ANAM 2026 Chamber Music Festival: Poetry of Knowledge (#1)

Tue, 24th Nov 2026 07:00 pm

Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford VIC 3067

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ANAM’s Chamber Music Festival includes beloved chamber music classics, early music gems, world premieres, a stream of new Australian works and everything in between: a diverse selection of repertoire performed by the full cohort of ANAM musicians, unfolding across five concerts in the spaces of Abbotsford Convent in spring. Join ANAM for the final Chamber Music Festival curated by Paavali Jumppanen’s creative leadership of ANAM, embodying a single unifying idea which could not be more prescient: conveying the incredible variability of the natural world and the intense fragility of human experience through music. Concert Schedule Poetry of Knowledge (#1) Tuesday 24 November, 7pm Curated and directed by Louise Devenish (alum 2003, percussion), this program traces a decade of composers listening to science following Bree van Reyk (alum 1998), Kate Milligan (ANAM Set 2022), Augusta Read Thomas, Thomas Meadowcroft (ANAM Set 2021). Music of the Outdoors (#2) Thursday 26 November, 6pm This concert turns its lens into a microscope and focuses on the world beneath our feet and the sounds normally too hidden to notice. Reeds and Bow-Hair (#3) Thursday 26 November, 8.15 pm What does pastoral music sound like in today’s society when it doesn’t necessarily share the spiritual tenets of the “Classical” era? What happens when this is all broken and set alight? City Lights (#4) Friday 27 November, 6pm Cityscapes have always found their way into music through the people who have lived in, imagined, and ‘heard’ them. This concert is an ode to urban life as four composers have heard it. Passion of Life (#5) Friday 27 November, 8.15 pm The festival closes with the intensity of human passion. This music doesn’t need to move through grand gesture but rather through beauty, loss, love, and emotion felt straight to the soul. Festival Packages Interested in attending more than one concert? ANAM are offering the following deals: 2 Concert Package: Save 10% 5 Concert Package: Save 20%