Tomorrow on 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭, Julie Waters will be joined by a few of our neighbours @lifeatanam who will perform live-to-air.
Karen Chen (clarinet), Ian Chiao (violin), Lachlan MacLaren (violin), Lachlan McKie (viola) and Boudewijn Keenan (cello) will perform the first movements of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581 and Dvořák's String Quartet No.11, Op.61.
Tune in tomorrow from 10am!
🎼 ANAM Live-to-air performance
🌅 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭
📆 10am Thursday 14 May
📸 Pia Johnson
“Musicians regularly go through trials by fire, but how many can claim to survive a trial by fire alarm?” – Philip Lambert, ANAM Music Librarian (2004–2023)
Having been ANAM librarian for nearly two decades, Phil always has a story or two to tell about the old days, and they’re all worth writing down for posterity. Read the one about the lightning strike on the South Melbourne Town Hall tower on Phil’s ANAM30 webpage. With ANAM moving back there in 2028, it really feels like going back to the future!
We were also very lucky to capture Phil’s recollections of ANAM’s first 30 years, also published on the ANAM30 webpage (link in bio).
✨Millennium Canticles
Friday 15 May 2026, 7PM
Abbotsford Convent
Join Kaylie Melville this Friday at @lifeatanam , where she will direct ANAM’s percussionists in Missy Mazzoli’s Millennium Canticles — a post-apocalyptic song cycle that reimagines ritual in a fractured world.
Written in 2022 for the Chicago ensemble Third Coast Percussion, the work blends ancient chant with mechanical rhythm and flashes of dark humour. Its five movements follow a community of imagined survivors rebuilding belief through sound — part prayer, part invention.
Under Kaylie’s direction, ANAM’s percussionists bring this strange, compelling world to life, revealing Mazzoli’s vision of renewal through rhythm, precision and play.
Program:
Jeanette LITTLE Shifting Worlds
Missy MAZZOLI Millennium Canticles
Thomas MEADOWCROFT Home Organs
Christopher CERRONE Ode to Joy
“I’m equipped to go into the future and make an impact in the music scene...because of the training and support I’ve received here [at ANAM]” - Emica Taylor (NZ) flute
Secure the next 30 years for ANAM musicians by donating to ANAM's Next 30 Appeal today. Visit the link in our bio or call us on (03) 9645 7911 to make your gift.
THANK YOU
Join ANAM's In Conversation with Kaylie Melville on Thu 14 May, 3pm.
Kaylie Melville and ANAM Percussion perform Millennium Canticles on Fri 15 May, 7pm
📍 Rosina Auditorium, Abbotsford Convent.
🔗 Tickets via link in bio.
ANAM at Elgee Park: Autumn
Sat 16 May, 2pm
In just a week, ANAM musicians travel to the Mornington Peninsula for the final performance of the unique partnership with Elgee Park. The program brings together three very different approaches to chamber music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, written at the height of Vienna’s clarinet craze; Jeanette Little’s ‘Shifting Worlds’ with contrasting instrumental lines, and Madeleine Dring’s ‘Trio’, a work that carries traces of cabaret, theatre music and post war London.
Wine tasting will be available on arrival, with a cash bar running throughout the afternoon. After the performance there will be a complimentary afternoon tea and the opportunity to taste and purchase Elgee Park wines.
🔗 A few tickets left, book via the link in bio.
“…I THINK WHEN THE REFINING OF GREAT TECHNIQUE HOLDS HANDS WITH A CULTURE OF COLLABORATION, THEN YOU GET MUSICIANS WHO CAN MAKE MEANINGFUL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AND, IMPORTANTLY, TO COMMUNITIES…” – Christopher Sainsbury, Founder of the Ngarra-Burria First Nations Composers Initiative, Interim Head of School of Music and Professor of Music at Australian National University, ANAM Set Composer (2024).
Read Christopher’s full story about the process behind Interrupted Cadence, his ANAM Set piece, and watch a short ANAM documentary on the ANAM30 website via the link in bio.
“At ANAM we bring musicians together as a generation...to empower each other to do great things...it’s very important that it continues.”
- Paavali Jumppanen, ANAM Artistic Director
Secure the next 30 years for ANAM musicians by donating to ANAM's Next 30 Appeal today. Visit the link in our bio or call us on (03) 9645 7911 to make your gift.
THANK YOU
“THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR GENEROSITY AND BELIEF IN WHAT WE DO AT ANAM. YOUR SUPPORT ALLOWS ME TO FULLY DEDICATE MYSELF TO THESE EXPERIENCES, AND I AM TRULY GRATEFUL.” — Alex Tsang (NSW) oboe
Explore ANAM's Impact of Philanthropy Report and see the difference your support is making - read the full report on our website via the link in our bio.
“I WOULD SAY THAT ANAM IS A UNIQUE EXPRESSION OF THE COMPLEXITY AND EMOTIONAL POWER OF MUSIC ITSELF.” — ANAM Artistic Director Paavali Jumppanen.
Come along to Shared Memories, Paavali’s final concert as Artistic Director, on Fri 20 Nov, 7pm at the Rosina Auditorium, Abbotsford Convent.
Read Paavali’s full message on the ANAM 30 website via the link in bio.
“ON THE VERGE OF A TRULY GREAT TRANSFIGURATION AS IT PREPARES TO RE-OCCUPY THE RE-IMAGINED SOUTH MELBOURNE TOWN HALL, ANAM’S MUSIC IS MORE NEEDED BY THIS DEEPLY DIVIDED WORLD THAN EVER.” — Nick Bailey, ANAM Managing Director (2009–Mar 2026), South Melbourne Town Hall Redevelopment Project Director.
It’s been nearly a month since Nick Bailey stepped into his new role as Project Director, focusing on the South Melbourne Town Hall redevelopment after 17 years as Managing Director. On his final day in the role, we had the chance to capture his message for the ANAM community.
Read Nick’s full story on the ANAM 30 website via the link in bio.
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