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

BLIND CREEK ESENMBLE

Journey to Paris with the Blind Creek Ensemble in La Vie en Rose, an enticing program of French and French-inspired works for flute quartet. This is the ensemble’s second concert season as a part of their intimate 2025 Gallery Series.

Performances:

Saturday 20th September 2.00pm @ The Hut Gallery, Ferntree Gully. https://www.trybooking.com/DDGTA

Sunday 21st September 2.00pm @ Sherbrooke Gallery, Belgrave. https://www.trybooking.com/DDHEU

Featured works include:

·         Jour d'été à la Montagne (Summer Days in the Mountain) by Eugene Bozza

·         Seraphim by Gordon Kerry (Australian composer)

·         Re-imagined jazz standards

·         …and MORE!

Tickets: $30 adult/$20 concession/Under 12 free. Tickets available at door or through online booking until sold out. Concession pricing for anybody who mentions the Music Matinee website.

About the ensemble:

Founded in 2024, The Blind Creek Ensemble is a collective of musicians in Victoria’s south-east. The group is named after the Blind Creek, which runs through the City of Knox, and was formed by Kelsy De Prada who recognised the need for more local chamber music performances by local musicians. https://www.kelsydeprada.com.au/theblindcreekensemble

The featured artists in this concert series are:

·         Kelsy De Prada (Artistic Director) https://www.kelsydeprada.com.au/

·         Emily Kimpton

·         Xiwen (Maggie) Mai

·         Terence Teow

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.