Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) Unveils a Rich and Varied 2025 Program

The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)’s Artistic Director Paavali Jumppanen is excited to announce ANAM’s rich and dynamic 2025 program, themed around the idea or ‘Tuning in’. The 2025 program features more than 150 concerts and collaborations with internationally renowned conductors, guest artists and ensembles, and professional partnerships with Australia’s and New Zealand’s orchestras.

Inspired by the most outstanding young musicians, championed by dedicated teachers, and heartened by numerous supporters, ANAM succeeds to continuously push forward.

ANAM Artistic Director Paavali Jumppanen:

A recent guest visitor to ANAM said “today we need to realise that music is more than just entertainment”, and how right she was! For in all the music we learn, play, and listen to we are dealing with, and tuning in to, much more. We invite audiences to join us in this pursuit to tune in to the sounds of meaning and beauty, and to the springs of humanity.

In 2025 ANAM tunes in to the Australian avant-garde, to the miracles of Mozart’s intuition, to Beeth oven’s ethos, and to what’s new in the minds of young Estonian composers. French music is featured along with the past and present colleagues of Ravel, as ANAM celebrates the glorious complexity and 100th birthday of French composer Pierre Boulez, who to music, is akin to the likes of Jackson Pollock or Wassily Kandinsky in the visual arts.

Throughout the year, the ANAM musicians will perform alongside acclaimed visiting artists including WASO Principal conductor Asher Fisch in the ANAM Orchestra Gala Concert, US percussionist, conductor and writer Steven Schick, British clarinettist Michael Collins, plus ASQ and Brooklyn Rider.

The sometimes dark history of ANAM’s current home, the beautiful Abbotsford Convent, is explored in a program led by curator and pianist Anna Goldsworthy. Together with acclaimed writer Nam Le, a former tenant at the Convent, who has been commissioned by ANAM to write a poem that will inform th e project.

A newly arrived but very antique instrument, the fortepiano (the bohemian predecessor of the modern grand) will be in various programs, allowing the musicians to tune in to authenticity of composers such as Maria Szymanowska, Jan Ladislav Dussek, and Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, who is famous as the composer of the Marsellaise.

ANAM musicians are privileged to perform with, and be presented by, leading arts organisations across Australia and New Zealand sharing the concert hall stage under their chief conductors.

In 2025 ANAM musicians perform together with members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra at the Tarra Warra Festival, at the Adelaide Festival, and in the main stage subscription seasons of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and the Auckland Philharmonia.

Plus in Victorian Opera’s staged production of Katya Kabanova and in the Melbourne Recital Centre’s Mostly Mozart series.

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