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KEY DATES
Early Bird Renewal Deadline
Friday 12 September 2025
Renewing Subscribers’ Deadline
Friday 24 October 2025
Individual concerts available to purchase from
Thursday 30 October 2025
Experience a program where historical breakthroughs meet raw, physical sound.
Join the MSO for the Australian premiere of The Deciding Machine by Melody Eötvös. Composed in 2020, this work marks a dual tribute to the centenary of women’s suffrage and the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. The title honours Ada Lovelace, the 19th-century visionary who wrote the world’s first computer algorithm.
To complement this tribute to innovation, the work will be paired with Beethoven’s only Violin Concerto, featuring the brilliant Spanish violinist María Dueñas. While her recording with Deutsche Grammophon is stunning, nothing compares to the electricity of hearing her play it live.
The evening reaches its peak with a work designed to be felt as much as heard. If you’ve ever been awestruck by the bold horn calls and thunderous timpani of 2001: A Space Odyssey, this is your chance to experiencing the feeling of that music resonating through your entire body.
Under the baton of Chief Conductor Jaime Martín, Strauss’ heroic Also sprach Zarathustra will be brought to life in all its visceral glory.
Artists
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Violin
Program
Melody Eötvös
Beethoven
R. Strauss
*Australian Premiere
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