Upcoming:
June
Fri
26
JUN
7.30pm
Nightingale Gallery presents the inaugural Queer Nights at Nightingale, a finely curated festival under the artistic direction of internationally acclaimed pianist Coady Green.
Technicolour curated by Cameron Lam
Curated by composer Cameron Lam, Technicolour explores American and Australian queer works of play, subculture, and vibrant colour.
The program showcases Lam’s work written for each of the featured performers: We Touch to Feel for pianist Coady Green, Heart of Life* for soprano Marjorie Hannah, and 8-bit Sonata #2: BIRB* for Dafydd Camp on cor anglais. These pieces are connected through cabaret songs by John Coons & Jonah Wheeler, the video game music of Josie Brechner, Hew Wagner, & Belinda Coomes, and the concert music of Nicole Murphy, Kincaid Rabb, and Alex Turley.
*world premiere
Sat
27
JUN
5.30pm
Multi award-winning pianist David Soo presents a recital of Liszt arrangements, Beethoven, and a much-anticipated World Premiere of Nicholas Jiang's Mazurka No.1.
Program:
Beethoven: 15 Variations and Fugue Opus 35 'Eroica'
Schubert arranged by Liszt: Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen S.562
Schubert arranged by Liszt: Der müller und der Bach, S565 No. 2
World Premiere, Nicholas Jiang (b. 2014): Mazurka No. 1
Gounod arranged by Liszt: Faust Waltz
Sun
28
JUN
4.00pm
Elton Sun Plays Chopin
Join inspiring young pianist, Elton Sun, in an evening of Chopin.
Elton is a year 10 student at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and is already a rising star. Among his numerous prizes and awards, he received the First Prize and Concerto Prize in the 2024 Young Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition in Brisbane and performed with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.
This year Elton is one of 28 pianists from around the world to have been invited to take part in the 1st Chopin Pleyel International Piano Competition to be held at the George Sand Estate in Nohant, France.
The repertoire requirements are considerable and consist only of the works of Chopin.
Elton will play Frédéric Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. 28.
Most of these wonderful preludes were written while Chopin shared his life with George Sand on her estate in Nohant, and on the island of Mallorca.
To hear the preludes is to experience in miniature many of the forms and characteristic features of Chopin’s larger works - nocturnes, sonata movements, études.
This recital invites audiences to experience the full expressive range of these remarkable works—by turns poetic, dramatic, and deeply personal.
July
Thu
2
JUL
6.00pm
Tashi Columbro: Ghosts exhibition opening
We are incredibly honoured to present Tashi Columbro's first solo exhibition with the gallery.
This exhibition traces the artist’s journey through grief and Greek-Australian identity, transforming her yiayia’s remembered stories of joy, migration, loss, and resilience into a poignant act of preservation and intergenerational remembrance.
Please join us for the opening event on 2 July from 6pm - 8pm.
Fri
10
JUL
7.00pm
Four Hands at Nightingale with Coady Green pairs internationally renowned pianist Coady Green with exceptional young artists in electrifying four-hand collaborations. Each concert explores a single composer or sound-world in depth, offering audiences a rare glimpse into shared artistry, mentorship in action, and the exhilarating intimacy of two musicians breathing and thinking as one.
7pm, Friday 10th July
Coady Green and Jack Brunialti-Sykes
SAT
18
JUL
2.00pm
Winter Group Show: Exhibition Opening
2pm – 4pm, Saturday 18 July
Join us for the opening of our Winter Group Show, featuring a curated selection of works by represented artists:
Jessica Eun Kyoung Choi
Mauro Llanas
Llael McDonald
Jessica Olpp
Jesse Thompson
Indiana Williams
Thurs
23
JUL
7.00pm
7pm, Thursday 23 July
An evening celebrating the rich and expressive world of chamber music for guitar and keyboard, Strings & Keys brings together four masterpieces of the 20th century in a program that moves from lyrical intimacy to rhythmic vitality and neoclassical brilliance.
Featuring acclaimed performers Nathan Sinclair (guitar) and Sangmi Kim (piano), this concert explores the unique dialogue between two instruments that rarely meet on equal footing, yet here blend seamlessly in colour, texture, and expression.
Sat
25
JUL
5.00pm
5pm, Saturday 25th July
Nightingale Performing Arts Australia is proud to present Steinway Artist and internationally acclaimed pianist and pedagogue Professor Jerry Wong (Head of Keyboard, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
Thu
30
JUL
7.00pm
7pm, Thursday 30th July
Nightingale Performing Arts Australia presents Myths and Dances, featuring Allie Xinyu Wang and Daniel Le. The beloved duo presents works by Debussy, Stravinsky and Ravel.
In Six épigraphes antiques, Debussy turns toward an imagined antiquity, shaping music of intimacy, stillness, and luminous color. Heard in its original piano four hands version, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring brings its rhythmic vitality and elemental energy into sharp focus. Ravel’s La Valse begins almost imperceptibly before gathering momentum into a glittering and increasingly unstable dance.
Distinct in character yet united by an extraordinary freedom of invention, these works capture three singular voices at a moment when the boundaries of musical expression were being redrawn.
Together, these works move between myth and movement, dream and ritual. Though each inhabits its own musical world, all three draw inspiration from the past while opening new possibilities for the future.
August
Fri
14
AUG
7.00pm
7pm, Friday 14th August
Join us for an intimate evening of exceptional chamber music at this beautiful art gallery, where music and visual art come together.
The program features three remarkable works spanning the Romantic tradition and beyond. The concert opens with Beethoven's Sonata for Piano and Cello No. 4, a work of elegance, wit, and profound lyricism that showcases the equal partnership between cello and piano. This is followed by the Mahler Piano Quartet, an extraordinary early composition that offers a fascinating glimpse into the emerging voice of one of music's greatest symphonists. The evening culminates with the Schumann Piano Quartet, a beloved chamber masterpiece celebrated for its warmth, expressive depth, and exuberant finale.
Set within the inspiring surroundings of a contemporary art gallery, this performance invites audiences to experience these timeless works in an intimate setting where every musical detail can be appreciated up close.
Experience an unforgettable journey through the rich emotional landscapes of Beethoven, Mahler, and Schumann in one of Melbourne's most distinctive cultural venues.
Fri
21
AUG
7.00pm
Four Hands at Nightingale with Coady Green: Coady Green and Oskar Folkes
Four Hands at Nightingale with Coady Green pairs internationally renowned pianist Coady Green with exceptional young artists in electrifying four-hand collaborations. Each concert explores a single composer or sound-world in depth, offering audiences a rare glimpse into shared artistry, mentorship in action, and the exhilarating intimacy of two musicians breathing and thinking as one.
7pm, Friday 21st August
Coady Green and Oskar Folkes
Elena Kats-Chernin: Three Pieces for Piano Four Hands (10 minutes) Swap
Alexander Rosenblatt: Concertino on Russian Themes (8 minutes) O Primo
Nikolai Kapustin: Sinfonietta for piano four hands Opus 49 (20 minutes) C Primo
INTERVAL
Stuart Greenbaum: Sonata for Piano Four Hands (20 minutes) O Primo
Nikolai Kapustin: Capriccio for piano four hands Opus 126 (7 minutes) O Secondo
Pianists Coady Green and Oskar Folkes ignite the Nightingale stage with a dazzling journey through the jazz-classical universe. From Elena Kats-Chernin’s rhythmic sparkle and Alexander Rosenblatt’s whirlwind Russian fireworks to the propulsive brilliance of Nikolai Kapustin’s Sinfonietta and Capriccio, this program celebrates the piano four-hands tradition at its most electrifying. After interval, Stuart Greenbaum’s luminous Sonata for Piano Four Hands offers a spacious, driving counterpoint of colour and clarity. A virtuosic night of groove, grit, and pianistic joy.
Thu
27
AUG
7.00pm
7pm, Thursday 27th August
Nightingale Performing Arts Australia presents Daniel Herscovitch in Concert, featuring Daniel Herscovitch. Performing two of Beethoven’s shortest and quirkiest works, alongside works from contemporary Australian composer Kate Moore, and Danish composer Carl Nielsen, Herscovitch showcases the beautiful breadth of piano repertoire.
Program:
Ludwig V. Beethoven
Six Variations on a Turkish March Op.76
Sonata in F sharp major Op.78
Kate Moore
Lucidity: Eyes of Hands
Carl Nielsen
Suite Op.45