2025
Melbourne Performances
Sat Feb 22 7pm Take Four: Chamber Music For Everyone! Program 1 at Kennedy Nolan, Fitzroy, VIC. Tickets
Sun Feb 23 7pm Take Four: Chamber Music For Everyone! Program 2 at Readings Bookstore, Hawthorn, VIC. Tickets
Adelaide Festival Chamber Landscapes - South Australia
Tue Mar 4 12:30pm Daylight Express: Shostakovich and Beethoven. Venue: Elder Hall, Adelaide, SA. Tickets ABC Classic Fm
Fri Mar 7 7:30pm Horizons: Essence. Venue: UKARIA Cultural Centre, Mount Barker, SA. Tickets
Sat Mar 8 11:30am Horizons: Bridges. Venue: UKARIA Cultural Centre, Mount Barker, SA. Tickets
Sat Mar 8 2:30pm Horizons: Continents. Venue: UKARIA Cultural Centre, Mount Barker, SA. Tickets
Sun Mar 9 2:30pm Horizons: For the Future. Venue: UKARIA Cultural Centre, Mount Barker, SA. Tickets
Sun Mar 9 5:30pm Horizons: Dream Collectors. Venue: UKARIA Cultural Centre, Mount Barker, SA. Tickets
Australian Touring
Sun May 18 3:00pm Take Four: Chamber Music For Everyone! Program Venue: Benalla Art Gallery, VIC. Tickets
Mon May 19 8:00pm Take Four: Chamber Music For Everyone! Program Venue: Tempo Rubato, Brunswick, VIC. Tickets
Thu June 12 1:30pm MIVA Hall Community Concert, Mallacoota, VIC
Sat June 14 2:30pm Montague Visiting Artists, St Paul’s Church, Narooma, NSW
Sun June 15 12:00pm Sapphire Coast Music Society, Wolumla Memorial Hall, NSW. Tickets
Europe
July 4 7:00pm Australian Double Power, Rheingau Musik Festival, Germany. Venue: Schloss Johannisberg. Program
July 5 6:00pm Mozart Night, Rheingau Musik Festival, Germany. Venue: Kloster Eberbach, Kreuzgang, Eltville am Rhein. Program
July 6 6:00pm Mozart Night, Rheingau Musik Festival, Germany. Venue: Kloster Eberbach, Kreuzgang, Eltville am Rhein. Program
Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival - Finland
Wed July 16 11:00am Nordic Utopia. Venue: Kuhmo Church. Program
Thu July 17 6:00pm Nordic Utopia. Venue: Kuhmo Arts Centre
Fri July 18 3:00pm Nordic Utopia. Venue: Tuupala Primary School
Sat July 19 3:00pm Nordic Utopia. Venue: Kuhmo Arts Centre
Sun July 20 6:00pm Nordic Utopia. Venue: Kuhmo Arts Centre
Wed July 23 11:00am Nordic Utopia. Venue: Kuhmo Church
Thu July 24 6:00pm Nordic Utopia. Venue: Sotkamo Church
Sat July 26 11:00am Nordic Utopia. Venue: Kuhmo Arts Centre
Affinity Quartet members in other chamber music concerts and giving masterclasses across the festival. View the full program
Regional Touring & Melbourne Performances
Sat Aug 9 11:00am Arts Bundanoon, NSW
Fri Sep 5 6:00pm Melbourne Athenaeum Library Recital, VIC
Sep 15 - 23 Four Winds Residency and Barragga Yangga Festival, Bermagui NSW
Osaka, Japan
Sep 26 - Oct 5 World Expo Performances, Affinity Quartet presents Take Four: Chamber Music for Everyone!
Regional Touring & Melbourne Performances
Sun Oct 26 2:30pm Macedon Music, VIC. Bookings open October 10
Sun Nov 2 2:30pm INCANTATION, Four Winds 2025 Season, Windsong Pavilion, Bermagui NSW
Fri Nov 7 2:00pm INCANTATION, Primrose Potter Salon matinee sitting, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC. Tickets
Fri Nov 7 6:00pm INCANTATION, Primrose Potter Salon evening sitting, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC. Tickets
Sun Nov 9 Adelonia Theatre, Adelong, NSW
Sun Nov 23 2:30pm Hunters Hill Music Series, Sydney, NSW. Tickets
Previously in 2024
Europe, UK
Feb 9 12pm Auditorio Sony Madrid, Spain. The International Institute of Chamber Music, Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia.
Feb 9 7:30pm Auditorio Sony Madrid, Spain. The International Institute of Chamber Music, Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia.
Feb 15 1pm City Music Society, St Bartholomew’s London, UK.
Mar 18-24 Residency with Brett Dean, Calne, UK.
Mar 24 4pm Maiastra Music, St Andrew’s Church Cobham, UK with Brett Dean, guest viola. Tickets.
Apr 12 7:30pm Auditorio Sony Madrid, Spain. The International Institute of Chamber Music, Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia.
Apr 22 8pm Ciclo Jóvenes Talentos Fundación Banco Sabadell, Auditorio Sony Madrid, Spain.
May 5 8pm Concierto Ciclo Centenario Telefónica, Iglesia de Santo Domingo, Ibiza, Spain.
May 10 12pm & 7:30pm Auditorio Sony Madrid, Spain. The International Institute of Chamber Music, Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia. Livestream link TBA
May 11 8pm Concierto Ciclo Centenario Telefónica, Cueva de los Verdes, Lanzarote, Spain.
Australia
INNOVATORS
May 23 1:30pm Beleura House & Gardens, Mornington, Vic. Tickets
May 24 7:30pm Aireys Inlet Community Hall, Vic, in support of Rural Australians for Refugees. Tickets
May 26 2pm Adelonia Theatre presented by Adelong Alive Museum, NSW. Tickets
May 28 Belgian Embassy, Yarralumla ACT.
May 31 8pm Hawthorn Arts Centre, Melbourne, Vic. Tickets
Jul 8 7:30pm Xavier de Maistre + Affinity Quartet, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, Vic. Tickets
BEETHOVEN OPUS 18 - the six early quartets
Jul 20 2:30pm All Saints Church, Bodalla, NSW.
Jul 24 1:30pm Part 1 MIVA Hall, Mallacoota, Vic.
Jul 26 6pm Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Vic, Part 1 Opus 18 nos. 4 and 5.
Jul 28 2pm Part 1 Aireys Inlet Community Hall in support of Rural Australians for Refugees, Aireys Inlet, Vic.
Sep 6 6pm Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Vic, Part 2 Opus 18 nos. 1 and 6.
Sep 8 4pm Open Rehearsal, Kennedy Nolan, Fitzroy
Sep 13 7pm NGV Friday Nights curated by Tempo Rubato, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Sep 15 4pm Part 2 Aireys Inlet Community Hall in support of Rural Australians for Refugees, Aireys Inlet, Vic.
Sep 17 8pm The Wedge, Sale, Vic.
Sep 19 7pm Part 1 Gasworks Theatre, Albert Park, Vic.
Sep 22 4pm Part 2 Gasworks Theatre, Albert Park, Vic.
Sep 28 6pm Part 1 Four Winds Bermagui.
Sep 29 12pm Part 2 Four Winds, Bermagui, NSW.
Nov 15 6pm Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Vic, Part 3 Opus 18 nos. 2 and 3.
DEATH AND THE MAIDEN
Oct 15 1pm The Lyceum Club of Melbourne, Vic
Oct 23 11am ‘Death and the Maiden’ Musica Viva Sydney Morning Masters, NSW.
Oct 25 8pm Mechanics Institute Lawson, Blue Mountains, NSW.
Nov 16 4pm QDOS Fine Arts, Lorne, Great Ocean Road, Vic.
Nov 19 7pm ‘Death and the Maiden’ Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, Vic.
Nov 22 7:30pm Geelong Chamber Music Society, Vic.
2023 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition
Affinity Quartet was awarded the Audience Prize, The Robert Salzer String Quartet First Prize, and The Monash University Grand Prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition last July. The first time in the competition’s 32 year history that an Australian ensemble has taken out the top prize. The jury comprised Wilma Smith (Chair), Kirsten Dawes, Lukas Hagen, Louise Hopkins, Hsin-Yun Huang, Amandine Savary and Timo-Veikko Valve. Photos Sean Maloney, James Grant, Wilma Smith for Musica Viva Australia.
2023 Bad Tölz International String Quartet Competition, Germany
Affinity Quartet received Second Prize at the Bad Tölz International String Quartet Competition in April 2023. The jury comprised Günter Pichler (Chair), Gustav Frielinghaus (Amaryllis), Andrea Hampl, Volker Jacobsen (Artemis), Helena Poggio (Cuiroga), František Souček (Zemlinsky), Antti Tikkanen (Meta4). Photos Sonja Beck, Birgit Botzenhart.
2023 Mozart International String Quartet Competition, Austria
Affinity Quartet received Second Prize and Special Prize for the Best Interpretation of a Contemporary Work for their Finals performance of Brett Dean’s (AU) String Quartet no.3 ‘Hidden Agendas’ at the Mozart International in Salzburg, Austria in February. The jury comprised Cibrán Sierra Vázquez (Chair),
Sarah Bitlloch (Elias Quartet), Erich Höbarth (Quatuor Mosaïques), Nina Lee (Brentano Quartet), Teresa Schwamm-Biskamp (Armida Quartet). Photos Christian Schneider.
2022 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, London
Affinity Quartet received Third Prize in the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition in April 2022. The jury comprised John Gilhooly (Director, Wigmore Hall), Jonathan Brown (Casals Quartet), Hélène Clément (Doric Quartet), Simin Ganatra (Pacifica Quartet), Louise Hopkins (Head of Strings, Guildhall School of Music & Drama), Laura Samuel (ex-Belcea Quartet), Kyril Zlotnikov (Jerusalem Quartet). Photos Benjamin Eolovega for Wigmore Hall.
2021 Affinity Quartet Lockdown Bubble Residency & Regional Touring
CutCommon Magazine interviewed Mee Na Lojewski about the quartet's experience of living and working together during three months of lockdown in Victoria: https://www.cutcommonmag.com/how-this-string-quartet-created-a-work-bubble-during-lockdown/
Four Winds Residency, Bermagui
2020 International Tour of Italy Austria Netherlands Belgium Germany UK
Casa Lajolo Residency, Italy
with Brett Dean, Amsterdam String Quartet Biennale. Photo Leo Samama
Fondazione Cini, Venice
Opening Night Archipelago Season, Fondazione Cini, Venice.
St Martin-in-the-Fields Embassy Series, London
Mont San Giorgio, Italy
Milan post-concert
Fornasetti House, Milan
Fornasetti House, Milan
Fondazione Cini, Venice
Mirabell Palace, Salzburg
Lessons with Prof. Rainer Schmidt
String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam
Amsterdam Musiekgebouw
Amsterdam String Quartet Biennale
With Team Festival Les Voix Intimes, Belgium
Festival Les Voix Intimes, Belgium
Lübeck, Germany
with composer Matt Laing, London
Lessons Prof. Heime Muller, Germany
St Mary le Bow, London
Ealing Music and Film Festival with Lotte Betts-Dean
2017 to the present Kennedy Nolan Concerts Fitzroy
Affinity is bringing chamber music into this incredible space, and it’s proving popular with listeners who are hunting for something that little bit different to the concert hall.
CutCommon
It’s a setting for conversations to unfold, both musical and social, and I think that’s part of the enjoyment for our audiences as well as us.
Nicholas Waters Affinity Quartet violin
