We are very excited to announce our first Flutes & Flutists Charity Concert!
To celebrate the year that has been and to welcome us all into the festive season, the staff at F&F will be performing an exciting range of works—from Saint-Saëns to the pop hits of today, solos to quintets—featuring concert flutes, low flutes and piccolos! We will also be joined by the wonderful Sydney-based composer and pianist, Ronan Apcar, and Guest Presenter, Jane Rutter!
All ticket proceeds are being donated to the Australian Children’s Music Foundation which can be purchased below. If you are unable to attend but would still like to donate, please use the button below to purchase a ‘Donation Only’ ticket.
Australian Children’s Music Foundation
For over 20 years, the ACMF has been tackling inequity of access to music education. They provide long-term music programs and free instruments to children that improve wellbeing, inspire creativity and imagination, and help achieve positive educational and behavioural outcomes. Their work extends to schools, youth justice centres and music therapy, as well as supporting a national songwriting competition and scholarships. Learn more about the ACMF and their impact here.
Ronan Apcar
Photo by Rowan Davie
Ronan Apcar is a pianist, musician, and composer with a reputation of versatility, edge, and tenacity. His love for music across many styles – jazz to the avant-garde, contemporary art music to alt-rock and pop – translates into his open-minded, exciting, and unique work as a musician. Described as "a talent beyond his age" (Limelight Magazine), Ronan is best known for bold programming of contemporary repertoire and advocacy for Australian music.
Ronan performs in an eclectic mix of concerts and festivals in both intimate and large-scale venues across Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, and regional NSW and Victoria, and is just at home as a guest soloist with an orchestra as he is improvising as part of a multimedia DJ set. His curated projects are known for their thoughtful and unconventional programs that tie together disparate works into a unified theme. Highlights include performances in the Sydney Festival, Canberra International Music Festival, and the National Gallery of Victoria.
Ronan’s self-presented gigs range from genre-defying cabaret to experimental new music concerts, free improvisations in art galleries to theatre-music fusion shows in cafés. He also works collaboratively with organisations like Gondwana Voices, National Opera, Luminescence Chamber Singers, and Moorambilla Voices, who he has performed and recorded with at the Sydney Opera House.
Ronan’s debut album Dulcie Holland Crescent – a collection of forgotten works by Dulcie Holland – is an ABC Classic featured album, and soon after premiered Holland’s Piano Concertino with Leonard Weiss and Canberra Sinfonia for which he was awarded a Canberra Critics’ Circle Award.
A nominee for the prestigious Freedman Fellowship and current recipient of the ANU Love Supreme Fellowship, Ronan is also the Emerging Artist with Ensemble Offspring and Artist-In-Residence with Bundanon and The Old School, Mount Wilson in 2025.
Jane Rutter
Jane Rutter performs regularly in Paris and around the world: from recital halls to the Sydney Opera House, from music festivals to theatre and cabaret venues. Her early chamber jazz group, POSH, (reformed as Third Culture World Chamber Music) was a forerunner of Yoyo Ma’s The Silk Road Project. The Australian Elizabethan Trust awarded Ms. Rutter a fellowship grant that culminated in a DVD and soundtrack album, An Australian In Paris, which topped the classical charts in Australia.
From her first iconic album, Nocturnes and Preludes for Flute, Jane’s sublime flute playing has seen a further 23 best-selling albums released including Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, French Kiss and Flute Spirit: Dreams and Improvisations.
A Fellow of the Australian Institute of Music, Jane is an award-winning TV presenter and multi-ARIA (Australian Grammy) nominee who has appeared as soloist with many orchestras including The Australian Chamber Orchestra, and on the same bill as Pavarotti, Carreras, The Manhattan Transfer, Tina Arena, Tommy Emmanuel, Michael Crawford, Slava & Leonard Grigoryan, Teddy Tahu-Rhodes, Peter Cousens and others.
An Australia Day Ambassador and one of Who Magazine’s 30 Most Beautiful People, Jane is also in demand as an Artistic Director and composer. Her Live at Lunch series at The Concourse, Chatswood is one of Australia’s most successful concert series. Jane has been featured on 60 Minutes, and in Vogue Magazine, and is a household name in Australia.