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Book now as part of the Metropolis Festival package. Individual concerts available 1 October.

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

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