Changing Wilds Ensemble: 85 Seconds to Midnight

WHEN

6:00pm ---- 7:00pm (concert), post-concert talk to 7:30pm

Tuesday 10 November 2026

WHERE

Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre

31 Sturt St, Southbank 3006

WHAT

A space for contemplation and agency at a time when every second

counts. Led by artistic director and composer Robert McIntyre and

pianist Georgina Lewis, Changing Wilds Ensemble blends

post-minimalism, art music and neoclassical works to sit with

environmental precarity and internal reckoning — featuring music by

Robert McIntyre, Stuart Greenbaum, Laura Abraham and Alex Turley,

alongside Arvo Pärt and Ólafur Arnalds.

A 30-minute post-concert talk follows in the Salon, in collaboration

with CLIMARTE and The Wattle Fellowship.

Duration: 1 hour, no interval.

WHO

Robert McIntyre composer, curator, co-artistic director

Georgina Lewis piano, co-artistic director

Isabel Hede violin

Gemma Kneale cello

Jessica Aszodi mezzo-soprano

Savanna Wegman poet

PROGRAM

Arvo Pärt — Für Alina

Robert McIntyre — Our Duty to Care

Stuart Greenbaum — 800 Million Heartbeats

Alex Turley — Sonata for Violin and Piano, Mvt VI

Robert McIntyre — Time, a passage

Laura Abraham — Tomorrow, and years away

Robert McIntyre — 85 seconds to Midnight *

Ólafur Arnalds — Zero

* World premiere

TICKETS

Standard $55 ($45 concession) — book via Melbourne Recital Centre

https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/whats-on/current-productions/85-seconds-to-midnight