Relaxed Performances
Concerts tailored for audiences with sensory sensitivities
Community & Creative Engagement March 2026
Marshall McGuire
Emerging
Composer Commissions
Supporting the next generation of Australian composers
Share the Music
Ticket and Transport Subsidy Program
In March, we welcomed a number of Share the Music organisations, providing free tickets and transportation for a variety of live music experiences. Our partners for the month included:
Uniting Agewell
Aspergers Victoria
Sunbury and Macedon Ranges Specialist
School
Women with Disabilities Victoria
Wintringham
Port Melbourne
Belmore Special Developmental School
Marnebek Special Developmental School
Andale Special Developmental School
Onemda Disability Services
Scope Australia
Arie Madden Welti in a Creative Development session with Bronzewing
Community & Creative Engagement March 2026
VCE Young Artist Development Program
In March, the Accelerando musicians worked with Dr Isabella Mazzarolo, a Music Entrepreneurship Lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Isabella led the group through the mechanics of performance anxiety, arming the students with a number of tools and strategies for coping and harnessing these feelings. The cohort have also met with their individual industry mentors for the first time this year, including some of the greatest Melbourne musicians and composers:
Distinguished Australian composer and educator Ian Munro
Heavy metal drummer Shane Russell
Folktronica singer/songwriter Gordi
Prolific classical composer Carl Vine
Award-winning composer and conductor Vanessa Perica
Opera singer and university lecturer Anna Connolly
Free Music
Day-time Open Rehearsals
March's Free Music artist in the Salon was Co-Director of Liquid Architecture, Rohan Rebeiro A prominent non-profit music organisation focused on experimental music, sound art, and listening, Liquid Architecture explores new ways of experiencing sound. Rohan gave the Free Music audience an excellent introduction, contextualising what they were about to hear And the audience went on the journey, with many approaching Rohan afterwards thanking him for the experience
2026 Accelerando Cohort with Dr Isabella Mazzarolo (centre)
Community & Creative Engagement March 2026
Choir 3006
Lunchtime singing sessions for Southbank
Our casual weekly Choir continues to gather members from all over, with many Melbourne visitors making a point to drop by and sing with the local community A school group from Goroke College (near the border of Victoria and South Australia) joined us in March during their ‘Arts in the City’ week.
“The students and staff absolutely loved the experience. We googled the composers of the songs (we sang) which led us down a very pleasant rabbit hole exploring their other works Thank you again and the next time we are in Melbourne it will definitely be on our 'must do' again list ”
Gabrielle Schultz, Goroke P-12 College
We were also reminded about the health benefits of group singing and music making this month.
“I am extremely grateful for this weekly event and I know I speak for my mum as well. My mum suffers from severe stage dementia and this weekly event is one she thoroughly enjoys and one she consistently remembers and asks for every single week ” Choir 3006 Member
Choir 3006 is generously supported by Jane Kunstler
