Words & Ideas: Alan Finkel
St Ambrose Hall Templeton Road, Woodend, VICThe clean energy transition is humanity’s biggest ever economic challenge. In Powering Up, former Australian chief scientist Alan Finkel shows how to remove the barriers that prevent nations transforming from petrostate to electrostate.
Gershwin & More: Simon Tedeschi & George Washingmachine
St Ambrose Hall Templeton Road, Woodend, VICSimon Tedeschi, is one of Australia's best-loved classical musicians, performing everything from Mozart and Chopin to Debussy and Prokofiev for orchestras, festivals, and venues around the world. Joined tonight by jazz vocalist and violinist, George Washingmachine, for something a little different - Gershwin favourites and classic jazz standards by Cole Porter, Oscar Peterson, Fats Waller and more
Music for the First Piano: Jacqueline Ogeil
St Ambrose Church Templeton St, WoodendThis elegant program explores early classicism in the keyboard literature and the new expressive sound world of the first piano, performed by the Founder and Artistic Director of the Festival, Jacqueline Ogeil
Words & Ideas: On Climate Catastrophe
Woodend Community Centre High & Forest St, WoodendWhat is the scientific truth of the matter – how long have we got? What must be done, and what are the chances that it will be? Is Australia anywhere near where it should be? What might a ‘renewable’ Australia look like? Special guest speakers Lauren Rickards and Jaimie Button discuss.
Harmoniemusik: Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Chamber Winds
St Ambrose Hall Templeton Road, Woodend, VICMelbourne Conservatorium of Music staff and students perform Mozart’s opera La Clemenza di Tito arranged for wind sextet, alongside original works by Weber and Crusell.