Final Music at McClelland for 2025!
We’re ending the season on a high note with the incredible Penny Quartet.
Known for their vibrant performances and adventurous repertoire, this dynamic chamber group has toured nationally, played major festivals, and collaborated with top composers. Don’t miss their performance at McClelland.
When: Sunday 16th November
Time: 2:30-4pm
Bookings: Via Link in profile
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As I look forward to again being transported to another universe tonight by my wonderful MSO colleagues, our MSO Chorus in spectacular voice, two stunning soloists and our fearless leader Jaime Martin in the shared ritual of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, the serendipity of this excellent article from Wendy Hargreaves about the history, joys and no-brainer benefits of group singing was too much to not be shared! If Australia could embed group singing into the curriculum, in class time, from Prep through primary school, we could transform our nation’s culture, empathy, skills, wellbeing, education etc etc. There’s kilometers of scientific evidence to back this up. What on earth or in heaven is everyone waiting for?
/church-hymns-and-social-beers-how-australia-is-reviving-the-magic-of-singing-together-250254?utm_medium=article_native_share&utm_source=theconversation.com
A massive thanks to team McClelland, our donors, artists and special visitors Stefano De Pieri , Sir Jonathan Mills AC, Mia Robinson, Monica Curro & Stefan Cassomenos.
To our longstanding event sponsor Paul & Caroline Scorpo of Scorpo Wines - truly outstanding evening in The Sarah Baillieu Myer Pavilion at McClelland.
What-ho my London friends! 🏴 Stefan Cassomenos is presenting a typically epic recital tonight (Saturday 22nd June)
BRYARS BEETHOVEN BRADSHAW
7pm at St Peter’s Church Hammersmith
Tickets here - /e/stefan-cassomenos-crossing-hemispheres-tickets-913315530337
Momentous reunion after 43 years -
we both burst into tears when we saw each other 🥹
All Hallows' School Past Pupils
Class of ‘83
Ruth Darcy School Captain
Monica Curro Vice Captain
Thanks to Nicholas Thompson Gallery for bringing us together again!
Artist - Suzanne Archer
Coming up this Sunday 21st April at 2:00pm at magnificent McClelland 🪩
Featuring the breathtaking 2018 piano sonata by internationally celebrated Australian composer Lee Bradshaw (whose brand new opera “Zarqa al Yamama” premieres in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia later this month) alongside the Burj Khalifa of piano sonatas – Hammerklavier – and concluding with two pinnacles of the 19th-century opera transcription frenzy from peak piano influencer F Liszt and his squad R Wagner and G Verdi 👊
BEETHOVEN Sonata Op 106, "Hammerklavier" (1818)
BRADSHAW Sonata (2018)
LISZT/WAGNER Isolde’s Liebestod (1867)
LISZT/VERDI Rigoletto Paraphrase (1859)
Join us for cheese and wine afterwards on the patio 🧀🍷
$40 per ticket and there’s hardly any left
eventbrite.com.au/e/music-at-mcclelland-tickets-764985561407
or $180 for a 5-concert subscription to this outstanding Music at McClelland series curated by the unstoppable Monica Curro including my brilliant colleagues The Sutherland Trio, Judith Dodsworth + Joy Lee, Melba Artists, ANAM Brass Ensemble, Amos Roach + Jacinta Dennett + Johanna Selleck + Molly Collier-O’Boyle, Flinders Quartet, and AYO Momentum Ensemble + Claire Edwardes ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
mcclelland.org.au/events/musicatmcclelland
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It’s my birthday! 🥳 So I’ve had so many of these now that I don’t need presents but if anyone was thinking of getting me something, then please channel any (tax deductible) resources to the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival where we can invest them in my extraordinary artist colleagues, our community and education projects in SW Victoria, and getting the word out about building the first regional conservatorium in Victoria. Now that’s something to celebrate!
Here’s the link and lots of love 😁💃🏻♥️
.au/donate/
And a special shout out to the incredible Stefan Cassomenos for his mindblowing Requiem for the End of Time at our 2023 Port Fairy Spring Music Festival Closing Gala - he has 10 brains and a huge heart and just makes everything brilliant for those in his orbit 🤩
Hey Sydney people!! Stefan Cassomenos is appearing as soloist in Mozart #21 with The Orchestra Project this Easter Sunday at 2:30pm Verbrugghen Hall 🤩
Oh there’s also a little ditty by Mahler 😂
Ticket info on poster below or at the door on the day - see you there!
A Warrnambool Academy of Music - please give us your thoughts through our survey and share share share! Survey (closes 12th August) here - /southwest-music-survey
