Here are some things I’m doing in 2026, hope to see you at a concert or two!

–Ballarat Organs & Fine Music Festival
January 9 – 13, 2026
Various locations in Ballarat, Clunes & Creswick
You will be able to find me at all 12 concerts as the festival’s Artistic Director.
Ballarat Festival Details

–Van Diemen’s Band – Transformations
2pm and 5pm Sunday 15 February
St Canice’s, Sandy Bay
In this stunning program, Van Diemen’s Band and bass-baritone Andrew O’Connor perform a program of sacred and secular works from 17th Century Germany and Venice, alongside two newly commissioned works by Alice Chance and Brooke Shelley that reimagine and recontextualize this rich musical heritage. 
Transformations TICKETS

–Van Diemen’s Band – Badinage
7pm, Friday 6 March
All Saints, South Hobart
Step into the vibrant world of Baroque music, brought to life by some of Australia’s finest period-instrument performers in a concert that is equal parts a meeting of musical minds and a reunion of colleagues and friends. VDB’s Artistic Director, Julia Fredersdorff (Baroque violin), is joined by Karina Schmitz (Baroque viola), Laura Vaughan (viola da gamba), Simon Martyn-Ellis (theorbo), Donald Nicolson (harpsichord) and Simon Rickard (Baroque bassoon, musette).
Badinage Tickets

–Van Diemen’s Band Summer Academy
6-9 March
Mount Carmel College, Sandy Bay, Hobart
I’ll be tutoring at VDB’s 2026 Baroque Academy, which provides the perfect opportunity for both experienced and developing musicians of period instruments to work on 17th and 18th Century music in an academy-style education setting.
VdB Academy Info

–Gryphon Baryton Trio: Sydney
7pm, Thursday March 12
Church Street Studios
62-68 Church St, Camperdown
Hooray, the Gryphon Baryton Trio can finally share Haydn’s Divertimenti with our friends in Sydney!  We’ll also be playing a fab new work by Brooke Green, all in the intimate environment of Church Street Studios.
Gryphon Baryton Trio Sydney

–Gryphon Baryton Trio: Orange Chamber Music Festival
March 13 & 14
I’ll be taking my favourite Haydn to Orange Chamber Music Festival with the Gryphon Baryton Trio, yay! Presented in association with Musica Viva.
Orange Chamber Music Festival details

–Gryphon Baryton Trio: Four Winds Bermagui
2pm Sunday March 15
Windsong Pavilion, Bermagui
Hear some of our favourite Haydn in the stunning surrounds of Bermagui’s Windsong Pavillion.
Gryphon Baryton Trio Bermagui

–Castlemaine State Festival solo recitals: Salon @ Portal Gallery House
11am & 5pm, Saturday 21 March and Saturday 28 March
30 Church St, Chewton
A series of intimate solo recitals at Portal Gallery House, with music of Marais, St Colombe, Corkine, Pandolfo, Telemann and Brooke Green set amongst the sculptures of Joel Sorenson, Hilary Finch and Zoe Amour as part of the Castlemaine State Music Festival.
Salon @ Portal Gallery House

–St Matthew Passion – Melbourne Bach Choir & Melbourne Baroque Orchestra
2.30pm Friday 3 April
Melbourne Recital Centre
J.S. Bach’s masterpiece on Good Friday.
Bach St Matthew Passion Tickets

–Van Diemen’s Band – Bizarrerie
11 & 12 April
Ian Potter Recital Hall @ The Hedbert, Hobart
Van Diemen’s Band invites you to discover some of the weird and wonderful instruments of the Baroque.
Bizarrerie puts the spotlight on some of the rare and unusual instruments from the Band’s collection. Program highlights include Vivaldi’s Concerto for Lute and Viola d’Amore in D minor, showcasing the haunting, bell-like tones of the six-stringed viola d’amore, while Fasch’s Concerto for Gallichon gives this almost-forgotten instrument—a gut-strung hybrid that sits somewhere between a lute and a bass guitar—its moment in the spotlight. Also taking centre stage will be a brand-new piccolo violin (nicknamed “Niccolo the Piccolo”) crafted by Nipaluna luthier Douglas Coghill, along with a cornucopia of extraordinary instruments played by extraordinary musicians.e).
BizarrerieTickets

–Woodend Winter Arts Festvial
June 5-8 2026
Watch this space for festival program detaills
WWAF details

–Solo recital @ Tempo Rubato: Night Music
8pm Friday 12 June
Tempo Rubato
34 Breese St, Brunswick
I’m returning to one of my favourite venues, Tempo Rubato, to give a solo recital of music shaped around the quieter hours that values intimacy over display, unfolding slowly to draw listeners inside the delicate sound world of the viola da gamba. The program centres on seventeenth century music from England and France, including eccentrically expressive works by Sainte-Colombe, Nicolas Hotman and music of great elegance by Marin Marais. Colourful English pieces by Tobias Hume and from the Manchester Manuscript explore the richly experimental music for lyra viol, shaped by alternate tunings for the viol and a sense of improvisation. Two contemporary solo works sit naturally within this landscape. L’ombre d’un doute by Philippe Hersant and Lines Curved, Rivers Mirrored by Ed Finis extend the viol’s expressive voice into the present.
Definitely one to enjoy with a
Night Music @ Tempo Rubato

–Liquid Threads: Liam Byrne & Laura Vaughan 2026 tour
22-30 August 2026
Bundanon, Sydney, Hobart, Launceston, Melbourne, Gippsland
I’ll be touring this gorgeous duo program for two bass viols with the incomparable Liam Byrne (Berlin) this August. We’ll play sumptuous music for two lyra viols by Ferrabosco II, Hume and Byrd, eccentric and passionate Sainte-Colombe, and the spare, glowing polyphony of Locke and Gibbons alongside new works by Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and Australian composers Alice Chance and Brooke Green, written especially for this collaboration.
Bundanon- 22 August
Sydney Opera House – 23 August
Hobart – 25 August
Launceston – 26 August
Melbourne Recital Centre – 28 August
Gippsland for Proms Recitals – 30 August