Upcoming:
June
Fri
12
JUN
7.30pm
Nightingale Gallery presents the inaugural Queer Nights at Nightingale, a finely curated festival under the artistic direction of internationally acclaimed pianist Coady Green.
Temporality, curated by Meta Cohen
Composer Meta Cohen presents an evening of music that explores moments of queer love, playfulness and resistance across time. Featuring internationally celebrated artists Jessica Aszodi (mezzo-soprano), Rachael Joyce (soprano) and Coady Green (piano), this concert includes Meta Cohen’s Sword Songs, a song cycle about 17th Century bisexual sword-fighting opera singer Julie d’Aubigny. The program intersperses this major work with pieces by contemporary and historical queer composers.
Fri
19
JUN
7.30pm
Nightingale Gallery presents the inaugural Queer Nights at Nightingale, a finely curated festival under the artistic direction of internationally acclaimed pianist Coady Green.
Fault Lines curated by Robert McIntyre
Curated by composer Robert McIntyre, Aether Duo presents Fault Lines, an evening of flute and piano works by LGBTQIA+ composers Robert McIntyre, Sally Whitwell, Sam Williams and more – dealing both subtly and directly with elements pertaining to the lived queer experience and the environments and space we rightly take up.
With queerness often viewed (and experienced) as an epicentre of both tension and generative force, Fault Lines explores queer life through that geology. In a culture that treats straightness as the stable ground beneath us, queerness is often framed as deviation or rupture to that ground — something “across the line” that is disparate to the status quo. But fault lines aren’t anomalies: they are structures, pathways, and truth made visible at the surface. Across this curation, we invite you to listen for the crack, the shift, and the new landscape that follows – when acceptance becomes the normalisation of divergence.
SAT
20
JUN
6.00pm
ALIMENTARE
ALIMENTARE is an intimate performance for oboe and piano, inspired by the evocative paintings of Llael McDonald. The program brings together compelling music by women composers across the last century. From Lili Boulanger and Amy Beach to Ruth Gipps and Rebecca Clarke - alongside contemporary Australian voices including Sally Greenaway, Nat Bartsch, Imogen Ferdinando and Ella Macens.
Echoing the themes in McDonald’s work, ALIMENTARE places nourishment at its core - not just as a form of sustenance but as something that comforts, restores and energises. Expect music that is warm, expressive and deeply human, moving between moments of intimacy, extreme passion and quiet intensity.
Curated by Melbourne oboist Jasper Ly and performed with pianist Peter Dumsday, this is a meeting point between music and visual art - a chance to experience both side by side, each enriching the other.
Fri
26
JUN
7.30pm
Nightingale Gallery presents the inaugural Queer Nights at Nightingale, a finely curated festival under the artistic direction of internationally acclaimed pianist Coady Green.
Technicolour curated by Cameron Lam
Curated by composer Cameron Lam, Technicolour explores American and Australian queer works of play, subculture, and vibrant colour.
The program showcases Lam’s work written for each of the featured performers: We Touch to Feel for pianist Coady Green, Heart of Life* for soprano Marjorie Hannah, and 8-bit Sonata #2: BIRB* for Dafydd Camp on cor anglais. These pieces are connected through cabaret songs by John Coons & Jonah Wheeler, the video game music of Josie Brechner, Hew Wagner, & Belinda Coomes, and the concert music of Nicole Murphy, Kincaid Rabb, and Alex Turley.
*world premiere
Sat
27
JUN
5.30pm
Multi award-winning pianist David Soo presents a recital of Liszt arrangements, Beethoven, and a much-anticipated World Premiere of Nicholas Jiang's Mazurka No.1.
Program:
Beethoven: 15 Variations and Fugue Opus 35 'Eroica'
Schubert arranged by Liszt: Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen S.562
Schubert arranged by Liszt: Der müller und der Bach, S565 No. 2
World Premiere, Nicholas Jiang (b. 2014): Mazurka No. 1
Gounod arranged by Liszt: Faust Waltz
Sun
28
JUN
4.00pm
Elton Sun Plays Chopin
Join inspiring young pianist, Elton Sun, in an evening of Chopin.
Elton is a year 10 student at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and is already a rising star. Among his numerous prizes and awards, he received the First Prize and Concerto Prize in the 2024 Young Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition in Brisbane and performed with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.
This year Elton is one of 28 pianists from around the world to have been invited to take part in the 1st Chopin Pleyel International Piano Competition to be held at the George Sand Estate in Nohant, France.
The repertoire requirements are considerable and consist only of the works of Chopin.
Elton will play Frédéric Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. 28.
Most of these wonderful preludes were written while Chopin shared his life with George Sand on her estate in Nohant, and on the island of Mallorca.
To hear the preludes is to experience in miniature many of the forms and characteristic features of Chopin’s larger works - nocturnes, sonata movements, études.
This recital invites audiences to experience the full expressive range of these remarkable works—by turns poetic, dramatic, and deeply personal.
July:
Fri
10
JUL
7.30pm
Four Hands at Nightingale with Coady Green pairs internationally renowned pianist Coady Green with exceptional young artists in electrifying four-hand collaborations. Each concert explores a single composer or sound-world in depth, offering audiences a rare glimpse into shared artistry, mentorship in action, and the exhilarating intimacy of two musicians breathing and thinking as one.
7:30pm, Friday 10th July
Coady Green and Jack Brunialti-Sykes
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Six Pieces for piano four hands Opus 11
INTERVAL
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E minor Opus 27 arranged for piano four hands by Wladimir Wilschau
Coady Green and Jack Brunialti-Sykes plunge into the vast emotional world of Sergei Rachmaninoff in an epic four-hand recital. The evening opens with the Six Pieces, Op. 11, a youthful, irresistibly characterful collection ranging from lyrical nostalgia to explosive virtuosity. After interval, the duo takes on one of the landmarks of the orchestral repertoire: Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, heard here in Wladimir Wilschau’s thrilling and dazzlingly virtuosic arrangement for piano four hands. A rare chance to experience this symphonic masterpiece distilled into pianistic electricity.