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 welcome back Berlin-based Signum Saxophone Quartet performing with Ali McGregor; and revel in the undimmed brilliance of the Takács Quartet.
Musica Viva Australia Season 2024
Musica Viva Australia Season 2025
Musica Viva Australia Jess Hitchcock & Penny Quartet
Singer songwriter Jess Hitchcock with the award-winning Penny Quartet present a feast of creativity at Queensland Conservatorium.
Musica Viva Australia The Hollywood Songbook
Berlin-based Signum Saxophone Quartet and renegade opera star, Ali McGregor, reclaim the Hollywood Songbook in a journey from moody monochrome to vibrant technicolour.
Musica Viva Australia Mozart’s Clarinet
Historical clarinettist Nicola Boud, early keyboardist Erin Helyard, and cellist Simon Cobcroft explore the spirit of invention in chamber works by Mozart and Beethoven.
Musica Viva Australia Takács Quartet with Angie Milliken
The undimmed brilliance of the Takács Quartet shines through masterpieces by Beethoven and Haydn framing a new commission from Australian composer Kathy Milliken.
Musica Viva Australia Trio Isimsiz
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.
Musica Viva Australia Piotr Anderszewski
Iconoclastic pianist Piotr Anderszewski brings his intelligence, lucidity and joy to piano repertoire from Bach, Schubert and Schumann.