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Tickets for Australian Brandenburg Orchestra's 2025 Season go on sale at City Recital Hall on Wednesday 13 November.


The power of the mind, the body, and music

Precious, life-giving, pure. In a profound celebration of water, the Brandenburg explores an homage to water's spiritual and cultural significance as the foundation of our existence and survival: the essential element of life.

A powerful and resonant tribute from seasoned collaborators. Rrawun Maymuru, an ocean and waterway custodian hailing from East Arnhem Land debuting an original composition created with Nick Wales, a classically trained contemporary composer. Sung in the language of the Yolngu people, this heartfelt ode to water promises to echo deep within the soul of every listener.

The homage continues with the Brandenburg’s vibrant rendition of Handel’s complete Water Music masterpiece brought to life with the Orchestra’s signature celebratory exuberance. This performance serves as an experiential meditation on our custodial duty to our world. Through music and song, the Brandenburg explores the crucial themes of water’s essence, and our collective responsibility to cherish, conserve and protect it.

In this concert experience, water is not only celebrated but revered—a reminder of water as the constant, vital thread flowing through our past, our present, and our future. 

  • Wales / Maymuru
    (New commission) Water
    Handel 
    Watermusic, Suite No. 1, 2, & 3 HWV 348 - 350

  • Rrawun Maymuru 
    Guest Artist / Composer 
    Nick Wales
    Composer
    Paul Dyer
    Artistic Director 

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra 

    Trent Suidgeest
    Lighting Designer