UPCOMING + PAST EVENTS

Tom Pugh & Peninsula Chamber Musicians present 'Italian Echoes'
June
15

Tom Pugh & Peninsula Chamber Musicians present 'Italian Echoes'

Italian Echoes
Our program opens with Schubert’s vibrant exploration of the Italian style and concludes with Stravinsky’s masterpiece Pulcinella, inspired by the music of Italian composer Pergolesi. Providing a striking contrast, we are joined by the exceptional Melbourne pianist Caroline Almonte for Shostakovich’s dynamic First Piano Concerto. The program also features When Thunder Speaks Softly by Robert McIntyre, winner of the prestigious Dorian Le Gallienne Composition Award, promising a truly compelling and diverse musical experience.

Sunday 15 June, 2pm
Peninsula Community Theatre
91 Wilsons Rd, Mornington

Schubert
Overture in D Major, in the Italian Style, D. 591
Shostakovich
Concerto in C Minor for Piano, Trumpet and String Orchestra, Op. 35
Robert McIntyre
When Thunder Speaks Softly
​Stravinsky
Pulcinella Suite, K034

LINK: HERE

“Continuing our long tradition of bringing together musicians from all over the Peninsula to perform beautiful music for local residents under our motto "Live Local, Listen Local".

Please browse our season program below, or head to www.peninsulachambermusicians.com.au

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Our Duty to Care at the Melbourne Recital Centre
Aug
1

Our Duty to Care at the Melbourne Recital Centre

  • Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre (map)
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A cross-disciplinary, cross-genre blend of introspective music designed to enable exploration within and beyond yourself.

Spanning the realms of Australian and Icelandic composition, Our Duty to Care is the third instalment in Robert McIntyre’s climate-change concert curations, following acclaimed performances in recent years.

In this Melbourne Recital Centre exclusive, the 2025 instalment covering themes relating to climate change, empathy, loss, hope, and more, Our Duty to Care features the music of renowned Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds alongside Australians Robert McIntyre, Laura Abraham, Anne Cawrse, and Melbourne Recital Centre’s 2024 Artist in Residence Nat Bartsch.

Featuring project ensemble Changing Wilds Ensemble, led by artistic director and composer Robert McIntyre, this curated performance in the Primrose Potter Salon blends wide-ranging genres to convey powerful messages. Centered around Robert McIntyre’s Our Duty to Care, with text by Savanna Wegman, this cross-disciplinary work for soprano voice and piano trio is based on Sharma v Minister for the Environment [2021] FCA 560. This groundbreaking environmental law case, which proved climate change to be legally real in the courts, has been the catalyst for further climate change litigation globally and even legislative action locally.

Praise for Changing Wilds Ensemble

‘Art produced in the realm of climate activism often conforms to a set script… But the overwhelming message of Our Duty to Care was one of reflection. McIntyre took an introspective tack, and was rewarded by a captivated audience.’ – classikON

TICKETS: AVAILABLE HERE

Standard $45 ($35 Concession)

ARTISTS

Changing Wilds Ensemble
Robert McIntyre composer, curator, flute
Bridgette Kelsey soprano
Georgina Lewis piano
Isabel Hede violin
Stephanie Arnold cello
Savanna Wegman poet

PROGRAM

Ólafur Arnalds / Nanna
Particles

Nat Bartsch
Homecoming

Laura Abraham
A Hazy Memory

Robert McIntyre / Savanna Wegman
Every third dawn

Ólafur Arnalds / Josin
The Bottom Line

Robert McIntyre
A Sea Spray of Ash

Anne Cawrse
Time’s long ruin

Robert McIntyre / Savanna Wegman
Our Duty to Care

Ólafur Arnalds / Ella McRobb
And we’ll leave it there…

Part of series:

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3MBS 50th Anniversary Gala Concert
Mar
22

3MBS 50th Anniversary Gala Concert

3MBS 50th Anniversary Gala Concert

Join 3MBS Melbourne 103.5FM at Hawthorn Arts Centre for a free gala concert as the station celebrates 50 years of broadcasting.

The concert features some of 3MBS's favourite performers and the premiere of a composition by Robert McIntyre commissioned especially for the station's birthday.

2pm Saturday 22 March 2025
Hawthorn Arts Centre

Admission is free, however bookings are essential. You can book here or via the link below:

https://www.3mbs.org.au/3mbs-events/2024/50th-anniversary-gala-concert

This concert is generously supported by the City of Boroondara and Limelight

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Changing Wilds Ensemble: Music Matinee at Scots' Church
Feb
18

Changing Wilds Ensemble: Music Matinee at Scots' Church

1.00pm on Tuesday 18th of February – Live and Free at Scots’ Church

Host: Joel Crotty

Changing Winds Ensemble

Isabel Hede- Violin

Gemma Kneale- Cello

Georgina Lewis

PROGRAM

1.Notturno in E Flat major, Op.148 - Franz Schubert 

2. See through me - Robert McIntyre 

3. Piano Trio in D minor Op.120 - Gabriel Fauré 

4. Homecoming - Nat Barsch 

5. Après un rêve Op.7 - Gabriel Fauré

https://www.musicmatinee.org/feb-18

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Collide at Cowes: Bass Coast Cultural Venues
Nov
24

Collide at Cowes: Bass Coast Cultural Venues

Collide is going to Cowes!
Chamber music lovers come join us on Sunday 24th November for a programme of intimate delights ranging from Claude Debussy to Keyna Wilkins:, from Leonard Cohen to Robert McIntyre, and it's going to be a brilliant time.

Tickets here - https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1214376

Come and make a weekend of it down at Bass Coast Cultural Venues this November!

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VYSO: Atmospheric Shifts
Sept
1

VYSO: Atmospheric Shifts

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Atmospheric Shifts explores the nature of the air we breathe, the daily shifts in our atmosphere which are responsible for the weather, the shifting atmospheric patterns which are connected to global climate change, and how music can hang in the air and affect the atmosphere around us.  

We have sought out collaborators from classical music, electronics, and digital art to create a performance that goes beyond classical music, and beyond music as the sole artistic medium, to ask audiences to contemplate the atmosphere around them. Not only in what they can hear, but also see and feel.

Join us for several world premieres, utilising traditional and extended techniques as well as live electronics and visuals to extend the sound of the orchestra and explore new ways of creating and experiencing music. 

Audiences of all ages are welcome and encouraged to engage in this exploration with us, allowing their focus to shift and settle on whatever aspect of the performance feels most natural.

Program

Kaleidescope* (2024) - Shelby Rose

Two Pieces for Small Orchestra (1912) - Frederick Delius

FG (Fog)* (2024) - Misha Machlak

Out of C* (2024) - VYSO

Rayn* (2024) - Brian KM

When wind washes water away (2021) - Robert McIntyre

Tickets 

Standard: $30

Students: $20

Children under 12: $10


This concert is generously sponsored by the City of Yarra.

*World Premieres

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Aether Duo – New Dawn: 29/06/24 Tempo Rubato
June
29

Aether Duo – New Dawn: 29/06/24 Tempo Rubato

EVENT LISTING: https://www.temporubato.com.au/tempo-concerts/aether-duo-new-dawn

ANNOUNCING: AETHER DUO – NEW DAWN

Robert McIntyre, flute
Sam Williams, piano

Saturday 29 June 2024 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM (UTC+11) – Tempo Rubato, Brunswick VIC

LAUNCHING: Aether Duo an ensemble focused on the delivery of new and existing flute and piano repertoire consisting of Robert McIntyre on flute(s) and Sam Williams on piano. We are especially concerned with the promotion of Australian composers as well as curating offerings covering a range of important themes, such as climate change and LGBTQIA+ issues.

New Dawn will be our duo launch event excitingly held at @temporubato_au on SAT 29/06/2024, musically canvassing current and historically significant LGBTQIA+ composers, dealing with numerous elements pertaining to the lived queer experience, including the notion of ‘coming out’, in a world where the accepted standard is that we are all straight, and it is somehow divergent to be otherwise.

Performing snippets from the past, present and future celebrating Queer music, with works by Sally Whitwell, Aaron Copland, John Cage and Samuel Barber; and 3 world premieres by Sam Williams, Robert McIntyre and a newly commissioned work by Christine Pan.

: $30 full, $20 concession

We cannot wait to see you there for a night of incredibly affecting and diverse music, officially launching Rob & Sam’s new duo grab your tix while they last! X

Sally WHITWELL Road Trip (2010)

Francis POULENC Flute Sonata mvt. 1 Allegro malinconico (1957)

John CAGE In a Landscape (1948) solo piano

Robert MCINTYRE Feathers Taking Flight (2022)

Christine PAN Pilot Q solo flute and tape (2024) *world premiere

INTERVAL

Robert MCINTYRE Codifying Neutralities (2024) solo flute and tape *world premiere

Samuel BARBER Excursions, Op 20: Un poco allegro (1942) solo piano

Sam WILLIAMS chameleon on the wind (2024) *world premiere

Aaron COPLAND Duo mvt 1. Flowing (1971)

Sam WILLIAMS Tarkine (2023) solo piano

Robert MCINTYRE Sky-Stained Waves (2023)


Image: Rudi Lorimer


Tempo Rubato is a cashless venue, please bring a card/electronic device if you plan to purchase your ticket on the door.

LOCATION: Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese St, Brunswick VIC 3056

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Chamber Queer 2024: Constellation ft. Coady Green (June 14, MITU580, Brooklyn NY, USA)
June
14

Chamber Queer 2024: Constellation ft. Coady Green (June 14, MITU580, Brooklyn NY, USA)

CQ 2024: CONSTELLATION

June 14, 2024
MITU580

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cq-2024-coady-green-piano-tickets-890478915407?aff=oddtdtcreator

580 Sackett St, Unit A - Ground Fl, Brooklyn NY 11217

ChamberQUEER’s SIXTH annual Pride Month festival is a Fringe Festival-style event providing a platform for experimental chamber music from a lineup of stellar queer musical artists. Full lineup details are coming soon!

Coady says: “New York in June! Performing for the amazing ChamberQUEER festival, a recital of Nico Muhly, Cameron Lam, Robert McIntyre, Meta Cohen, Connor D'Netto, Sal Whitwell, Bryn Renard, James Rushford, and Caerwen Martin. Then later in the month, Liszt, Rubinstein and Linda Kouvaras at Bargemusic in New York.”


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‘Kaleidoscope - Sugarbag! The Music of LGBTQI+ Composers’ Arafura Music Collective – 2024 Sugarbag Festival, NT Supreme Court
June
2

‘Kaleidoscope - Sugarbag! The Music of LGBTQI+ Composers’ Arafura Music Collective – 2024 Sugarbag Festival, NT Supreme Court

  • Supreme Court Building, State Square, Level 6, Darwin City NT 0800 (map)
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Kaleidoscope- a concert that refracts the ideas of emotions, colours, and melodies through performance. You will experience an unforgettable journey through sound with the amazing Arafura Music Collective. Kaleidoscope will weave together works by acclaimed Australian LGBTQI+ composers, Robert McIntyre*, Cheryl Durongpisitkul, and Felicity Wilcox alongside songs by Darwin based singer-songwriter, Alice Cotton.

We love to bring you musical experiences which are unique! With this performance Ben Opie and the musicians of Arafura Music Collective bring you contemporary art music from the perspectives of the LGBTQI+ creative community. Experience the music and hear the stories of local queer experiences brought to life through brand new compositions by Ben Opie, premiered at this concert.When: Sunday 2nd June

Time: 4.00pm to 5.15pm

Location: Supreme Court 

Ages: All Ages

Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1205919?

Bar facilities available.

*featuring my work ‘the distance between’ (2022) for mixed quartet

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‘Kaleidoscope’ by Arafura Music Collective – Palmerston Gray Community Hall
June
1
to 2 June

‘Kaleidoscope’ by Arafura Music Collective – Palmerston Gray Community Hall

ABOUT

Join us for a celebration of inclusivity, creativity, and sheer musical brilliance!

Kaleidoscope- a concert that refracts the ideas of emotions, colours, and melodies through performance. Join us for an unforgettable journey through sound with the amazing Arafura Music Collective. Kaleidoscope will weave together works by acclaimed Australian LGBTQI+ composers, Robert McIntyre, Cheryl Durongpisitkul, and Felicity Wilcox alongside songs by Darwin based singer-songwriter, Alice Cotton.
We love to bring you musical experiences which are unique! With this performance Ben Opie and the musicians of Arafura Music Collective bring you contemporary art music from the perspectives of the LGBTQI+ creative community. Experience the music and hear the stories of local queer experiences brought to life through brand new compositions by Ben Opie, premiered at this concert.

DATE

Saturday 1 June 2024 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC+09:30)

LOCATION

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Gray Community Hall Palmerston
Cnr Essington Avenue and Victoria Drive, Gray Community Hall, Gray NT 0830

*featuring my work ‘the distance between’ (2022) for mixed quartet

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2024 QVC Festival (Queensland Vocal Competition) ft. entrant Bridgette Kelsey
May
26

2024 QVC Festival (Queensland Vocal Competition) ft. entrant Bridgette Kelsey

Soprano Bridgette Kelsey performing ‘A Sea Spray of Ash’ (2019) in open age Australian art song section on 26th of May 2024.

Queensland Vocal Competition Festival! This year it will be held at the University of Queensland School of Music on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May 2024. 

The QVC Festival is an exciting event, and has attracted a list of renowned Ambassadors for this event, from Katie Noonan, to international opera star Jessica Pratt to this year’s extraordinary Australian opera singer, Alexandra Flood. QVC Festival 2024 is excited to have mezzo-soprano Milijana Nikolič as our adjudicator of the Operatic Aria heats and final.

COMPETITION - Where and when

Where: UQ School of Music

When: Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May, 2024

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Lyrical Lunchtimes in the Library at Law Library Victoria – May 2024
May
23

Lyrical Lunchtimes in the Library at Law Library Victoria – May 2024

“Law Library Victoria and BottledSnail Productions present Lyrical Lunchtimes in the Library, a music concert series. 

Performed in the historic Supreme Court Library, this wonderful program features piano, voice, flute, and violin, performed by members of the legal profession.

Please note attendees must pass through court security before the event.”

UPDATE 8/5/24: This event is now booked out! The next Lyrical Lunchtimes event will be on 22 August 2024.

Featuring Aether Duo (Robert McIntyre & Sam Williams) performing 3 works:

  • Road Trip, by Sally Whitwell

  • Sonata mvt. 1, by Francis Poulenc

  • Feathers Taking Flight, by Robert McIntyre

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Contrasts: Music for Flute and Bassoon (Simone Maurer & Lyndon Watts)
May
21

Contrasts: Music for Flute and Bassoon (Simone Maurer & Lyndon Watts)

This recital is presented as part of the Hanson Dyer Hall Concert Series. All concerts in this series can also be streamed live via FFAM website.

Contrasts: Music for Flute and Bassoon

Featuring the contrasting heights and depths of woodwind sounds, this concert for flute and bassoon gives a tour of solo and duo works of contrasting styles and musical colours - including the Australian premiere of Žilvinas Smalys' Duettino for Flute and Bassoon and the world premiere of a new work by Robert McIntyre - composer and Associate Artist of the Australian Music Centre.

Join flutist, Simone Maurer, and bassoonist, Lyndon Watts, in this performance for a rare, but vibrant, instrument combination.

Artists

Simone Maurer, flute
Lyndon Watts, bassoon

Program

Eugene BOZZA

Contrastes I for flute and bassoon (1977)

Žilvinas SMALYS

Duettino for Flute and Bassoon (2022) Australian premiere

i. Allegretto scherzando

ii. Cantabile

iii. Con anima

Elizabeth YOUNAN
Fantasia No. VIII for solo bassoon (2022)

Lora AL-AHMED
Two Skazkas for Solo Flute (2017)

Robert MCINTYRE
Remnants of a Resonance: duo for flute and bassoon (2024) world premiere*

Heitor VILLA-LOBOS

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6, W 392 for flute and bassoon (1938)

i. Ária (chôro)

ii. Fantasia (Allegro)

About the artists

Simone Maurer

Simone Maurer is a classical-contemporary flutist, music psychology researcher, and tertiary educator based in Melbourne (Naarm). Her early career encompassed orchestral performance with state and national youth orchestras and an internship with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. After completing a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours and receiving two university medals from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Simone relocated to the UK. During her MPhil degree at the University of Cambridge, Simone continued orchestral and chamber performance, including projects with the Britten Sinfonia—an associate ensemble at the Barbican in London. It was at this time that Simone began collaborating with composers to assist the creation of new works for and with flute. On returning to Australia, she began a PhD in Music Performance at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Simone’s doctoral thesis investigated the body language of flute players and explored contemporary works for solo flute. In Melbourne, Simone continues to perform as a soloist and chamber musician with Forest Collective, Six Degrees Ensemble, and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music New Music Studio at the Melbourne Recital Centre and Melba Hall. Simone recently toured the USA for a month, presenting and performing at universities and flute festivals in Mississippi, Atlanta, New York City, and Virginia.

Lyndon Watts

Lyndon Watts became principal bassoonist of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 22. After 18 years in this position Lyndon chose to move back to his home country Australia to accept the position of lecturer in music (bassoon) at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM). Since 2019 he has been Convenor of the annual MCM Concerto-Aria Competition, and since 2020 Convenor of the MCM Early Music Studio. He is a founding member of the Australian World Orchestra and has performed as a soloist or guest principal with numerous European and Australian ensembles on both modern and period instruments. In 2002 he became the first Australian woodwind player to win a prize in the prestigious ARD International Music Competition, in combination with a special prize for the best interpretation of a newly commissioned solo work by Heinz Holliger, who has described Lyndon’s playing as possessing “an ideal balance between utmost precision and wild spontaneity.” From 2005 to 2015 he was professor of bassoon in Switzerland at the Berne University of the Arts, where he also taught chamber music and contemporary music. Lyndon has premiered many compositions for bassoon by composers from his hometowns Munich and Melbourne. Most recently these included Elliott Gyger’s Elude for solo bassoon, two new works for bassoon and percussion by Miriama Young and Linda Verrier, Elizabeth Younan’s wind quintet Kismet, and the first performance of the bassoon and piano version of a new bassoon concerto by Matt Laing. Lyndon loves living close to the Australian bush and surf, and enjoys keeping fit with his partner and their son.

Banner L-R: Simone Maurer, Image by Daniel Rabin. Lyndon Watts.

ACCESSIBILITY

All venues at the Southbank campus are wheelchair accessible. To read more about access services available at our venues, please visit: https://finearts-music.unimelb.edu.au/access-our-events.

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Collide | Sundays in the Sound Gallery (David Li Sound Gallery, The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts, Monash University)
May
5

Collide | Sundays in the Sound Gallery (David Li Sound Gallery, The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts, Monash University)

Collide

Sundays in the Sound Gallery | David Li Sound Gallery, The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts

Monash University Performing Arts Centres presents Collide as part of the Sundays in the Sound Gallery series.

Collide
Yasmin Rowe piano
Yelian He cello
Joseph Lallo saxophone

Katia Beaugeais Terra Australis Incognita
Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Connesson Disco Toccata
Robert McIntyre Phoenix 
Collide Improvisation
Paul Schoenfield Cafe Music

This recital is part of the 2024 Sundays in the Sound Gallery series, showcasing exceptional artists in the intimate and acoustically superb David Li Sound Gallery.

Sunday 5 May 2024, 3:00pm

Buy Tickets | $20 - $35


Collide unites three international soloists in an ensemble that brings vibrancy, colour and stunning technical virtuosity to every performance. Formed in 2017, Collide has performed sold out concerts across Australia and have become renowned for their energy, enthusiasm and joy in their playing.

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ChamberFest DUBLIN: ‘French Music’ by Les Trois, Whyte Recital Hall (RIAM)
May
1

ChamberFest DUBLIN: ‘French Music’ by Les Trois, Whyte Recital Hall (RIAM)

  • Whyte Recital Hall, Royal Irish Academy of Music (map)
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Date Wednesday, 01 May 2024, Time 17:00, Venue Whyte Recital Hall at RIAM, Price €0 - €5, Category Chamber Music

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Event Description

ChamberFest DUBLIN is one of the Royal Irish Academy of Music’s flagship events. This ambitious and student-led festival offers audiences morning, lunchtime, and evening opportunities to experience the RIAM’s third level students performing an exhilarating mix of chamber music concerts.

Tickets: €5  | Students of any age from any music school, conservatoire or college in Ireland can attend ChamberFest Dublin free of charge.

PROGRAMME

Philippe Gauvert - Soir Païen

Mel Bonis - Éléve - toi mon âme

Cécile Chaminade - Portrait

André Caplet - Une Flûte invisible 

Maurice Ravel - La Flûte Enchantée

Robert McIntyre - Every third dawn (World Premieré)

Les Trois - Sarah Van Den Heuvel-Mouchot (soprano), Martina Rosaria O'Connell (flute), David Vesey (piano)


J. Guy Ropartz - Prelude - Marine et Chansons, 

I. Prelude II. Marine III. Chansons

Florent Schmitt - Suite en Rocaille, Op. 84 
III. Sans lenteur IV. Vif

Anastasia Motiti (flute), Giulio Bryant (harp), Katie Mercer (violin), Katie Ni Mhaoláin (viola), Andrés Vaccaro (cello)


Maurice Ravel - Chansons Madécasses 

I. Nahandove 

II. Méfiez-vous des blancs 

III. Il est doux de se coucher

Lanyi Yan (soprano), Mengze Shen (piano), Matrina Rosaria O'Connell (flute), Ensheng Chen (cello)

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3MBS Marathon – Universal (concert 4: 6pm)
Feb
24

3MBS Marathon – Universal (concert 4: 6pm)

Universal

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Beginning in Australia and then France, travelling to ancient India and landing in England in 1921, the range of music in Concert 4 shows that the power of music is indeed universal. Vibrant and imaginative Collide opens the evening with Robert McIntyre’s Phoenix, written specifically for the trio and reflecting a very personal journey of renewal from this young composer.

Hari Sivanesan Trio will open our ears and minds to the ravishing soundscape of a Classical Indian raga before we come back to our more familiar sound world of the piano trio. Trio Anima Mundi performs Rebecca Clarke’s unfairly neglected Piano Trio. An astonishing work, it traverses sorrow and despair before a bright and hopeful conclusion.

Collide:
Yasmin Rowe piano
Joseph Lallo saxophone
Yelian He cello

Robert McIntyre—Phoenix
Darius Milhaud—Scaramouche, Op.165c

Hari Sivanesan Trio:
Dickshitar, Vishvanathena—The Universal Lord, Raga Samantha

Trio Anima Mundi:
Kenji Fujimura piano
Rochelle Ughetti violin
Noella Yan cello

Rebecca Clarke—Piano Trio

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2024 Flinders Fringe Festival – Coady Green
Feb
23

2024 Flinders Fringe Festival – Coady Green

https://flindersfringe.com.au/

We are so thrilled to have Coady Green @coadygreensmith playing the Fringe on Friday 23rd February from 4-530pm at St John’s Church, Flinders! 💫

Tickets just $30!

Internationally award-winning concert pianist Coady Green performs a concert of new works by composers from the LGBTIQ+ community and their allies, including virtuosic and often profoundly moving music by Connor d'Netto, Caerwen Martin, Nico Muhly, James Rushford, Kevin March, Robert McIntyre, Jenny Game, Jane Hammond, Linda Kouvaras, Sally Whitwell, Franz Schubert and Frédéric Chopin.

Coady Green is acknowledged as a major talent on the international concert circuit, having been described as; “a virtuoso pianist with sensitivity, intelligence and charm”, and “accurate and exhilarating”, (Musical Opinion, London), with “a strong and versatile technique capable of the most delicate colouring and tonal brilliance, rising to the challenges of extreme virtuoso demands with relish” (The Advertiser, South Australia).

Come along and enjoy this divine performance with us. Tickets can be purchased as always in our bio! 💫

And many thanks to our major sponsors Mornington Peninsula Shire
@ourpeninsula and the divine Flinders Hotel @theflinders_

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OUR DUTY TO CARE: Worlds Collide | Tempo Rubato
Feb
3

OUR DUTY TO CARE: Worlds Collide | Tempo Rubato

https://www.temporubato.com.au/tempo-concerts/our-duty-to-care

OUR DUTY TO CARE: WORLDS COLLIDE – ROBERT MCINTYRE WITH BRIDGETTE KELSEY, ISABEL HEDE, STEPHANIE ARNOLD & GEORGINA LEWIS


SATURDAY 3RD FEBRUARY, 8PM
BUY TICKETS $30 | CONCESSION $20

Our Duty to Care is a cross-disciplinary, classical-crossover concert. It features music of Melbourne composers of namely Robert McIntyre, as well as Laura Abraham, Sam Williams, Caerwen Martin and Stuart Greenbaum – with themes relating to climate change, society, onus, empathy, loss, and hope.

The concert features and is titled after Robert McIntyre’s Our Duty to Care (text by Savanna Wegman) – a cross-disciplinary work for voice and piano trio based on Sharma v Minister for the Environment [2021] FCA 560 – a groundbreaking environmental law case which legally proved climate change real in the Courts, with all scientific evidence submitted by either side uncontested. While the case has since been appealed of its duty of care on governmental ministers to preserve future generations from a climate crisis, it has created ripples worldwide, and now also serves as a catalyst for legislative action here in our very own country: the Duty of Care Bill by ACT Senator David Pocok and climate activist Anjali Sharma.

This curation comes with powerful messages but also aims to provide an emotive comfortability and vulnerability when reflecting on climate change, inaction and action. This blend of genres between post-minimalism, chamber music, classical crossover and art song, will highlight audience accessibility through a unique perspective, so that anyone can come, contemplate, and then leave feeling impacted in their own nuanced way.

PROGRAM:

Laura ABRAHAM Tomorrow, and years away (cello and piano)

Robert MCINTYRE See through me (violin, cello, piano)

Stuart GREENBAUM Equator Loops (solo piano)

INTERVAL (20mins)

Caerwen MARTIN Ione in the Skye (solo violin)

Robert MCINTYRE A Sea Spray of Ash (soprano and sustained piano)

Sam WILLIAMS Tarkine (solo piano)

Robert MCINTYRE Our Duty to Care (whole ensemble)

BUY TICKETS: $30 full, $20 concession

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

ABOUT ROBERT MCINTYRE

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ABOUT BRIDGETTE KELSEY (VOICE)

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ABOUT ISABEL HEDE (VIOLIN)

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ABOUT STEPHANIE ARNOLD (CELLO)

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ABOUT GEORGINA LEWIS (PIANO)

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ABOUT SAVANNA WEGMAN (FEATURED POET)

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Simone Maurer – Solo flute recital at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA
Jan
29

Simone Maurer – Solo flute recital at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA

Flora, Fauna, and Fantasy: Flute Music by Australian Composers – Solo flute recital at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA

Monday 29th January 2024, 8pm

PROGRAM:

Rosalind Carlson Waterfall in Spring 10’ 

Richard Meale Melisande 7’

Miriam Hyde Nocturne 4’30” 

Elena Kats Chernin Butterflying 4’30” 

Robert McIntyre Feathers Taking Flight 4’

Ann Boyd Bali Moods No. 1 6’30”

John Carmichael Fantasy Sonata 17’  

  1. Moderato

  2. Andante

  3. Allegro giusto 

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Symphony in a Day Project Orchestra | conductor Nicole Marshall
Jan
21

Symphony in a Day Project Orchestra | conductor Nicole Marshall

Join conductor Nicole Marshall, alongside Concert Master Sarah Curro and a fabulous symphony in orchestra for an afternoon of classic orchestral repertoire and World Premiere's of When Thunder Speaks Softly by Robert McIntyre and Scintillation by Bridget Bourne.

Sunday 21st January 2024 at Kilbreda College, Mentone, VIC 3194

Repertoire:

Robert MCINTYRE When Thunder Speaks Softly (WORLD PREMIERE)

Bridget BOURNE Title TBC

ELGAR Nimrod from Enigma Variations (2[1.2/pic].2.2.2 - 4.3.3.1 - tmp+3 - str)

SIBELIUS Finlandia (2.2.2.2 - 4.3.3.1 - tmp+1 - str)

STRAVINSKY Berceuse and Finale from Firebird Suite (2[1.2/pic].2.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - tmp+3 - hp - cel - str)

SMETANA Moldau from Ma Vlast (3[1.2.pic].2.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - tmp+3 - hp - str)

STRAUSS Die Fledermaus Overture (2[1.2/pic].2.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - tmp+2 - str)

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Mentone Grammar School Awards Night ft. world premiere performance of 'Trying to Catch a Will-o'-the-Wisp'
Nov
29

Mentone Grammar School Awards Night ft. world premiere performance of 'Trying to Catch a Will-o'-the-Wisp'

Mentone Grammar School Awards Night ft. world premiere performance of 'Trying to Catch a Will-o'-the-Wisp'. A work commissioned for Avelyn Ryenolds’ 2023 VCE 3/4 Violin Recital.

NB: Private School event.

INSIGHT ABOUT THE WORK:

“It is said in Scottish folklore and legend that Will-o’-the-Wisps are mischievous spirits which lead travellers off the beaten path to ‘change your fate.’ Scientifically, they are an actual phenomenon of earthy swamp vapours that have mixed with natural resources to create phosphorescence evocative of blue flames.

This commission also tasked me with holding space for one of the four seasons in line with Avelyn’s recital theme. My given season was ‘Autumn’, which I coincidentally find to be my favourite, particularly being born in May. I took colouristic inspiration from Böcklin’s 1882 painting and combined it into a sound-world loosely drawing on ‘Into the Open Air’ sung by Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis for initial compositional material.

Being half-Scottish myself, I wanted to draw on the Wisps’ meaning, particularly in the lens from Disney’s Pixar movie ‘Brave’, where their duality of being either good or evil still helps lead oneself in the direction of where they need to go, despite any adversity.

We often try to change our fate, who we are and who we think we ought to be, yet these temptations and longings more often actually help us realise who we already truly are, what we value and how remarkable embracing that is so we may grow.

It is often the moments out of our control that define us in the most meaningful ways, so it is my hope that Avelyn holds her vibrant individuality tightly in her hands and witness how destiny follows.”

© Robert McIntyre 2023, illustration © Lucinda McIntyre 2023

Timing: ~ 3 minutes 10 seconds

This work was generously commissioned by Mentone Grammar School for Avelyn Reynolds' 2023 VCE Music Performance 3/4 Violin Recital, supported by faculty teachers Lidia Mancini, Natalie Morgenstern and Gavin Cornish.

It is dedicated to Avelyn as a reminder of her promising talent & future as a musician.

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Australian Flute Festival (Day 1: SAT 30th)
Sept
30

Australian Flute Festival (Day 1: SAT 30th)

30th September in DAY 1 of AFF 2023, 4.30pm https://www.australianflutefestival.com/

Leslie Barklamb Scholarship commissioned works for each of the age sections in 2023 + two others submitted in the Composition Competition.

FULL DETAILS PENDING:

The performers will be Lily Bryant (last year's scholarship winner), Johanna Selleck, and Livia Judge, with pianist Leigh Harrold. 

Program

Rising Theme by Haydn Reeder

Tango by Michael Hannan

Sarabande by Bill Kimber

Feathers Taking Flight by Robert McIntyre

In the Pocket by John Shephard

New work by Livia Judge

New work by Collin McKellar





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TEMPO QUEER 5: Curated by Coady Green
Sept
9

TEMPO QUEER 5: Curated by Coady Green

8PM SATURDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER
CURATED BY COADY GREEN

Coady Green, piano
With special guest Adrian Tamburini, bass-baritone

Tempo Queer Artistic Director and pianist Coady Green presents a program of world premieres, Australian premieres and beloved classics by LGBTIQ+ composers from across the world.

PROGRAM

Jane HAMMOND Anywhere

Nico MUHLY Three Etudes for Piano (Australian premiere)

Jenny GAME Life in the Slow Lane (world premiere)

Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY Selected songs (with Adrian Tamburini)

Robert MCINTYRE Crossed Stars

Kevin MARCH  Déluge d’étoiles (world premiere)

Connor D'NETTO seven percent etudes (world premiere)

Franz SCHUBERT An den Mond D. 193 (with Adrian Tamburini)

Frédéric CHOPIN Waltz Opus 70 No. 3 

James RUSHFORD Loonce (world premiere)

John HADDOCK My Assassin, My Lover, from Towards Solitude (with Adrian Tamburini)

Jane HAMMOND Sea Dogged, from Sea Voyage (with Adrian Tamburini)

Sally WHITWELL Tiny Dances for solo piano

Caerwen MARTIN Oceans – before us not between (world premiere)

About Coady Green
About Adrian Tamburini

BUY TICKETS

https://www.temporubato.com.au/tempo-concerts/tempo-queer-five

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TEMPO QUEER 2: In Praise of the Vulnerable Man, curated by Leigh Harrold
June
9

TEMPO QUEER 2: In Praise of the Vulnerable Man, curated by Leigh Harrold

Leigh Harrold, piano
With special guest Dafydd Camp, oboe

Popular Melbourne pianist Leigh Harrold is joined by guest Daffyd Camp to present a vibrant program of music for oboe and piano, including works by Britten and Muczynski, McIntyre, Mills, Severn and Moles.

About Leigh Harrold

BUY TICKETS

Tickets FULL $30 | CONCESSION $21

Fri 9 Jun 2023 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM (UTC+11)

LOCATION

Tempo Rubato
34 Breese St, Brunswick VIC 3056

Note from Rob – Leigh Harrold & Dayfdd Camp will be performing my sonata for piano and oboe duo, Intercept (2020). So excited for this concert and hope to see you there! X

About TEMPO QUEER

Pianist and Artistic Director Coady Green presents the second Tempo Queer residency at Tempo Rubato. Five renowned LGBTIQ+ artists or groups curate five recitals on the five Fridays in June, celebrating LGBTIQ+ composers and culture from around the world.

Curated by Coady Green, Miranda Hill, Leigh Harrold, Kyla Matsuura-Miller, and the Divisi Chamber Singers.

Program details at:
www.temporubato.com.au/about-tempo-queer-2023

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SUMMARY OF EVENTS

2025 - SO FAR & UPCOMING

  • 04/06/2025 Komorebi Duo at 2025 ISCM World New Music Days Festival, Lisbon Portugal, performed at São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Lisbon

  • 01/08/2025 Changing Wilds Ensemble presents ‘Our Duty to Care’ at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon

  • 18/02/2025 Georgina Lewis, Isabel Hede and Gemma Kneale at Scots Church Melbourne

  • 25/01/2025 ‘Cybec Showcase’ by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Weiss, Iwaki Auditorium ABC Building

2024

  • 11//11/2024 Soprano Bridgette Kelsey’s 2024 Honours Recital

  • 01/09/2024 Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra presents ‘Atmospheric Shifts’ at Fitzroy Town Hall

  • 29/06/2024 Aether Duo (Robert McIntyre & Sam Williams) presents ‘New Dawn’ at Tempo Rubato

  • 14/06/2024 Chamber Queer 2024: Constellation ft. Coady Green (Brooklyn NY, USA) at MITU580

  • 02/06/2024 ‘Kaleidoscope’ by Arafura Music Collective – 2024 Sugarbag Festival (Darwin, NT) at NT Supreme Court

  • 01/06/2024 ‘Kaleidoscope’ by Arafura Music Collective (Darwin, NT) at Palmerstone Gray Community Hall

  • 29/06/2024 Aether Duo (Robert McIntyre & Sam Williams) presents ‘New Dawn’ at Tempo Rubato

  • 26/05/2024 Soprano Bridgette Kelsey competing in Queensland Vocal Competition Festival (Australian Art Song Category) at UQ School of Music

  • 21/05/2024 Contrasts: Music for Flute and Bassoon (Simone Maurer & Lyndon Watts), Hanson Dyer Series, University of Melbourne

  • 05/05/2024 Collide presents ‘Sundays in the Sound Gallery’ at David Li Sound Gallery, The Ian Potter Southbank Centre for Performing Arts (Monash University)

  • 01/05/2024 ChamberFest RIAM (Royal Irish Academy of Music) concert presented by Martina Rosaria O’Connell, David Vesey and Sarah VDH (Dublin, IRELAND)

  • 24/02/2024 3MBS Marathon Transfigured at Melbourne Recital Centre (Concert 4: Universal, Collide)

  • 23/02/2024 Flinders Fringe Festival 2024 – Coady Green Recital

  • 11/02/2024 Invisible Spirits presented by Simone Maurer, Amber Evans & Jeremy Chan (New York, USA)

  • 03/02/2024 OUR DUTY TO CARE: Worlds Collide | Tempo Rubato (Curator: Robert McIntyre, Performers: Bridgette Kelsey, Isabel Hede, Stephanie Arnold & Georgina Lewis), 2024 National Sustainability Festival Partner

  • 29/01/2024 Simone Maurer – Solo flute recital at the University of Southern Mississippi, (USA)

  • 27/01/2024 Simone Maurer – 'Guest artist recital' at the Southern Flute Festival, (Gulf Port, Mississippi, USA)

  • 21/01/2024 Symphony in a Day Project Orchestra | conductor and curator Nicole Marshall

2023

  • 15/12/2023 TEMPO QUEER 5: Curated by Coady Green, Tempo Rubato

  • 29/11/2023 Mentone Grammar School Awards Night ft. world premiere performance of 'Trying to Catch a Will-o'-the-Wisp'

  • 23/10/2023 Australian Global Health Alliance 2023 Film Festival screening Our Duty to Care (Canberra, ACT)

  • 30/09/2023 Australian Flute Festival (Sydney, NSW)

  • 1/09/2023 50th Annual Leslie Barklamb Scholarship 2023 FINALS

  • 27/08/2023 50th Annual Leslie Barklamb Scholarship 2023 Preliminaries Round

  • 09/06/2023 TEMPO QUEER 2: In Praise of the Vulnerable Man, curated by Leigh Harrold

  • 23/05/2023 Wattle Fellowship – Spotlight 1 @ EY

  • 29/04/2023 Victorian Flute Guild Fundraiser Concert, Boxhill.

  • 19/04/2023 Our Duty to Care – Solstice Trio & Bridgette Kelsey @ Hanson Dyer Hall, curated and presented by Robert McIntyre in partnership with the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and the Melbourne Law School.

  • 12/03/2023 Australian Art Song for Chamber Choir – Divisi Chamber Singers @ fortyfivedownstairs Chamber Music Festival

  • 08/03/2023 Melody At My Will – Solstice Trio @ fortyfivedownstairs, Chamber Music Festival

  • 27/01/2023 Expanses – Sam Williams (piano) ft. guest artist Robert McIntyre (flutes) @ Tempo Rubato

2022

  • 20/11/2022 “On This Earth We Dance” – Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra, St Ambrose Hall.

  • 23/010/2022 3MBS Victorian Young Performer Award – ft. Australian premiere of McIntyre's 'the distance between', Abbotsford Convent

  • 22/10/2022 “Sound of Water” – MCM Saxophone Ensemble, Hanson Dyer Hall

  • 21/10/2022 Leading Edge Guitar Ensemble presents “Melbourne Originals”, Hanson Dyer Hall

  • 14/09/2022 ‘rising’ Commission World Premiere Concert @ Our Lady of Sion Boxhill College

  • 31/07/2022 Composing in the Wilderness – Denali National Park and Preserve Visitor Center Concert (Denali, Alaska, USA)

  • 30/07/2022 Composing in the Wilderness Premiere Concert – Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival (Fairbanks, Alaska, USA)

  • 20/06/2022 TEMPO QUEER 8pm MON 20/06 – Curated by Coady Green

  • 17/06/2022 Belvedere Chamber Music Festival (Concert #4)(Memphis, USA)

  • 28/05/2022 "ELEMENTS" - Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra (VYSO)

  • 15/05/2022 “GLOW” – Jasper Ly (oboe) and Peter Dumsday (piano), fortyfivedownstairs

  • 10/05/2022 “Phoenix” – Collide Trio, Hanson Dyer Hall

  • 06/05/2022 “EnviroSound” | Music For Our Home, curated by Helen Shen, Hanson Dyer Hall

  • 20/03/2022 "Come As You Are: Vulnerability in the Concert Space” - No Divide KC, (Kansas City, USA)

  • 16/03/2022 Divisi Chamber Singers: Spectrum Album Launch, The MC Showroom.

  • 11/02/2022 Homophonic! BYOB (Midsumma Festival @ La Mama Courthouse

2021

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2020

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2019

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