17th Annual Windfire Music Festival
Friday 2 October to Sunday 11 October, 2026
Windfire Festival Program
A copy of the 2026 Windfire Music Festival will be available soon.
Friday October 2, 8.15pm
The Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels, 136 Yarra St. Geelong
ENCORES
Australian Chamber Choir
Director - Douglas Lawrence
Since its inception in 2007, the ACC has given 125 concerts in Europe and many more in Australia. At the conclusion of the formal part of each concert, the audience often lets us know that they would like to hear more. We might repeat the most loved work on the program, or surprise the audience with something fun, light, humorous, something in a popular style, or just something breathtakingly heavenly.
Tickets $50/$45/$40 www.auschoir.com Children and school students - free admission
Saturday October 3, 3.00pm
St Paul's Anglican Church, La Trobe Terrace, Geelong
LAUGHTER AND TEARS
Brighid Mantelli - flute, Edmund Mantelli - viola, Laura Tanata - harp
Debussy’s Sonata for flute, viola and harp - written amid illness and war - anchors this program with its emotional ambiguity and shimmering Impressionistic colour. Balancing light and shadow, it invites both laughter and tears. Together with the Ravel and Leo Smit Trios, this program promises to take the listener on an emotional journey and bathe them in gorgeous, shimmering, lush sound.
Tickets $30 from Tickets $30 from www.trybooking.com/DLEVA. Children and school students - free admission.
Sunday October 4, 3.00pm
Keith Humble Centre, 85 Aphrasia St, Newtown
LEGENDS, LOVERS AND LIEDER
Lee Abrahmsen - soprano Kevin Tamanini - piano
A luminous afternoon of song tracing the passion, poetry and power of the late romantic masters, Puccini, Strauss, Grainger and Wagner. Geelong soprano Lee Abrahmsen and pianist Kevin Tamanini bring these masterpieces to life at the Keith Humble Centre Auditorium, Geelong College.
Tickets $30 from www.trybooking.com/DLEVE. Children and school students - free admission
Monday October 5, 5 to 5.30pm
Basilica of St Mary of the Angels, 136 Yarra Street, Geelong
FREE EVENT: Lucy Riddett - piano accordionist
Tuesday October 6, 5 to 5.30pm
Basilica of St Mary of the Angels, 136 Yarra Street, Geelong
FREE EVENT: Olivier Bonnici - violin
Wednesday October 7, 5 to 5.30pm
Basilica of St Mary of the Angels, 136 Yarra Street, Geelong
FREE EVENT: Angie Smales - harp & zither
Thursday October 8, 5 to 5.30pm
Basilica of St Mary of the Angels, 136 Yarra Street, Geelong
FREE EVENT: Zephyr Recorder Consort
Friday October 9, 5 to 5.30pm
Basilica of St Mary of the Angels, 136 Yarra Street, Geelong
FREE EVENT: Liz monument - harp
Friday October 9, 7.30pm
Basilica of St Mary of the Angels, 136 Yarra Street, Geelong
OTHER PLACES, OTHER TIMES...
AXES (Saxophone Quartet)
Shannon Ebeling, Niels Bijl, Sara Beale, Michael Lichnovsky
A program built around Maurice Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin, this program explores how music has so often been composed as a direct reflection of the state of the world the composers found themselves in. From tragedy to reflection, music was often centered around a strong need to comment on society.
Tickets $30 from www.trybooking.com/DLEVI. Children and school students - free admission
Saturday October 10, 3.00pm
Basilica of St Mary of the Angels, 136 Yarra Street, Geelong
SWEET AND LOW
The Vocal Consort of the Australian Boys Choral Institute
Director - Nick Dinopoulos
Vibrant voices come together in this spellbinding performance. In this stunning a cappella outing, The Vocal Consort will perform a dazzling array of classical and contemporary repertoire
Tickets $30 from www.trybooking.com/DLEVN. Children and school students - free admission
Sunday October 11, 4.00pm
Basilica of St Mary of the Angels, 136 Yarra Street, Geelong
WATER OF LIFE: A Musical Voyage from Skye to Venice
Evergreen Ensemble
Director - Shane Lestideau
with guest soloist Michael O'Donnell
Tickets $30 from www.trybooking.com/DLEVQ. Children and school students - free admission