A festival within a festival, The Melbourne Mozart Project celebrates Mozart through two parallel musical journeys. Part I: Rising Stars showcases Melbourne’s most exceptional young pianists in a one-day concerto marathon. Across four concerts, pre-tertiary soloists perform complete Mozart piano concertos, partnered by some of our finest established instrumentalists accompanying in string arrangements of the orchestral parts. Curated by leading pianist-educators Coady Green and Glenn Riddle, the project offers these outstanding young musicians a rare professional platform within the fortyfivedownstairs Chamber Music Festival. A celebration of mentorship, virtuosity, and musical inheritance, Rising Stars reveals the next generation of Mozart interpreters in performances of brilliance, ambition, and joy.
Sunday 26 April
Concert 1: The Early Spark – 11:00am
Piano Concerto No. 5 in D major, K.175: Soloist: Seth Raudam
Piano Concerto No. 8 in C major, K.246 Soloist: Malik Johnston
Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K.414 Soloist: Charlie Wu
Concert 2: The Virtuoso Emerges – 1:30pm
Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major K. 595 Jeunehomme Soloist: Diego Yu
Piano Concerto No. 11 in F major, K.413 Soloist: Jacqueline Wang
Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major, K.415 Soloist: Caitlin Au
Concert 3: Shadows and Light – 4:00pm
Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat major, K.449: Soloist: Arul Verty
Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major K. 482 Solo: Jack Brunialti-Sykes
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466 Solo: Charlotte Roberts
Concert 4: Masterworks – 7:30pm
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K.467 “Elvira Madigan” Soloist: Abby Zhao
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K.488 Soloist: Oriana Kang-Kurniawan
Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K.503 Soloist: Stefania Robu
Sunday 3rd May
The Melbourne Mozart Project Part II: The Complete Works for Piano Four Hands and Two Pianos in Two Concerts
An epic traversal of Mozart’s complete original works for piano four hands and two pianos, presented across two concerts in a single afternoon and evening. Performed by internationally celebrated pianists Coady Green and Kevin Tamanini, this rare musical feat brings together works of intimacy, brilliance, and symphonic breadth, a monumental cycle heard in its entirety, and an experience unlikely to be repeated.
Concert 1 – 2:00pm
Allegro in G major (unfinished Sonata) K357
Sonata in B flat major for piano four hands K358
Sonata in D major for piano four hands K381
Andante and Variations for piano four hands K501
Sonata in F major for piano four hands K497
Sonata in C major for piano four hands K521
Concert 2: 5:00pm
Adagio and Allegro in F minor for mechanical organ, arranged for piano four hands K594
Fantasia in F minor for mechanical organ, arranged for piano four hands K608
Andante in F major for musical clock, arranged for piano four hands K616
Fugue in G minor for piano four hands K401
Adagio and Fugue in C minor for two pianos K426
Sonata in D major for Two Pianos K448
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