Going for baroque in 2025: Australian Brandenburg Orchestra celebrates its 35th anniversary

From Handel and Bach to new collaborations and commissions, the Brandenburg’s 2025 season promises to excite and delight.
Venezuelan-born male soprano Samuel Mariño opens the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra's 2025 season. Wearing a green velvet waistcoat, a pale pink shirt and a cravat, Mariño - who has light brown skin, dark eyes and curly black hair - parts a pair of white lace curtains and gently smiles at the camera.

The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, renowned for performing music from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries on period instruments, features classic works by Handel, Bach, Vivaldi and Albinoni in its newly launched 2025 season alongside contemporary circus and the ancient living language, Yolŋu.

“In our signature fusion of classical and contemporary style, we present a series of thrilling ways to engage with the Baroque in 2025,” says the Brandenburg’s co-founder and Artistic Director, Paul Dyer.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts