School of Music concerts and events

UQ Singer’s return to St John’s to continue their long collaboration with the Cathedral. The audience will hear excerpts from composers such as Mozart, Rossini, J. Strauss, Lehar, and Donizetti and the singers will give you arias, duets, trios, and large ensembles in today’s offerings.

UQ Chamber Music Academy is an unique program bringing together the cream of the crop secondary school aged string players and pianists in Queensland to study chamber music. Formally established this year, the program has been a working concept since 2021, when Amogus Trio won the Robert Salzer 1st Prize at the Strike A Chord National Chamber Music Championship. They were followed by both The IncrediBows and Trio Bellissimo, who were among the 12 groups nationally to reach the grand finals in Melbourne in 2022. The program was born so that more students can experience the incredible joy of playing chamber music.

The UQ School of Music throughout the year promotes excellence in performance and composition by inviting students to participate in a range of competitions. This concert will feature the students who won the 2023 Sleath String Performance Prize, Isolde Schaupp Memorial Prize for Percussion, Margaret Nickson Prize for Voice and Piano, and Ethel Osborn Prize.

Brisbane Chamber Choir will perform a concert that celebrates the choral sounds of some of our leading contemporary voices in a program that focusses on the ocean and the stars. It includes works by Ēriks Ešenvalds and Australians Stephen Leek, Matthew Orlovich, Andrew Schultz, and others.

SignWaves, a collective of flautists from The University of Queensland, bring a diverse range of flute repertoire of varying ensemble sizes from solo flute to flute choir to delight a diversity of audiences.

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MATERIAL weaves delicate foley, live percussion, droning feedback and pulsing synths together into a seamless performance both contemplative and relentless in equal measures. Created and performed by composer/producer Connor D’Netto and performance artist Yvette Agapow, the collaboration draws on their shared contemporary classical, ambient and noise music practices, meditating on both the materials and the materiality of art and the work of artists.

Experience the magic of Art Song at the 'Collaboration in Art Song' concert! Four exceptional duos, who worked together during the Queensland Art Song Festival, will mesmerize you with captivating vocal and piano performances.

Anna Grinberg and Liam Viney will perform Schubert's Rondo in A D. 951, for piano four hands. Viney will then perform Beethoven's Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Opus 53, the "Waldstein".

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Presented as part of the prestigious Queensland Art Song Festival; "Lovesick: A Journey through Schubert, Schumann & Reimann," featuring the mesmerizing vocals of Alexandra Flood, accompanied by the talented pianist Sholto Kynoch.

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Attention Distribution in String Quartet Performance: The Impact of Quartet Expertise

The UQ School of Music throughout the year promotes excellence in performance and composition by inviting students to participate in a range of competitions. This concert will feature students who were winners in the O’Brien Family Wind and Brass, Ethel Osborne Vocal, Burnett William Wendorff Memorial Prize for Classical Piano, and Richard Pollett String competitions.

An ensemble of UQ student improvisers will invent music in real time, responding to each other's visual and audible cues, creating melodies, rhythms, riffs, grooves, textures and soundscapes that constantly shift and develop. The culmination of a semester-long course in Creative Music Making.

Join the UQ Brass Ensemble and their director Bob Schultz for a morning concert at St John’s Cathedral.

Robert Davidson plays his own solo piano works, including the first solo performance of Queensland at Home, which includes a collection of home movies made in Queensland during the 1920s-40s, recently restored by the State Library of Queensland and Sally Golding.

Indie-Chamber group Nonsemble collaborate with Australian songwriters Jo Davie and Monique Clare.

Big band of the Future? Applying techniques of the New York School of composers to large jazz ensemble