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What's On at the
Wesley Music Centre

  • BlockSounds Recorder Enesmble: Fire, Wind, and Water - Reflections on Nature
    BlockSounds Recorder Enesmble: Fire, Wind, and Water - Reflections on Nature
    20 Apr 2024, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
    Autumn is upon us, and here in Canberra we are experiencing the pleasure of a new season, the colouring of the leaves, the turbulent skies, the changing bird calls, the stillness of the lake on misty mornings. Robyn Mellor directs BlockSounds recorder ensemble, with Uccellini recorder ensemble.
  • Apeiron Baroque: Shipwrecked!
    Apeiron Baroque: Shipwrecked!
    Sun, 21 Apr
    21 Apr 2024, 4:00 pm
    21 Apr 2024, 4:00 pm
    Apeiron Baroque are kicking off their first concert in their 2024 chamber series with an all-Canberra cast of players! Countertenor Tobias Cole will be joined by a small band of strings (and harpsichord!) to present stormy vocal works by Baroque composers Ariosti, Vivaldi, Handel, and Hasse.
  • Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: Aeolus Wind Trio
    Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: Aeolus Wind Trio
    Wed, 24 Apr
    24 Apr 2024, 12:40 pm – 1:20 pm
    24 Apr 2024, 12:40 pm – 1:20 pm
    The Wesley Music Centre Wednesday Lunchtime series is pleased to present a delightful concert by the Aeolus Wind Trio all about love.
  • Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: Gardens of Spain
    Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: Gardens of Spain
    Wed, 01 May
    01 May 2024, 12:40 pm – 1:20 pm
    01 May 2024, 12:40 pm – 1:20 pm
    Soprano Sarahlouise, accompanied by pianist Natalia Tkachenko, in a recital that explores some of the popular classical and less well-known Spanish song repertoire. They will delight you with De Falla’s Seven Popular Songs and songs by Toldra, Lorca and others.
  • Salut! Baroque: "The Influencers"
    Salut! Baroque: "The Influencers"
    Fri, 03 May
    03 May 2024, 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm
    03 May 2024, 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm
    Salut! Baroque performs a concert of Baroque music, including works by Bach, Telemann, Handel, Vivaldi, Purcell, Rameau and Monteverdi.
  • Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: Colours of the Organ
    Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: Colours of the Organ
    Wed, 08 May
    08 May 2024, 12:40 pm – 1:20 pm
    08 May 2024, 12:40 pm – 1:20 pm
    On Wednesday 8th May from 12:40 to 1:20pm, the Wesley Music Centre Wednesday Lunchtime series is pleased to present an organ recital by Callum Tolhurst-Close performing a program that includes music by Thalben Ball, Charles Hylton Stewart and Saint-Saens.
  • Hourglass Ensemble: Folk and Fantasy
    Hourglass Ensemble: Folk and Fantasy
    Sat, 11 May
    11 May 2024, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    11 May 2024, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    Let Hourglass be your storyteller, leading you on an enchanting night filled withAustralian and international chamber music - Kats-Chernin, Bartok, Liszt, Greenaway, Grantham, Cawrse, Bunch Music of mystical times, from places we can only imagine.
  • Art Song Canberra: Dolcissimo
    Art Song Canberra: Dolcissimo
    Sun, 19 May
    19 May 2024, 3:00 pm
    19 May 2024, 3:00 pm
    This most delicate program of early Italian baroque, accompanied on a historic 17th century harp, celebrates the seductive sweetness of the female voice. Anna Fraser (soprano) and Hanna Lane (Ialian triple harp)
  • JOTA: Ciampa-Piccotti Duo
    JOTA: Ciampa-Piccotti Duo
    Fri, 31 May
    31 May 2024, 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm
    31 May 2024, 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm
    Two of Italy's finest musicians unite, for a stunning concert in CANBERRA this May! Join us as the Ciampa-Piccotti duo (Gian Marco Ciampa, guitar, and Erica Piccotti) explore a world where rhythmic flamenco and sultry tango melodies intertwine. This one is not to be missed!
  • Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven's Fifth
    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven's Fifth
    Thu, 27 June
    27 June 2024, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
    27 June 2024, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
    AHE present their third concert in this year's 2024 season 'Beethoven's Fifth'. Arguably saving the best ‘til last, AHE offers you the chance to get up close and personal with Beethoven’s mighty C minor, reduced down to septet, but if anything intensifying its fiery flavour in the process.
  • Guitar Trek Concert
    Guitar Trek Concert
    Sat, 06 July
    06 July 2024, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
    06 July 2024, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
    Australia's great guitar quartet play a wildly eclectic selection of pieces from all corners of their repertoire. Don't miss it!
  • Art Song Canberra: Airs and Graces
    Art Song Canberra: Airs and Graces
    Sun, 01 Sept
    01 Sept 2024, 3:00 pm
    01 Sept 2024, 3:00 pm
    In this recital, young counter-tenor Michael Burden presents some of the vocal gems that were heard outside the opera houses of the day in Paris, London, Venice and Rome. Michael Burden (countertenor), Liam Green (harpsichord) and Ruby Brallier (cello, viola da gamba)
  • Australian Haydn Ensemble: Mozart's Horn
    Australian Haydn Ensemble: Mozart's Horn
    Thu, 26 Sept
    26 Sept 2024, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
    26 Sept 2024, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
    AHE presents their fourth concert in this year's 2024 season 'Mozart's Horn'. Carla Blackwood and the AHE invite you to explore both sides of Mozart’s mercurial nature, and to marvel that a device designed to frighten wolves creates such mellifluous and glowing music.
  • Jeonghwan Kim Piano Concert
    Jeonghwan Kim Piano Concert
    Fri, 11 Oct
    11 Oct 2024, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
    11 Oct 2024, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
    Jeonghwan Kim is an astonishingly powerful and sensitive young artist now set to take the world by storm. At just 23 years of age, he is the winner of both the First Prize and Eileen Joyce Best Overall Concerto Prize at the Sydney International Piano Competition 2023.
  • Art Song Canberra: Orphic Hymns
    Art Song Canberra: Orphic Hymns
    Sun, 20 Oct
    20 Oct 2024, 3:00 pm
    20 Oct 2024, 3:00 pm
    Jane Sheldon comes to Canberra performing songs from her upcoming album, part of a growing body of work based on the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke.
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