Our most popular and delightful program – the Aussie bush comes to your very own backyard as we riff with the birds in an intimate salon setting.

Mar 8 & 9 ,2025

Cutting-edge technology meets extreme virtuosity when London based ‘cyborg pianist’ Zubin Kanga joins Ensemble Offspring at ACO on the Pier.

Apr 12 & 13, 2025

Long Play is an annual 3-day music festival in venues all around downtown Brooklyn, New York

May 2-4, 2025

From the edgy to the endearing – an evening of dynamic duets for violin and cello in an intimate salon setting.

May 17 & 18, 2025

Music for eyes and ears in an extraordinary and theatrical program. Ensemble Offspring and guests are joined by soprano Jane Sheldon in The Neilson, ACO on The Pier.

Jul 3 & 4, 2025

It’s Pierrot lunaire with double the madness when we perform Schoenberg’s revolutionary classic of modern music alongside Laura Bowler’s long form subversive reinvention. 

Sep 26 & 28, 2025

Hear new instrumental works from the 2025 cohort alongside music by Mark ‘Munk’ Ross and join the celebration of stories reflecting culture, country and connection to the here and now.

Oct 15, 2025

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

Mar 23, 2024

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

Apr 27, 2024

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

Jun 16, 2024

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

Aug 3, 2024

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

Aug 31, 2024

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

Sep 26, 2024

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

Nov 23, 2024

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

Feb 25, 2023

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. 

Mar 25, 2023

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.

May 10, 2023

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.

Jun 23, 2023

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.

Aug 26, 2023

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.

Nov 11, 2023