David Coulter and MM - David Lynch: In Dreams @ Sydney Opera House 2015
2025 Concert Diary Archive
Sunday 20 July 2025 4pm
Music at McClelland
McClelland Gallery 390 McClelland Dr, Langwarrin VIC 3910
Marshall McGuire and Genevieve Lacey have performed together across the world, from prestigious venues and festivals in Moscow, Paris, and London, to the Lindau International Convention for Nobel Laureates, and further afield to shearing sheds, football ovals, and remote properties in Australia.
Their 2021 album Bower celebrated their more than 20-year collaboration, winning the ARIA for Best Classical Recording. This performance takes excerpts from Bower and mines their extensive catalogue of music for the exquisite combination of recorders and harp, with compositions from sumptuous Renaissance and Baroque courts to contemporary Australian works written especially for them.
Information and Booking: https://events.humanitix.com/music-at-mcclelland-genevieve-lacey-and-marshall-mcguire
Friday 18 July 2025 7pm
ELISION Ensemble - AXIS MUNDI: spectacular sonic imaginations.
Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre
ELISION presents a major concert of new music followed by a special late night event delivering a second version of Bryn Harrison's Double Laybrinth after Richard Dunn. This unique and fragile realisation involves seven instrumentalists, and the magic of the cembalom! Hypnotic, gentle swirling lines of sound infuse rich timbre and patterns.
Liza Lim's Axis Mundi understands the bassoon as a singing tree with the breath of the musician travelling hidden pathways through the knotted grain of the instrument. Breath and the movement of air informs much of this program; from Julio Estrada to the eruptive and commanding visceral Ciacco of John Rodgers.
Information and bookings: https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/whats-on/current-productions/axis-mundi
Friday 27 June 2025 5.30pm
Two Musical Worlds - music at Beleura
Beleura House & Garden Mornington VIC
Niels Bijl — saxophones
James Sherlock — guitar
Marshall McGuire — harp
Mark Fitzgibbon - piano
Two duos - saxophone and harp - guitar and piano- will play a selection of well known, well-loved classical pieces by Bach, Faure, Piazzolla, Schubert, Satie and others.
The Bijl/McGuire duo will play the printed scores and after their performance the Sherlock/Fitzgibbon duo will follow with spontaneous versions on the main themes.
This brings musical improvisation to classical music - a common idea in earlier times. Most composers from J S Bach onwards were masters of improvisation, and thus this concert revives a wonderful tradition in Art music. Tony Gould
Information and bookings: https://beleura.org.au/music/twomw/
Thursday 19 - Sunday 22 June 2025
Arafura Ensemble Darwin
Thursday 19 June - 6-7pm Brown’s Mart Darwin
An evening of French elegance with internationally renowned harpist Marshall McGuire at Browns Mart. Join Arafura Music Collective in collaboration with Alliance Française de Darwin for a celebration of French music.
Information and bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/events/1396840/sessions/5589444/sections/2666702/tickets
Saturday 21 June -330-5pm
Gray Community Hall
Cnr Essington Avenue and Victoria Drive, Gray, Palmerston
France’s La Fête de la Musique is celebrated in Palmerston on June 21st, brought to you by Arafura Music Collective Marshall McGuire and Alliance Française de Darwin. Come and celebrate the cultural richness of the NT.
Renowned harpist Marshall McGuire joins the musicians of Arafura Music Collective in a rich and evocative program spanning the ages.
Information and bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/events/1397082/sessions/5590259/sections/2667114/tickets
Sunday 22 June 5.00-6.15pm
NT Supreme Court
State Square, Darwin City
France’s La Fête de la Musique is celebrated in Darwin on June 22nd, brought to you by Arafura Music Collective, Marshall McGuire and Alliance Française de Darwin. Come and celebrate the cultural richness of the NT.
Renowned harpist Marshall McGuire joins the musicians of Arafura Music Collective in a rich and evocative program spanning the ages.
Information and bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/events/1397089/sessions/5590287/sections/2667121/tickets
Sunday 15 June 2025 5-9pm
Diagrammatica - RISING Festival
Slot 9, Fed Square
Marshall McGuire, harp & Genevieve Lacey, recorder/s
Enter a genre-defying artwork where you can watch, listen, or fall into moving pictures of thought via live performance, drawing, film and soundscape.
Inspired by physics diagrams, astral photography, and graphic musical scores Diagrammatica is an ever-evolving improvisation. An extended meeting between logic and abstraction.
Created by Jason Maling, in collaboration with sound artists Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, along with filmmaker Rhian Hinkley, it’s an interactive living diagram, accessible from the underground. Sparks of ideas float freely and coalesce. Musicians perform out of view through a hyper-directional audio system. Shifting soundscapes submerge you.
Go deeper into the rift, with an intimate, subterranean experience in Slot 9. Or stay out in the open, above ground to watch the happenings for free in the Atrium.
Information and bookings: https://2025.rising.melbourne/program/diagrammatica?tab=session-details
Sunday 6 April 3pm
Utzon Room Sydney Opera House
Simon Martyn-Ellis, theorbo & Marshall McGuire, harp
A rare chance to hear two exquisite instruments, beautifully played — Marshall McGuire (harp) and Simon Martyn-Ellis (theorbo) in solos and duos, old and new, by Froberger, Leonarda, Glanville-Hicks, Lim, Kapsberger, Chance, Castaldi.
Information and bookings: https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/utzon-music/marshall-mcguire-simon-martyn-ellis
Friday 11 April 8pm
Rosina Auditorium, Abbotsford Convent
Concert 2: 8pm
Sur Incises – an explosion of sonorities
Helen GIFFORD Celebration of the Apsaras
Pierre BOULEZ Sur Incises
Fabian Russell conductor
Marshall McGuire harp
Melina van Leeuwen (alum 2014) harp
Jessica Fotinos (alum 2012) harp
Paavali Jumppanen (ANAM Artistic Director) piano
Timothy Young (Associate Faculty) piano
ANAM Musicians
More information: https://anam.com.au/whats-on/events/boulez-rules
Bookings: https://ticketing.anam.com.au/1227/1232
2023 Concert Diary Archive
Friday 28 APRIL 2023 7:30pm
McAuley Hall, Sacred Heart College, Retreat Road Newtown VIC 3220
Geelong Chamber Music Society
Paula Rae, flute & Marshall McGuire, harp
https://www.geelongchamber.org/copy-of-concert-2
Saturday 30 September 2023 - 630pm and 815pm
The Church @ Alexandria /Phoenix Central Park
ELISION Ensemble
Peter Neville, percussion
Ben Ward, double bass
Freya Schack-Arnott, cello
Tristram Williams, trumpt/conductor
DONATONI - Marches
Richard Barrett - venus for harp, percussion, double bass
Saturday 9 September 2023 @ 7.30pm
Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre
ELISION Ensemble
Rohan Dasika contrabass
Marshall McGuire harp
Peter Neville percussion
Kathryn Schulmeister contrabass
Daryl Buckley artistic director
Alistair McLean sound engineer
Liza Lim
The Table of Knowledge for solo contrabass
Mary Bellamy
Rift for harp, contrabass and percussion
Richard Barrett
Splinter for solo contrabass
Dominik Karski
Motion + Form for harp, contrabass and percussion
Einar Torfi Einarsson
Scalar for two contrabass
Thursday 20 April 2023
Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre
New Music Days
ELISION Ensemble - Extinction Events & Dawn Chorus
Mary Bellamy
Enveloped
Aaron Cassidy Piano concerto (world premiere)
Liza Lim
Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus
Booking and Information: https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2023/elision/
Wednesday 25 JANUARY 2023 6pm
Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre
Riley Lee & Marshall McGuire - Goldfish through Summer Rain
https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2023/riley-lee-and-marshall-mcguire/
This performance in Primrose Potter Salon features works from their ARIA-nominated album Spring Sea, and Floating World, alongside works from Riley’s acclaimed new release, Hildegard. The unique combination of these two ancient instruments – representing Eastern and Western musical traditions – has inspired and delighted audiences in Australia and the world.