Australasian Orchestra: Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra
2020-03-01 14:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | James Tatoulis Auditorium, MLC, 207 Barkers Rd. Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, 3134, Australia
Join the Australasian Orchestra and conductor and artistic director Robert Dora for an afternoon of exciting orchestral works and musical delights. This concert’s dynamic and varied program will feature Béla Bartók’s brilliant and best-known work, Concerto for Orchestra, together with the powerful Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich, the charming Chopiniana Suite of Aleksandr Glazunov and the picturesque Poucette by sought after Melbourne composer, Hugh Crosthwaite. A must for classical music lovers!
Enquiries – 0499 241234
Email: australasianorchestra@gmail.com

TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY 5 - Australasian Orchestra
2019-07-28 14:00 - 16:00 | James Tatoulis Auditorium, MLC, 207 Barkers Rd. Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, 3134, Australia
Following its highly acclaimed Shostakovich 11 Symphony concert in February this year, the Australasian Orchestra will again present a dynamic and rich program of amazing music and a display of wonderful musical talent in its July concert under the baton of Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Robert Dora.
Featuring Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony, one of the composer’s most loved large-scale creations for musicians and audiences alike, the program will include Percy Grainger’s energetic and captivating Green Bushes (Passacaglia on an English Folk Song), the World Premiere of Chilean Australian composer Andre Pertout’s – I Cespuglia Verdi, (a specially composed homage to Percy Grainger), and Wagner’s Siegfrid’s Trauermarsch from Gotterdammerung. Join us for an uplifting afternoon of sheer musical delight!
Wagner – Siegfried’s Trauermarsch
Grainger – Green Bushes (Passacaglia on an English Folk Song)
Pertout – I Cespuglia Verdi (World Premiere)
Tchaikovsky– Symphony No. 5
Tickets: www.trybooking.com/BCQZR or at the door Email: australasianorchestra@gmail.com

SHOSTAKOVICH SYMPHONY 11
2019-02-24 14:00 - 16:00 | James Tatoulis Auditorium, 207 Barkers Rd. Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, 3134, Australia
Under its chief conductor, Robert Dora, Dmitri Shostakovich’s magnificent and powerful Symphony No.11 (‘The Year 1905’) will be the featured work for what promises to be one of Melbourne’s most exciting and spectacular symphonic concert events of 2019.
A phenomenal piece of ‘program music’, this symphony is one of the most inspired, dramatic and challenging works that Shostakovich composed. It portrays the events in Russia of the horrendous year of 1905 in which the protest march of workers, students and intellectuals in St. Petersburg Square was brutally crushed by Tsarist forces.
The orchestra will also perform two rarely performed works, the picturesque ‘Colonial Song’ by Percy Grainger and the delightfully fascinating, ‘Above Ground’ Concerto for Percussion & Orchestra by Australian composer Robert Davidson. The percussion soloist will be the superbly skilled and widely admired Melbourne percussionist Brent Miller.
Tickets: Adults $30, Concession $25, Under 18 Yrs. $20. Group bookings available online.
Book Online: www.trybooking.com/WYDB or tickets at the door.
Phone: 0455 175 245 or 0499 241 234

Symphonic Rapture
2017-02-12 14:00 - 15:45 | MLC James Tatoulis Auditorium, 207 Barkers Road, Kew , Victoria, 3101, Australia
Join the Australasian Orchestra under the baton of its chief conductor Robert Dora for a superb performance of Rachmaninov’s iconic Symphony No. 2 together with well known Australian composer Julian Yu’s beautifully orchestrated 6 Chinese Folk Songs and the World Premiere of Sydney composer David Scheel’s, A Hymn for Planet Earth.
Following previous enthusiastically received performances of major works from the classical repertoire as well as new compositions from Australian and overseas composers, this concert is the first in the orchestra’s 2017 season. Tickets can be purchased online at www.trybooking.com/NYPC or at the door.
