Worlds Apart

Max Bruch

Max Bruch's later chamber and concertante scores favour long-breathed melody and warm late-Romantic colour: the Romance for viola, the Eight Pieces for clarinet trio, and the Concerto for two pianos and orchestra.

Team of Pianists

The Melbourne-based Team of Pianists is acclaimed for high standards of artistry and professionalism, and has captivated audiences in Australia and overseas for nearly twenty years through solo, chamber and concerto performance.

Max Cooke

Max Cooke's playing anchors decades of Team of Pianists recordings: Mozart sonatas and fantasies, Brahms for four hands and two pianos, and Sculthorpe's piano music shaped with melodic clarity and rhythmic charm.

Robert Chamberlain

Robert Chamberlain studied piano in Melbourne with Max Cooke, continued in Vienna with David Lutz and Igo Koch, and worked at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, coaching with artists including John Perry, Peter Donohoe, János Starker and Loránd Fenyves.

Darryl Coote

Darryl Coote's piano playing favours natural, unforced line and clear colour, whether alone or in the closely matched ensemble work that defines the Team of Pianists. He moves between Chopin, Schubert and Brahms and the Australian repertoire with the same plain-speaking poise.

New Monash Orchestra

The New Monash Orchestra draws its members from students of the Bachelor of Music and talented students from other faculties of Monash University, as well as professional musicians and students from other institutions.

André de Quadros

André de Quadros is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at Monash University, where he coordinates the Performance programme and is musical director of the New Monash Orchestra, the Monash Sinfonia, the Monash Women’s Choir and Viva Voce.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer and organist of the late Baroque. His sacred and secular music for choir, orchestra, organ and solo instruments remains among the foundations of the Western concert and church repertory.

Brenton Broadstock

Brenton Broadstock is one of Australia’s most established, respected and successful mid-generation composers. Over several decades he has built a substantial, varied catalogue distinguished by expressive range, structural assurance and strong engagement with performers and audiences, nationally and internationally.

Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy (1862–1918) was a French composer whose harmony, colour and flexible sense of key reshaped European music at the turn of the twentieth century. Piano, orchestral and chamber works from his maturity remain central to the repertoire.

Percy Grainger

Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882–1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist. A brilliant folk-song collector and arranger, he was also a restless experimenter whose work ranged from tuneful percussion to Free Music machines that foreshadowed electronic synthesis.

Miriam Hyde

Miriam Hyde (1913–2005) was an Australian composer, pianist and teacher whose lyrical, post-romantic voice is especially known through her piano music and works for students.

Francis Poulenc

Francis Poulenc's music swings from boulevard wit to peasant devotion. Perpetual-motion piano, chamber sonatas, horn élégies, Christmas and penitential motets, a Gloria, and songs that can flirt, mourn or protest sit side by side in the catalogue.

Margaret Sutherland

Margaret Sutherland (1897–1984) was an Australian composer whose work ranged across almost every form, with a particular gift for chamber music. She remains one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century Australian composition.

Terence Hays

Provided pianos

Bernstein Australia