Support Canberra's Luminescence Children's Choir - your gift today funds bursaries, camps, new music and tours for young singers!

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The Luminescence Children's Choir is a treble choir for singers aged 10 - 17. Led by artistic director AJ America and composer/pianist Sally Whitwell, the ensemble offers young people holistic and high quality musical experiences and creates a safe and creative space for young singers to express themselves, all while fostering enduring friendships and a life-long love of music and the arts.

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Give to the Brandenburg, and you support excellence in musicianship, education for our youngest audiences, and experience for emerging artists.

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The Brandenburg are international leaders in the presentation and fearless exploration of music on period instruments with a focus on Baroque and early music. Our experiences are excellent, passionate, uniquely Australian, and presented in enlivening and unexpected ways. Our ensemble of specialist musicians from across the country enchant audiences everywhere.

Discover what it really takes to bring a new Australian song cycle to life and help make the next one possible.

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Australian Vocal Ensemble (AVÉ),brings together Katie Noonan, Hannah Fraser, Louis Hurley and Andrew O’Connor to commission, perform, record and tour new Australian vocal music using the text of Australian poets and authors. Since 2021, AVÉ has commissioned over 60 new works and shares contemporary Australian music with audiences nationally.

Support the next phase of Ensemble Offspring’s acclaimed Hatched Academy as it expands into a dynamic Composer & Performer Intensive.

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Ensemble Offspring is Australia’s leading new music group, standing at the forefront of musical innovation for over 30 years. Led by renowned percussionist Claire Edwardes OAM, the ensemble unites the country’s most fearless and virtuosic instrumentalists. Together, they champion living and marginalised voices through kaleidoscopically varied performances of Australian music.

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Rawcus creates exceptional theatre and arts experiences, nurtures a diverse ensemble of extraordinary artists and provides professional and career opportunities.

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Rawcus is an award-winning intersectional ensemble of artists with diverse minds, bodies and imaginations. Together, we create exceptional and inclusive performances and cultural experiences that ignite the senses and defy expectations.

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We've been frugal but can't afford a Flugel!

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Melbourne Youth Orchestras (MYO) is Victoria’s leading provider of ensemble music education for young people aged 8 to 25 years of age. Established in 1967, we continue to grow our community on a reputation for excellence, supporting young musicians to reach their potential, in creative and inspirational learning environments.

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For AusArts Day 2026, ATYP is fundraising to support an ensemble of 50 young performers, who will take to the stage for the premiere of an award-winning First Nations play. Funds will support costuming and rehearsal costs for the ensemble, championing the voices of the next generation in an urgent new play about climate resilience. This ambitious new play will be brought to life on Gadigal land in Walsh Bay by a predominantly young, First Nations-led creative team. The scale of the work emphasises the autonomy and power of its young performers, foregrounding the next generation as active custodians rather than passive inheritors of crisis.

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ATYP is the leading national youth theatre company, dedicated to empowering young people through productions, workshops, and national development programs. We nurture the next generation of storytellers, presenting to a diverse audience and redefining what “youth” theatre looks like.

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In the age of AI, human creativity matters more than ever. For 12 hours, your gift keeps virtuosic music-making human.

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Southern Cross Soloists is one of Australia’s leading chamber music ensembles, renowned for virtuosic performances, innovative programming and artistic excellence. Based in Brisbane, the ensemble brings together exceptional Australian musicians and acclaimed guest artists, presenting inspiring concerts, collaborations and festivals that celebrate classical music while connecting with diverse audiences.

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Golden Thursdays is raising funds for its 2027 creative development program: 5 artists across 5 cities build choreographic material towards a major production

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Golden Thursdays (GT) is a contemporary dance ensemble based in the Northern Rivers region/Bundjalung country led by five artists with diverse lived experiences. GT exists to elevate and centre the choreographic voices, leadership and professional development of neurodivergent and disabled artists through rigorous creative processes and inclusive collaboration.

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5 emerging women composers reimagine new chamber arrangements of iconic songs by Australian artists, mentored, workshopped and recorded by Muses Trio, ready for national touring in 2027.

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Muses Trio is an acclaimed ensemble dedicated to celebrating music composed by women, performed by women since 2013. Through compelling performances, recordings and collaborations, the trio champions women’s voices across generations. In 2025, Muses Trio was honoured with the APRA AMCOS Luminary Award for its contribution to Australian art music.

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The Thursday Group (TTG) aims to strengthen Melbourne's physical theatre and theatre-making community by offering extensive and accessible workshops. We need support!

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The Thursday Group is an ensemble-based theatre company grounded in collaborative devising. We create original theatrical performances and deliver weekly workshops teaching Suzuki training and investigating ensemble devising. Our ensemble builds and creates resilience in the physical theatre community and develops groundbreaking works reflecting urgent stories of our time.

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Eternal River is a major new work, inviting voices traditionally left at the edges of opera into its creation.

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At the heart of Second Echo Ensemble (SEE) are the artists who make and perform the work. Some live with disabilities, and some do not. We have toured our work internationally and are committed to reimagining how art is made, who can make it and where it happens.

Image credits: Second Echo Ensemble performing Relâche-The Last Dance on Earth on 27 February 2025 at Odeon Hobart. Photograph taken by Jesse Hunniford.

Support an Australian-Indonesian musical exchange bringing musicians together to learn, collaborate and create new experimental music.

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The Seno Ensemble is a new music group of regionally based artists dedicated to bridging together Indonesian and Australian cultures through innovative musical collaboration. The ensemble creates work that is at once ancient and immediate, sacred and playful, a reflection of Indonesia’s evolving cultural identity in conversation with contemporary Australia.

Be part of Isabella Gerometa’s new arrangement for Muses Trio’s Her Australian Songbook, celebrating iconic songs by Australian female pop artists, ready for studio recording and national touring 2027.

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Isabella Gerometta is an Australian composer and conductor. She has prepared and directed choruses for a number of events with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, working alongside internationally recognised conductors such as Simone Young and Alondra de la Parra. She has also co-directed a number of concerts for The Australian Voices, including Everyday Requiem in collaboration with Expressions Dance Company in 2018.

Muses Trio is an acclaimed ensemble dedicated to celebrating music composed by women, performed by women since 2013. Through compelling performances, recordings and collaborations, the trio champions women’s voices across generations. In 2025, Muses Trio was honoured with the APRA AMCOS Luminary Award for its contribution to Australian art music.