Photo credit: Agatha Yim, Polyphonic Pictures
If amazing discoveries are your thing, have we got a season for you! Unfamiliar gems galore, fabulous emerging artists, a wonderful new international guest and of course, some of Melbourne's finest.
Welcome to Wilma & Friends 2025!
x Wilma
2025 Season
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KEYS TO ROMANCE
11 & 13 March 2025
Despair for Robert, unrequited love for Clara
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Gustav Mahler
Piano Quartet movement in A minorHerbert Howells
Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 21
(Scotch College Concert only)Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60❖❖❖
Tian Tian Lan, piano
Wilma Smith, violin
Lisa Grosman, viola
James Monro, cello -
VIVA VIOLA!
11 & 13 September 2025
Richness and depth of two-viola string quintets
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Anton Bruckner - Intermezzo in D minor WAB 113
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - String Quintet No. 5 in D Major, K.593
Carl Nielsen - String Quintet in G Major, CNW 59
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Peter Gjelsten, violin
Wilma Smith, violin
Yuri Zhislin, viola
Fiona Sargeant, viola
Matthias Balzat, cello -
PASSION & POWER
15 & 21 November 2025
Three discoveries – unsung masterpieces
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Anton Webern - Langsamer Satz for String Quartet
Amy Beach - Piano Quintet in F# minor, Op. 67
Nikolai Medtner – Piano Quintet in C Major, Op. posth.
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Stefan Cassomenos, piano
Monica Curro, violin
Wilma Smith, violin
Angelina Kim, viola
Noah Lawrence, cello