Craven Creek Music Festival

09/12/2025

Edited videos from Craven Creek 2025 are starting to come through. Here's the first. My favourite solo piano piece as it turns out. Brahms Intermezzo in A Major Op 118, No 2 played beautifully by Bernadette Harvey.

Bernadette Harvey, piano

22/10/2025

Ensemble Offspring, headline act at the 2024 Festival, are back in Gloucester soon. Always worth experiencing.

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Music in the Regions returns to Gloucester with Ensemble Offspring

Songbirds brings nature to life as Ensemble Offspring’s flute, clarinet, and percussion mimic Australia’s birds in playful, virtuosic works by composers inspired by the bush.

Sunday November 9
Gloucester Uniting Church
5 Cowper Street,
Gloucester NSW 2422
Tickets $35 under 18's free

25/09/2025

From the local newspaper, News of the Area.

12/09/2025

Poulenc Sextet rehearsal with Bernadette Harvey, Andrew Barnes, Ian Wildsmith, Oliver Shermacher, Lily Bryant and Alexandre Oguey.

12/09/2025

Rehearsing the Archduke Trio with Bernadette Harvey, Dimity Hall and Julian Smiles.

12/09/2025

Bernadette Harvey has replaced Konstantin Shamray who at last minute had to withdraw. Here she is rehearsing Poulenc.

10/09/2025

Hard at work preparing for the concerts this weekend. www.cravencreekmusic.com

08/09/2025

Joining us from the Freiburg Philharmonisches Orchester and just now from the Australian World Orchestra's performances, clarinettist Oliver Shermacher will make his way to Craven Creek to play with some our best wind players in music by Ravel, Ibert, Poulenc, Wyttenbach and Sdraulig.

With a few changes there are now some extra seats available for Sunday morning's concert as well as Saturday's. No seats available in the afternoon concerts.

Book here: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1403771

02/09/2025

Tickets left? Yes, a few for Sunday morning and more for Saturday morning. Come along and hear some of Australia's best wind players, plus pianist Konstantin Shamray. We have a discounted price for the Saturday morning now and it is free for students under 18. Go to our website (www.cravencreekmusic.com) to access the booking page and all programme details. The afternoon concerts are fully sold out.

29/08/2025

This is worth spending 15 minutes of your time. Our pianist this year, Konstantin Shamray, speaks to Vanessa Hughes on ABC's Drive Live back in June. You can hear and see him actually live at Craven Creek 2025 on September 13 and 14. Details at our website.

This week on ABC Classic, our Performer of the Week is the Russian-Australian pianist Konstantin Shamray.