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Friday 13 February 2026

7:30pm at Sidney Myer Music Bowl

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About this performance

Sonder: the realisation that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own

Find Your Voice Collective (FYVC) unites 250 humans from more than a dozen regional Southwest Victorian communities in one, collective voice; welcoming all ages, genders, abilities, ethnicities, sexual preferences, religions and backgrounds. FYVC gives allyship to those with a lived experience of disability through art, education, and advocacy.

Join us for songs and stories celebrating the spectrum and depth of emotion and experience. Over 12 months, the MSO and FYVC have collaborated to bring together every beautiful and diverse element of our shared humanity, with a program from ten songwriters and artists who identify with a disability, orchestral musicians, four world-leading composers, and a 150-member choir.

FYVC artists have an uncanny ability to tell profound stories in ways that make people stop and listen. This show will give space for these artists to demonstrate why diversity of experience is so important and how the deepest truths often come to us from the most unlikely places.

This very special performance features original contemporary works written by d/Deaf & Disabled artists arranged by Nat Bartsch, Georgia Scott and Stefan Cassomenos.

Featuring

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Northey conductor
Find Your Voice Collective
Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekwe presenter

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Supporters

The Sidney Myer Free Concerts are made possible by the MSO Sidney Myer Trust Fund, in association with ABC Classic, The University of Melbourne and Arts Centre Melbourne.

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The Sidney Myer Free Concerts are supported by City of Melbourne.

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The Sidney Myer Free Concerts are supported by Premier Production Partner CVP and Major Audio Partner Norwest.

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This concert received funding from the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.

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