The trio with a night of new compositions and improvisations in the key of 'lusciousness', making the most of the giant sonic textures of their instruments, bouncing off the walls of this remarkable venue.

Lauren Tsamouras, grand piano
Niki Johnson, vibraphone
Clayton Thomas, double bass

The SCM New Music Ensemble presents a vivid program of modern works.

Matthew Hindson* (b. 1968) - This Year’s Apocalypse
Paul Stanhope* (b. 1969) - Apollo
Liza Lim* (b. 1966) - Veil
Alexander Maltas+ - Two Contrasts
Bree Van Reyk* (b. 1978) - Infinity Opposing Eternity

Guest Director: Huw Belling; Soprano: Susannah Lawergren; Soprano: Amy Moore; Mezzo-Soprano: Jessica O'Donoghue; Tenor: Timothy Reynolds; Baritone: Hayden Barrington; Bass-Baritone: Andrew O'Connor

Bach - Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden; Belling - Fuego Y Agua (World Premiere); Flecha - El Fuego; Finsterer - Omaggio all Pieta; Andriessen - Ahania Weeping; Panufnik - Nunc Dimittis; Pärt - Magnificat, Solfeggio; Barry - Long Time; Lassus - Ut queant laxis; D'Arrezzo - Ut queant laxis

Saturday 20 September 2025 2:00pm
Saturday 20 September 2025 7:00pm

Ben Denham responding to Sean O’Connell's work ‘Oscillations in Place - Energy and matter in Tasmania’s Highland Plateau’ with a performance for the closing event on Saturday 20 September 6-7pm.

The Quartet embraces microtonal scales and musical modes characteristic of Anatolia with compositions in sophisticated time signatures dancing between contemporary and traditional expressions.

Metin Yilmaz - Bilur/Kaval (traditional Flute)
Jodie Michael - Drums
Matt McMahon- Piano
Stephen Elphick - Double Bass

A wonderful chance to experience the heavenly symphony, melodic adoration, and musical devotion of well-known vocalist Vidushi Devaki Pandit, in Australia. With melody in her voice and charm in her persona, Devaki Pandit has developed her own unique style of singing and has won many hearts through her endearing performances.

This is a grassroots event held by a small group of volunteers and supported by Alcatraz, who have kindly offered us the space for this event. 
>>>All profits from art sales and tickets will go to Palestinian families through ACTION AID<<<

Charlotiinha
Bronte
Rahil
Clayton Thomas & Lily Innis
Monetta Banda
Stoyan
Alina

Jannah Quill (Naarm) LIVE
Wingnut 
Wytchings LIVE
Postponez

Sam Gill's Coursed Waters launch their energetic new album 'Sensemaker', released on the prolific Australian jazz label Earshift Music.
Sam Gill - alto & soprano saxophone; Novak Manojlovic - piano; Jacques Emery - double bass; James McLean - drums

CHLOE KIM / HINANO FUJISAKI / NICK MIELCZAREK
Chloe Kim - drums; Hinano Fujisaki - saxophone; Nick Mielczarek - guitar

Stella Anning (VIC)
Stella Anning – vocals/guitar
Selene Messinis – keys
Richard Rose - bass
Kyrie Anderson – drums

Zodiac
Jordan Chung - Piano
Hinano Fujisaki - Tenor Saxophone
Sabine Tapia - Double Bass
Manson Luk - Drums

Eric Tsai - electric guitar, effects

Percusstard: Nic Cassey - drums, voice; Scott Leishman - bass guitar

Nigel is No More: Aidan Wong - tenor saxophone, Alex Tucker - electric guitar, Daniel Raymond - drums

Cellist and composer Darcy Gilkerson
Darcy Gilkerson: Cello
Micheal Brady: Guitar
Matt Steele: Keys
Monty Shnier: Bass
Jack Rosenzweig: Drums

EPHEMERA QUARTET Led by Keyna Wilkins (piano/flute/compositions) with Elsen Price (double bass/loop pedal), Will Gilbert (trumpet) and Jodie Michael (drumset).

Mountain To Sea is a truly all-star group of jazz musicians from different backgrounds and generations.
Chris Cody - piano, compositions
Sandy Evans - tenor and soprano saxophones
Lloyd Swanton - double bass
Nic Cecire - drums

World premiere works by Cassie To (NSW), Callum O’Reilly (WA), Alexandra Mison (QLD), and Oliver John Cameron (NSW).

A celebration of groundbreaking new directions, local voices, and bold musical risk-taking, New Now is Omega Ensemble’s annual showcase of emerging compositional talent.

Pianist and composer Chris Cody and sound artist Charlie Tait create and perform new music that combines Cody’s jazz and classical influences with Tait’s contemporary electronic music. Using solo piano improvisations and spontaneous compositions, they create new emotionally charged sonic landscapes.

Bohjass: Cross genre free jazz/Jazz/Funk/Fusion. Bohjass have been at the forefront of the Melbourne improvised music scene for over 3 decades and have released 13 studio albums. Tim Pledger is the founder and composer/saxophonist of Bohjass and his playing has been compared with Albert Ayler and Eric Dolphy, with one recent reviewer noting his dedication to a ‘singular modus operandi’ not unlike that of Sun Ra.

Support by Haztet Collective

Round the Sun represents a reflection on my experience during a post Covid decent into and recovery from significant mental and physical illness.

Gary Daley - piano/accordion
Hilary Geddes - guitar
Jacques Emery - bass
Chloe Kim - drums

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

A hybrid exhibition designed for patrons to walk through and experience new works of art and sound. Operating across both Machine Hall and The Vault, audiences are free to move between these two contrasting spaces, each with its own atmosphere and installations. Live electronic lineup featuring: Assembler Code (live); Opus (live); Morgin Huggins (live).

Installations and lighting design by: Liv Parker; Interlooper x Pat Carroll; Claudia Leonard; Sophie Ethell.

The Big Idea – a genre-defying monodrama from Australian composer Matthew Shlomowitz and writer Vid Simoniti. Combining spoken word, music, and theatrical elements, The Big Idea is an iconoclastic departure from monodramas like Schoenberg’s Expectation and Poulenc’s The Human Voice.
Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano)
Rubiks Collective

Experience the sound journey of Sitar Boy — a powerful fusion of ancient Indian sitar and modern ambient, electronic, and world music. Anil Dhital weaves soulful melodies with immersive textures, blending classical roots with contemporary influences. Expect meditative grooves, hypnotic improvisations, and a truly cross-cultural musical experience that invites both deep listening and inner reflection.

Elsen Price (double bass) + Josh Shipton (voice)
Kate Bartlett (voice) + Keyna Wilkins (piano/flute)
Pavle Cajic (piano)
perform sets of original and improvised music raising funds for Hearts For Gaza Charity Project.
TIckets $20 online or at the door. B.Y.O. Doors open 6.30pm, Concert starts 7pm. More about Hearts for Gaza here: https://www.chuffed.org/project/109308-hearts-for-gaza

The third instalment of KLGP ambient experience featuring saxophone, vocals and synths from Eora's most passionate, visuals by CARA.

Marcus Whale (vox & synth), Hinano Fujisaki (saxophone, flute, clarinet) & Kurt Lam (synth, keys and samples)

$15 at the door and the mother of all donations jar running all day.

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Abby Constable drums; Daniel Williams drums and synth; Freya Schack-Arnott cello; Billy Ward saxophone; Chris Pidcock cello

J.S Bach (1685–1750) Cello Suite No.4 in E-flat major, BWV 1010
Skúli Sverrisson The Box Tree (2005): Afternoon Varient, Framents, The Box Tree arr. for cello and saxophone
Freya Schack-Arnott Solo Cello Improvised Set
Abby Constable & Daniel Williams New music for drums and synth

CLOCKS & CLOUDS
Kraig Grady; retuned vibraphone
Terumi Narushima; microtonal pump organ

SHOWA 44
Carl Dewhurst; guitar
Simon Barker; drums

HOME IS
Hinano Fujisaki; saxophone, various instruments
Jacques Emery; bass, various instruments
Lauren Tsamouras; piano, various instruments
Bonnie Stewart; drums, various instruments

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Pierrot lunaire (1912)
LAURA BOWLER Deconstructing Pierrot (2024)

Jessica Aszodi (vocals), Jane Sheldon (vocals), Claire Edwardes (Artistic Director, percussion), Lamorna Nightingale (flutes), Jason Noble (clarinet), Véronique Serret (violin), Blair Harris (cello), Jack Symonds (piano), Ben Carey (sound)

Darcy Gilkerson and Monty Shnier - Long time partners and collaborators bring together their love of folk, bluegrass, chamber music and improvisation into an intimate format.
Darcy Gilkerson - cello, Michael Brady - guitar, Monty Shnier - bass

We Have Cats - Free Form - Improvised - Double Bass Trio. Exploring the bass beyond its typical role, Marie-Louise Bethune, Josh Shipton and Valerios Calocerinos unite their creative and cultural diversity to produce genre-defying music that moves through ambient, experimental, classical and jazz (plus whatever they find in-between).

Berlin-based musician and composer Jules Reidy has created a musical accompaniment to the 38th Kaldor Public Art Project 38, Thomas Demand: The Object Lesson.

Local musicians and sound artists will reinterpret Reidy’s score for their performances. Alexandra Spence is a Sydney-based sound artist and musician interested in the communion or conversation that occurs between listener, object and surrounding environment.

New music by Nicole Murphy and Archie Tulk, alongside work by works by Orlande de Lassus, Frank Nyuts, Gavin Bryars, and more.

Mezzo-Soprano & Artistic Director: AJ America, Baritone: Lucien Fischer, Soprano: Josephine Brereton, Soprano: Rachel Mink, Bass-Baritone: Alasdair Stretch, Tenor: Dan Walker, Conductor: Roland Peelman AM

Melbourne bassist Monty Shnier is developing a new set of works, drawing from classical, jazz, folk, and film music to present music dripping with lyricism and drama.
Jack Stoneham: Alto Saxophone
Lauren Tsamouras: Piano
Alexander Inman-Hislop: Drums
Monty Shnier: Bass

Paul Cutlan has composed a cycle of songs to poems in some of the languages which have helped shape the cross-cultural journey of the group MARA. For this project, the MARA! quintet is joined by a string quartet.

Mara Kiek, Lew Kiek, Sandy Evans, Paul Cutlan, Lloyd Swanton
Lisa Pallandi, Riikka Sintonen, Beth Condon, Oliver Miller

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Bhairavi Raman is an Indian-Australian violinist blending concepts and techniques developed through her training and expertise in Carnatic (South Indian Classical) and Western Classical music.

Accompanying Bhairavi Raman is Nanthesh Sivarajah, a percussionist, trained in both South Indian Classical (Carnatic) and Western forms, and proficient in the Mridangam, Kanjira, Ghatam, Morsing, Drumkit and several other percussion instruments.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Waakya (meaning ‘the crow moving its feathers’) is a bold cross-cultural collaboration between Yolŋu artists Daniel and David Wilfred and electro-acoustic musicians Martin Ng, Ben Carey and Matt McGuigan. Over the last decade, the Wilfreds have developed an international reputation as innovators of Yolŋu music traditions, seeking to develop new artistic directions for the ancestral music of Arnhem Land. Through this collaboration, the artists were inspired to bring new life to manikay (song), the ancestral songs of Arnhem Land.

Who gets to make art in Australia, and on what terms? Entangled Labours looks at the rich lives and experiences of working-class people in so-called Sydney. Including the premiere of a new film by the Class Actions Collective about the selling off of social housing in Redfern; a drag performance set in Mount Druitt; hip-hop spoken word; a performance with a brass band; and a ‘laboured’ action using amplified shovels. By showing the unique ways working-class people create, Entangled Labours asks us to think about the systems that decide who gets to make art, and the poetry that takes place in-between.

Ausecuma Beats - Melbourne multicultural ensemble, bringing together musicians from Australia, Senegal, Cuba, Mali and Guinea.
Ashkan Shafiei - Iranian-born percussionist and composer crafting meditative, textural soundscapes.
Maryam Rahmani - Iranian multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, blending Persian classical music with contemporary expression.

Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-2025) was a composer who fully committed herself to music of emotional intensity. Once described as "irresponsible" and "mistaken" under the unforgiving arts regime of the Soviet Union, Gubaidulina would go on to be recognised as "the grand dame of new music" (Boosey & Hawkes) and "the most important Russian composer of her generation" (Wise Music).

Contrapunctus XIV from 'The Art of Fugue' by J.S. Bach
Reflections on the Theme B-A-C-H by Sofia Gubaidulina
Dancer on a Tightrope by Sofia Gubaidulina
Piano Quintet by Sofia Gubaidulina

Annie Jacobs-Perkins - cello

Joseph dall'Abaco Caprice No. 9 in C Major; Caprice No. 11 in F Major; Caprice No. 1 in C Minor
Marin Marais Les Voix Humaines
Esa-Pekka Salonen Arabesques for Olly  
Andrew Norman Sabina
Pamela Madsen Why Women Weep: It Is the Quickest Way to Rejoin the Ocean 
Johann Sebastian Bach Suite No. 3 BWV 1009 in C Major 

DRUB (VIC/NSW)
Scott Tinkler - trumpet
Scott McConnachie - saxophones
Carl Dewhurst - guitar
Simon Barker - drums

Melbourne Scotts, Tinkler and McConnachie join forces with Carl Dewhurst and Simon Barker for a night of extended improvised furore.

STANHOPE String Quartet No.1, Elegies & Dances
BRITTEN String Quartet No.2 in C Major, Op.36
SCHUBERT String Quartet No.14 in D minor, Death and the Maiden

Missy Mazzoli (b. 1980) Ecstatic Science
Friedrich Cerha (1926 - 2023) Quellen (Sources) for ensemble
Holly Harrison (b. 1988) Jabberwock (2021 version)
New Student Work - TBA*
Heinz Karl Gruber (b. 1943) Frankenstein!! (ensemble version)

Convergence is the title of Hamed Sadeghi’s new composition. The concert series aims to convey a deconstructed yet detailed performance of the composition’s roots and components in three acts.

Convergence 1: Classical Exploration
Freya Schack-Arnott (cello), Beth Condon (viola), James Tarbotton (violin), Aida Manouchehr Pour (soprano), Sohrab Kolahdooz (percussion), Hamed Sadeghi (tar).

𝗧𝗔𝗕𝗔𝗧𝗔 𝗠𝗜𝗧𝗦𝗨𝗥𝗨 (Boredoms / Zeni Geva / Acid Mothers Temple) and 𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗜 𝗞𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗚𝗨𝗖𝗛𝗜 (New Rock Syndicate / Keiji Haino) come together with 𝗣𝗔𝗨𝗟 𝗞𝗜𝗗𝗡𝗘𝗬 and DON DRUM to form PAUL KIDNEY JAPANESE EXPERIENCE.
This psychedelic quartet has wowed Japanese audiences twice with tours in 2024 and earlier in 2025 and tours Australia for the very first time this October.

Claudia Döffinger, German pianist, composer and conductor, makes her Australian debut at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the culmination of Döffinger’s creative residency at the Con. Sharing the stage are: the Sydney Conservatorium Jazz Orchestra and Mary Lou and Beyond, an all-female and gender-diverse student ensemble featuring.

The program pays homage to the legacy of women in jazz composition, from Mary Lou Williams to Toshiko Akiyoshi, Nadje Noordhuis, Miho Hazama and new works by student composer Chiara Minotto.

Pharos (The Sydney Women’s Jazz Collective) 
Loretta Palmeiro | Alto/Sop/Clarinet/piano; Mariela Mulder | Tenor; Kali Gillan | Baritone; Ellen Kirkwood | Trumpet; Louise Horwood | trumpet; Alex Silver | Trombone; Hilary Geddes | guitar; Hannah James | Double Bass; Bonnie Stewart | Drums

Tymbal Echoes
Hinano Fujisaki | Saxophones; Simon Barker | Drums

Jenna Cave Sextet: Jenna Cave (composer & vocals), Yutaro Okuda (guitar), Tom Avgenicos (trumpet/flugelhorn), Loretta Palmeiro (saxophones, clarinet), Hannah James (double bass), Alex Inman-Hislop (drums)

JAG: Gabriella Hill - saxophone, Jacques Emery - double bass, Alex Tucker - drums

Convergence is the title of Hamed Sadeghi’s new composition. The concert series aims to convey a deconstructed yet detailed performance of the composition’s roots and components in three acts.

Convergence 2: Persian Traditional
Hamed Sadeghi (tar), Ramin Etemadzadeh (vocals), Sina Bastami (kamancheh), and Amir Salar Makhzani (percussion).

Elysian Fields - musical dialogue between past and contemporary musical realms, shifting between improvised and notated modalities.
Susie Bishop | voice/violin; Loretta Palmeiro | saxophones; Matt McMahon | piano; Jenny Eriksson | electric viola da gamba; Jacques Emery | double bass; Rease Cameron | drums

Austral Baroque - Music by Jenny Eriksson, Alice Chance, Louis Andriessen, arrangements by Lousie Johnson, and more!
Louise Johnson | Harp; Jenny Eriksson | electric viola da gamba

Liv Andrea Hauge Trio
Liv Andrea Hauge | Keys
Chloe Kim | Drums
Jacques Emery | Bass

Niki Johnson & Hilary Geddes
Niki Johnson | Percussion
Hilary Geddes | Guitar

Convergence is the title of Hamed Sadeghi’s new composition. The concert series aims to convey a deconstructed yet detailed performance of the composition’s roots and components in three acts.

Convergence 3: Improvisation Duo
Mike Nock (piano) and Hamed Sadeghi (tar).

BELIEVE connects the spectrum of contemporary creative sound making with the fluid, anything is possible momentum of free jazz. For the past three years this Sydney-based quartet has committed to a musical process of learning, exploring, experimenting and growing in public.

Peter Farrar - saxophones, percussion
Novak Manojlovic - piano, percussion
Clayton Thomas - double bass, percussion
Laurence Pike - drums, percussion

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

"Unbound" defies artistic boundaries, presenting a night of profound personal expression. Witness Ria Andriani's soul-stirring vocals performing Molly Joyce's compositions, followed by Melanie Eden's experimental fusion of vocals and accordion, where spiritual depth meets powerful social advocacy. Sonnet Curé, drawing from their "Headliners" experience, unveils a new experimental work, channeling their lived experience of deafness. Together, these artists offer an evening of transformative art, pushing beyond expectations.

Chloe dedicates the final year of her 20s to a deeply personal and creative journey. Throughout 2025, she will focus each month on learning, growing, and creating, sharing her process through monthly performances.

These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com

The Cloud Maker
Te Kahureremoa | Taronga Puoro/Voice
Aviva Endean | Clarinet/Winds/Electronics
Sunny Kim | Voice/Electronics/Percussion
Freya Schack-Arnott | Cello/Nyckelharpa
Maria Moles | Drums/Kalimba/SPD

Panghalina
Helen Svoboda | double bass, vocals
Bonnie Stewart | drum kit, vocals
Maria Moles | drum kit, synthesizer

Keyna Wilkins - piano/flute, compositions
Jodie Michael - drumset
Elsen Price - double bass
Will Gilbert - trumpet

Merging the sound worlds of jazz and contemporary classical and set to real space sounds and projections.

Carla Thackrah - flute; Virginia Comerford - viola; Alice Giles - harp

CLAUDE DEBUSSY Sonata for flute, viola and harp (1915)
NICHOLAS ROUTLEY Sonata for flute, viola and harp (2024)
ROMANO CRIVICI Arafura Haze (2025)

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Jessica O'Donoghue and Jack Symonds's undead is a celebration of Australian musical and literary talent, offering a cross-section of Australia’s contemporary operatic landscape.

MARY FINSTERER Your Dusk is Near from Biographica (2017)
JACK SYMONDS The Flood from Gilgamesh (2024)
ANDRÉE GREENWELL Speak Our Names from Three Marys (2023)
MARY FINSTERER Eternal City from Antarctica (2022)
JESSICA O'DONOGHUE The Witness from Running Man (2022)
HUW BELLING The Canon & Katharsis from Fumeblind Oracle (2021)
PEGGY POLIAS Dawn from Commute (2020)
PAUL STANHOPE Hanging Rock from Picnic at Hanging Rock (2023)
THOMAS ADÈS Life Story (1993)

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Sulla Lingua is an Australian-Italian electroacoustic noise rock trio, featuring Anthony Pateras (tētēma/PIVIXKI) on electronics, Stefano Pilia (Zu, Rokia Traoré, Massimo Volume) on guitar and Riccardo La Foresta on drums and his own creation, the Drummophone.

Anthony Pateras is a composer, pianist and electronic musician. He works across many contexts including modern classical, acousmatic diffusion, film soundtrack, free improvisation, experimental rock, and various mutations of electronica. 

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Atunement is a live sound collaboration between Panos Couros and Mx Robert Frost, Blending field recordings, ambient textures, musique concrète with analogue and digital synthesis.

Supported by Shooshy. Electronic musician: Using synths, made instruments, mashed loops and processed vocals, inspired by airports, train depots and the natural world.

ELENA KATS-CHERNIN (ARR. J. AGOSTINO) Dance of the Paper Umbrellas
RICHARD CHARLTON Port Jackson Suite*                                  
VINCENT LINDSEY-CLARK Magnetar (From Celestial Suite)
P. BELLINATI Baiao de Gude
GUSTI NGURA ADI PUTRA (ARR. T. DRACOULIS) Melasti
JALAL AHMED Dream Walking* (Premiere)
MANUEL DIEWALD Celestial* (Premiere)
JULIA VLAHOGIANNIS Notion* 
LUIGI BOCCHERINI (ARR. J. SPARKS) Introduction and Fandango     

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

FORMA ENSEMBLE is an Australian percussion collective creating, performing, and collaborating on new and experimental music. Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, Joshua Hill, Niki Johnson, Gabriel Fischer, Caleb Colledge, Shu-hsuan Wang.

Michael Gordon’s Timber is a meditative, hour-long work scored for six wooden planks.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Lee Dionne - piano

UNSUK CHIN Etude No. 1 ‘In C’ (1999/2003) 
GYÖRGY LIGETI Etude No. 6 Autumn in Warsaw (1985)
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Scherzo No. 4 in E Major (1842)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Partita No. 6 in E Minor (1730)

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

**To be postponed until early 2026 due to Chloe’s absence**

Chloe dedicates the final year of her 20s to a deeply personal and creative journey. Throughout 2025, she will focus each month on learning, growing, and creating, sharing her process through monthly performances.

These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com

Composer Samantha Wolf and pianist Alex Raineri present a performance for piano and live electronics, featuring new, existing, and revised works from their 15-year collaborative history.
Samantha Wolf blends the classical, contemporary, acoustic, and electroacoustic worlds, while being grounded in the notated tradition.
Alex Raineri is active throughout Australia and Internationally as a piano recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician, harpsichordist, composer, writer, producer, and educator.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

Melodic Fictions is a contemporary choral, improvised layered work by vocalist Merinda Dias-Jayasinha. For this performance, Melodic Fictions is crafted live by Merinda in collaboration with vocalists Hannah Cameron, Imogen Cygler, Hannah McKittrick, and Ebony Tait.
Luke M de Zilva, as LMDZ, presents live mixes of mostly Australian musicians, collating, sampling and abstracting their work to create a series of new ‘collaborations’.

Tickets: Free, by ballot only

**To be postponed until early 2026 due to Chloe’s absence**

Chloe dedicates the final year of her 20s to a deeply personal and creative journey. Throughout 2025, she will focus each month on learning, growing, and creating, sharing her process through monthly performances.

These performances are RSVP only. To reserve your spot and receive event details, please email chloekim12months@gmail.com