Concerts & events | Music Performance

Concerts & Events

The Music Performance Unit offers a dynamic range of concerts and events throughout the year, including performances by the renowned Australia Ensemble UNSW, UNSW Orchestra, Wind Symphony, Collegium Musicum Choir, and Corde. We also host a variety of special events that showcase exceptional musical talent and creativity, often in collaboration with other disciplines, promoting wellbeing and innovative artistic experiences.

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Collegium Musicum Choir Concert: Noël à Paris

Join us for a captivating evening in Paris with the timeless beauty of Saint-Saëns and Vierne at Noël à Paris.

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UNSW Orchestra Concert: Resurgence

Join UNSW Orchestra's journey from darkness to light through music's transformative power, a wonderful celebration of UNSW talent.

Dr. Steven Hillinger, conductor
Celine Kang, soloist

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Australia Ensemble UNSW

Australia Ensemble Concert 1

In two short decades, three very different French composers produced three very different masterpieces. Messiaen’s dramatic yet ultimately comforting vision of the end of time; Fauré’s late Trio, powerful in its lyricism and formal beauty, and Ravel’s tensile, balletic sonata.

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Australia Ensemble UNSW

Australia Ensemble Concert 2

Fairy tales and hopeless love, folksongs and subversive jazz each spurred these four composers. Schumann and Brahms give us classical works with enigmatic sources, Kapustin and Vaughan Williams transmute popular music into high art.

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Australia Ensemble UNSW

Australia Ensemble Concert 3

In music from Russia, the US, Britain and here, composers reflect on the majesty and beauty of the natural world, while considering the joy and sadness of human experience.

Dimity Hall with her violin

Australia Ensemble UNSW

Australia Ensemble Concert 4

In his great Serenade Dvořák captures something of the radiant good-humour of Mozart, while Beethoven shows his own witty side. Clara Schumann’s delicate Romances showcase a young star violinist, while Lachlan Skipworth crafts a new work for mixed quartet.