The phenomenally successful Hobart Baroque early music festival is heading north.  Inaugurated in 2013, the festival gained near-instantaneous nationwide critical and public acclaim.

In just two years, it garnered no fewer than five Helpmann Award nominations and won last year’s award for the Best Individual Classical Performance, an event featuring the sensational Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.

When a cut in state funding in Tasmania threatened the festival’s future, Queensland recognised the importance and significance of the event.

With presenting partner Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane Baroque is supported by Tourism and Events Queensland, Arts Queensland, the Federal Ministry for the Arts, Griffith University Queensland Conservatorium, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Camerata of St John’s, the Lisa Gasteen National Opera School and Opera Queensland, and will debut in Brisbane on Friday April 10 and run until Saturday April 18.