Melbourne Recital Centre celebrates its first Easter with a week-long festival, Walk to the Field of Stars — A Musical Pilgrimage, from Sunday, April 5 to Sunday, April 12, coinciding with Jewish Passover and Christian Holy Week.

Music-lovers of all beliefs are invited to take a musical pilgrimage to the “Field of Stars” each day, starting on Palm Sunday and finally reaching Easter Day. The Festival has not so much been designed as a festival of sacred music from all over the world, but as an opportunity for us all to “walk” the narrative of darkness to light, despair to joy, confusion to knowledge, fear to compassion, all common experiences of the human condition.

Each concert will be accompanied by projections created by Dr Allan Chawner, associate professor and senior lecturer in photo media at the School of Drama, Fine Art and Music, University of Newcastle.

P assion is Paul Grabowsky and the Australian Art Orchestra’s adaptation of Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Passion comprises five major works by Paul Grabowsky, Doug de Vries, Alister Spence, Niko Schäuble and John Rodgers, capturing the triumph of the human spirit within the drama and language of contemporary music.

2 hour concert duration (inc interval)