On ABC Classic, Andrea Lam explores the art of the piano with Yuja Wang and works by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Chopin, Albéniz, Prokofiev, and Tchaikovsky

CHOPIN Concerto No. 1
BRAHMS Piano Quintet

March 21, 7pm
Castlemaine Festival, Castlemaine Town Hall
Australian String Quartet

On ABC Classic, Andrea Lam explores the world of the piano with Mendelssohn’s Concerto no. 1 and works by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Weber, and Gaigerova

KATS-CHERNIN The Grand Rag [2021]
ROTA Trio [1973]
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio no.1 [1923]
STRAVINSKY The Solider's Tale (full version) [1918]

March 14, 7:30pm
Clancy Auditorium, UNSW

On ABC Classic, Andrea Lam explores the world of piano with works celebrating the Festival of Female Composers: Mendelssohn-Hensel, Schumann, Hyde, Montgeroult, Röntgen-Maier, Jacquet de la Guerre, Hill, Garũta, Parker, and Mellos

On ABC Classic, Andrea Lam explores the world of the piano with Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet and works by Carreño, Bach, Saint-Saëns, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Miriam Hyde

Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Piano Andrea Lam

Maria Grenfell Hinemoa
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No.1
Dvořák Symphony No.8

February 26, 7:30
Auckland Town Hall

On ABC Classic, Andrea Lam explores the world of the piano with Strauss’ Burlesque and works by Chopin, Vine, Schumann, Prokofiev, Liszt, Brahms, and Beethoven

On ABC Classic, Andrea Lam explores the world of piano with performances by Martha Argerich and works by Chopin, Saint-Saëns, Prokofiev, Beethoven, Guastavino, and Ravel

On ABC Classic, Andrea Lam explores the world of the piano with Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1 and works by Dulcie Holland, Balakirev, and Tchaikovsky

On ABC Classic, Andrea Lam explores the world of the piano with Fanny Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio and works by Bach, Debussy, Ross Edwards, and Fanny Mendelssohn

On ABC Classic, Andrea Lam explores the world of the piano, diving straight into one of the most-loved pieces, Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, plus music by Miriam Hyde, Philip Glass and Mel Bonis.

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Dobrinka Tabakova: Orpheus’ Comet
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23
Alex Turley: the ocean’s dream of itself (world premiere)
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloé: Suite No. 2

Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor
Andrea Lam, piano
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano

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Featuring

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Northey conductor / creative director
Jeremy Fernandez presenter
Megan Burslem presenter
Andrea Lam piano
Simon Tedeschi piano
DJ Ha piano
Aura Go piano
Elena Kats-Chernin & Tamara-Anna Cislowska piano
Nat Bartsch piano
Konstantin Shamray piano

Episode 6: Finale

Mentoring and Performance at City Recital Hall

The concert is here! For our five concert debutants, this will be an unforgettable experience. Harry and Andrea will be mentoring and guiding them, in the hope of making our amateur street pianists, concert pianists.

The Piano Episode 5: Market City

The Piano has made its way to our final location, Market City in the heart of Sydney's Chinatown.

The Piano Episode 4: Sydney Metro

The Piano pulls up at Sydney, home of the new Metro. Here thousands of commuters rush through the station every day, but today, a public piano will transform the space into one of creativity, inspiration, and raw talent.

Fresh from the hit ABC TV series ‘The Piano’, which she will be co-hosting with Harry Connick Jr, star Australian pianist Andrea Lam steps into the spotlight with her own album Piano Diary. With this deeply personal selection of piano favourites, she shares the music that means the most to her, from the sublime beauty of Bach and Chopin to the spectacular fireworks of contemporary composers and mellow Gershwin favourites.

The Piano Episode 1: Central Station ABC-TV

Our journey begins at Sydney's Central Station where we meet some extraordinary Australians with a beautiful piano talent.

SONG AND DANCE

GOLIJOV Tenebrae
BARTÓK Contrasts
TOSTI Selected Songs
SCHOENFIELD Café Music

Andrew Haveron, violin
Alexandra Osborne, violin
Tobias Breider, viola
Mihai Marica, cello
Andrew Goodwin, tenor
Dean Newcomb, clarinet
Andrea Lam, piano

TRANSCENDENCE

PÄRT Fratres
Discussion of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with musical excerpts
MESSIAEN Quartet for the End of Time 

Andrew Haveron, violin
Alexandra Osborne, violin
Tobias Breider, viola
Mihai Marica, cello   
Dean Newcomb, clarinet  
Andrea Lam, piano

WINTERREISE | SOULFUL MEDITATION ON EXISTENCE

In the afternoon, we enter Schubert’s haunting Winterreise. In a letter to his friend Franz Schober, Schubert wrote, “whenever I tried to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I would sing of pain, it turned to love.” This profound tension lies at the heart of Winterreise, an epic, extraordinarily beautiful journey of yearning, loss, delusion, and self-reflection.

SCHUBERT Winterreise, D. 911

Andrew Goodwin, tenor
Andrea Lam, piano

LOVE

J.S. BACH Aria from Goldberg Variations
C. SCHUMANN Romance, WoO 28
R. SCHUMANN In der Nacht, from Fantasiestücke, Op. 12
BRAHMS Intermezzo, Op. 118 No. 2
CHOPIN Ballade No. 1
HINDSON Love, from Sad Piano
M. EÖTVÖS Bachram (world premiere)
GERSHWIN Someone to Watch Over Me (arr. Tom Poster) and I Got Rhythm (arr. Earl Wild)

Andrea Lam, piano

SHAW Entr’acte
JANÁČEK Intimate Letters

Andrew Haveron, violin
Alexandra Osborne, violin
Tobias Breider, viola
Mihai Marica, cello

GATHERING

HAYDN String Quartet, Op. 77 No. 2
SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Lieder by STRAUSS, FAURÉ, POULENC
BEACH Piano Quintet, Op. 67

Andrew Haveron, violin 
Alexandra Osborne, violin 
Tobias Breider, viola 
Mihai Marica, cello 
Dean Newcomb, clarinet 
Andrew Goodwin, tenor
Andrea Lam, piano

Some solo piano to celebrate the phenomenal creatives honoured in Vogue Living!

Read about it here!

Program

Dvořák Symphony No.3
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Ravel Boléro

Featuring

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Jaime Martín conductor
Andrea Lam piano
Megan Burslem presenter

https://www.mso.com.au/performance/2025-smmb-dvorak-gershwin-and-ravel

Watch here! Starting at 1:28:00