In 2023, we offer the opportunity for soloists to audition for a performance in Term 2 and 3 with the UNSW Orchestra. The winner will need to make themselves available for a performance with UNSWO in term 2 or 3 in 2023, on a date as programmed by the Music Performance Unit.
Concerts & Events
The Music Performance Unit produces a variety of concerts and events throughout the year, including Australia Ensemble UNSW, Collegium Musicum Choir, UNSW Wind Symphony, Corde Chamber Choir, UNSW Orchestra, Composer Conversations and Cushion concerts.
Keep checking throughout the year as new events are added!
Date: Friday, 24 March 2023 - 10:00am
Date: Saturday, 15 April 2023 - 7:30pm
Songs encapsulate some of our deepest emotions, from the despair of John Dowland consoled by Paul Stanhope’s new work, Vaughan Williams’s meditations on life and mortality, through to pure joy in works by Beethoven and Ravel.
Date: Saturday, 20 May 2023 - 7:30pm
Smetana’s Piano Trio is one last lullaby for a lost child, laced with memories of dancing and joy.
Date: Saturday, 12 August 2023 - 7:30pm
The ease of a summer holiday is reflected Dvořák’s Piano Quartet, while Barber’s wind quintet suggests a tour through different landscapes on a sunny day.
Date: Saturday, 16 September 2023 - 7:30pm
Some music delights in pattern for its own sake.
Date: Saturday, 21 October 2023 - 7:30pm
Finish the year in the company of the fairy tale characters of Ravel’s Mother Goose, the distinctive Australia sound of Ross Edwards, some sparkling Mozart, and the deftly-drawn birds and animals of Saint-Saëns’s ‘Grand Zoological Fantasy’.
