ROHAN MURRAY completed the first performance PhD in music at the Victorian College of the Arts. He is a member of the Golden Key Honour Society, and was a grand finalist and prize-winner at the 2000 Australian Piano Award. Rohan has performed as soloist with the Melbourne Youth Orchestra, the Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne University Choral Society, Monash Sinfonia and the New Monash Orchestra and has been the recipient of a number of awards and prizes. At the end of his Masters studies in 2002, he received an Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship to undertake a PhD at the Victorian College of the Arts. He has performed in the Rigg Estate Recital Series, the National Trust's Twilight Concert Series at Rippon Lea, Labassa and Como as well as being frequent performer in the Melbourne International Festival over recent years. Rohan has also performed in Europe and Asia. He is a partner in the Team of Pianists and his performances have been the subject of broadcasts on ABC Classic FM as well as on the Team of Pianists' 'Schimmel Artists' Series' and ‘New Norcia’ CDs.
Upcoming Events
Rigg Bequest Classic Music 2026 - in Special and Sacred Spaces
Through Forest and Flame: Lieder and Love
Experience a nineteenth-century world of musical fantasy in the bluestone grandeur of Melbourne's 1874 German Lutheran Church, East Melbourne, with tenor Michael Petruccelli, mezzo-soprano Sally-Anne Russell and Team partner Darryl Coote at the piano.
The program includes Schumann’s song cycle Liederkreis Op 24, Wagner’s iconic Wesendonck Lieder, the world premiere of New Zealand composer Andrew Perkins’ Pax Vobiscum, a duet for mezzo-soprano and tenor composed specially for Sally-Anne Russell, as well as by Darryl Coote’s performance of Schumann’s Arabesque for piano Op 18.
Join other audience members and the artists for interval refreshments hosted by the Friends of the Team of Pianists.
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Don't miss this evening of vocal excellence from three of Australia's most experienced Lieder interpreters.
Date and Time
Sunday May 3, 2026 at 6.30pm
German Lutheran Church
(Deutsche Evangelische Dreifaltigkeitskirche)
22 Parliament Place, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002
Major sponsor: Colin & Cicely Rigg Bequest, as managed by Equity Trustees.
Rigg Bequest Classic Music 2026 - in Special and Sacred Spaces
Across Time and Tradition: Music for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano
Robert Schubert - clarinet, Matthew Angus - bassoon, and Robert Chamberlain - piano, trace a musical journey that spans centuries, styles and cultures, in the warm acoustics of St John's Anglican Church, Camberwell.
Uniting Classical clarity, Romantic lyricism and contemporary re‑imagining, this program ranges from the intimate poetry of Schumann’s Abegg Variations and Glinka’s enthralling Trio Pathétique, to the elegant conversational forms of Lefèvre and Kreutzer, where clarinet and bassoon speak with wit, balance and grace. These European traditions are refracted through the voice of Australian‑Chinese composer Julian Yu, whose reworking of Glinka’s Romance and vivid Uygur Dance bring folk melody and cross‑cultural perspective into the present.
Join other audience members and the artists for post-concert refreshments hosted by the Friends of the Team of Pianists.
This program celebrates the enduring power of wind instruments to sing, converse and dance across time, tradition and place.
Date and Time
Thursday May 21, 2026 at 7.00pm
St John's Anglican Church
552 Burke Road
Camberwell, VIC, 3124
Major sponsor: Colin & Cicely Rigg Bequest, as managed by Equity Trustees.
Rigg Bequest Classic Music 2026 - in Special and Sacred Spaces
Carnival of Oboe and Piano
Anne Gilby - oboe, Darryl Coote - piano, present works ranging from the elegance of Mozart’s concert aria 'Ah se in ciel, benigne stelle' to the shimmering colours of Ravel’s Sonatine, arranged for these two instruments, plus the smoky intimacy of Piazzolla’s Oblivion and the wit of Malcolm Arnold’s Sonatina for oboe and piano.
After interval, brilliant solo pianist Kevin Suherman performs works by Schumann and Liszt: Liszt's rapturous arrangement of Schumann's 'Widmung' (Dedication) and the kaleidoscopic scenes of Schumann’s Carnaval Op. 9. Don't miss this evening of colour, lyricism, and theatrical flair in the warm acoustics of St John's Anglican Church, Camberwell.
Join other audience members and the artists for post-concert refreshments hosted by the Friends of the Team of Pianists.
Date and Time
Thursday June 25, 2026 at 7.00pm
St John's Anglican Church
552 Burke Road
Camberwell, VIC, 3124
Major sponsor: Colin & Cicely Rigg Bequest, as managed by Equity Trustees.
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ROBERT CHAMBERLAIN is a versatile and accomplished pianist, with interests ranging from period performance to contemporary music and with specialisations including chamber and ensemble music. He studied for Bachelors and Masters degrees in Australia under Max Cooke, in Vienna as a winner of the Apex/Robert Stolz Scholarship, and also at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada.
Read More...Australian-Irish pianist DARRYL COOTE is a partner of the Team of Pianists, Artists-in-Residence at Glenfern for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). His professional life encompasses activity as solo pianist, chamber musician, concerto soloist, teacher, adjudicator and administrator.
Read More...Indonesian-born pianist KEVIN SUHERMAN has appeared nationally and internationally since the age of 10, after being awarded the Indonesian National Records Award (MURI) as the youngest pianist to perform 50 classical, pop and jazz pieces, in a concert for 3 hours non-stop and all music memorised, broadcasted on live national TV.
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