It’s been a joy to curate the 10-concert Utzon Music Series 2025 for the iconic Sydney Opera House.
Music sounded and shared is one of our most enduring human rituals.
Like us, it takes many forms, shaped by different landscapes, languages, ways of living and listening. Through every age, music and musicians have been border-crossers: melodies, instruments, players and chord progressions migrating and morphing in constant search of new forms, new listeners. Beloved traditions become the inspiration for fresh compositions, as reinvention and rebirth give cultures ongoing vitality.
Utzon Music 2025 celebrates human curiosity and discovery, welcoming a cast of wildly gifted musicians performing chamber music of European, Norwegian, Persian, Scottish, and contemporary Australian ancestry. The series features several vibrant duos — violin & cello, mezzo-soprano & piano, harp & theorbo, viola & harpsichord, recorder & classical accordion, violin & guitar. Alongside, there’s a sublime solo cello recital and three larger constellations — a cappella voices, a Persian classical ensemble and a Norwegian hardangar fiddle-led band.
Inventive artists offer sounds to open our hearts, free our minds from their usual orbits, and gently untether us from thoughts wearying or worrying. We meet on Gadigal Land, in Utzon’s own precious room, framing light on water. It’s a perfect place to join friends and strangers, united in the restorative balm of listening.
All concert details and bookings are here.