Events

Finalists will present their performances from the Wind and Brass, Ethel Osborne, and Richard Pollett competitions. Join us live in the Nickson Room, UQ St Lucia, or watch online.

The UQ School of Music will present a morning of lieder and operatic ensembles, featuring singers from the UQ Opera Scenes and Alumni singers from the Bachelor of Music program. Instrumentalists will collaborate with pianists Jasmine Buckley, Reuben Flower and renowned vocal coach and pianist John Woods.

Join Pulse Chamber Orchestra for a morning of string orchestra masterpieces in the elegant surrounds of Customs House. The program features Telemann’s evocative depiction of the adventures of Don Quixote along with one of Bach’s most enduring masterpieces, his Brandenburg Concerto no.4 featuring 4th year flute students Jessica Walther and Katya Willett as soloists. The program concludes with Elgar’s beautifully intimate Serenade for Strings.

UQ Chamber Singers (Directed by Graeme Morton)
UQ Brass (Directed by Bob Schultz)

Admission: $25 ($15 concession).

The music in this concert will all be invented on the spot by all the musicians on stage, led by Dr Robert Davidson, the head of composition in the UQ School of Music. Some improvised coordination will be assisted by techniques of “Sound Painting” in which hand gestures communicate various instructions, facilitating some coordination and varying of textures.

Exploring the textures and melodic webs possible with the double bass, this concert will feature the solo double bass and its transformation through layering its sound on itself.

UQSO's new conductor Dane Lam will present a series of works related to project week at the UQ School of Music

Anna Grinberg and Liam Viney will perform The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, arranged for two pianos. The arrangement was created by Stravinsky himself so that the Ballet Russes could rehearse the work ahead of its 1913 premiere in Paris.

Dr Jennifer MacRitchie presents on her research topic titled: New musical tools and technologies for older adults' wellbeing

Percussionist Angus Wilson + pianist Alex Raineri bring together the familiar sounds of Gershwin alongside new sounds by three of Australia’s most vibrant compositional voices.

Milijana Nikolic and Rosario la Spina will bring Italian opera to life, right here in the Nickson Room, St Lucia, with highlights from Aida and Il Trovatore.

Dr Robert Davidson will present music of the twentieth century that has a significant connection with historical events, during the world wars, the dictatorships and the political turmoil.

Pianist Alex Raineri, described by Limelight Magazine as “a soloist of superb skill and musicality” brings a varied and colourful program of music about nature and birdsong, to the beautiful acoustics and glorious concert grand Steinway of UQ's Nickson Room.

The UQ School of Music will host a BBQ to welcome our new and current student cohort into the new year. The event will offer a chance to meet our staff, music societies and intermingle while enjoying free food.

Peter Luff (horn), Camille Barry (violin) and Catherine Likhuta (piano/composer) will perform their concert titled 'Stories Without Words'.

Adam Chalabi (violin), Patrick Murphy (cello) and Anna Grinberg (piano) join forces to perform two masterworks- Haydn’s ebullient trio in A major and the second of Brahms‘s three monumental piano trios.

Muses Trio celebrate International Women’s Day and their 9th season together with HOMEGROWN: striking new world premieres written recently for the Muses Trio by Australian women composers.

Shaun Brown and Liam Viney present two of the great German song cycles.

The UQ School of music will be hosting its 2020 Higher Degree Research Symposium that will showcase work being undertaken by our Higher Degree Research students (PhD and MPhil) and School of Music academics.

Associate Professor Denis Collins will present a selection of music by the great Elizabethan composer William Byrd (1543-1623)

Software of Seagulls’ concert as part of UQ School of Music’s 2020 Art museum concert series will showcase brand new pieces alongside works from the very beginnings of the project in 2013.

Shaun Brown and Liam Viney present two of the great German song cycles - Dichterliebe (A Poet's Love) by Schumann and An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved) by Ludwig Van Beethoven

Adam Chalabi (violin) and Anna Grinberg (piano) will present works by Brisbane composer Robert Davidson, Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and Ludwig Van Beethoven

Our second Prize Winners Concert features finalists in the Percussion Prize, O’Brien Family Prize for Wind and Brass, and the Sleath String Performance Prize.