A curated list of upcoming concerts. See also the Australian Music Centre concert calendar and the New Music Network concert series.

Friday 8 November. Aurora New Music presents Global City at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith, NSW, 8pm.

Saturday 9 November. The Melbourne Composers’ League present a concert of works by Andrián Pertout, Maria Grenfell, Brendan Colbert, Paul Moulatlet, Eve Duncan and Haydn Reeder. Trinity Uniting Church, Brighton, 3pm.

Topology and Speak Percussion “get together over the Cuban Missile Crisis and throw a bunch of genres into the blender” at the Brisbane Powerhouse, 7:30pm.

Brett Dean‘s Ariel’s Music for solo clarinet and orchestra will be performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra alongside Bruch’s Concerto for viola and clarinet featuring Paul and Brett Dean as soloists.

Sunday 10 November. Percussionist Claire Edwardes presents a series of new works for solo percussion commissioned from Peter McNamara, Erik Griswold and Matthew Shlomowitz. Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW, 2pm.

Jenny Barnes, Ren Walters and Niharika Senapati show off their incredible semi-improvised vocal, guitar and dance skills at Longplay bar, Fitzroy, VIC, at 7:30pm.

The Astra Chamber Music Society (cheers all round) present works by Lawrence Whiffin, Dan Dediu, Martin Friedel, Graham Hair, Keith Humble and Helen Gifford with Craig Hill at the North Melbourne Town Hall, 5pm.