Original & Deeply Personal Works

This event is part of a broader Easter Festival titled 'Grigoryan Brothers & Friends', bringing together an ensemble like no other. The musical relationships run deep and wide, spanning years, countries, repertoire, and instrumentation. What makes this weekend special isn't just the repertoire (spanning Bach to Piazzolla, jazz inspirations to ambient atmospheres) or the rare mix of instruments (think classical and electric guitars, piano, bass, tabla, cello and voice). It's the chemistry. These artists have toured together, written together, risked together, lived and loved together over many years, countries and genres. They are both blood and chosen family. Expect moments of high-wire virtuosity and, just as often, the kind of stillness that transcends time.

The weekend's finale unites all artists in a celebration of originality, storytelling, and connection. The Australian Guitar Quartet performs a brand new version of Nigel Westlake's Six Fish – playful, textural, and oceanic in scope — before Al Slavik, Slava Grigoryan, Lenny Grigoryan, Bobby Singh, and Luke Howard present selections from Al and Slava's thirty year catalogue of music alongside Lenny and Luke's FGHR (Darryn Farrugia, Leonard Grigoryan, Luke Howard and Ben Robertson) recordings. The performance builds toward This Is Us, a powerful collaborative finale featuring projected imagery from the National Museum of Australia.