Tamborine 2026 celebrates families. We may be nuclear, extended, blended or chosen. We may offer each other emotional support, or share a home.

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You’ll hear families of composers: Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, Lili and Nadia Boulanger. And families of influence and connection: musical kinships that cross countries and centuries.

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You’ll also hear chosen families of musicians. The Lyrebird Trio—Glenn, Simon and Ange—plays with an understanding that needs few words. Aura Go and Timo-Veikko Valve perform with the intimacy of a private conversation.

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Sara Macliver feels like family to many listeners who have lived with her recordings for decades. To musicians, she is also a kind of kin: an ideal collaborator, technically assured, musically open, a generous and searching partner.

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There is our Tamborine clan too: the Tamborine Mountain Orchestra, joining us for community events across the festival. And families themselves are warmly welcomed to our Saturday morning program for young audiences.

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And finally, there is our family of listeners. Come join the community.

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Be safe in sound.
 

- Tim Munro, Artistic Director