OUR MUSIC COMMUNITY SAYS…

“Access to these high quality facilities and resources will encourage, nurture and stimulate artistic growth. It will enable the younger generations of musicians to discover and develop their unique voice and path through collaborations and contact with far reaching communities. Melbourne Recital Centre has the tremendous capacity to reach out, inspire and unite the global community.”
Caroline Almonte Pianist, Director Melbourne Recital Centre

"For Musica Viva in Melbourne, the prospect of moving our concerts into a purpose-built, acoustically perfect recital hall is the single most important event in our 60 year history."
Peter Burch Manager, Musica Viva Victoria
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"ABC Classic FM forsees a close involvement with the venue, and would plan to record many concerts for national broadcast on the classical music network."
John Crawford Program Director, ABC Classic FM

“Standing on the stage of Elisabeth Murdoch Hall during my hard-hat tour of Melbourne Recital Centre some months ago was a truly exciting experience.  To combine such a sense of space, in which the music can breathe and unfold, together with a sense of intimacy, in which the back row of the balcony is still an approachable distance for the performer's voice to reach and connect, is simply wonderful.  I can't wait to see the hall with all its clothes on!"
Brett Dean Artistic Director,
Australian National Academy of Music

"For the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the new Melbourne Recital Hall will be the kind of home we have been waiting for!"
Paul Dyer Artistic Director, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
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"I look forward to planning chamber opera seasons for Victorian Opera at the new recital hall. The benefits are so clear and such a point of discrimination from any other theatre in Australia."
Richard Gill Artistic Director, Victorian Opera
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"The addition to Melbourne of a purpose-built venue for small ensemble music will add enormously to the live performance of jazz in Melbourne. This city is renowned for its diverse activities within the genre but like all chamber music it needs and deserves, apart from the club environment, spaces that allow for more formal yet intimate performance. It will add a further dimension to live music making in this city. I have no doubt that it will attract both national and international artists very quickly, raising the profile of this great creative art and build further on Melbourne’s wonderful reputation as a focal point for art music."
Tony Gould Pianist, Composer, Educator

"This interfacing of recording, acoustic and architecture will be seen as a great contribution to a world city of the 21st century."
Paul Grabowsky Director, Australian Art Orchestra
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"For Melbourne Chorale this venue is nothing less than heaven!"
Jonathan Grieves-Smith Artistic Director, Melbourne Chorale
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"As a presenter of concerts and theatrical attractions for the past 45 years, I am acutely aware of the need to match the artist or ensemble with the appropriate venue. There has always been a gap in Melbourne’s choice of venues for a purpose-built recital hall, which has often influenced the selection of artists that we bring to Melbourne. An intimate hall for 1,000 with excellent acoustics supported by practical backstage and front of house facilities and dedicated staff with realistic rental means that we can bring to Melbourne artists that we would otherwise not have considered."
The Late Clifford Hocking AM Director, Hocking & Vigo

“Elisabeth Murdoch Hall will inspire artists to give of their best.”
William Lyne CBE Director Emeritus Wigmore Hall, London;
Artistic Advisor Melbourne Recital Centre
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"Melbourne Recital Centre will be dedicated to offering a different approach to the presentation and experience of music performance in Australia."
Jonathan Mills Artistic Director Edinburgh Festival

"The intimacy of Elisabeth Murdoch Hall will be something that brings people together who love music to enjoy the very finest."
Sue Nattrass Artistic Director Melbourne Festival, 1998 and 1999

"The completion of Melbourne Recital Centre will mean not only this city’s first dedicated recital space, but, on a larger scale, the final section of one of the world’s most intensive arts precincts. Within this area are the training, performing and administrative facilities representing all stages of cultural development and exposition. It is what makes Melbourne so artistically enriching."
Barry Tuckwell AC OBE Horn Virtuoso

"Chamber Music Australia is delighted that the new Recital Hall will provide the perfect setting to launch the careers of the upcoming stars of chamber music."
Benjamin Woodroffe General Manager, Chamber Music Australia
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