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.

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 a unique show featuring a diverse and electric program called: Live at Hayes! Come into Hayes to experience new things that include contemporary works including The Violinist by Puerto Rican-born composer Angélica Negrón, performed by Tasmanian Symphony orchestra concert master Emma McGrath, a trio by Italian film composer Nino Rota and some vocal offerings from tenor Louis Hurley. Co-directors Rosie Gallagher and Lee Dionne will join these artists on the program for what will be a night of whimsy, imagination and excitement. 

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.

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 the hills of Ireland 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 new composition by New Zealand born composer Salina Fisher, then moves to a fresh imagining of the iconic J.S Bach Flute Partita, arranged by Rosie for flute and electronics. The listener is then taken to the picturesque world of traditional Irish wanderings before a dramatic shift to the Australian premiere of Belinda Reynolds’ emotionally stirring work Share. 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 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 Korean-Australian violinist Suyeon Kang with Australian pianist Laurence Mattheson in recital. In a rare opportunity for Australian audiences, Suyeon returns to Sydney from her current home base in Berlin, where she enjoys versatile international performance career, having been recently appointed 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 its possibilities, and brought 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, who is in demand across the country as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative pianist.

Hayes Street Studio presents Korean-Australian violinist Suyeon Kang with Australian pianist Laurence Mattheson in recital. In a rare opportunity for Australian audiences, Suyeon returns to Sydney from her current home base in Berlin, where she enjoys versatile international performance career, having been recently appointed 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 its possibilities, and brought 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, who is in demand across the country as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative pianist.

Hayes Street Studio presents Principal Clarinetist of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Benjamin Mellefont in recital with Sydney-born pianist Vatche Jambazian. The duo will present an eclectic program of music for clarinet and piano. 

Benjamin Mellefont was born in Sydney, Australia. He was appointed Principal Clarinet of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2019, having previously held the same position with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and has performed with both orchestras as a soloist. He regularly appears as Guest Principal with many of the orchestras in the UK and Australia, and at festivals such as Salzburg, Edinburgh and Aldeburgh. A keen proponent of contemporary music, Benjamin has been a core and founding member of Explore Ensemble since 2012, with whom he has been involved in numerous premieres and commissions, including play/ directing the UK premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Figura for Solo Clarinet and Ensemble. He has also appeared with other chamber groups such as Ensemble 360 and London Sinfonietta.

Hayes Street Studio collaborates with Bach in the Dark for a special event. Cellist Rachel Scott joins pianist Lee Dionne and flautist Rosie Gallagher for a program featuring music for flute, cello and piano. 

Rachel Scott studied with David Pereira in Canberra and Robert Cohen in London. She has played as a soloist and chamber musician in the United Kingdom, Serbia, Albania, Finland, Hungary and Germany. Rachel is the founder of the highly successful and innovative ‘Bach in the Dark’ concert series, through which she presents regular concerts with some of Australia’s best chamber musicians, actors and visual artists. She is known for her unconventionality – in programming, choice of artists, hair style, venue choices and delivery in concerts. She believes that concerts are a time of celebration – of listening, sharing and enjoying. Under the ‘Bach in the Dark’ label she has released three CDs, all regularly played on Australian Classical radio stations.