FRI-SUN 26 - 28 SEP 2025
TYALGUM MUSIC FESTIVAL PROGRAM 2025
Tyalgum Community Hall
Friday 26 September 2025
7:00 - 9:30 pm
CONCERT 1 - A Night at the Opera
Fly through a pocket version of Mozart’s much loved opera, The Magic Flute, with our friends from Voxalis Opera, who return after delighting us with their appearance in 2024. Enjoy a glass of champaign at Interval.
$60 Music Lover
$50 Concession
Children (16 and under) No Charge
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As always the Festival Gold Pass is available. Make your life easy, while saving money and buy one ticket for the whole weekend. Book now and collect your pass from the ticket desk on the Friday night then show it at the door to gain entry to all the concerts over the weekend.
Saturday 27 September 2025
8:30 - 9:30 am
Nature Therapy Walk
Join Tracey, your Nature Therapy guide, on a morning stroll down by the creek. “By silencing our own voices and minds we are free to connect to the ever changing music that nature’s orchestra performs each morning. This may create a sense of peace and space in preparation for a day of beautiful music.”
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10:30 - 11:30 am
CONCERT 2 - QCGU Chamber Concert
Witness the talent and energy of the next generation of musicians in this fabulously inspiring concert. It will leave you open beaked!
$35 Music Lover
$35Concession
Children (16 and under) No Charge
Support the Tyalgum Music Festival through the
Australian Cultural Fund.
1:00 - 2:15 pm
CONCERT 3 - A Lark and a Wolf
A lark, a duck and a bird grace this afternoon’s program through two timeless pieces.
The Lark Ascending, by English composer Vaughan Williams was
inspired by an 1881 English poem of the same name. Soloist Courtnay Cleary brings this beautiful piece to life.
For Prokofiev's classic Peter and the Wolf, Matthew Schwarz and the Limpinwood Ensemble accompany the beautiful Suzie Templeton film of the same name, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Illustrations by Tyalgum Public School students will interoperate the program through their original artworkoffer a fresh and original interpretation of the program.
$55 Music Lover
$45 Concession
Children (16 and under) No Charge
4:00 - 6:15 pm
CONCERT 4 - Australian Haydn Ensemble
Limelight has called the AHE "a jewel in the national period-instrument crown.” Artistic Director, violinist Skye McIntosh grew up in Murwillumbah and studied with Tyalgum Music Festival founders John Willison and Carmel Kaine. After a seven-year absence, we welcome back to Tyalgum Skye and the extraordinary ensemble she founded.
String Quartet in Bb Major Op.76 No.4 - Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in G Min - Luigi Boccherini
INTERVAL Join us for a Husk Distillery Ink Gin & Tonic
Fantasia in 4 parts No.8 in D Minor Z 739 - Henry Purcell
String Quartet in C Maj K.465 “The Dissonance” - WA Mozart
$60 Music Lover
$50 Concession
Children (16 and under) No Charge
Skye McIntosh
8:00 - 9:30 pm
CONCERT 5 - The View From Madeline’s Couch
While away the evening and share a platter and a glass of wine at our “cafe style” concert soaking up the cool Brazilian sounds of “The View From Madeline’s Couch.” Over the last 27 years they have become a stalwart of Brazilian influenced music, bringing its unique melody, harmony and rhythm to their original material.
The View from Madeline's Couch
$60 Music Lover
$50 Concession
Sunday 15 September 2024
10:00 - 11:15 am
CONCERT 6 - Karin Schaupp and Riverside Guitar Ensemble
Enjoy a peaceful start to Sunday as guitar virtuoso Karin Schaupp, along with the guitars of the Riverside Ensemble, return to Tyalgum. Karin is an international recitalist, soloist, festival guest and winner of two ARIAs.
$60 Music Lover
$50 Concession
Children (16 and under) No Charge
12:20 - 1:40 pm
CONCERT 7 - Richard Narroway
Be captivated by a beautiful solo program, "Monuments for Cello" with Australian cellist Richard Narroway.
Monuments for Cello, featuring
Bach Cello Suite no. 3 in C Major BWV 1009
Sibelius Theme and Variations in D Minor
Kodaly Solo Sonata Op. 8
Tyalgum Community Hall
Presented in association with Musica Viva Australia
$60 Music Lover
$50 Concession
Children (16 and under) No Charge
3:00 - 4:30 pm
CONCERT 8 - Alex Raineri
Artist ambassador for Kawai Australia, Alex Raineri, closes the 2025 Tyalgum Music Festival with a lively program inspired by birds through the music of Glinka, Ravel, Eöt vös and Messiaen.
$60 Music Lover
$50 Concession
Children (16 and under) No Charge
