Selby & Friends
Selby & Friends 2025 Concert Season
BREATHTAKING. CHARISMATIC. ASTOUNDING.
Selby & Friends returns to City Recital Hall for our 19th Season in 2025 for the quintessential experience of intimate chamber music at its best!
As always, the programs reflect the stunning collaborative effort of all involved and showcase a deep love of melody, innovation and inspiration. We celebrate and honour the 150 years since Ravel’s birth along with two Viennese masters in April, which is followed in May by the Australian premiere of a stunning work by the renowned Lera Auerbach with two favourite trios by Schumann and Smetana.
A gorgeous arrangement of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune opens Program 3 in July with Beethoven’s Ghost and Shostakovich’s powerful second trio. In September, we visit with the masters of song in Chopin and Schubert, with a tribute to Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn in a lovely work by Australian composer Anne Cawrse. And we close the season with luscious big piano quartets by Brahms, Fauré and Australian Matthew Hindson in November.
The 2025 Season sees the return of violinists Natalie Chee, Daniel Dodds, Elizabeth Layton and Alexandra Osborne, and cellists Julian Smiles and Clancy Newman. In 2025 Selby & Friends also welcomes for the first time the brilliant virtuoso violinist Kristian Winther and SSO Principal Cellist Catherine Hewgill and present two accomplished young Australians to the Season currently studying in the US - 20-year-old cellist Benett Tsai and young violist Isabella Bignasca in November.
These outstanding artists bring a wealth of experience, knowledge and charisma to the series, but alongside these important attributes are joy, generosity of spirit and a comradeship and willingness to share with their younger colleagues that is unparalleled.
We look forward to welcoming you!
Joyeux Anniversaire
Thu 10 April, 7pm
A tribute to the great French composer Ravel for his 150th birthday, with his atmospheric piano trio alongside two famous trios by Classical Mozart and Romantic Zemlinsky.
This Mirror Has Three Faces
Mon 19 May, 7pm
A breathtaking concert program featuring one of today’s most sought-after composers, Lera Auerbach, followed two piano trios by Schumann and Smetana.
A Ghostly Afternoon
Mon 29 July, 7pm
Natalie Chee and Benett Tsai join Kathryn Selby to present a gorgeous arrangement of Debussy’s Afternoon of A Faun, followed by Beethoven and Shostakovich.
Songs Without Words
Thu 18 September, 7pm
The unique relationship between the Mendelssohn siblings (Fanny and Felix) is explored in a special commission by the ABC from Australian composer Anne Cawrse.
Epic Diva
Mon 24 November, 7pm
The final concert of 2025 brings a blockbuster program of piano quartets filled to the brim with gorgeous, formidable melodies.