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Wesley Music Centre

  • 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)
  • Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: The Duke Speaks
    Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: The Duke Speaks
    Wed, 22 May
    22 May 2024, 12:40 pm – 1:20 pm
    22 May 2024, 12:40 pm – 1:20 pm
    The Wesley Lunchtime concert series welcomes back the dynamic Violinist/Violist and Viola d’amore player, John Ma, in a program that demonstrates the beautiful qualities of his main Baroque violin – an English violin made by Richard Duke in London around 1770.
  • Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: Talented Students from the Studio of Elena Nikulina
    Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: Talented Students from the Studio of Elena Nikulina
    29 May 2024, 12:40 pm – 1:20 pm
    The Wesley Lunchtime concert series is pleased to present four outstanding students from the studio of Elena Nikulina. Hannah Ni, Oscar Wu, May Li and Simon Wu.
  • 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!
  • Polifemy - John Wilbye's House Concert
    Polifemy - John Wilbye's House Concert
    Sat, 01 June
    01 June 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    01 June 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    THE OCCASION…1609, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Mr John Wilbye has just published his 2nd set of part songs - sparkling compositions that would cement his reputation as one of England's finest madrigalists.
  • The Mirror: capturing time and place in music
    The Mirror: capturing time and place in music
    Sat, 01 June
    01 June 2024, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
    01 June 2024, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
    Continuing to measure the cultural cost of war, we will explore through music and projected images, the experiences of Jewish and other WWII refugees who fled Europe in search of safety from 1933 onwards. Some succeeding, many failing.
  • AUSTA CANBERRA STRING FESTIVAL
    AUSTA CANBERRA STRING FESTIVAL
    Sun, 02 June
    02 June 2024, 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    02 June 2024, 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    The festival will be held on Sunday the 2nd June 2024 and includes only non-competitive sections. Each performer entry is $35. Audience entry is FREE. Places are limited in each session! Each piece will be limited to a maximum of 10 minutes.
  • Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: Smoky Salons
    Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: Smoky Salons
    Wed, 05 June
    05 June 2024, 12:40 pm – 1:20 pm
    05 June 2024, 12:40 pm – 1:20 pm
    The Wesley Lunchtime concert series presents violinist/violist John Ma and pianist Marie Searles in very different guise from their Baroque personas as Apeiron NOT-Baroque.
  • Apeiron Baroque: Travel And Change
    Apeiron Baroque: Travel And Change
    Sun, 09 June
    09 June 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    09 June 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    Baroque Music meets Philosophy! Continuing on from the successful melding of Australian Poetry and Baroque Music last year, Apeiron continues to pair unlikely and interesting combinations of topics with our Early Music performances.
  • Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: The Exquisite Hour
    Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: The Exquisite Hour
    Wed, 12 June
    12 June 2024, 12:40 pm – 1:20 pm
    12 June 2024, 12:40 pm – 1:20 pm
    The Wesley Music Centre Wednesday Lunchtime series presents the gorgeous mezzo-soprano AJ America accompanied by the distinguished Roland Peelman, AM, in their latest exploration of voice and piano.
  • Kotaro Nagano: An Afternoon of Baroque with Historical Instruments
    Kotaro Nagano: An Afternoon of Baroque with Historical Instruments
    Sat, 15 June
    15 June 2024, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    15 June 2024, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Kotaro Nagano will give a concert where he will revive the music of the time by playing instruments of different eras. The Clavicytherium is a particularly rare instrument, and Kotaro is excited to perform with it, treating the audience to a rare opportunity hearing this unique instrument.
  • Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: Mozart in Winter
    Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: Mozart in Winter
    Wed, 26 June
    26 June 2024, 12:40 pm – 1:20 pm
    26 June 2024, 12:40 pm – 1:20 pm
    The Wesley Music Centre Wednesday Lunchtime series presents soprano Madeline Anderson and pianist Hilda Visser-Scott. The performers seek to bring some lightness to the cold and slack of winter in their program dedicated to Mozart.
  • 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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