UPCOMING CONCERTS
Sunday 27 September 2026
Brisbane City Hall | 2pm Main Auditorium
Embark on a musical journey across continents, cultures, and imaginations in Dances, Dreams & Distant Shores. From the lively Celtic melodies of Anderson's Irish Suite and the fiery energy of Bizet's Farandole and Brahms' beloved Hungarian Dances, this program celebrates music inspired by place and tradition.
The concert then travels further afield with Copland's evocative Variations on a Shaker Melody and Gershwin's vibrant work of An American in Paris, capturing the sounds and spirit of America and Europe alike. The enchanting world of Howl's Moving Castle revives cinematic magic on the stage before Tchaikovsky's timeless Swan Lake concludes the evening with elegance, romance, and grandeur.
We would love for you to come to Brisbane’s City Hall at 2pm on Sunday 27 September as the Lawchestra puts on a captivating display of folk traditions, unforgettable melodies, and musical storytelling!
This is a free event, proudly supported by Brisbane City Council’s Bands in Parks program. See Brisbane City Council’s Event page here.
Art: Seongeun Choi
Other upcoming Concerts
Saturday 5 December 2026 at 7pm - Eighth Annual Finale Concert, Concert Hall at Old Museum Building, Bowen Hills. Tickets to come.
GALLERY
PAST CONCERTS
Sunday 7 June 2026
BANDS IN PARKS: ONCE UPON A SYMPHONY
Brisbane City Hall
The Lawchestra performed in the soaring halls of the grand auditorium in the Brisbane City Hall.
From the sweeping romance of Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Princess and the dramatic power of Grieg’s Peer Gynt (featuring Arabian Dance, Aase’s Death and In the Hall of the Mountain King), the Lawchestra performed an enchanting program.
The adventure continued with the haunting beauty of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 (Movement II) and a thrilling concert suite from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
See our Facebook Event here.
Sunday 19 April 2026
Lawchestra & Queensland Medical Orchestra: Suits & Scrubs
Edmund Rice Performing Arts Centre
In a spectacular start to the year, the Lawchestra performed in its second joint concert with the Queensland Medical Orchestra (QMO). Musicians of the legal profession and medical profession combined to promote mental wellbeing, where proceeds of the concert of $1,400 was donated to the charity Orange Sky from the Lawchestra.
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 Star Wars: A Phantom Menace whilst the Lawchestra’s conductor, Greta Hunter led the joint orchestra and with Mvt II from Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor ‘New World Symphony’ and Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No 5.
Saturday 22 November 2025
Seventh Annual Finale Concert, Old Museum Building 7pm
Queensland Law Orchestra (‘Lawchestra’) was proud to present its seventh annual finale concert at The Old Museum's Concert Hall under conductor Greta Hunter.
The Lawchestra performed Bassoon Concerto in F Major (Mvt II) with soloist Rory Brown, and 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. The Lawchestra celebrated the Viennese tradition of the Strauss family’s On the Beautiful Blue Danube and Radetzky March, and much more.
A portion of ticket sales was donated to the Minds Count Foundation, an independent, volunteer-run charitable organisation. The Foundation aims to decrease work-related psychological ill-health in the legal community and promote workplace psychological health and safety.
Sunday
10 August 2025
Brisbane City Council’s Bands in Parks: In the Spirit of Adventure
The Lawchestra had the wonderful 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.
Friday 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 700 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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