CONCERT HALL, QPAC

New York-based Shen Yun returns to the Brisbane as part of its global tour with an all-new show. 

Art carries the very essence of a civilisation, and can bring the brilliance and wisdom of a lost culture back to life. Shen Yun’s unique ...

All-new 2017 show with live orchestra Imagine a performance so profound, so inspiring, it touches your soul. Let Shen Yun take you on an extraordinary ...

Handel's timeless emotive masterpiece with its blazing Hallelujah chorus is integral to the festive season across Australia. As well as celebrating Christ, the libretto surveys ...

Begin the festive season with the most celebrated music of the Baroque, Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. To perform this extroverted, colourful music, the Australian Chamber Orchestra ...

Ray Chen captivates audiences with his youthful, charismatic and authoritative performances and his fondness for sharing a joke with the audience. Chen's formidable technique and ...

Joe Chindamo is an astonishing jazz player with a formidable classical technique. Mozart's sublime Piano Concerto No.27 with Chindamo powering the keys is bound to ...

Last Night of the Proms is based on the final concert of London's BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall. These days, the Prom concerts ...

Composers like conjuring birds and beasts in their music. Be amazed by the depictions of fish, wolves, bees and revealing spider suppers, aquariums and balletdancing ...

The Academy of Ancient Music is one of the world's great period-instrument bands. To celebrate 40 years of performances that have touched hearts and inspired ...

470 musicians aged 9 to 25 perform in 7 orchestras and ensembles: three symphony orchestras, two wind orchestras, a string orchestra and a big band. ...

Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is a beguiling exploration of all of the orchestra's instruments through a set of variations on a catchy theme ...

The Fourth is Brahms' final powerful symphonic statement. Here, Brahms takes flight, as he melds the soaring sounds of Romanticism to classical structure in a ...

The Southern Cross Soloists finish their season on a high note with the brilliance and refined musicality of cellist Li-Wei Qin. An exclusive Universal Music ...

Italy; a land of good food, fine wine and great music, birthplace of orchestral music and opera, this is a country which deserves to be ...

Lola Astanova's emotionally charged and theatrical style harks back to phenomenal nineteenth century recitalists like Franz Liszt and Clara Schumann. Yet, Astanova also exploits contemporary ...

Lola Astanova's emotionally charged and theatrical style harks back to phenomenal nineteenth century recitalists like Franz Liszt and Clara Schumann. Yet, Astanova also exploits contemporary ...

Enjoy a selection of glittering orchestral jewels conducted by Marco Zuccarini renowned for his brilliant shaping, ensemble precision and responsive direction of soloists. One of ...

You may not recognise Nigel Westlake's name but it could be you've hummed tunes from the award-winning soundtrack of Babe or the title song from ...

Spanish pianist Javier Perianes is a rising international star and adored in his homeland. Hear how his startling imagination and vibrant drive breathes life and ...

Young Queenslander Jayson Gillham is making waves on the international music scene. In winning the UK's Commonwealth Musician of the Year Gold Medal at the ...

Frank Sinatra is still one of the music industry's most famous contributors and Tom Burlinson is renowned for his tribute show to the great man. ...

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth, QYS performs his extraordinary War Requiem. The text below is adapted from information from the Britten-Pears ...

Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto is so embedded in our culture, it's surprising the composer experienced such a crisis of confidence when composing it. Lush, teeming ...

Suk admired the music of Dvo?ák, his father-in-law, and this richly orchestrated, feel-good Scherzo is a charming fantasy with shimmering harmonies in the vein of ...

A free spirit who approaches music with an unquenchable sense of fun and discovery, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja is a joy to play with and watch. ...

Bernstein's toe-tapping West Side Story sets the tone for the heady flavours of James Morrison's trumpet, the clarinet of Julian Bliss and Marian Petrescu's piano ...

Southern Cross Soloists take a spin in a new direction with the addition of rhythm and dance to their traditional chamber repertoire. Movement and percussion ...

ACO2, the Australian Chamber Orchestra's precocious little sister, brings together Australia's finest young string players and ACO musicians, creating a combined ensemble with a fresh, ...

Listening to the Argentinian firebrand Sergio Tiempo perform not one but two Ravel piano concertos is a not to be missed opportunity. Experience Tiempo's edge-of ...

Sensational pianist and YouTube phenomenon Valentina Lisitsa is set to make her Australian debut. With her multi-faceted and expressive playing described as 'dazzling', Ukrainian-born Valentina ...

Queensland Youth Symphony (QYO) perform a romanic concert inspired by true love and sumptuious melodies. Opening the concert is the premiere of a new work, ...

"... one of the best in the world in this genre" Il Tempo "Performances of astonishing precision and refinement... [Moscow Soloists] held the audience transfixed" ...

Be swept away by a selection of classical pieces pressed into the service of the magnificent world of film. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D ...

This special event takes audiences on an incredible journey through the life and career of one of the world’s most popular icons. From her London ...

Confessional, disciplined and wild, Shostakovich's first Cello Concerto was written for his friend Mstislav Rostropovich. Pieter Wispelwey, the garlanded Dutch poet of the cello takes ...

Anh Do's bestselling book The Happiest Refugee has made readers laugh and cry, and was described by Russell Crowe as "the most surprising and inspiring ...

Barry Humphries selects, presents and performs music from the Weimar Republic, a time between the World Wars where German art and music leaked into the ...

With a wonderful selection of music by the world's most celebrated composers including Tchaikovsky, Puccini, Mozart, and Johann Strauss, Novaya Opera will take you on ...

Full of contrasts, the old and the new, the serious and funny, frenetic and calm this program puts the spotlight on opposites; the melodic in ...

In the early part of the last century, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II collaborated for the first time on a ground-breaking new "book musical" ...

This concert is always a fantastic celebration of the music and composers of Great Britain like Elgar, Holst and Lloyd – Webber. This year the ...

Cirque de la Symphonie pairs the magic and excitement of circus with the vibrancy and enchantment of orchestra. Some of the most amazing international circus ...