Canberra International Music Festival

02/06/2026

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02/05/2026

🎶 DAY 5 of Canberra International Music Festival 🎶 Don't miss your last chance to grab festival tix

Take your Sunday breakfast with a side of the divine, be inspired by a Swiss ensemble preformning new work by Jürg Frey, and be the first to hear new work from Grammy-winning artists.

Experience one of Australia's largest instruments (for free) and hear the iconic Federation Hand Bells ring out across Parliament House.

Finish with a bang and come celebrate all things piano and percussion with us in our festival finale!

It's not too late to experience CIMF for yourself.

9:00am // Supplication to Transcendence Breakfast
Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/sunday-breakfast

11:00am // Bell Curve
Australian Parliament House
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/bell-curve

12:30pm // Bell Plains
Queen Elizabeth II Island, Lake Burley Griffin
🎟️ https://cimf.org.au/shows/bell-plains/

2:00pm // Tales of Fragile Sensations
Snow Concert Hall
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/tales-of-fragile-sensations

6:30pm // Pianos and Percussion: Festival Finale
Snow Concert Hall
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/festival-finale

01/05/2026

🎶 DAY 4 of Canberra International Music Festival 🎶 Epic Snow Concert Hall event 'Tissages du Temps' and day-long mini-fest MOSSO: music in motion

Take a journey through more than three centuries of French masterworks -- Baroque, Impressionism, Spectralism -- and experience the eight events on offer in our mini-fest MOSSO: music in motion.

MOSSO takes over the National Film and Sound Archive, where you can wander between events (free + ticketed) and see Australia's best young artists push boundaries.

5:00pm // Prohibition Rags
Lucky's, QT Hotel
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/prohibition-rags

7:30pm // Tissages du Temps
Snow Concert Hall
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/tissages-du-temps

9:00am - 5:00pm // MOSSO: music in motion
NFSA Canberra
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/mosso-music-in-motion
MOSSO: music in motion program includes:
➡️ Forever Changed
➡️ Digital Echoes
➡️ Lyrebird Brass - Free event
➡️ Fiona Hill Portrait
➡️ Returning
➡️ Scenery
➡️ Mappa
➡️ Melt

30/04/2026

🎶 DAY 3 of Canberra International Music Festival 🎶 Experience CIMF in new places - The National Gallery of Australia, Embassy of Greece and Australian National University

Start your day with a spirited breakfast exploring contemporary and avant-garde music at the Embassy. Hear chamber music at its best, discover the hidden splendours of Spanish Baroque and experience wines paired to virtuoso piano performances within the National Gallery of Australia. Travel around the folk world with superstar sound-sorcerers at Australian National University.

9:00am // The Greek Embassy Breakfast
Embassy of Greece
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/breakfast-at-the-greek-embassy

11:00am // Interwoven
Wesley Music Centre
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/interwoven-cimf

3:00pm // Folías de España
Fairfax Theatre, National Gallery of Australia
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/folias-de-espana

6:00pm // Schubert & Syrah
Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/schubert-and-syrah

8:00pm // Folk & Tango
Manning Clarke Hall, Kambri at ANU
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/folk-and-tango

30/04/2026

Grammy-winning artists, international superstars, local legends - don't miss your chance to bask in the best live music Canberra has to offer.

Only 4 days left of the Festival.
Tickets >> https://buff.ly/feRJ6bs
📷️ Peter Hislop

29/04/2026

🎶 DAY 2 of Canberra International Music Festival 🎶 From the traditional to the experimental, our day two program delivers

Classic string quartets, 'pop' songs through centuries, a one-of-a-kind Wagner experience, and a world premiere of new work from Grammy-winning US artists and exceptional Australian composers. From the traditional to the experimental, our day two program delivers

11:00am // Gassenhauer
Wesley Music Centre
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/gassenhauer

2:00pm // Inheritance and Invention
Wesley Music Centre
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/inheritance-and-invention

5:00pm // Wagner Lieder
Wesley Music Centre
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/wagner-lieder

8:00pm // Luminescence and the Machine
Street Theatre
🎟️ https://www.thestreet.org.au/shows/luminescence-machine

28/04/2026

🎶 DAY 1 of Canberra International Music Festival 🎶 Songs Beyond Twilight at Snow Concert Hall with superstar soprano

Kick off your festival with showstopping classics reimagined for small ensembles, with some of Australia’s finest chamber musicians and superstar soprano Anna-Louise Cole - Soprano.

4:00pm // Welcome to Country
Garden, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture
Learn more: https://cimf.org.au/shows/welcome-to-country-4/

7:00pm // Songs Beyond Twilight
Snow Concert Hall
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/songs-beyond-twilight

28/04/2026

🎶 The wait is (almost) over…let the music begin! 🎶
CIMF kicks off tomorrow with more than 25 events on offer across the five-day festival, including MOSSO: music in motion, our mini-fest within the fest designed to delight at the National Film and Sound Archive. We’re beyond excited to share this program with you.

See the full program and secure your seats:

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28/04/2026

Ooooh these are some of our faves too! Check out the concerts HerCanberra has dubbed not-to-be-missed in this year's Festival.

Make sure you grab your tix today -before Festival kick-off tomorrow >> https://events.humanitix.com/host/canberra-international-music-festival

The Canberra International Music Festival is back to transform the capital into a city of sound, with music unfolding across some iconic venues.

27/04/2026

With only two days to go until the Festival opener, our artists are making their presence felt about town!

Here’s what Megan Doherty, The Canberra Times, wrote about the Luminescence Chamber Singers’ visit to the newspaper: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9226321/luminescence-chamber-singers-mark-canberra-times-100th-birthday/
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A very special happy birthday to The Canberra Times
How special is this?

The Canberra Times is celebrating its 100th birthday in 2026.
To help celebrate, the stunning voices of the Luminescence Chamber Singers have come together to sing Happy Birthday to the newspaper.

The Canberra-based vocal ensemble will be one of the stars of the show at the upcoming Canberra International Music Festival, which is on from April 29 to May 3.

Deputy editor of The Canberra Times Scott Hannaford said the newspaper was proud to sponsor the festival and thrilled to hear the voices of the Luminescence Chamber Singers.

"It's a beautiful rendition and we're very thankful to the singers for helping to celebrate such a big milestone for us all," Mr Hannaford said.

The Luminescence Chamber Singers, comprising six professional singers, will be performing Luminescence and the Machine at The Street Theatre on April 30 and May 3.
Developed in collaboration with Grammy-award-winning producer/composer William Brittelle, Luminescence and the Machine "probes the porous boundary between the human and bionic".

"Ground-breaking electronic architecture enables each singer to digitally manipulate their own voice in real-time and triggers a complex web of reflexive, inter-dependent effects, unleashing entirely new sonic possibilities," we are told.

This is an elite-level version of Happy Birthday.