I’m better at playing music than keeping my website up to date, but here are some things I’m playing for in 2025. Hope to see you at a concert or two!
–Peninsula Summer Music Festival – Gryphon Baryton Trio
4pm & 6.30pm Tuesday 7 January
Main Ridge Estate
Wine and food will be available for purchase in the Winery Courtyard from 3pm, and between performances.
Chamber works by Joseph Haydn for baryton, performed with their intended instrumentation.
Gryphon Baryton Trio TICKETS
–Peninsula Summer Music Festival – Latitude 37
6pm Friday 10 January
St John’s Anglican Church, Flinders
Baroque music by candlelight in beautiful Flinders on the Mornington Peninsula with my favourite trio, Latitude 37. We’ll be playing music by Couperin, Marais, Morel, Satie and Alice Chance.
Latitude 37 TICKETS
–Ballarat Festival – A Delicate Miscellany
10am & 12 midday Saturday 11 January
Carngham Uniting Church, Snake Valley
17th-century works from either side of the Channel by Hume, Byrd, Marais, Couperin, Dollé and Caix d’Hervelois, plus a beautiful new work by Australian composer Alice Chance.
Delicate Miscellany TICKETS
–Ballarat Festival – Duo Tenori
3pm Monday 13 January
Ballaarat Mechanic’s Institute
A top notch 17th century Italian programme with Daniel & Matthew Thompson (tenors) in a rare break from their busy careers in Europe. Gorgeous repertoire by Monteverdi and d’India.
Duo tenori TICKETS
–Genesis Baroque – Fête Champêtre
8pm Thursday 20 February
Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese St, Brunswick
This program celebrates the fête champêtre with the musette, joined by baroque violin, viols, and baroque harp in a program of 17th and 18th Century French works, this is a joyous program to celebrate Summer!
Genesis Baroque TICKETS
–La Compania – Baroque Echoes
7pm Saturday 1 March
Melbourne Recital Centre
Joined by stunning soprano Jacqueline Porter, Renaissance ensemble La Compañia brings their virtuosity and flair to the hauntingly evocative rhythms and melodies of the Celtic and English Baroque eras.
La Compania TICKETS
–Melbourne Baroque Orchestra – Telemann in Paris
Fri March 14, Williamstown; Sunday March 16, Carlton; Sunday April 6, Geelong
Luxuriate in the chamber music of Paris in the 1730s when Telemann visited and wrote for leading performers of the time.
Telemann in Paris TICKETS
–Apeiron Baroque – Pluckers & Sratchers
4.30pm Sunday 23 March
Wesley Music Centre, Canberra
Discover compositions from the Early Baroque period by Buxtehude, Becker, Lawes, Jenkins, Jarzebski, Lawes, Jones, and more!
Apeiron Baroque TICKETS
–Genesis Baroque – J. S. Bach St Mark Passion
29 March (Ballarat) & 30 March (Melbourne)
Carngham Uniting Church, Snake Valley
Directed by Nicholas Dinopoulos, singers from the Australian Boys Choir and The Vocal Consort will join an outstanding cast of guest soloists in their debut collaboration with Genesis Baroque for this beautiful reconstruction of Bach’s lost St Mark Passion.
St Mark Passion TICKETS
–Melbourne Bach Choir – Bach St John Passion
2.30 pm Friday 18 April
Melbourne Recital Centre
Melbourne Bach Choir conducted by Rick Prakhoff continue their tradition of Good Friday concerts with a performance of J.S. Bach’s great St John Passion.
St John Passion TICKETS
–Adelaide Baroque – Haydn Baryton Trios
3pm Sunday 25 May
North Adelaide Baptist Church
More joyous Haydn for baryton with Adelaide Baroque.
Adelaide Baroque Haydn TICKETS TICKETS
–Pinchgut Opera: Purcell’s Fairy Queen
7-14 June
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay, Sydney
Purcell’s The Fairy Queen is a curious and captivating opera, which originated as an adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Pinchgut’s brilliant reimagining explores love in all its guises and disguises across a city in twenty-four hours.
Pinchgut TICKETS
–Belvoir Theatre – The Spare Room
28 June – 18 July
Belvoir Theatre, Surry Hills, Sydney
Helen Garner’s novel The Spare Room has been praised for its empathy, emotional honesty, hawk-eyed detail and perfect prose. Now, with Judy Davis as Helen and Elizabeth Alexander as Nicola, it’s a tour-de-force of modern Australian theatre. I’ll be on stage providing a musical soundscape.
The Spare Room TICKETS
–Gryphon Baryton Trio at the Athenaeum Library
6pm Friday 4 July
Athenaeum Library, Melbourne
My favourite baryton girl band playing joyful Haydn in Melbourne’s oldest public library.
Athenaeum TICKETS
–Unholy Rackett & Ensemble 642
2.30pm Saturday 5 July
Christ Church, Daylesford
In this program of early baroque music from Italy, Iberia and Germany, early woodwind ensemble Unholy Rackett are joined by basso continuo specialists Ensemble 642, to recreate a rich sound world all but forgotten today.
Daylesford TICKETS
–Lyrebird Music Society – Laura Vaughan & Hannah Lane
7.30pm Sunday 6 July
Wyselaskie Auditorium, Melbourne
Luscious 17th century music for harp and gamba.
Lyrebird TICKETS