Hayes Street Studio presents Korean-Australian violinist Suyeon Kang alongside Australian pianist Laurence Matheson. In a rare opportunity for Australian audiences, Suyeon returns to Sydney from her current home base in Berlin, where she enjoys a versatile international performance career and a recent appointment as the newest member of the renowned Belcea Quartet. Suyeon has been praised for her "incredible maturity…more than mere playing of the music but an appreciation and understanding of its possibilities, [bringing] out qualities of ecstasy, pathos and introspection – at times appearing to be a human, animal or avian presence, intruding into the landscape or soaring above it.’ (National Business Review, NZ). She is joined by pianist Laurence Mattheson, one of Australia’s most exciting young musicians, in demand across the country as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative pianist.

Hayes Street Studio presents Korean-Australian violinist Suyeon Kang alongside Australian pianist Laurence Matheson. In a rare opportunity for Australian audiences, Suyeon returns to Sydney from her current home base in Berlin, where she enjoys a versatile international performance career and a recent appointment as the newest member of the renowned Belcea Quartet. Suyeon has been praised for her "incredible maturity…more than mere playing of the music but an appreciation and understanding of its possibilities, [bringing] out qualities of ecstasy, pathos and introspection – at times appearing to be a human, animal or avian presence, intruding into the landscape or soaring above it.’ (National Business Review, NZ). She is joined by pianist Laurence Mattheson, one of Australia’s most exciting young musicians, in demand across the country as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative pianist.

Hayes Street Studio is thrilled to present pianist and composer Joseph Havlat in a rare recital that features a newly composed works by Australian composer Lisa Illean: her piano Sonata in ten parts.  Commissioned by Wigmore Hall, the 19-minute work premiered in 2024 in London and is the composer’s first work for solo piano.  Sonata in ten parts sits alongside and speaks to Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. Each of its sections began as an improvisation on a pattern derived from a moment – often little more than a bar – in Beethoven’s set of 33 variations. Following the spirit of this form, Illean transformed the patterns while also drawing disparate starting points into a common nocturnal atmosphere. This mood is explored in movements of preternatural stillness and delicacy, while others feature darting, quicksilver figuration with a more animated character. Alongside this work, Joseph will perform a section from Bent Sørensen's "12 Nocturnes". 

Hayes Street Studio presents a dynamic recital featuring co-directors flautist Rosie Gallagher and pianist Lee Dionne. The duo explores a diverse program of music spanning from Bach’s church’s in Leipzig to tall ships on the Atlantic, traveling around the world and through time, exploring the flute as an instrument with the ability to dance, sing, yearn and tell stories. The program begins with a fresh imagining of the iconic J.S Bach Flute Partita, arranged for flute and percussion. The program will then feature virtuosic work Fantasie by Elizabeth Younan followed by the dramatically stirring work Share by Belinda Reynolds. This provides the perfect set up to the final work on the program: Valerie Coleman’s deep and dramatic tone poem for flute and piano depicting the Middle Passage in which Africans were trafficked across the Atlantic by tall ships to be sold into slavery.

Hayes Street Studio is thrilled to present acclaimed concert pianist Konstantin Shamray in an intimate recital. 

Described as an exhilarating performer with faultless technique and fearless command of the piano, Russian-Australian concert pianist Konstantin Shamray performs at an international level with the world’s leading orchestras and concert presenters. In Australia, his performance highlights have included engagements with the Adelaide, Queensland, West Australia, Tasmanian and Sydney Symphony orchestras, as well as tours with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and ANAM Orchestra. Outside of Australia, he has performed with the Russian National Philharmonic, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, Orchestre National de Lyon, Prague Philharmonia, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and the Calgary Philharmonic amongst many others. He has enjoyed collaborating with distinguished conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Vladimir Spivakov, Dmitry Liss, Tugan Sokhiev and Nicholas Milton.

Come along to the culmination concert of the 2025 Young Artist Program! Featuring young musicians from around Australia who have come together for a week long program that is mentored by the Hayes Street Studio artistic team. 

The Hayes Street Studio Young Artist Program is a week long tuition free program that supports extraordinary young musicians with the opportunity to grow their skillset as chamber musicians. The program incorporates the pursuit of musical excellence with creativity, teamwork and community engagement. The Young Artist Program offers participants the opportunity to work with leading mentors from Australia and to form connections with fellow outstanding peers that they will carry forward into a lifetime of music making.

Hayes Street Studio presents Vol. 10 of its iconic YOLO Solos Series, featuring violinist Beatrice Colombis and cross-cultural flautist Chloe Chung. YOLO (you only live once!) shows offer listeners a rapid burst of virtuosity from exceptional and diverse artists around Australia.

About the Artists:

Beatrice Colombis is an award winning Italian-Australian violinist who was selected as an Emerging Artist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in 2023 and 2024.

Chloe Chung is an innovative cross-cultural flautist, playing Western classical flute and dizi (Chinese bamboo flute), teaching music, and collaborating with others to foster unexpected musical forms and connections throughout Sydney.

The program is rounded out with a set from pianist Lee Dionne.

Hayes Street Studio co-director and pianist Lee Dionne presents a virtuosic, eclectic program that evades and captivates. Our composers appear at their most chameleon-esque, a masquerade of fanciful homage. From Bernstein to Bach and with several Sydney premieres, this all-rounder program both entertains and delights.

About the Artist:

Described as “impressive” (NYTimes), “impeccable” (Fanfare Magazine), and “entrancing” (BBC Music Magazine), pianist Lee Dionne leads a varied, international career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, artistic director, and arranger.​

He has performed numerous solo and chamber debut recitals in such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Jordan Hall, Merkin Hall, Spivey Hall, and the Philharmonic in Bratislava. Since moving to Sydney in 2023, he has performed and partnered with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Piano Plus, Musica Viva, and the Sydney Writers’ Festival.

Hayes Street Studio is thrilled to present international jazz duo Guitar Club, Pouya Abdi and Danica Hobden, in a 50 minute set of original music featuring Australian saxophonist Hinano Fujisaki. With mutual interest in original compositions and great curiosity for sound aesthetics, the ensemble explores their unique instrumentation, while honouring the drive of a rhythm section with multiple voices and melodies. In 2025, Guitar Club embarks on an Australian tour featuring saxophonist Hinano Fujisaki (AUS), who was recently awarded the Judy Bailey Composition Award for 2024, and is an active member of the Australian jazz community as a band leader and side person.