Past Concerts
Shostakovich 5
Saturday 22 March 2025, 7.30pm
James Tatoulis Auditorium - MLC - Kew
Zelman Symphony’s 2025 season opens with a program full of emotion and drama.
Program
Smyth, E – The Wreckers: Overture
Beethoven – Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor Op. 37
Shostakovich – Symphony no. 5 in D minor Op. 47
A Future Star
Saturday 7 December 2024, 7.30pm
Camberwell Grammar School - Performing Arts Centre
Zelman Symphony's final program in The Year of the Violin
Program
Kouvaras – Eidyllion for Orchestra World Premiere
Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 64 MWV O 14
Bach, JS – Sonata no. 3 for Solo Violin BWV 1005: Largo Encore
Prokofiev – Symphony no. 5 in B♭ Op. 100
Verdi's Requiem
Saturday 14 September 2024, 7.30pm
Melbourne Town Hall
Presented by Melbourne Bach Choir in collaboration with Zelman Symphony
Join us for this masterpiece, the most operatic of all requiems.
Program
Verdi – Messa da Requiem
Two Masterpieces
Sunday 16 June 2024, 2.00pm
Daylesford Town Hall
Saturday 22 June 2024, 7.30pm
James Tatoulis Auditorium - MLC - Kew
Zelman Symphony's second program in The Year of the Violin
Program
Elgar – Elegy for String Orchestra Op. 58
Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto in D Op. 35
Bach, JS – Partita for Violin no. 2 BWV 1004: Sarabande Encore
Beethoven – Symphony no. 3 in E♭ Op. 55 Eroica
Bruch Violin Concerto with Sophie Rowell
Saturday 23 March 2024, 7.30pm
James Tatoulis Auditorium - MLC - Kew
Zelman Symphony's first program in The Year of the Violin
Program
Beethoven – Leonore Overture no. 3 in C Op. 72b
Bruch – Violin Concerto no. 1 in G minor Op. 26
Schumann – Symphony no. 3 in E flat Op. 97 Rhenish
Double Concertos
Saturday 25 November 2023, 7.30pm
James Tatoulis Auditorium - MLC - Kew
The lyricism of clarinet and viola culminate in the richness of Sibelius
Program
Sdraulig – With These Wings for solo clarinet, solo viola and orchestra Première
Bruch – Concerto for Clarinet, Viola, and Orchestra in E minor Op. 88
Sibelius – Symphony no. 2 in D Op. 43
Mahler Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"
Sunday 10 September 2023, 2.30pm
Melbourne Town Hall
Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra - 90th Birthday Concert
Program
Mahler – Symphony no. 2 in C minor Resurrection
Horns a Plenty
Saturday 17 June 2023, 7.30pm
James Tatoulis Auditorium - MLC - Kew
7:10 pm pre-concert talk by Dr Jillian Graham, author of "Inner Song: A Biography of Margaret Sutherland".
Program
Beethoven – Fidelio in E Op. 72: Overture
Sutherland – Haunted Hills
Lyon – Opal: Double Concerto for Horns and Orchestra
Brahms – Symphony no. 1 in C minor Op. 68
Stradivarius in Vienna with Alexandre Da Costa
Saturday 25 March 2023, 7.30pm
Elisabeth Murdoch Hall - Melbourne Recital Centre
Sunday 26 March 2023, 2.00pm
Daylesford Town Hall
Canadian superstar violinist, Alexandre Da Costa and his 1701 Stradivarius join Zelman Symphony to celebrate the magic of Vienna
Program
Strauss, J Jnr – Die Fledermaus: Overture
Strauss, J Jnr – Emperor Waltz Op. 437 Kaiser-Waltz
Kreisler – Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta
Korngold – Straussiana Waltz 1953
Stafylakis – Valse Kinetic
Kreisler – Schön Rosmarin, Liebesleid & Liebesfreud Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen
Strauss, J Jnr – The Beautiful Blue Danube Op. 314 An der schönen blauen Donau
Strauss, J Jnr – Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka Op. 214
Strauss, J Snr – Radetzky March Op. 228
Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven
Saturday 3 December 2022, 7.30pm
James Tatoulis Auditorium - MLC - Kew
You will know every tune in Mozart's intimate and expressive Piano Concerto No 23, a Haydn Paris Symphony and Beethoven 5
Program
Haydn – Symphony no. 84 in E♭ Hob.I/84
Mozart – Piano Concerto no. 23 in A K. 488
Beethoven – Symphony no. 5 in C minor Op. 67
Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky - Guest Conductor: Roy Theaker
Saturday 3 September 2022, 7.30pm
James Tatoulis Auditorium - MLC - Kew
Enjoy the rarely-played but fantastic Beethoven Triple Concerto and two other great works
Artists
Roy Theaker – conductor
Trio Anima Mundi – piano trio
Kenji Fujimura – piano
Rochelle Ughetti – violin
Miranda Brockman – cello - guest
Program
Mozart – Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute): Overture
Beethoven – Triple Concerto in C for Violin, Cello and Piano Op 56
Tchaikovsky – Symphony no. 6 in B minor Op. 74 Pathétique
Saint-Saëns and Dvořák - Guest Conductor: Roy Theaker
Saturday 18 June 2022, 7.30pm
James Tatoulis Auditorium - MLC - Kew
Sunday 19 June 2022, 2.00pm
Daylesford Town Hall
Copresented with U3A Hepburn Shire in Daylesford
Enjoy a program of well-loved French and Czech music
Program
Saint-Saëns – Havanaise Op 83
Saint-Saëns – Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso Op 28
Saint-Saëns – Cello Concerto no. 1 in A minor Op 33
Dvořák – Symphony no. 7 in D minor Op. 70
Mozart, Shostakovich and Sibelius
Saturday 26 March 2022, 7.30pm
James Tatoulis Auditorium - MLC - Kew
2 Piano concerti in one concert including the one played in Amadeus, the film about Mozart's life, plus a stirring Symphony.
Program
Mozart – Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor K. 466
Shostakovich – Piano Concerto no. 2 in F major Op. 102
Sibelius – Symphony no. 5 in E♭ Op. 82
Romantic Passions - Beethoven and Brahms
Saturday 3 July 2021, 7.30pm
Hawthorn Arts Centre
Sunday 4 July 2021, 2.00pm
Daylesford Town Hall
They replace Roy Theaker and Kalina Krusteva who deeply regret not being able to play in the rescheduled concert.
Artists
Rick Prakhoff – conductor
Markiyan Melnychenko – violin
Noella Yan – cello
Susan Pierotti – concertmaster
Program
Beethoven – Egmont: Overture
Brahms – Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor Op. 102 Double
Beethoven – Symphony no. 8 in F Op. 93
No Friend but the Mountains: A Symphonic Song Cycle
Sunday 21 March 2021, 5.00pm
Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Presented by Zelman Symphony, Arts Centre Melbourne and The Wheeler Centre
World Premiere
Artists
Rick Prakhoff – conductor
Adrian Tamburini – bass-baritone
Wilma Smith – guest concertmaster
Susan Pierotti – concertmaster
Creative Team
Luke Styles – composer
Behrouz Boochani – librettist
Omid Tofighian – translator and collaborator
Program
Boochani – Video Interview with Rafael Epstein
Styles, L – No Friend But the Mountains: A Symphonic Song Cycle Première
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