2024 ABC Boyer Lecture series explores classical music in the contemporary age

In a series of four orations delivered by noted musicians and luminaries, the 2024 Boyer Lectures will explore the state of classical music in Australia in the contemporary age. “2024 will see the 65th anniversary of the ABC/Boyer Lectures and this year hosts four distinguished speakers presenting an anthology series addressing classical music in Australia today. “There have been four previous anthology lecture series – in 1988, 1991 when there were two speakers, 1993 when seven distinguished Australians were invited to deliver individual lectures to mark the UN’s Year of Indigenous People, and 2002, when the invited speaker was unable to deliver the lectures and the then ABC Chair, Donald McDonald AC delivered introductions to four previously delivered Boyer lectures as a substitute. Professor Goldsworthy’s lecture will be followed by lectures on Radio National throughout November by Lyn Williams AM, founder and director of Gondwana Choirs, Iain Grandage, leading Australian composer and former Artistic Director of the Perth Festival and accomplished violist, conductor and composer, Aaron Wyatt.