The team over at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM) has just received some fantastic news; our Festival has won the ABC Limelight Magazine Award for Best Event/Festival for 2009!Amongst six world-class shortlisted events, the AFCM received an unbeatable amount of votes by the public thi...

14 October 2009With Australia's breathtaking Great Barrier Reef setting the scene for nine days of glorious music, performed by some of the world's best chamber musicians, it's no surprise Townsville's 19th annual Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM) was a resounding success. ...

Funding has been secured from the Australia Council and Arts Queensland to arrange for Queensland-born International Pianist, Piers Lane, to perform at a Gala Recital to introduce the Steinway Concert Grand Piano to the people of Far North Queensland, especially residents of the Cassowary Coast Regi...

Expressions of Interest are now invited for The Ian Potter Music Commission Fellowships, Australia’s largest and most prestigious award for the composition of new Australian music.  2009 will be the final year that the Music Commissions will be offered so The Ian Potter Cultural Trust enc...

Held on Thursday 30 July, the 2009 Chefs in the North dinner is an exclusive not to be missed event on the Australian Festival of Chamber Music's (AFCM) calendar. Hosted by food and wine personality Lyndey Milan, dinner is served in a spectacular marquee on the grassy lawns of presenting partner...

Date: Monday 6th April, 2009 For the first time Queenslanders' have the opportunity to vote for their favourite icons across 10 categories. The winners, to be announced during Queensland Week 2009 (6-13 June) of will ultimately make up a list of Queensland's top 150 icons. The AFCM has ...

Date: Thursday, 2nd April 2009The limelight shone on some of Townsville's best artists recently, with the city's annual Arts Awards presented at the Riverway Arts Centre.This year's Limelight Award in Memory of Stan Newman went to Dr Linda Ashton, who has been involved in numerous public...

Date: Monday 30th March, 2009. A Touch of Salt Restaurant, with the support of Brown Brothers Wines, hosts Australia's leading didgeridoo player, William Barton, as he tantalizes guests with a taste of what to expect at this year's Festival.Between 31 July and 8 August 2009, Townsv...

Soon after the roar of V8 Supercars has faded, Townsville's Reid Park Multi-Event Precinct will resonate with the sound of chamber music.Townsville City Council's Infrastructure Committee today (10 February 2009)  recommended that the forthcoming V8 pit building be made available a...

From August 23rd - 24th, the Music Centre North Queensland will host a return visit to Townsville by extraordinary, world-renowned pianist Michael Kieran Harvey. Harvey's visit will begin with a piano masterclass on Saturday 23rd August, 5-7pm, at the Court Theatre. This is a chance for students...

Dates have been announced for the Townsville-based, internationally acclaimed Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM) in 2009. After a record-breaking 2008 festival, the AFCM will be held in Townsville from July 31 through to August 9 next year. The dates mark a departure from the festival's...

...with only four days till the Australian Festival of Chamber Music begins!June 30 - 2008 With four days until the beautiful sounds of chamber music take over the north Queensland city of Townsville, the acclaimed Australian Festival of Chamber Music is continuing to sell out, with now eight c...

Tuesday 8th July to Saturday 12th July Tuesday, July 8th 10.00am - TOWNSVILLE MASONIC CENTRE - CONCERT CONVERSATIONS WITH PIERS LANE Conversations with Piers Lane (Artistic Director) and Alexander Ivashkin, Natalia Pavlutskaya and the Australian String Quartet.Artists include:Ivashkin, Alexander (Ce...

... SOLD OUT SUNDAY July 6, 2008The internationally acclaimed Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville is into day three and is today celebrating a new milestone - SOLD OUT SUNDAY. Today is one of the biggest days for the Festival, with three headline events being staged - the Love an...

Music was not always meant for children. Luckily in 1936 Sergei Prokofiev was commissioned by the Central Children's Theatre to write a musical symphony for children. The intent was to cultivate 'musical tastes in children from the first years of school' and he completed the now famous P...

Conversations with Piers LaneBelieved by many to be the most harmonious proportions in art and music, The Fibonacci Sequence is the United Kingdom's real life example of its name sake. At the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in July in Townsville, these five enormously talented artists have ...

...Four weeks until world leading artists arrive in Townsville for the Australian Festival of Chamber Music...... Events begin to sell outIn just four weeks some of the world's leading artists will arrive in the northern Queensland city of Townsville to take part in internationally acclaimed Aus...

Australian Festival of Chamber Music here to stayThe Australian Festival of Chamber Music is secure and staying in Townsville, its home for the past 18 years and for years to come, said General Manager Yvette Braithwaite-Bragg today. "This year we celebrate 18 years of making extraordinary musi...

~ Support vital for Festivals to hit right chordsWanted: volunteers to work with some of the most talented classical musicians in the world, during July in Townsville, where winter simply sounds wonderful. Beware: if the incredible sounds of Messiaen, Brahms, Mozart have the potential to affect your...

Australian Festival of Chamber Music’s Outback TourSome of Queensland’s most remote and spectacular locations will welcome the haunting sounds of the didgeridoo and classical strings during the unique musical adventure, the Australian Festival of Chamber Music’s Xstrata MacAir 2008...

If music be the food of love, play on... just as Shakespeare's Twelfth Night opens with this poignant line, so too the 18th Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM) will open with the stunning food and music event, Chefs in the North on Thursday evening, July 3. Now in its third year, Chefs i...

Destination Townsville in July 2008 ........ where winter really does sound wonderful When the mid-winter chill descends on the southern states of Australia, there remains a place where winter simply sounds wonderful - Townsville. Not only does the Tropical North Queensland city boast a wintersun en...

Destination Townsville in July 2008 ........ where winter really does sound wonderful When the mid-winter chill descends on the southern states of Australia, there remains a place where winter simply sounds wonderful - Townsville. Not only does the Tropical North Queensland city boast a wintersun en...

Restrung : A New Chamber Festival : Thu 28 Feb - Sun 2 Mar  The world's finest music ensembles come together to celebrate the best of contemporary chamber music. On Saturday 1 March, Six Pack Symphony brings together 5 of Australian finest ensembles plus the Brodsky Quartet in one of the mo...

The successful Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM) is celebrating a baton changeover as the current General Manager David Pratt moves to take up a position with the Sydney Symphony, and well known Townsville executive Yvette Braithwaite-Bragg steps on to the podium to lead this important eve...

The Festival's AGM will be held on Thursday 28th February 2008 at 5.30 pm at the AFCM's offices on the first floor of the Breakwater Terminal.  All members are welcome.  If you're interested in attending please call Loris on 4771 4144 or email loris.zanotto@afcm.com.au ...