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UNSW Music Performance The Music Performance Unit is proud to host and support all music-based productions and ensembles at UNSW. CRICOS Provider no. 00098G

The Music Performance Unit of the University of New South Wales is a small team responsible for the production of high quality classical music concerts on campus. A core of UNSW's cultural life, the Music Performance Unit manages several primary activities, including.

- Australia Ensemble , Australia's leading chamber music ensemble that presents an annual subscription season and free concert and workshop series.
- Collegium Musicum Choir, an 80-100 voice choir comprising mostly undergraduates but also staff and members of the general community. It presents an annual program of three concerts.
- Burgundian Consort, a chamber choir of 12-18 voices of high quality young singers. It presents an annual evening recital as well as appearing at concerts of the Collegium Musicum and other special events
- Large Instrumental Music Ensembles (LIME) comprising the UNSW Wind Symphony and UNSW Orchestra
- Young Artists Concerts and special events

Take a stroll through nature to refresh your mind and spirit!Join Corde for Blue in Blue , a recital full of colour and ...
28/09/2026

Take a stroll through nature to refresh your mind and spirit!

Join Corde for Blue in Blue , a recital full of colour and joyful wonder. The simple elegance of Sheena Phillips' Circle of Life on First Nations American texts through to the energy and drive of Philip Eames' picture of Australian drought, this program offers joy, reflection, and above all, hope.

Corde

Corde Consort

Choral Director: Sonia Maddock

Program includes

Sheena PHILLIPS Circle of Life

Philip EAMES This Great Unrain (winner of the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize 2020)

with works from across the centuries

Please note that this concert is without interval.

Corde's recital will take place on Thursday October 1, at 7pm in Sir John Clancy Auditorium.

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Take a stroll through nature to refresh your mind and spirit!

Applications for the 2027 Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship are now open! The winner will receive $10,000 to write one...
29/07/2026

Applications for the 2027 Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship are now open!

The winner will receive $10,000 to write one 8-10 minute chamber work for the Australia Ensemble UNSW across the course of a 12-month period, through a competitive selection process determined by UNSW.

Previous winners of the Prize include Felix Wallis, Natalie Nicolas, Alex Turley, Angus Davison, Nicole Murphy, Harry Sdraulig, Ian Whitney and Elizabeth Younan, who have spring-boarded from the program into Australia's largest concert halls and around the world.

Applications open on 29 July 2026, 12pm AEST and close 9 September 2026 5.00pm AEST. The winner will be announced on 7 November 2026, at the Australia Ensemble UNSW concert, and online by 9 November 2026, 12pm AEST.
For more information on how to apply, visit our website:
https://www.music.unsw.edu.au/opportunities/layton-emerging-composer-fellowship

Join UNSW’s Collegium Musicum Choir as they perform Messiah, Handel’s best-known oratorio. Messiah is an exemplary work ...
10/07/2026

Join UNSW’s Collegium Musicum Choir as they perform Messiah, Handel’s best-known oratorio. Messiah is an exemplary work of storytelling through music. Handel breathes melodic life into great human expressions of happiness, anguish, beauty, drama, and exultation. To hear this work is to feel the breadth of the human emotional experience. Accompanied by orchestra led by Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s violinist Fiona Ziegler, this is one concert you will not want to miss!

🗓️ Date and time: Friday 7 August 2026, 7pm
📍 Location: Sir John Clancy Auditorium
🎟️ Book here: https://www.music.unsw.edu.au/event/collegium-musicum-choir-concert-messiah

The UNSW Wind Symphony invites you to revel in music inspired by dances around the world. Folk Dances is a colourful exp...
07/07/2026

The UNSW Wind Symphony invites you to revel in music inspired by dances around the world. Folk Dances is a colourful exploration of themes of community and connection. Enjoy music inspired by folk songs of Armenia, to an Aussie march through Victoria.

🗓️ Date and time: Tuesday 4 August 2026, 7pm
📍 Location: Sir John Clancy Auditorium
🎟️ Book here: https://www.music.unsw.edu.au/event/unsw-wind-symphony-concert-folk-dances

Join the UNSW Orchestra for an uplifting program brimming with lyricism and enchanting melodies. Expect to be captivated...
03/07/2026

Join the UNSW Orchestra for an uplifting program brimming with lyricism and enchanting melodies. Expect to be captivated by Dvořák’s joyful and melodic Symphony no. 8, which has been described exploring the ‘euphoria of being alive’. Combined with the Spanish inspired lyricism of Lalo’s Cello Concerto and the moving serene-like hymn of Finlandia, you will be swept away in the ebb and flow of these melodic masterpieces.

🗓️ Date and time: Friday 31 July 2026, 7pm
📍 Location: Sir John Clancy Auditorium
🎟️ Book here: https://www.music.unsw.edu.au/event/unsw-orchestra-concert-overflow

Congratulations to Hugo Ceran-Jerusalemy who has won the inaugural Juvenis Corde Prize for choral composition, with his ...
28/05/2026

Congratulations to Hugo Ceran-Jerusalemy who has won the inaugural Juvenis Corde Prize for choral composition, with his work The Turtle and the Moon.

Written for SATB voices on a theme of nature, the work stood out for its imaginative response to the brief, drawing on inspiration from David Attenborough’s Planet Earth. Using compact rhythmic and melodic ideas, the composer creates a fluid, evolving texture and a clear, satisfying musical arc. The panel commended the work’s originality, strong structural sense, and effective vocal writing.

The Turtle and the Moon will be performed by Corde in October 2026, details to come.

Find out more: https://www.music.unsw.edu.au/news/juvenis-corde-prize-winner-2026

Meet Corde Consort 2026! Corde Consort is a four voice Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass ensemble, who are hand picked to ch...
21/05/2026

Meet Corde Consort 2026!

Corde Consort is a four voice Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass ensemble, who are hand picked to challenge themselves with complex repertoire and receive online coaching sessions with Academy Director in Residence Timothy Wayne-Wright.

Find out more about the singers here: https://www.music.unsw.edu.au/news/meet-corde-consort-2026

Every year, UNSW Orchestra offers UNSW students the opportunity to audition to perform a Concerto with the ensemble. In ...
19/05/2026

Every year, UNSW Orchestra offers UNSW students the opportunity to audition to perform a Concerto with the ensemble.

In 2026 two talented students have been selected, Owen Jiang and Juliette Roumanoff.

Learn more about the winners here: https://www.music.unsw.edu.au/news/meet-2026-concerto-winners

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