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Berta Brozgul
Tempo Rubato - May 3rd
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Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Berta migrated to Australia at the age of 12.
She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, with highest honours.
She has received many prizes in Australia as well as overseas, and was the fourth place winner in the prestigious Lev Vlassenko piano competition in Brisbane, in 2015. She was also awarded the Queensland Symphony Orchestra vote for the best concerto performance of the evening, performing Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto.
During her studies at the Australian National Academy of music from 2016 to 2018, she was awarded the prize for the most outstanding performance in a solo recital, as well as the Ursula Hoff prize for outstanding performance of a work by Mozart.
She was also selected as a finalist in the concerto competition in 2018, performing Chopin’s E-minor Piano Concerto with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
She is an active collaborative artist as well as a soloist, and has performed alongside numerous international artists including the Australian tenor Steve Davislim and the internationally renowned violinist Ye-Eun Choi, and has been a guest pianist with the well known Australian piano trio, the ‘Firebird trio’, on numerous occasions.
In 2023, she made her debut with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, performing Bartók’s piano concerto no 3 conducted by Benjamin Northey.
In 2024, she joined the Associate Faculty at the Australian National Academy of Music.
Issy Hart and friends
Ballarat Mining Exchange.
Details: https://events.humanitix.com/ballarat-cabaret-festival-gala
Operatic Cabaret Sweetheart Issie Hart is an internationally established cabaret artist with Ballarat roots.
Issie Hart is an award-winning soprano and creator of theatrical and operatic cabaret works that have toured extensively across Australia and internationally. Hart’s work has been described as ‘The Rarest of things... Theatre that mattered’ Arts Hub
Hart runs a successful studio as a singing teacher, director, dramaturg and creative mentor and works with artists of diverse backgrounds, experience levels and abilities.
Hart is passionate about Cabaret and passionate about Ballarat.
Changing Wilds Ensemble
August 1, 2025
Melbourne Recital Centre - Primrose Potter Salon
A cross-disciplinary, cross-genre blend of introspective music.
Spanning the realms of Australian and Icelandic composition, Our Duty to Care is the third instalment in Robert McIntyre’s climate-change concert curations, following acclaimed performances in recent years.
In this Melbourne Recital Centre exclusive, the 2025 instalment covering themes relating to climate change, empathy, loss, hope, and more, Our Duty to Care features the music of renowned Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds alongside Australians Robert McIntyre, Laura Abraham, Anne Cawrse, and Melbourne Recital Centre’s 2024 Artist in Residence Nat Bartsch.
Featuring project ensemble Changing Wilds Ensemble, led by artistic director and composer Robert McIntyre, this curated performance in the Primrose Potter Salon blends wide-ranging genres to convey powerful messages. Centered around Robert McIntyre’s Our Duty to Care, with text by Savanna Wegman, this cross-disciplinary work for soprano voice and piano trio is based on Sharma v Minister for the Environment [2021] FCA 560. This groundbreaking environmental law case, which proved climate change to be legally real in the courts, has been the catalyst for further climate change litigation globally and even legislative action locally.
https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/whats-on/current-productions/our-duty-to-care
Hamish Gould (Countertenor)
'Have a look at Hamish’s YouTube channel, For the Love of Song. For the Love of Song makes videos of inspiring original songs composed by Kate Lawson Gould, as well as poems and Mellow Moments.