Craven Creek Music Festival

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.

27/08/2025

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  Work underway on the new stage.   The completed stage hosting the new piano. MUSICIANS playing the Craven Creek Music Festival on 13 and 14 September will ply their trade on a newly built stage. News Of The Area reported last month that this year’s festival will feature piano music for the fir...

20/08/2025

I suppose it had to happen, but the old stage in the old barn could not really manage with a piano or two and bunch of musicians as well, so a new stage was in order and here it is. A bit of work left to stain the surface to make it the best stage around in an old shed.

And now onto Craven Creek 2025 next month. Check out our website (www.cravencreekmusic.com) to see the terrific programme this year featuring, of course, a piano, and wonderful pianist Konstantin Shamray.

12/08/2025

More pieces featuring this year. Not our musicians of course.

Rachmaninov: Vocalise for piano and cello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiT_v5DOsUw

Brahms: Intermezzo in A major, Op 118 No. 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k418HNWyjkU

Ravel: Mother Goose Suite arranged for Wind Quintet by Joachim Linckelmann.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFa3whd64B0

Maurice Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye(arr. Joachim Linckelmann)Oto Reiprich_fluteJan Souček_oboeJiří Javůrek_clarinetJan Hudeček_bassoonKateřina Javůrková_hornfull co...

12/08/2025

Tickets still available?

While our Saturday afternoon concert is sold out and both Sunday concerts almost sold out, there are tickets available for Saturday morning.

Check the booking page https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1403771 for what's available. Sometimes people will let us know that their plans have changed and they donate their tickets back for resale.

The 2025 Craven Creek Music Festival Don't miss it! CLASSICAL ENCOUNTERS 13 & 14 September 2025 Join us for a captivating weekend of...

30/07/2025

What's playing at Craven Creek this year? Well, over the next few weeks we'll post performances of some the pieces for you to savour. Not our players of course. You'll have to turn up to hear them.

Here's the first movement of one, Ibert's trois pièces brèves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmFh5E6BC1g

And keeping with the French theme, here's another, Poulenc's sextet for piano and winds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGtDGYU9Dos

Check our website for more great pieces that you will hear, if you buy tickets.

BBC Proms 2013 from the Cadogan Hall, London. The London Conchord Ensemble perform Poulenc's Sextet.First broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Monday 19 August. More fr...

27/07/2025

Saw Rusalka last night. One of the best nights at the opera in a long time. Nicole Car is phenomenal. Do yourselves a favour and get along to see it.

22/07/2025

Eight weeks to go!!

EACH year some of Australia’s most outstanding classical musicians make the journey up The Bucketts Way to Gloucester and beyond to Rookhurst, then down a dirt road to perform in a near-century-old tin farm shed. It’s been happening since the Craven Creek Music Festival first kicked off in 2013,...

10/07/2025

Exciting pianist Konstantin Shamray will feature at Craven Creek this year and in all four concerts. Check the programme at www.cravencreekmusic.com. You can book tickets there too. Here's Konstantin playing the third movement of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto recently.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2199212737260003&rdid=AFy5gXNqR7iuvbha

06/07/2025

Tickets for the 2025 Craven Creek Music Festival are now available. Please go to www.cravencreekmusic.com for programme and booking details.