Event overview
Promo Code
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Thursday 24 September 2026
7:30pm at Iwaki Auditorium
Accessibility
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Wheelchair, walker and scooter accessible
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Service animals allowed
About this performance
Program
J. Strauss II Die Fledermaus: Overture
Kodaly Dances of Galánta
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5: first movement
Aaron Wyatt The Things Which Are Most Important Don't Always Scream the Loudest
Mozart The Marriage of Figaro: Overture
Sibelius Symphony No.2: first movement
Jessie Montgomery Starburst
Dvořák Symphony No.9 From The New World: fourth movement
About this performance
Are conductors born or made?
What does it take to stand before an orchestra and bring a score to life: instinct, imagination, discipline or all of the above? In this special showcase, the next generation of conductors graduating from the Australian Conducting Academy step onto the podium to answer that question in sound.
A unique orchestral training program for early-career conductors in Australia and New Zealand, the Australian Conducting Academy gives emerging artists substantial podium time with major orchestras and mentoring from leading conductors. This graduation performance is the culmination: a career-launching moment where talent, technique and musical personality meet in front of an audience.
The program moves from sparkling old favourites to bold new voices: Strauss’s Die Fledermaus Overture and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro Overture sit alongside Kodály’s vivid Dances of Galánta, the opening movements of Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony and Sibelius’s Second Symphony, and the thrilling finale of Dvořák’s New World Symphony. Newer works by Jessie Montgomery and Aaron Wyatt, himself one of the conductors, remind us that the future of orchestral music is not only being interpreted by these artists, but imagined by them too.
Are conductors born or made? Come and hear the answer as these young musicians shape, lead and transform the orchestra before your eyes.
Featuring
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Corvaia conductor
Sara Duhig conductor
Euan Safey conductor
Aaron Wyatt conductor
