ROHAN MURRAY completed the first performance PhD in music at the Victorian College of the Arts. He is a member of the Golden Key Honour Society, and was a grand finalist and prize-winner at the 2000 Australian Piano Award. Rohan has performed as soloist with the Melbourne Youth Orchestra, the Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne University Choral Society, Monash Sinfonia and the New Monash Orchestra and has been the recipient of a number of awards and prizes. At the end of his Masters studies in 2002, he received an Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship to undertake a PhD at the Victorian College of the Arts. He has performed in the Rigg Estate Recital Series, the National Trust's Twilight Concert Series at Rippon Lea, Labassa and Como as well as being frequent performer in the Melbourne International Festival over recent years. Rohan has also performed in Europe and Asia. He is a partner in the Team of Pianists and his performances have been the subject of broadcasts on ABC Classic FM as well as on the Team of Pianists' 'Schimmel Artists' Series' and ‘New Norcia’ CDs.
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 - in Special and Sacred Spaces
Two Grands, Eight Hands
Celebrate the end of 2026 at this Rippon Lea Ballroom recital featuring all four partners of the the Team of Pianists!
Kevin Suherman, Darryl Coote, Rohan Murray, Robert Chamberlain present an exciting program of piano music for four, six and eight hands at two grand pianos. A special item for this evening is the world premiere of a new work by Australian composer Linda Kouvaras: Gravity and Flight: Two Movements for Eight Hands at Two Pianos, commissioned by the Team of Pianists especially for this occasion. Other composers on the program include Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann, Piazzolla and Smetana.
Enjoy canapé refreshments (included in the ticket price), pre-recital bar drinks on the pool terrace (at cost), meet committee members of the Friends of the Team of Pianists (FOTOPS) and enjoy music and festivities in this special heritage venue.
With generous sponsorship from Friends of the Team of Pianists (FOTOPS), this recital features a specially discounted ticket price for current financial members of FOTOPS, while anyone else purchasing a full-price ticket will automatically receive 6 months’ complimentary membership of the Friends until July 2027!
The second grand piano, a wonderful Schimmel K 219 grand, is generously sponsored by Bernies Music Land. Read more about this event here...
Date and Time
Tuesday December 8, 2026 at 6.30pm
The Ballroom
Rippon Lea Estate
192 Hotham St, Elsternwick, VIC, 3185
Rigg Bequest Classic Music 2027
supported by the Colin & Cicely Rigg Bequest
More recitals are coming for 2027; including Sunday May 2 2027, 2pm at Barwon Park, Winchelsea. Details of this and other events with outstanding guest artists and attractive recital programs will be available here soon!
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ROBERT CHAMBERLAIN is a versatile and accomplished pianist, with interests ranging from period performance to contemporary music and with specialisations including chamber and ensemble music. He studied for Bachelors and Masters degrees in Australia under Max Cooke, in Vienna as a winner of the Apex/Robert Stolz Scholarship, and also at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada.
Read More...Australian-Irish pianist DARRYL COOTE is a partner of the Team of Pianists, Artists-in-Residence at Glenfern for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). His professional life encompasses activity as solo pianist, chamber musician, concerto soloist, teacher, adjudicator and administrator.
Read More...Indonesian-born pianist KEVIN SUHERMAN has appeared nationally and internationally since the age of 10, after being awarded the Indonesian National Records Award (MURI) as the youngest pianist to perform 50 classical, pop and jazz pieces, in a concert for 3 hours non-stop and all music memorised, broadcasted on live national TV.
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