Instrumental Fanfare is the biennial statewide festival of bands and orchestras from Queensland state schools. It showcases the exciting music-making that occurs in school-based ensembles across the state. Fanfare focusses on improving the quality of ensembles, promoting the highest possible standard of performance, striving for excellence and encouraging participation.
Fanfare was initiated in 1985 to foster the development and highlight the achievements of school-based ensembles in the Instrumental Music program. Since then, over 220,000 instrumental music students from across Queensland have participated in the program.
See this heartwarming tale of friendship performed by the Brisbane City Youth Ballet at the Conservatorium Theatre.
Karin Schaupp premieres Gerard Brophy’s Guitar Concerto.
Step back in time and bask in the magnificence of Vivaldi’s Venice.
Singer songwriter Jess Hitchcock with the award-winning Penny Quartet present a feast of creativity at Queensland Conservatorium.
Join experts from Griffith University’s Green Infrastructure Research Labs (GIRLS) on a walking tour around South Bank.
The pinnacle of refinement: dine in three delights of the classical era.
Historical clarinettist Nicola Boud, early keyboardist Erin Helyard, and cellist Simon Cobcroft explore the spirit of invention in chamber works by Mozart and Beethoven.
In its first Australian tour, Trio Isimsiz performs two giants of the piano trio repertoire from Schubert and Brahms alongside a striking new work from Francisco Coll.