosic Triple Concerto in Reinecke’s stunning arrangement for piano trio.…

Salut! Baroque: The Networker

National Gallery of Australia Parkes Place East, Parkes, ACT, Australia
With his exceptional networking skills and his 43-year association with the Dresden Court Orchestra, including 27 years as concert master, Johann Georg Pisendel was the beating heart of the most famous orchestra in 18th century Europe. Pisendel gathered and inspired a remarkable group of musicians and composers, including Vivaldi, Telemann,…

Event Series Lonely Angel

Selby & Friends: Lonely Angel

National Gallery of Australia Parkes Place East, Parkes, ACT, Australia
Our 2024 Season closes with a stunning and fascinating program of contrasting elements – from Spain to France, Latvia to Germany, this concert shines with national pride, fervour and melody and gives us insight into the incredible development in Europe over a short space of time of the genre of…