Mozart and Mendelssohn

The Student Music Collective presents ‘Mozart and Mendelssohn’, an afternoon featuring pivotal cornerstones of classical orchestral repertoire featuring the Secret Orchestral Society. 

The highlight of this concert is the feature of student soloist Sam Woolford, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.23 in A Major. This is an annual, auditioned opportunity for students from the UTAS Conservatorium of Music, following Miffy Wang’s performance of Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in 2024, and clarinetist Reuben Allen’s performance of Debussy’s ‘Premiere Rhapsodie’ in 2025. 

The remainder of this programme features key works by late-classical era composers. The overture to Rossini’s ‘Il Signor Bruschino’ provides a delightful introduction to the performance, with features in the strings and woodwind parts. Mendelssohn’s majestic, yet rarely performed Symphony No.5 ‘Reformation’ showcases the best of all members of the orchestra; complex and simple, delicate and powerful. 

We welcome Gary Wain to the podium, making his return to an SMC project after taking on the titanic task of conducting Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony in December 2024. Miaw Yng Lim leads the orchestra as concertmaster, with a range of new and existing members from the UTAS Conservatorium of Music, the broader UTAS student and staff base, and the wider Hobart orchestral community. 

Join us on Saturday August 22nd for a spectacular afternoon of orchestral glory with ‘Mozart and Mendelssohn’. 

'Mozart and Mendelssohn' takes place on the unceded lands of the Mouheneener people in nipaluna (Hobart), where sovereignty has never been ceded. The Secret Orchestral Society and the Student Music Collective stands for a history of truth, which acknowledges the ongoing impacts of colonisation upon the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

The Stanley Burbury Theatre is located on Churchill Avenue in Sandy Bay TAS 7005, on the University of Tasmania Main Campus. There is level access to the Sir Stanley Burbury Theatre from the UTAS carpark on Churchill Avenue. 

There are several onsite car parks, both in front of the Theatre and in surrounding side streets and University roads. Once inside the venue, there are seats available with level access, in addition to space for wheelchairs and mobility aids. 

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The venue does have an accessible, non-gendered toilet and a changing station. A programme with notes about each of the pieces will be provided, and there will not be an Auslan Interpretor at this event. 

Additional information about concerning weather and safety around it will be distributed in the days leading up to the performance.

For further details or enquiries, please contact the Student Music Collective team studentmusiccollective@gmail.com.