Winter Solstice Toowoomba
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Thursday 18 June | 6:00–7:30pm St Luke’s Anglican Church,152 Herries St, Toowoomba. Doors open from 5:30pm for chai, cake, mulled wine, and connection before the performance.
Friday 19 June | 6:00–7:30pm Eudlo Hall, Rosebed St Eudlo, Sunshine Coat Hinterland. Doors open from 5:30pm for homemade soup, chai, cake, mulled wine, and connection before the performance.
Saturday 20 June | 5:00–6:30pm Ithaca Hall, Red Hill, Brisbane. Doors open from 4:30pm for chai, cake, mulled wine, and connection before the performance.
Sunday 21 June | 5:00–6:30pm Witta House Concert (58 Gumland Drive, Witta North Maleny). Doors open from 4:30pm for homemade soup, chai, cake, mulled wine, and connection before the performance.
Fantasies, Nocturnes & Lullabies for Cello & Piano
An intimate Winter Solstice concert celebrating stillness, warmth, and music for dreaming by cello and piano. Inspired by the quiet beauty of winter, these performances invite audiences to slow down, reflect, and gather together through gentle music on the longest nights of the year.
The Winter Solstice has been honoured across cultures for centuries to pause and renew, marking the darkest and shortest day of the year, and the gradual return of light. Traditionally associated with gathering, storytelling, reflection, warmth, and community, it offers a rare invitation in modern life to rest, listen, and reconnect with ourselves and one another.
Through fantasies, nocturnes, lullabies, meditations, and gentle musical landscapes, A Winter Solstice creates a space for calm, contemplation, comfort, and shared listening experience during the heart of winter.
An atmospheric classical program inspired by the Winter Solstice, a time for stillness, reflection, renewal, and gathering through the darkest, coldest, and shortest days of the year.
Featuring music by Australian composers Nat Bartsch, Sally Greenaway; French impressionists Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, and Gabriel Fauré; contemporary cinematic voices including Ola Gjeilo, Gabriel Ólafs, Max Richter, Ludovico Einaudi, and minimalist Arvo Pärt; alongside Russian romantic Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the concert weaves together fantasies, nocturnes, lullabies, meditations, and gymnopédies in an intimate candle-lit setting.
Gentle, spacious, and restorative, this is music for a dark snug night, an invitation to pause, breathe, listen deeply, and embrace the quiet beauty of winter.
A Winter Solstice | Fantasies, Nocturnes & Lullabies for Cello & Piano is an intimate concert for cello and piano featuring reflective classical and contemporary repertoire presented in a candle-lit (battery) setting. The program includes works by Australian, French, Nordic, and Russian composers and explores themes of stillness, renewal, contemplation, and connection associated with the Winter Solstice season.
The event is designed as a relaxed listening experience with seated audience. Light refreshments including tea, chai, coffee, and cake will be served before the performance and during interval.
Patrons are warmly invited to arrive 30 minutes prior to the performance to gather, settle, and connect before the music begins. A selection of homemade soup, mulled wine, chai, tea, coffee, and cake will be available for purchase from the kitchen, creating a relaxed and cosy winter atmosphere.
Proceeds from hospitality sales will support the presentation costs of this independent performance project, including artist fees, with any additional profit donated to the Long Listen Festival EOFY fundraising campaign. LINK [https://long-listen-global-sounds-local-heart.raiselysite.com/]
Our spaces will be transformed into an intimate Nordic-inspired winter sanctuary with candlelight, fairy lights, natural flora, and rosemary for remembrance, designed to create warmth, calm, and stillness.
Patrons may choose to sit or lie down in the front relaxation area or in a spot of their choosing. Guests choosing this experience are encouraged to BYO yoga mat, blanket, and cushion for comfort and cosy listening.
Patrons are encouraged to fully settle into the atmosphere by bringing a journal, sketchbook, knitting, poetry, or a quiet creative practice to accompany the listening experience. Guests may rest, reflect, dream, create, write, think, or enjoy a rare moment of stillness while listening to our gentle music.
Friday 19 June | 6:00–7:30pm Eudlo Hall, Rosebed St Eudlo, Sunshine Coat Hinterland. Doors open from 5:30pm for homemade soup, chai, cake, mulled wine, and connection before the performance.
Saturday 20 June | 5:00–6:30pm Ithaca Hall, Red Hill, Brisbane. Doors open from 4:30pm for chai, cake, mulled wine, and connection before the performance.
Sunday 21 June | 5:00–6:30pm Witta House Concert (58 Gumland Drive, Witta North Maleny). Doors open from 4:30pm for homemade soup, chai, cake, mulled wine, and connection before the performance.
Fantasies, Nocturnes & Lullabies for Cello & Piano
An intimate Winter Solstice concert celebrating stillness, warmth, and music for dreaming by cello and piano. Inspired by the quiet beauty of winter, these performances invite audiences to slow down, reflect, and gather together through gentle music on the longest nights of the year.
The Winter Solstice has been honoured across cultures for centuries to pause and renew, marking the darkest and shortest day of the year, and the gradual return of light. Traditionally associated with gathering, storytelling, reflection, warmth, and community, it offers a rare invitation in modern life to rest, listen, and reconnect with ourselves and one another.
Through fantasies, nocturnes, lullabies, meditations, and gentle musical landscapes, A Winter Solstice creates a space for calm, contemplation, comfort, and shared listening experience during the heart of winter.
An atmospheric classical program inspired by the Winter Solstice, a time for stillness, reflection, renewal, and gathering through the darkest, coldest, and shortest days of the year.
Featuring music by Australian composers Nat Bartsch, Sally Greenaway; French impressionists Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, and Gabriel Fauré; contemporary cinematic voices including Ola Gjeilo, Gabriel Ólafs, Max Richter, Ludovico Einaudi, and minimalist Arvo Pärt; alongside Russian romantic Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the concert weaves together fantasies, nocturnes, lullabies, meditations, and gymnopédies in an intimate candle-lit setting.
Gentle, spacious, and restorative, this is music for a dark snug night, an invitation to pause, breathe, listen deeply, and embrace the quiet beauty of winter.
A Winter Solstice | Fantasies, Nocturnes & Lullabies for Cello & Piano is an intimate concert for cello and piano featuring reflective classical and contemporary repertoire presented in a candle-lit (battery) setting. The program includes works by Australian, French, Nordic, and Russian composers and explores themes of stillness, renewal, contemplation, and connection associated with the Winter Solstice season.
The event is designed as a relaxed listening experience with seated audience. Light refreshments including tea, chai, coffee, and cake will be served before the performance and during interval.
Patrons are warmly invited to arrive 30 minutes prior to the performance to gather, settle, and connect before the music begins. A selection of homemade soup, mulled wine, chai, tea, coffee, and cake will be available for purchase from the kitchen, creating a relaxed and cosy winter atmosphere.
Proceeds from hospitality sales will support the presentation costs of this independent performance project, including artist fees, with any additional profit donated to the Long Listen Festival EOFY fundraising campaign. LINK [https://long-listen-global-sounds-local-heart.raiselysite.com/]
Our spaces will be transformed into an intimate Nordic-inspired winter sanctuary with candlelight, fairy lights, natural flora, and rosemary for remembrance, designed to create warmth, calm, and stillness.
Patrons may choose to sit or lie down in the front relaxation area or in a spot of their choosing. Guests choosing this experience are encouraged to BYO yoga mat, blanket, and cushion for comfort and cosy listening.
Patrons are encouraged to fully settle into the atmosphere by bringing a journal, sketchbook, knitting, poetry, or a quiet creative practice to accompany the listening experience. Guests may rest, reflect, dream, create, write, think, or enjoy a rare moment of stillness while listening to our gentle music.
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Where is it happening?
152 Herries St, Toowoomba City QLD 4350, Australia, Church St Lukes, 152 Herries St, Toowoomba City QLD 4350, Australia, Toowoomba
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