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Hamish Gould (Countertenor)
'Have a look at Hamish’s YouTube channel, For the Love of Song. For the Love of Song makes videos of inspiring original songs composed by Kate Lawson Gould, as well as poems and Mellow Moments.
The Blind Creek Ensemble
In the first concert of their intimate 2025 Gallery Series, the Blind Creek Ensemble presents Origins, an exciting program of influential works for the flute quartet.
Performances:
Saturday 12th April 2.00pm @ The Hut Gallery, Ferntree Gully
Sunday 13th April 2.00pm @ Sherbrooke Gallery, Belgrave
Featured works include:
· Mozart – Flute Quartet in D Major
· Berthomieu – Arcadie
· Bakrnchev – Water
· Schocker – Coffee Nerves … and MORE!
Tickets: $30 adult/$20 concession/Under 12 free. Concession pricing for all Music Matinee members.
About the ensemble:
Founded in 2024, The Blind Creek Ensemble is a collective of musicians in Victoria’s south-east. The group is named after the Blind Creek, which runs through the City of Knox, and was formed by Kelsy De Prada who recognised the need for more local chamber music performances by local musicians. https://www.kelsydeprada.com.au/theblindcreekensemble
The featured artists in this concert series are:
· Kelsy De Prada (Artistic Director) https://www.kelsydeprada.com.au/
· Emily Kimpton
· Xiwen (Maggie) Mai
Terence Teow
Issy Hart and friends
Ballarat Mining Exchange.
Details: https://events.humanitix.com/ballarat-cabaret-festival-gala
Operatic Cabaret Sweetheart Issie Hart is an internationally established cabaret artist with Ballarat roots.
Issie Hart is an award-winning soprano and creator of theatrical and operatic cabaret works that have toured extensively across Australia and internationally. Hart’s work has been described as ‘The Rarest of things... Theatre that mattered’ Arts Hub
Hart runs a successful studio as a singing teacher, director, dramaturg and creative mentor and works with artists of diverse backgrounds, experience levels and abilities.
Hart is passionate about Cabaret and passionate about Ballarat.
Changing Wilds Ensemble
August 1, 2025
Melbourne Recital Centre - Primrose Potter Salon
A cross-disciplinary, cross-genre blend of introspective music.
Spanning the realms of Australian and Icelandic composition, Our Duty to Care is the third instalment in Robert McIntyre’s climate-change concert curations, following acclaimed performances in recent years.
In this Melbourne Recital Centre exclusive, the 2025 instalment covering themes relating to climate change, empathy, loss, hope, and more, Our Duty to Care features the music of renowned Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds alongside Australians Robert McIntyre, Laura Abraham, Anne Cawrse, and Melbourne Recital Centre’s 2024 Artist in Residence Nat Bartsch.
Featuring project ensemble Changing Wilds Ensemble, led by artistic director and composer Robert McIntyre, this curated performance in the Primrose Potter Salon blends wide-ranging genres to convey powerful messages. Centered around Robert McIntyre’s Our Duty to Care, with text by Savanna Wegman, this cross-disciplinary work for soprano voice and piano trio is based on Sharma v Minister for the Environment [2021] FCA 560. This groundbreaking environmental law case, which proved climate change to be legally real in the courts, has been the catalyst for further climate change litigation globally and even legislative action locally.
https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/whats-on/current-productions/our-duty-to-care