Blurring the lines between high and low art, this is cutting-edge music from composers you need to know.

The world’s oldest poem. Opera’s most cutting-edge artists. The ancient and contemporary collide to dazzling effect in this world premiere.

Avant Gardens presents classics and Australian premieres in an intimate take on the tradition of salon music.

From mystical folktales to fading memories, Light and Matter responds to experiences beyond our physical world. 

With three solos and an epic 30-minute trio, Xanadu Sky is a journey through hypnotically evolving patterns. 

Avant Gardens presents genre-bending classics at intimate ‘house concerts’ throughout Sydney.

Blurring the lines between high and low art, this is cutting-edge music from composers you need to know.

Lone Hemispheres, where our world-renowned instrumentalists step into the spotlight as soloists, with Australian world premieres alongside the avant-garde masterpieces which inspired them.

The five emerging composers in 2023 each have a strong and independent voice and will collectively provide a vibrant snapshot of what is coming in Australian music

Repetition, chaos and beauty become one in this program of musical extremes. A bouquet of contemporary composers examine everything from love and death to reality TV.

Chamber music at its most intense, visceral and radical. In the shadowy surrounds of Carriageworks, experience Richard Meale's colourful and virtuosic landmark of Australian music in an immersive staging by EO.

Echoes and Orbits, performed by percussionist Claire Edwardes, and cellist Blair Harris features an impressive line-up of music from the past few decades and takes listeners into a new stratosphere of sounds.

Avant Gardens is your chance to get out of the concert hall and into the fresh air. Hear every breath and feel every beat in this intimate musical exchange. 

Our beloved Avant Gardens series, taking music out of the concert hall and into the home with salon style house concerts in Sydney.