Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

A cross-disciplinary, cross-genre blend of introspective music. Spanning the realms of Australian and Icelandic composition, Our Duty to Care is the third instalment in Robert McIntyre’s climate-change concert curations, following acclaimed performances in recent years. In this Melbourne Recital Centre exclusive, the 2025 instalment covering themes relating to climate change, empathy, loss, hope, and more, Our Duty to Care features the music of renowned Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds alongside Australians Robert McIntyre, Laura Abraham, Anne Cawrse, and Melbourne Recital Centre’s 2024 Artist in Residence Nat Bartsch. Featuring project ensemble Changing Wilds Ensemble, led by artistic director and composer Robert McIntyre, this curated performance in the Primrose Potter Salon blends wide-ranging genres to convey powerful messages. Centered around Robert McIntyre’s Our Duty to Care, with text by Savanna Wegman, this cross-disciplinary work for soprano voice and piano trio is based on Sharma v Minister for the Environment [2021] FCA 560. This groundbreaking environmental law case, which proved climate change to be legally real in the courts, has been the catalyst for further climate change litigation globally and even legislative action locally.

Featured non-Australian music: Particles by Ólafur Arnalds / Nanna, The Bottom Line by Ólafur Arnalds / Josin, and we'll leave it there... by Ólafur Arnalds / Ella McRobb

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on (03) 9699 3333 or by email to rtm.composition@gmail.com

Featured artists

• Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre
• Presented by Changing Wilds Ensemble
• Music of Robert McIntyre