I’m better at playing music than keeping my website up to date, but here are some things I’m playing for in 2025. Hope to see you at a concert or two!
Peninsula Summer Music Festival – Gryphon Baryton Trio
4pm & 6.30pm Tuesday 7 January
Main Ridge Estate
Wine and food will be available for purchase in the Winery Courtyard from 3pm, and between performances.
Visit the beautiful Mornington Peninsula to hear some of the fascinating chamber works by Joseph Haydn for baryton, performed with their intended instrumentation. The magnificent baryton, an instrument similar to a bass viol but with an extra course of metal sympathetic strings, was an instrument much favoured by Haydn’s employer, Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy. Haydn composed over 130 works for it, the majority of which taking the form of Divertimenti for baryton, viola and ‘cello-the so-called ‘Baryton Trios’ in which the baryton plays a critical role. These delightful works are full of invention and colour, with the unique combination of low instruments creating unique and beautiful sonority.
Gryphon Baryton Trio TICKETS
Peninsula Summer Music Festival – Latitude 37
6pm Friday 10 January
St John’s Anglican Church, Flinders
Baroque music by candlelight in beautiful Flinders on the Mornington Peninsula with my favourite trio, Latitude 37. We’ll be playing music by Couperin, Marais, Morel, Satie and Alice Chance.
Latitude 37 TICKETS
Ballarat Festival – A Delicate Miscellany
10am & 12 midday Saturday 11 January
Carngham Uniting Church, Snake Valley
I will be joined for this recital by my dear friend and colleague Donald Nicolson (harpsichord) in this programme which takes the listener through a full gamut of moods and characters. With 17th-century works from either side of the Channel by Hume, Byrd, Marais, Couperin, Dollé and Caix d’Hervelois, the programme includes a beautiful new work by Australian composer Alice Chance.
Delicate Miscellany TICKETS
Ballarat Festival – Duo Tenori
3pm Monday 13 January
Ballaarat Mechanic’s Institute
A very special opportunity to relish a top notch 17th century Italian programme with Daniel & Matthew Thompson (tenors) in a rare break from their busy careers in Europe. Gorgeous repertoire by Monteverdi and d’India
Duo tenori TICKETS
Genesis Baroque – Fête Champêtre
8pm Thursday 20 February
Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese St, Brunswick
he fête champêtre was a style of garden party adored by 18th Century French aristocracy and the popular at the Gardens of Versailles. Parties would incorporate feasts and music, with musicians performing in lavishly prepared pastoral settings and palace gardens to entertain and accompany dancing.
This program celebrates the fête champêtre with the musette, small French baroque bagpipes that were highly fashionable at the time, particularly in pastoral settings. Joined by baroque violin, viols, and baroque harp in a program of 17th and 18th Century French works, this is a joyous program to celebrate Summer!
Genesis Baroque TICKETS
Pinchgut Opera – Purcell’s Fairy Queen
7-14 June
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay, Sydney
Purcell’s The Fairy Queen is a curious and captivating opera, which originated as an adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Pinchgut’s brilliant reimagining explores love in all its guises and disguises across a city in twenty-four hours.
Pinchgut TICKETS