Anna Clyde - Stride
Aaron Copland - Clarinet Concerto
Graeme Koehne - Double Concerto (World Premiere)

Michael Collins - Solo Clarinet
David Rowden - Solo Clarinet
Omega Ensemble

Filling space and time through ambient, minimal jazz and left-field experimental avant-pop, Halo will explore sonic terrains through layered grand piano compositions and filtered sound diffusions. At this event, she will be accompanied by cellist Leila Bordreuil.

Join us for an insightful a discussion between composer Keyna Wilkins and pianist Dr Jeanell Carrigan AM and a performance of Keyna’s piano music from the newly released CD, Open Horizons.

Playing free improv in various configurations -

Trio Now: Paul McNamara (piano), Dave Putney (bass), Greg Johns (drums)

Music Without Borders: James Greening (trombone etc.), Daryl Pratt (vibraphone etc.)

Sandy Evans (saxophones)

Two performances:
- 6.30pm–7.15pm
- 8.30pm–9.15pm

Germ Studies brings an evening of musical transformation, through sound and melodic experimentation.

Germ Studies is the inspired Australian pairing of renowned pianist Chris Abrahams and harpist Clare Cooper. Rather than presenting the expected harmonic interplay of piano and harp, the duo conjure immersive sonic environments that feel simultaneously ancient and futuristic. With the crystalline resonance of the 1380s Chinese guzheng meeting the shimmering textures of a 1980s Japanese DX7 synthesiser, their music is a study in contrasts: organic and electronic, meditative and ecstatic, familiar and alien.

Experience an enchanting collaboration of Armenian folk, jazz, and contemporary sounds, as Visions of Nar weaves transcendent beauty, dynamic interplay, and hypnotic rhythms into a spellbinding performance.

Zela Margossian - keyboard
Jeremy Rose - woodwinds
Bobby Singh - tabla

Playing a gig in Sydney at @lazythinking__

I'll be on the lineup with some Sydney-based interactive and electronic artists, @markoliveirocomposer @jocelynhoplays @donnaghewitt and Chronic Bass! I'll be doing my new work that just premiered in Melbourne at the Hanson Dyer Hall (and a couple of others :D )

Mitali Banerjee Bhawmik, an artiste of Hindustani Classical vocal music, was born in Nogaon, Assan, where she started her initial lessons in music at a very early age from Sri Ajit Dutta. 

Abhijit Dan: A master tabla player and dedicated disciple of the legendary Padmashree Pandit Swapan Chowdhury. 

The sixth Jazz:NOW event STROPHE heads east, exploring notions of space, identity and community at the stunning Paddington Uniting Church.

Mara Schwerdtfeger; viola, electronics
Shannon May-Powell; spoken word

Max Alduca; bass
Hilary Geddes; guitar
Michael Avgenicos; saxophone
Luke Sweeting; piano
James Waples; drums

Jackie Hartenberger, conductor

Paul Hindemith - Symphony in B-flat
Catherine Likhuta - Sure-Fire, Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble (Carla Blackwood, horn soloist)
Melody Eötvös - Hun Tur
Dances of Old Sydney Suite I.The Australian Volunteer Galop - Miss E.C. Wilson, arr. Will Hartley-Keane, II.The Twofold Bat Waltzes - Georgina Isabella Keon, arr. Mieke Florisson, III.Currency Lasses - Tempest Margaret Paul, arr. Hayden Taylor
Kevin Day - Concerto for Wind Ensemble

Boroky is an experimental pop project blending poetic truth, lo-fi high-narrative videos, baroque compositional techniques, and wild performances. He performs in a trio with Ash Stoneham and Dave Quinn.  Join them for a night of musical spontaneity and splendour to move the body and soul.

Lee Dionne piano, Shota Matsumura trumpet, Ben Hoadley period bassoon, Anna da Silva Chen and Beatrice Colombis, violin, Marlena Stanhope viola, Chris Pidcock cello

Caterina Assandra (1590–1618) Motetti à due e tre voci, Op. 2 (selections) 
Joseph Linke (1783–1837) Variations for cello and string quartet Op. 3
Shota Matsumura Perennial (2024)
Ludwig van Beethoven Concerto for Pianoforte and Orchestra no. 4 in G major op. 58 (1805), arranged for piano and string quintet

Experience an afternoon of deeply cerebral, spacey, and left-field music from:

Alex Jasprizza (@alexjasprizza )
Jacqui O’Reilly (@jorthing )
JWPaton & Salllvage (@jwptn & @salllvage )
Megan Alice Clune with Hinano Fujisaki (@m.a.c.m.a.c.m.a.c & @hinafuji_ )
Mara McDonald (@marararararararararara )
Sia Ahmad (@siaxray )
Sofia Carey (@sofifififif
Szem & Nathan Roche (@laur_n_orda )

Italian toy piano and toy instrument specialist Antonietta Loffredo will perform a variety of contemporary and classical works by Australian and International composers in this one-of-a-kind recital dedicated to musical toys.

Antonietta will be joined by Diana Blom, Alana Blackburn, and Paul Smith. The evening will culminate in the rarely performed Toy Symphony by Josef Haydn.

Works by Diana Blom, Paul Smith, Gian Paolo Luppi, Michael Hannan, and Stephen Montague.

Immerse yourself in an afternoon of stunning original acoustic music and Arabic songs from local composers/musicians Antonio Aguilar, Chloé Charody, Keyna Wilkins, Pavle Cajic, Maissa Alameddine, Chloe Chung, Maxeem Georges and recently arrived Gazan refugee musician Hala Samak. 100% of proceeds from this concert will do directly to the charity Hearts For Gaza (with no middle people or admin fees), who distribute food, water and clothes and supplies around Gaza for thousands of local people amidst constant bombing and starvation: More Info on Hearts For Gaza Here. On display in the hall before and during the concert will be prints for sale from artists in Gaza with 100% of proceeds going directly to the artists. This is the second large fundraiser this year for Hearts for Gaza with new music and new musicians! 

Amirsalar Makhzani - Daf
Ramin Etemadzadeh - Vocals
Mahya Panahi - Tanbour
Sina Bastami - Kamancheh
Ali Tahamtani - Tar Bass

Four members of Dela Ensemble join forces with renowned Tanbour player Mahya Panahi for a soulful fusion of Tanbour Maqams and Persian classical music (Dastgah), weaving mystical poetry, sacred rhythms, and live improvisation into a timeless experience.

Miaoxin Huang is a Chinese-Australian jazz vocalist and songwriter. In this quartet, she plays with Eric Tsai (guitar), Henry Hall (bass), and Kai Hong (synth). The group steps away from conventional jazz formats, exploring sound with a focus on form, subtlety, and abstract collective motion, allowing space for the imagination to enter.

Imogen Cygler is a contemporary composer, performer and producer based in Melbourne. Cygler proffers a new frontier for conceptually-driven music that is both playful and profound. 

Dragonfru?t is the brainchild of musicians Theo Carbo and Robbie Divine. Balancing mischief and devotion, the band channels the deep histories of sacred music and pop experimentation, warping them into something wild, ecstatic, and explosively modern. 

Bike Thief extract sharp textures and ethereal drones out of a unique range of instruments and analogue tools – keyboards, samplers, double bass played with drumsticks, drums, and percussion. Felix Bornholdt, Jacques Emery and Alexander Inman-Hislop. 

I Hold The Lion's Paw
Reuben Lewis – trumpet, pedals, synths
Emily Bennett – synth, voice, electronics
Adam Halliwell – guitar, bass
Ronny Ferella – drums

K2 - Matt Keegan & Chloe Kim

dos+ (Brad Gill on vibraphone and Laura Chislett on flute), will perform a 50 minute set of spontaneous improvisations in a shared 2-set concert.

Liz Jigalin (piano) & Nikki Heywood (voice) will open the evening.

Formed in Sydney more than twenty-five years ago this trio brings together three of the most exciting, innovative, and experienced musicians in Australia.

Alister Spence - piano, samples
Lloyd Swanton - double bass
Toby Hall - drums, glockenspiel

Dennis van Rooyen is a classical and electric guitarist interested in the potentialities of composed and improvised music in a curated context.

JONATHAN DOVE (*1959)  Seek Him That Maketh The Seven Stars (arr. D van Rooyen) 
FAUSTO ROMITELLI (1963-2004) Trash TV Trance 
DENNIS VAN ROOYEN Revolver
STEVE REICH (1936*) Electric Counterpoint

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Stelarc’s workshop presents alternative anatomical architectures from hybrid bodies to hyper bodies. Through a discussion of social, cultural and philosophical ideas of the body, issues of awareness, agency and identity are interrogated. What a body is, how a body performs and what it means to be human is exposed. Having discussed these poetic and philosophical notions of bodily action and machine operation a one minute performance will be realised by participants taking into account how it will be structured, possible uses of the body, what kind of lighting and sound is incorporated and also how the performance will be documented.

Maryam Rahmani, David Moran, and Sebastian Collen come together in a unique collaboration that bridges Persian classical music, experimental composition, and contemporary Western performance. Rooted in Maryam’s Iranian heritage and mastery of the Santur, the trio explores rich sonic landscapes shaped by David’s virtuosic cello performance and Seb’s conceptual compositions.

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Day two extends into an unmissable day of critical discussion, deep listening and experimental short films. Key topics explored across the day include labour, automation, DIY, noise and the ever-present prefix “post-”.

Highlights include acclaimed music journalist Liz Pelly (US) who’s unsparing investigation into Spotify has challenged the way we understand music, listening, and streaming economies with her recent book 'Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist'. Beloved local lecturer and poet Andrew Brooks’ keynote considers noise — of protest, resistance, riots — to develop a politics of listening as solidarity in struggle. Yuin archivist Madika Penrith and ethnomusicologist Sam Miers launch their hundred track compilation of Yuin Country/Bateman’s bay in conversation with Prop Records Parateek ‘Toto’ Shorey. A panel discussion from Rắn Cạp Đuôi’s drummer Zach Sch, CONTENT.NET’s Kuya Neil, and Liquid Architecture’s director Kristi Monfries on building South-East-Asia exchanges and collectives, and what it means to make avant-garde and DIY music.  

Hearsay, by Naarm-based artists Eek, Kirby Casilli, and Tina Stefanou, is an extended filmic performance that transforms the cinema into a zoological amphitheatre. Blending moving image, contemporary performance, hypnotism, and sound.

Team Rolfes & The Mustang Speedrun is the latest chapter from NYC’s masters of virtual performance. Team Rolfes returns with a chaotic audiovisual sprint: a misfit crew of avatar jockeys struggles to keep their failing exoskeleton operational as they speed toward a surreal championship.

Australian Jazz icons GARY DALEY (Bungarribee, The Catholics) and LLOYD SWANTON (The Necks, The Catholics) are joined by emerging Jazz drummer & composer KALON CAPTAIN for an evening of original compositions & free improvisation.

GARY DALEY  (Piano/Accordion)
LLOYD SWANTON (Bass)
KALON CAPTAIN  (Drums)

SOFT CENTRE’s flagship multi-stage event erupts into the monumental White Bay Power Station with a stacked single-day program spanning radical performance art, adventurous club sounds, blistering A/V shows, site-responsive installations and durational spectacle. 

Highlights include Stelarc’s legendary biomechanical bodywork, an ecstatic somatic ritual by the mercurial Young Boy Dancing Group, 404.zero’s spatial hallucinations, and Klein’s surreal sonic poetics with net scraped visuals. The event premieres major new commissions such as CONTENT.NET.AU: The Musical featuring rising MCs Sidney Phillips, BAYANG (tha Bushranger), David Ketamine and kk88, Bhenji Ra x Karina Utomo’s WETAN, a charged invocation of ancestral memory and voice, and Excited State !!! - a supergroup exploring the frayed edges of Drum N Bass with live instrumentation.

​IBID is Keyna Wilkins (piano/flute) and Shane Carpini (drumset). Together they play jazz/classical/folk interpretations of stream of consciousness improvisations and their own compositions inspired by philosophy, astronomy and human behaviour.

INLAY Ensemble is an Australian string ensemble dedicated to championing music outside of the normal. Led by double bassist Elsen Price, the group performs classical, improvised, jazz, new music, folk and 'other' music, with a collective list of players whose unique musical approaches create a one of a kind experience for both the audience and the musicians.

Schkeuditzer Kreuz record release party for new LP 'Swan Grinder'. Records and CDs available on the night. Industrial synth crust from the blue mountains in Australia

Supprting are Inebrious Bastards & The Limited.

Pianist Rob Hao performs a programme of Romantic and contemporary piano music.

Michael Finnissy - Tenth Political Agenda *(World premiere)
Dominic Flynn - The Delacourt Bucket
Kaija Saariaho - Ballade
Claude Debussy - 'Pagodes' and 'La soirée dans Grenade' from Estampes
Claude Vivier - Shiraz
Michael Finnissy - Midsummer morn, from English country-tunes
Frederic Chopin - Two Nocturnes op 62

This performance will feature original compositions which draw on multiple musical styles including jazz, world and classical music. The program will also feature deep dives into the world of free improvisation. Virtuoso instrumentalists on reeds, piano accordion and piano.

Sandy Evans is an internationally renowned saxophonist, composer, music researcher and teacher with a passion for improvisation and new music.

Gary Daley is a highly regarded Australian composer, pianist, accordionist and teacher from Springwood in the Blue Mountains.

Aquenta • Bec Jensen
• Nick Skitz ft. Kidd Kaos •
Spiderdog × DJ Dogcunt
• uwuwuU • VV Pete
•More TBA•

Chloe dedicates the final year of her 20s to a deeply personal and creative journey. Throughout 2025, she will focus each month on learning, growing, and creating, sharing her process through monthly performances.

These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com

The final transmission of SOFT CENTRE 2025 draws together three singular artists for an elegiac finale to our multi-sensory four-day marathon.

Aarti Jadu Ensemble premieres SICFWYLF, a meditative invocation that reimagines mantra through acoustic instrumentation, trance repetitions, and rich percussive weight.

Beloved NTS resident Malibu [FR] follows, dissolving the boundary between memory and melody with her diaristic ambient compositions, a fog of reverbed vocals, wistful trance motifs and cascading strings.

Finally, the legendary Ryoji Ikeda [JP] unleashes 'ultratronics', a radical audiovisual encounter that fuses archival recordings with high-resolution sonic architecture.

Parallels is a series of improvised duo gigs curated by saxophonist Sam Gill, each presenting two duos and culminating in an all-in quartet set. For the fourth and final edition, the focus is on woodwinds and will feature four of Australia's most acclaimed improvising reeds players.

SAM GILL & PHILLIPPA MURPHY-HASTE
Sam Gill - saxophones
Phillippa Murphy-Haste - clarinets & viola

PAUL CUTLAN & ANDREW ROBSON
Paul Cutlan - saxophones & clarinets
Andrew Robson - saxophones

The sixth iteration of the Josh Shipton Orchestra shall feature the movement of air. A four section game piece, improvisational, compositional orchestra.
Elizabeth Jigalin, Hiske Weijers, Mike Kennett, Mitch Johnson, Liam O’Shea, Irene Nicola, Anousheh St Germain, Mel Eden, Bronwyn Eather, Eva Docekalova, Alia Josephine, Keyna Wilkins, Lyra Rosen, Payge Eminovski, Simon Peart

After a wildly successful debut at the 2024 Sydney Fringe Festival culminating in a sold out show at Riverside Theatres in Parramatta, Ravi's groundbreaking sitar experience returns, bigger and bolder than ever in "An Exploration of Sitar by Ravi".

Every night is a one-off sonic journey—no two shows are the same. With live collaborations, spontaneous improvisation, and surprise guest artists drawn from the audience, this interactive show blends classical Indian music with unexpected twists.

Nana Koizumi Trio from Japan:
Nana Koizumi (trumpet, voice)
Kousuke Kanatani (piano)
Naoto Oyama (bass)

Ephemera - Merging the sound worlds of jazz and contemporary classical, and set to real space sounds and projections, it is a unique sonic experience.
Keyna Wilkins (piano/flute/compositions)
Elsen Price (double bass)
Will Gilbert (trumpet)
Jodie Michael (drums)

Qiyun in Chinese aesthetics are intertwined energies across human breath, ink splashing and string sonic vibrations. Four extraordinary musicians Ying Liu (erhu), Chuqiao Zhao, Yuyan Tang (guzhengs) and Joshua Hill (percussion) and others perform new musics to short films curated by internationally active filmmaker Vincent Tay and composer Bruce Crossman, based on leading Asian-Australian artists Jin Sha, Louise Zhang, Mai Nguyễn-Long, Lucy Pulvers, Cheolyu Kim and Richard Wu, with poetic responses by Kate Fagan, Kim Pham and Joshua Mostafa.

Award-winning saxophonist Nick Russoniello delivers a captivating performance blending virtuosic saxophone, audience-generated sounds, live-looping, and body percussion. This electro-acoustic experience pushes boundaries, journeying from baroque to beatbox in an immersive musical exploration.

Lee McIver - Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Laptop, FX, Audio data
Ed Goyer - Vibraphone, Mallet Kat, Percussion
Ed Rodrigues - Drums, Drum triggers, iPad, Percussion

Polymorphic Orkestra is an electro-acoustic art music ensemble that creates improvised compositions using a blend of traditional instruments, media technology, audio effects, and pre-recorded audio stem data.

Erkki VELTHEIM Heiligenschein* for cello and electronics (2021)
Pierre BOULEZ Messagesquisse (1976)
Jane SHELDON Talking with herself alone**^ (2025)
Germaine TAILLEFERRE Partita pour piano, Op. 195: ii. Notturno (1957)
Richard MEALE Incredible Floridas (1971)

Over the past two years, composers/pianists/sound artists Lewis Mosley and Elizabeth Jigalin have explored the sonic intricacies and possibilities of The Church's pianos. Playing on the two grand pianos, they have investigated the potential of two similar yet separate instruments performing as one - all against the incredible acoustic backdrop of The Church. This collaborative project coalesces both Lewis and Elizabeth's musical backgrounds, encompassing performance in rock groups, experimental ensembles, and jazz bands, as well as more traditional forms of compositional thought.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Navigating times of uncertainty and fast-paced constant change, the Chronology Arts Collective is an Australian group of artists presenting co-devised contemporary performance improvisations.

This performance is about aboutness. It may be a bit of a heady meta-trip into vocal and movement patterns, some kind of ritualistic dark comedy, or something that is like coming home and switching on the lights for the first time.

The People’s Republic ushers in Spring with a very special Monday night performance, the debut of a new improvisational trio bringing together three true icons of new music in Australia, with a very special guest...PAD
Jim Denley [alto sax/flutes]
Chris Abrahams [piano/synthesiser]
Daryl Pratt [extended vibraphone]
with James Greening [trombone etc]

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Delay 45
Tom Avgenicos - trumpet & electronics
Roshan Kumarage - piano
Dave Quinn - bass
Ashley Stoneham - drums

Another Green World
Lauren Tsamouras - piano
Harry Birch - double bass

Elliott Carter (1908 - 2012) Statement (dedicated to Ole Bohn)
Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899) Concerto for violin, piano and string quartet, Op. 21
Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905 - 1963) Concerto funèbre, 1939

Ole Bohn, violin
Alexander Yau, piano
THE ELAN QUARTET
TIM LI ORCHESTRA

Australian Jazz icons Gary Daley (Bungarribee, The Catholics) and Lloyd Swanton (The Necks, The Catholics) are joined by emerging Jazz drummer and composer Kalon Captain for an evening of original compositions and free improvisation.

Gary Daley – Piano, Accordion
Lloyd Swanton – Bass
Kalon Captain – Drums, Cymbals

Volatile trio of sax, guitar, bass, and drums - freely improvised mayhem

Sax - Alia Josephine
Guitar - Mike Kennett
Bass - Josh Shipton
Drums - Tim Bradley

This final instalment of the series marks the highly anticipated return of the iconic Severed Heads to Oxford Street. Joining them are hardcore legends Straightjacket Nation, making a special appearance, alongside the amazing experimental artists YL Hooi and Silzedrek, who are traveling up from Naarm (Melbourne) for the occasion. A host of very special local artists will also be performing, including Perfect Actress, Gayab ग़ा यब, Spite, Til.K & Ch40, Boiling Hot Politician with Prop Records + Pass~Port + Love+Pop DJs spinning tunes all night.

Joanna MARSH A Plastic Theatre – Dramatic cantata for mezzo-soprano, choir and orchestra
Alice CHANCE New work 
Michael TIPPETT A Child of Our Time

Brett Weymark conductor; Elizabeth Scott conductor (Marsh, Chance)
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon soprano; Anna Dowsley mezzo-soprano; Nicholas Jones tenor; Teddy Tahu Rhodes baritone
Symphony Chorus, Festival Chorus, VOX (Marsh, Chance), Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra with guests from The Sydney Youth Orchestra

HEART ARMOUR is a Sydney three piece working at the intersections of ambient music, experimental pop, and R&B.

LOUISA is Sydney-based artist-producer creating dark, ethereal electronic-pop, characterised by driving, aggressive percussion, soaring synths and tight vocal melodies.

PEACHEY & MOSIG are engaged in ongoing deliberate explorations of various landscapes based around the process of field studies - returning to specific landscapes over time and the process of play.

SZEM is the left-field electronic project of visual and sound artist Laura Hunt.

LISTENING SPACE BY HAT HILL RECORDS Post-performance Listening Space by Hat Hill Records & Audio until late.

Limite (1931), an astonishing landmark of early Latin American cinema with a newly commissioned live score.

The septet consists of Alister Hill (guitar), Darren Lesaguis (spoken word), Jenny Trinh aka Wytchings (electronics/vocals), Justin Tam aka Tzekin (saxophone), Mara Schwerdtfeger (viola/vocals), Reginald Harris (bass) and Thomas William Smith aka T.Morimoto (electronics).

Solomon Frank is an Australian performer and composer living and working on Cammeraygal land, whose inter-disciplinary practice straddles cross-species musical collaboration, vacuum cleaners and time travel.
Award-winning and working across a range of performance modes, Harriet Gillies has presented works in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and North America. She’s been supported by arts organisations and government agencies at regional, national and international levels.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Uncomfortable Science is a musical experiment in sweet controlled chaos, led by Melbourne’s own Lachlan Mitchell aka Laneous. Lachlan scribbles spontaneous chord progressions that a rotating cast of phenomenal musicians transform into fully improvised sonic journeys—no rehearsals, no safety nets, just raw, real-time creation. 

Joining Laneous for this glorious night of experimental music are not one but two pianists! Novak Manjlovic and Danny Pliner, along with Alon Ilsar on drums and Jonathan Zwartz playing double bass.

Ryosuke Kiyasu (Japan) 9:30pm - Pioneering snare-drum soloist who has redefined percussion since 2003.

Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela (Sydney) 8:45pm - (fka Justice Yeldham) has been performing their signature instrument—shards of amplified glass—for over 20 years.

Party Ov One (Newcastle) 8:15pm - the solo audio undertaking of multidisciplinary artist Liza Kaplan.

An intimate evening of music by Cyrus Meurant with guests Matthew Kneale, Kiran Phatak and Lloyd Van’t Hoff (Arcadia Winds).

Melody for solo bassoon
Sortie for solo piano
Pas de deux for solo piano
Three Pieces for flute, clarinet and bassoon
Stray Birds for bassoon and piano

Cyrus Meurant, piano; Matthew Kneale, bassoon; Kiran Phatak, flute; Lloyd Van’t Hoff, clarinet

Virtuosic concert of two-piano music featuring: original works, transcriptions of popular songs, a toy piano and Barbie.

Tamara-Anna Cislowska Pianist
Andrey Gugnin Pianist
Robert Melbourne Composer
Sally Greenaway Composer
Paul Smith Composer

The SCM New Music Ensemble presents a vivid program of modern works.

Matthew Hindson* (b. 1968) - This Year’s Apocalypse
Paul Stanhope* (b. 1969) - Apollo
Liza Lim* (b. 1966) - Veil
Natalie Williams* (b. 1977) - Harmony Road Gang
Bree Van Reyk* (b. 1978) - Infinity Opposing Eternity
New Student Work TBA**

The Quartet embraces microtonal scales and musical modes characteristic of Anatolia with compositions in sophisticated time signatures dancing between contemporary and traditional expressions.

Metin Yilmaz - Bilur/Kaval (traditional Flute)
Jodie Michael - Drums
Matt McMahon- Piano
Stephen Elphick - Double Bass

Sam Gill's Coursed Waters launch their energetic new album 'Sensemaker', released on the prolific Australian jazz label Earshift Music.

Sam Gill - alto & soprano saxophone
Novak Manojlovic - piano
Jacques Emery - double bass
James McLean - drums

World premiere works by Cassie To (NSW), Callum O’Reilly (WA), Alexandra Mison (QLD), and Oliver John Cameron (NSW).

A celebration of groundbreaking new directions, local voices, and bold musical risk-taking, New Now is Omega Ensemble’s annual showcase of emerging compositional talent.

Round the Sun represents a reflection on my experience during a post Covid decent into and recovery from significant mental and physical illness.

Gary Daley - piano/accordion
Hilary Geddes - guitar
Jacques Emery - bass
Chloe Kim - drums

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

The Big Idea – a genre-defying monodrama from Australian composer Matthew Shlomowitz and writer Vid Simoniti. Combining spoken word, music, and theatrical elements, The Big Idea is an iconoclastic departure from monodramas like Schoenberg’s Expectation and Poulenc’s The Human Voice.
Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano)
Rubiks Collective

Experience the sound journey of Sitar Boy — a powerful fusion of ancient Indian sitar and modern ambient, electronic, and world music. Anil Dhital weaves soulful melodies with immersive textures, blending classical roots with contemporary influences. Expect meditative grooves, hypnotic improvisations, and a truly cross-cultural musical experience that invites both deep listening and inner reflection.

CLOCKS & CLOUDS
Kraig Grady; retuned vibraphone
Terumi Narushima; microtonal pump organ

SHOWA 44
Carl Dewhurst; guitar
Simon Barker; drums

HOME IS
Hinano Fujisaki; saxophone, various instruments
Jacques Emery; bass, various instruments
Lauren Tsamouras; piano, various instruments
Bonnie Stewart; drums, various instruments

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Pierrot lunaire (1912)
LAURA BOWLER Deconstructing Pierrot (2024)

Jessica Aszodi (vocals), Jane Sheldon (vocals), Claire Edwardes (Artistic Director, percussion), Lamorna Nightingale (flutes), Jason Noble (clarinet), Véronique Serret (violin), Blair Harris (cello), Jack Symonds (piano), Ben Carey (sound)

Chloe dedicates the final year of her 20s to a deeply personal and creative journey. Throughout 2025, she will focus each month on learning, growing, and creating, sharing her process through monthly performances.

These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com

Waakya (meaning ‘the crow moving its feathers’) is a bold cross-cultural collaboration between Yolŋu artists Daniel and David Wilfred and electro-acoustic musicians Martin Ng, Ben Carey and Matt McGuigan. Over the last decade, the Wilfreds have developed an international reputation as innovators of Yolŋu music traditions, seeking to develop new artistic directions for the ancestral music of Arnhem Land. Through this collaboration, the artists were inspired to bring new life to manikay (song), the ancestral songs of Arnhem Land.

Who gets to make art in Australia, and on what terms? Entangled Labours looks at the rich lives and experiences of working-class people in so-called Sydney. Including the premiere of a new film by the Class Actions Collective about the selling off of social housing in Redfern; a drag performance set in Mount Druitt; hip-hop spoken word; a performance with a brass band; and a ‘laboured’ action using amplified shovels. By showing the unique ways working-class people create, Entangled Labours asks us to think about the systems that decide who gets to make art, and the poetry that takes place in-between.

"Unbound" defies artistic boundaries, presenting a night of profound personal expression. Witness Ria Andriani's soul-stirring vocals performing Molly Joyce's compositions, followed by Melanie Eden's experimental fusion of vocals and accordion, where spiritual depth meets powerful social advocacy. Sonnet Curé, drawing from their "Headliners" experience, unveils a new experimental work, channeling their lived experience of deafness. Together, these artists offer an evening of transformative art, pushing beyond expectations.

Chloe dedicates the final year of her 20s to a deeply personal and creative journey. Throughout 2025, she will focus each month on learning, growing, and creating, sharing her process through monthly performances.

These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com

Chloe dedicates the final year of her 20s to a deeply personal and creative journey. Throughout 2025, she will focus each month on learning, growing, and creating, sharing her process through monthly performances.

These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com

Chloe dedicates the final year of her 20s to a deeply personal and creative journey. Throughout 2025, she will focus each month on learning, growing, and creating, sharing her process through monthly performances.

These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com