UPCOMING CONCERTS
Saturday 22 NOVEMBER 2025
FINALE CONCERT 2025
Old Museum Building at Bowen Hills, Concert Hall. 7pm - 8.30pm.
Queensland Law Orchestra (‘Lawchestra’) is proud to present its seventh annual finale concert at The Old Museum's Concert Hall under conductor Greta Hunter.
Become immersed in the bassoon’s rich textures as our soloist performs Weber’s Bassoon Concerto in F Major (Mvt II). All aboard the festive train as we perform, in the spirit of Christmas, Ballard & Silvestri’s Concert Suite from The Polar Express Express, movements from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and Coleridge-Taylor’s Christmas Overture from The Forest of Wild Thyme.
Celebrate the Viennese tradition of the Strauss family’s On the Beautiful Blue Danube and Radetzky March, and experience the warmth of Butterworth’s The Banks of Green Willow, Elgar’s Salut D’Amour and much more.
Join us in celebration of the Lawchestra’s continued success in promoting mental health, work life balance and creativity within the Brisbane legal profession. The Legal Forecast wishes to express its thanks to its sponsors, Queensland Law Society, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, Irish Bentley Lawyers and Gilchrist Connell, without which the Lawchestra would not be possible.
GALLERY
PAST CONCERTS
Sunday
10 August 2025
Brisbane City Council’s Bands in Parks: In the Spirit of Adventure
The Lawchestra had the wonderful of opportunity to perform in the grand auditorium of Brisbane City Hall, with adventurous pieces including Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance Overture, as well as themes from Powell’s How to Train your Dragon and Zimmer’s Pirates of the Carribean.
Lawchestra’s string section also filled the halls with Sibelius’ beautiful Andante Festivo.
See the Brisbane City Council’s event page here, and Facebook Event here.
Sunday 11 May 2025
Brisbane City Council’s Bands in Parks: Classics in the Botanics
Lawchestra performed a variety of classical favourites at Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens’ Bandstands, including Elgar’s Salut D’Amour, an arrangement of Holst’s Jupiter from The Planets Suite, the First Mvt of Beethoven’s 5th and many more.
The performance on Mother’s Day was met with sunshine and a lovely crowd spanning the field, despite the rainy weather that day.
29 November 2024
Finale Concert 2024 - Lawchestra and Crown Law Choir
Old Museum Building, Concert Hall
For our sixth annual Finale Concert, the Lawchestra performed many spectacular pieces including Stravinsky’s Berceuse and Finale from The Firebird Suite, Sullivan’s H.M.S Pinafore Overture, themes from Rodgers and Hammestein’s Sound of Music and many more.
A highlight for the Lawchestra was performing Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides Overture (‘Fingal’s Cave’), both a challenging and beautiful piece.
Crown Law Choir performed in the first half of the concert, singing many beautiful tunes and hymns including Edelweiss, We Three Kings and Go Tell It On the Mountain.
Sunday 27 October 2024
Bands in Parks: An Afternoon at the Movies
Brisbane City Hall
Lawchestra performed once more in Brisbane City Hall in 2024, playing memorable tunes including selections from Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Les Misérables, Bernstein’s West Side Story and many more.
Sunday 21 July 2024
Bands in Parks: Symphony in the Foothills
Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens
Lawchestra performs Antonín Dvořák’s American Suite, Leroy Anderson’s The Typewriter and Émile Waldteufe’s The Skaters’ Waltz (Les Patineurs) , and more on a lovely, sunny afternoon at Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens’ Bandstands.
Sunday 30 June 2024
Bands in Parks: Fantasy, Folklore and Frontier
Brisbane City Hall
What a busy year for the Lawchestra! The Lawchestra journeyed through the fantastical world of Oz by playing Stephen Schwartz’s Highlights from Wicked, graced through Scandinavia through Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite performing Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King and traversed through America’s heartland with Copland’s Variations on a Shaker Melody.
Sunday 21 April 2024
Lawchestra & Queensland Medical Orchestra: Americana in Concert
Edmund Rice Performing Arts Centre
In a spectacular start to the year, the Lawchestra performed in a joint concert with the Queensland Medical Orchestra (QMO), an event with an audience of over 900 people. Musicians of the legal profession and medical profession combined to promote mental wellbeing, where proceeds of the concert was donated to the charity Letters of Hope.
Both orchestras performed individually, and then combined forces to form one large orchestra with all musicians. QMO’s conductor Dr Ryan Williams led the joint orchestra in performing Stephen Schwartz’s Highlights from Wicked, whilst the Lawchestra’s conductor, Greta Hunter led the joint orchestra and closed the concert with Mvt IV Finale from Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor ‘New World Symphony’.
SPONSORS
TLF Creative and Lawchestra is made possible by the generous support of our patron the Hon. Anthe Philippides, and our corporate partners Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, Irish Bentley Lawyers, Gilchrist Connell and the Queensland Law Society. If you or your organisation would like to support the arts and mental health in the Queensland legal profession, please do not hesitate to contact us by email.
Our concerts as part of Brisbane City Council’s Bands in Parks program could not be possible without the generous support of MetroBands.
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