Symphonic Dances

The Monash Academy Orchestra returns to the stage of Robert Blackwood Hall for another season of inspirational music making.

From Lili Boulanger’s delightful D’un matin de printemps, to the hypnotic rhythms of Ross Edwards’s Ecstatic Dance and exquisite orchestrations of Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, this is a program of music for everyone.

Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances was his final orchestral score, receiving its premiere in 1941. An audience favourite, it is a work full of rhythmic energy and rich harmonic colour; a musical kaleidoscope from start to finish.

The orchestra will be joined by emerging conductor, Aaron Wyatt, who in 2022 became the first Indigenous Australian to conduct a state symphony orchestra in concert.

Monash Academy Orchestra
Aaron Wyatt conductor

Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps
Ross Edwards Ecstatic Dance
Maurice Ravel Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Suite)
Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances