nipaluna/Hobart Lunchbox Concerts: Winter 2025
Credit: Albert Comper
Our immensely popular lunchtime concert series returns to the Hobart Town Hall for five fabulous concerts!
Guest Curator Katie Yap has assembled an eclectic program of music spanning a rich variety of genres and styles for our latest Lunchbox Concert Series.
Escape the hustle and bustle and step into an oasis of calm listening to beautiful music in the glorious surrounds of the Hobart Town Hall Ballroom.
CONCERT #1: TUESDAY 5 AUGUST - GRYPHON BARYTON TRIO (VIC/TAS)
This concert is a rare chance to hear some of the fascinating chamber works for baryton live, performed with their intended instrumentation. The magnificent baryton, an instrument similar to a bass viol but with an extra course of metal sympathetic strings, was an extraordinary 18th Century instrument with a rich repertoire of music by Joseph Haydn - the so-called 'Baryton Trios'.
These delightful works are full of invention, wit and colour, with the unique combination of baryton, viola and cello creating unique and beautiful sonority. This programme includes Baryton Trios by Haydn plus the premiere of a delightfully humorous new work by Australian composer Brooke Green.
Laura Vaughan (baryton) joins Katie Yap (viola) and Josephine Vains (cello) for a Lunchbox full of invention and colour, with a veritable feast of low instruments creating unique and beautiful sonority.
CONCERT #2: TUESDAY 12 AUGUST - GEORGINA LEWIS (VIC)
Recognised for her thoughtful programming and sensitive performances, Georgina Lewis (piano) plays a program whose theme lies in sounds and ideas from afar, echoed through the veils of memory, mists and leaves at dusk.
Traversing the works of Claude Debussy, Anne Cawrse, Robert McIntyre, Franz Schubert, Philip Glass, Stuart Greenbaum and others, Georgina will lean into grey areas, the strength in the fragile, and the thin places in our world and being.
CONCERT #3: TUESDAY 19 AUGUST - VDB FELLOWS (TAS)
Simon Martyn-Ellis (theorbo) leads the VDB Fellows in a program of of 16th and 17th Century delights, from baroque “standards” to opera sinfonie.
Featuring Alethea Coombe and Natalya Bing (violins), Katie Yap (viola), Martin Penicka (cello) and Meriel Owen on our gorgeous new Baroque triple harp, the VDB Fellowship offers free professional training for emerging and established professional Lutruwitan/Tasmanian musicians wanting to develop their skills in historically-informed performance.
CONCERT #4: TUESDAY 26 AUGUST - ANDREW SEYMOUR & KAREN SMITHIES (TAS)
It was Mozart who admired the clarinet’s ability to imitate the human voice, writing “your instrument has so soft and lovely a tone that no one can resist it.”
In the beautiful acoustic of the Hobart Town Hall, where the clarinet sings so richly, Andrew Seymour (clarinet) and Karen Smithies (piano) explore these qualities with music from Verdi’s La Traviata and songs of Mahler and Mendelssohn.
CONCERT #5: TUESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER - VAN DIEMEN'S VOICES (TAS)
Van Diemen's Voices return! Directed by acclaimed Lutruwitan/Tasmanian vocalist and music director Quin Thomson, VDV explores the incredible array of music written for vocal ensemble.
This entrancing vocal performance will bring the Winter Lunchbox Concert series to a captivating close.
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Date & Time
| Concert #1 - Gryphon Baryton Trio |
Tue 5 August 1.05pm |
| Concert #2 - Georgina Lewis |
Tue 12 August 1.05pm |
| Concert #3 - VDB Fellows |
Tue 19 August 1.05pm |
| Concert #4 - Andrew Seymour & Karen Smithies |
Tue 26 August 1.05pm |
| Concert #5 - Van Diemen's Voices |
Tue 2 September 1.05pm |
Tickets
| 5-concert season pass | $50.00 includes dedicated entry queue |
| Pre-booked | $10.00 Available online until 1 hour prior to the performance unless sold out |
| Door sale | $15.00 Available at the door from 1 hour prior to the performance unless sold out |
| Companion Card Holder | Free |
Booking Fees
| 5-concert season pass | $1.75 per pass. Our ticketing provider, Humanitix, passes on a small booking fee to cover the cost of service and merchant fees. 100% of booking fee profits are donated to charity by Humanitix. |
| Individual Concert Tickets | $0.75 per booking. Our ticketing provider, Humanitix, passes on a small booking fee to cover the cost of service and merchant fees. 100% of booking fee profits are donated to charity by Humanitix. |
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About our Lunchboxes
Our Lunchbox Concerts are bite-sized concerts that run for around 50 minutes without an interval. There are no printed programs and seating is general admission. Performers will often (but not always) talk during the program to introduce the pieces, their instruments or their colleagues. The atmosphere is casual and welcoming, and if you've not been to a "classical" music concert before this is an excellent place to start!