Educational Events
The Team partners and guest teachers bring many years of teaching and performing experience to educational events in the historic surrounds at Glenfern. These have included the Spring Piano School, International Teachers Seminars, Weekend Retreat for Adult Pianists, Autumn Piano Weekend 2013, Piano Marthon at Rippon Lea and many masterclasses.
Upcoming Events
Rigg Bequest Classic Music 2026 - in Special and Sacred Spaces
Gardens, Goodbyes, and Serenades: German Lieder for Voices and Piano
Celebrate the beauty of Romantic song in the magnificent surroundings of Xavier College Memorial Chapel, Kew, when male-voice consort Melbourne Capella, directed by Nicholas Cowall, presents a programme of lyrical beauty, passion and reflection. Joined by pianist Rohan Murray and soprano Sophie Cowall, this acclaimed male voice consort explores love, loss and lullaby through the poetic worlds of Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert and Alma Mahler.
Date and Time
Saturday November 21, 2026 at 3.00pm
Xavier College Memorial Chapel
135 Barkers Road,
Kew, VIC, 3101
Major sponsor: Colin & Cicely Rigg Bequest, as managed by Equity Trustees.
Rigg Bequest Classic Music 2026 - 2027
supported by the Colin & Cicely Rigg Bequest
More recitals are coming for the end of 2026 and for 2027; including Tuesday December 8, 6.30pm at Rippon Lea Ballroom, and Sunday May 2 2027, 2pm at Barwon Park, Winchelsea. Details of these events with outstanding guest artists and attractive recital programs will be available here soon!