Discover VDB in 2025
We invite you to discover a wonderful array of music with us in 2025. In December we perform our final Lunchbox Concert at Burnie Arts Centre, before finishing the year with Vivaldi's beloved Gloria in Hobart and Penguin.
You can now also stream our past performances in our "Watch & Listen" section, and our latest album - VAN DIEMEN'S FIDDLES - is available in the "Shop" or on your favourite digital streaming service.
I look forward to welcoming you to a performance soon.
Julia Fredersdorff
Artistic Director
New album out now!
Three musicians, one instrument, but worlds apart in approach—from cutting-edge electronics to historically informed performance on 17th-century instruments.
What's emerged is a sound that doesn't fit neatly into any one category—and that's exactly the point.
The Van Diemen's Fiddles debut album explores stories of how music traveled with merchants, migrants, and mystics, revealing the surprising connections that weave through time and geography.
Now available on your favourite streaming platform or on CD.
Out now: Multitudes
Led by violist Katie Yap, Multitudes brings together six of Australia’s most exciting musicians in a recording brimming with intimacy, warmth and vitality. Multitudes captures four new works, each based on one of Judith Wright’s exquisite bird poems, each celebrating a juxtaposition - old/new; human/nature; Chinese/Australian; and folk/classical.
Now available on your favourite streaming platform or on CD / vinyl.
VDB On Demand
Can't make it to a live concert, or want to revisit one of our past performances? Now you can enjoy VDB on your computer, TV or mobile device with VDB On Demand.
A selection of our full-length live concerts are now available for weekly rental, including "Cloak & Dagger" and Van Diemen's Fiddles "Homeward" - with more concerts coming soon!
"This is not recreating an imagined past. It’s creating music now ... add performances of the highest calibre and an infectiously enthusiastic stage presence, and you have an ensemble that is a welcome addition to the baroque and beyond conversation."
"I'd crawl over broken glass to attend a Van Diemen's Band concert! "
"We are so lucky to have such talented, generous and warm musicians in Tasmania. Every time I see you perform there is such joy and happiness that you radiate to all in the audience."
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