Tickets
One Reserve
Standard $55 / Concession $50
Child (under 18)
$20
$7 transaction fee / order
SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE
Save up to 15% when you book the Metropolis Festival package
Dates
Wednesday 16 April 2025
7:30pm at Melbourne Recital Centre
Program
Holly Harrison Hi-Viz
Ella Macens The Space Between Stars
Fiona Hill Śūnyatā
Jessica Wells Concerto for Guzheng and orchestra (2024-25)*
*World premiere of an MSO Commission
From the urban to the natural world
Metropolis kicks off with Holly Harrison’s urban fanfare Hi-Viz in which the neon machine activity of roadworks is re-imagined through electronic dance music, bootscooting and disco!
Look up from the city lights and both Ella Macen’s lyrical The Space Between Stars and Fiona Hill’s yogic breath of a piece Śūnyatā take our attention to the vast expanses of time and space of the natural world.
MSO are proud to commission Jessica Wells to compose a Guzheng concerto for Mindy Meng Wang, one of the world’s finest players of this Chinese zither.
Duration: approx. 70 minutes, no interval
Featuring
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Northey conductor / curator
Liza Lim* curator
Mindy Meng Wang guzheng
*2025 Composer in Residence
Featured artists
