Welcome to a new world. Welcome home.
In 2025 Musica Viva Australia celebrates 80 years of taking music across the length and breadth of Australia with a year of tradition, collaboration and innovation.
It's a long way from 1945 Sydney, where two Central European refugees, Richard Goldner and Walter Dullo, put together an ensemble of displaced musicians to perform Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge by the light of car headlamps. There were no thoughts of international soloists; no music education or emerging artists initiatives: just a group of musicians sharing their profound love for an artform which shaped their lives. Eighty years on much has changed, but Goldner and Dullo’s original dream to build a community around their love of music still resonates.
We invite you to be part of it in 2025: to experience the fascination of The Cage Project; welcome back Berlin-based Signum Saxophone Quartet performing with Ali McGregor; to hear Norwegian violinist Johan Dalene’s Australian debut alongside much-loved pianist Jennifer Marten-Smith; explore Mozart and Beethoven’s spirit of invention with Nicola Boud, Erin Helyard, and Simon Cobcroft; revel in the undimmed brilliance of the Takács Quartet; delight in the great piano trio repertoire as Trio Isimsiz visit Australia for the first time; and to hear the intelligence, lucidity and joy of iconoclastic pianist Piotr Anderszewski performing Bach, Schubert and Schumann.
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