Music is often described as the universal language, crossing all borders and bridging all divides.

Each year Musica Viva Tasmania uses that language to build bridges across the globe, and takes audiences on a tantalising tour of different countries and unfamiliar cultures. In 2010 we are joined on that journey by Paul Stanhope, one of Australia’s leading composers and Musica Viva Australia’s featured composer for 2010.

The season takes us to six countries and eight cities, giving voice along the way to music from more than a dozen nations. From Moscow to Cambridge and from Prague to Paris, from Berlin to London and back home to Sydney and Melbourne, the 2010 season criss-crosses the map to take in over five hundred years of musical expression.

And just as we visit both old and new worlds in our travels, the 2010 season juxtaposes the young and upcoming with the established musical elite, matching energetic enthusiasm with the steady hand of experience.

Our season opens with a Tasmanian favourite, pianist Ian Munro, presenting his first solo recital in Hobart for many years. In our second concert Melbourne’s Flinders Quartet returns with leading guitarist Karin Schaupp, followed by the return for our third concert of 2008 season favourites the Pavel Haas Quartet.

Next we join forces with the Theatre Royal to welcome the renowned Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, on its first Australian tour, before returning to the Town Hall for Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova and French pianist Cédric Tiberghien.

Our travels finally end in November with the season closer from the dynamic young German ensemble the Atos Trio.

With Musica Viva Tasmania offering a year-long tour for the price of just six concerts, international travel has never been so affordable!

Come join us in our travels and experience our exciting world of music.