The Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music brings the most innovative and virtuosic concert music from all around the world direct to Bendigo’s View Street Cultural precinct.

The Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music strutted onto the international music scene in September 2013, winning critical praise from around the world and delivering festival and broadcast audiences a visceral experience. With an emphasis on premiere or rarely performed long form works, BIFEM platforms virtuosity in musicianship and innovation in composition.

The 2016 BIFEM opens with the world premiere of two new Australian double concerti. Sydney composer Jack Symonds conducts his Decadent Purity, a new work commissioned by Viola d’amoriste James Wannan. Parisian conductor Maxime Pascal returns for his third appearance at BIFEM to create the hyper-flamboyant Harp Guitar Double Concerto by BIFEM’s founder and director David Chisholm. Bendigo’s lauded ensemble Argonaut makes a quantum leap to a 29-piece chamber orchestra in this much anticipated fourth edition of BIFEM. 

See full program on their website www.bifem.com.au Tickets on sale now.