ANAM Orchestra with Brett Dean and Stefanie Farrands tickets

Brett Dean is a giant figure in Australia’s musical landscape, as composer, conductor, instrumentalist and artistic director. His opera Hamlet has conquered the stages of Glyndebourne, the Adelaide Festival, New York’s Metropolitan Opera and the Bavarian State Opera; and his orchestral music is in the repertoire of some of the greatest orchestras on the planet, including the Berlin Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony. ANAM’s Artistic Director between 2006-2010, this concert marks his first return to ANAM since 2018.

Finally, Brett collaborates with the ANAM orchestra and one of Australia’s leading violists, Stefanie Farrands (ANAM alum 2008) in Berlioz’ epic re-imagining of Byron’s poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Like so much of the French composer’s music, this extravagantly romantic work is almost unclassifiable: part concerto, part symphony, it chronicles the wanderings of Byron’s melancholy hero in music of lavish pictorial splendour.