National Carillon Concert Programs

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Please note programming is updated regularly. 

Date : 4 February 2026

Performer: Astrid Bowler

Piece name

Composer

Arranger

Lake Music

Terence (Terry) Vaughan

 

Selections from “Water Music” – Air, Bourrée, Minuet, Minuet, Hornpipe

Georg Frideric Handel

 Astrid Bowler

Here’s the Summer (from “The Fairy Queen”)

Henry Purcell

 Ronald Barnes

Summertime from “Porgy and Bess”

George Gershwin 

Astrid Bowler

The Green Leaves of Summer (from the movie “The Alamo”)

Dimitri Tiomkin

Astrid Bowler

Barcarolle

Jacques Offenbach

Astrid Bowler 

Barcarolle

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Frans Haagen

Siciliano

Johann Sebastian Bach

Astrid Bowler 

Siciliana

Ioannes de Gruytters

 

Allegretto (from “Hymn of Praise”)

Felix Mendelssohn

 Astrid Bowler

 

Date : 8 February 2026

Performer: Julie Wright

Piece name

Composer

Arranger

The Sound of Music

Richard Rodgers

M. Polak

Aura Lea

G. Poulton

 La Salle Spier

Somewhere over the rainbow

Harold Arlen

Richard Giszczak 

La Vie en Rose

Louis guy

Peter Bray 

Where is your heart

Georges Auric

 Julie wright

Theme from Gabriel’s Oboe

Ennio Morricone

 Julie Wright

Coimbra

Raoul Ferrao

 Jo Haazen

Theme from Charade

Henry Mancini

 Julie Wright

Moonriver

Henry Mancini

 N/A

Singing in the rain

Nacio Herb Brown

 Jo Haazen

Theme from The Godfather

Nino Rota

 Julie Wright

The rose

Amanda McBroom

Julie Wright 

Cavatina

Stanley Myers

 N/A

Princess Leia’s theme

John Williams

 Wendy Murphy

All I ask of you

Andrew Lloyd Webber

John Courter

The Man I love

George Gershwin

Gerard de Waardt

I got rhythm

George Gershwin

Julie Wright

 

Date : 11 February 2026

Performer: Julie Wright

Piece name

Composer

Arranger

Bist du bei mir

Gottfried .H. Stolzel

Julie Wright

Drink to me only

Anon

 Leen’t Hart

Salut d’amour

Edward Elgar

 Julie Wright

Plaisir d’amour

Giovanni B. Martini

Julie Wright 

Aura Lea

George R. Poulton

La Salle Spier 

Always

Irving Berlin

Sally Slade Warner 

I love Paris

Cole Porter

 

Where is your heart

Georges Auric

 Julie Wright

The man I love

George Gershwin

 Gerard de Waardt

Someone to watch over me

George Gershwin

 

Blue moon

Rodgers and Hart

Julie Wright 

Fly me to the moon

Bart Howard

 Julie Wright

The rose

Amanda McBroom

Julie Wright 

If

David Gates

 

The Godfather theme

Nino Rota

Julie Wright

All I ask of you

Andrew Lloyd Webber

John Courter

Moondance

Van Morrison

Julie wright

 

Date : 14 February 2026

Performers: Thomas Laue, Senior Carillonist; Eduardo Ruiz, Guitarist; Paola Monroy, Soprano

Piece name

Composer

Arranger

Concert Title: Bells & Serenades: Love Songs

American Love Songs

Summertime

George Gershwin

 

Misty

Erroll Garner

Jos Lerinckx

That's Amore

Harry Warren

Wendy Murphy and Thomas Laue

Moonlight Serenade

Glenn Miller

Jos Lerinckx

Somethin' Stupid (Like I Love You)

Clarence Carson Parks II

Wendy Murphy and Thomas Laue

A Moment of Reflection

Erev Shel Shoshanim (Evening of Roses)

Yosef Hadar

Thomas Laue

South American Serenades

Romance (Spanish Romance)

Anonymous

 

Invierno Porteño (Winter in Buenos Aires)

Astor Piazzolla

 

San Miguel de Piura

Traditional

 

La Pampa y la Puna (The Pampas and the Puna)

Carlos Valderrama

 

Fina Estampa (Elegant Figure)

Chabuca Granda

 

Cielito Lindo (My Lovely One)

Quirino Mendoza y Cortés

 

La Llorona (The Weeping Woman)

Traditional

 

Cuatro Preguntas (4 Questions)

Pedro Morales Pino

 

 

Date : 15 February 2026

Performer: Anna Wong

Piece name

Composer

Arranger

Romanca d'Espangna

Antonia Cano

 

Two Estudios for Guitar

Fernando Sor

Ronald Barnes

Canon in D

Johann Pachelbel

Anna Wong

Estudio 2

Francisco Tarrega

 

Tennessee Waltz

Red Stewart & Peewee King

Anna Wong

Moon Represents My Heart

Weng Ching-His

Anna Wong

Edelweiss from 'The Sound of Music'

Oscar Hammerstein & Richard Rodgers

Moon River from 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'

Henry Mancini

Anna Wong

Over the Rainbow from 'Wizard of Oz'

Harold Arlen

Bill Tyers

The Rainbow Connection from 'The Muppet Movie'

Paul Williams & Kenny Asche

Sally Slade Warner

A Whole New World from 'Aladdin'

Allan Menken

Anna Wong

Beauty and the Beast

Alan Menken

Ann-Kristine Christiansen

 

Date : 18 February 2026

Performer: Astrid Bowler

Piece name

Composer

Arranger

Chorus of the Happy Spirits

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Ronald Barnes

Dido’s Lament and Final Chorus (from “Dido and Aeneas”)

Henry Purcell

Astrid Bowler

Flower Song (from “Carmen”)

Georges Bizet

Astrid Bowler

O My Beloved Father (from “Gianni Schicchi”)

Giacomo Puccini

Astrid Bowler

Celeste Aida (from “Aida”)

Giuseppe Verdi

Astrid Bowler

Bird in a Gilded Cage

Harry von Tilzer

Astrid Bowler

Sunrise, Sunset (from “Fiddler on the Roof”)

Jerry Bock

Astrid Bowler

Memory (from “Cats”)

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Mathieu Daniel Polak

Castle on a Cloud (from “Les Misérables”)

Claude-Michel Schönberg

Sally Slade Warner

Over the Rainbow (from “The Wizard of Oz”)

Harold Arlen

Astrid Bowler

Theme from “Schindler’s List”

John Williams

Astrid Bowler

Princess Leia’s Theme (from “Star Wars”)

John Williams

Astrid Bowler

Romance (from “The Godfather”)

Nino Rota

Astrid Bowler 

 

Date : 21 February 2026

Performer: Thomas Laue

Piece name

Composer

Arranger

Concert Title: Celebrating UNESCO International Mother Language Day - Unity across Cultures and Peoples

Anthem Combined (Yil Lull / Advance Australia Fair)

Joe Geia & Peter Dodds McCormick

Thomas Laue

Arirang (Traditional Korean song)

Lee H. Y. 

 

I am Australian

B. Woodley & D. Newton

 

International Mother Language Song (Ekusher Gaan) (Bangladesh)

A. Mahmud

Thomas Laue

Ahimsa (Nonviolence)

U2 and Allah Rakha Rahman

Thomas Laue

We Brought Peace Upon Us, We Have Nothing More Beautiful Than Peace

Shlomo Gronich

Thomas Laue

Songs for Our Children

Salaam Shalom, Side by Side (Canadian)

Raffi

Thomas Laue

Prayer of the children (Ukraine)

M. Lysenko

I. Riabchun

The Sway of the Baby Hammock (Sa Ugoy ng Duyan) (Lullaby, The Phillipines)

Lucio San Pedro

Thomas Laue

The Song of the Birds (Traditional Catalonian Lullaby)

Traditional Catalonian

Thomas Laue

Why Do You Weep, Little Flower? (Miks Sa nutad, Lillekene?)

Estonian folk song

Astrid Bowler

May There Always Be Sunshine! (International Peace Anthem, Translated into dozens of languages, with original lyrics by a 4-year-old child)

Arkady Ostrovsky

Thomas Laue

Songs for and about Peace

Autumn moon over placid lake (China)

Lu Wencheng

Thomas Laue

At Peace with You (Damai Bersamamu) (Indonesia)

Johnny Sahilatua

Thomas Laue

Flowers will bloom (Hana wa saku) (Japan)

Y. Kanno

 

Nobel Peace Prize Song

Tibetan Institute Of Performing Arts

Thomas Laue

 

Date : 22 February 2026

Performer: Anna Wong

Piece name

Composer

Arranger

Ave Maria

Franz Schubert

anon

Ode Pour Le Carillon

Serge Joris

 

Amazing Grace

John Newton & William Walker

 Bill Tyers

Tennessee Waltz

Red Stewart & Peewee King

Anna Wong

Moon Represents My Heart

Weng Ching-His

Anna Wong

Beauty and the Beast

Alan Menken

Ann-Kristine Christiansen

A Whole New World from 'Aladdin'

Allan Menken

Anna Wong

The Rainbow Connection from 'The Muppet Movie'

Paul Williams & Kenny Asche

Sally Slade Warner

Moon River from 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'

Henry Mancini

Anna Wong

Be our Guest from'Beauty and the Beast'

Allan Menken

Anna Wong

You've Got a Friebd in Me from 'Toy Story'

Randy Newman

Anna Wong

Romanca d'Espangna

Antonia Cano

 

Summer Song

Terry Vaughan

 

 

Date : 25 February 2026

Performer: Vikki Jacobsen

Piece name

Composer

Arranger

Ode pour le carillon 

 

 

Preludes

Prelude in C major BWV 846 –  from the Well-Tempered Clavier

Johann Sebastian Bach

 Sue Bergren

Prelude

Adrian Tien

 

Prelude – from Suite I for unaccompanied cello

Johann Sebastian Bach

 Albert Gerken

For the carillon

Lake Music

Terry Vaughan

 

Summer Song

Terry Vaughan

 

Velvet moon

Elena Kats-Chernin

 

Moth-eaten Rag

Elena Kats-Chernin

 

Classical

Gnossienne No. 1

Eric Satie

 Ulrich Rasmussen

The Old Castle

Modest Moussorgsky

 Peter Langbert

The Little Shepherd

Claude Debussy

Paul Maassen

Down Longford Way

Kitty Parker

Vikki Jacobsen

Familiar Favourites

Londonderry Air

Traditional

Beverley Buchanan

If

David Gates

Gary White

Lullaby (Goodnight my Angel)

Billy Joel

Richard Giszcazk

The Rainbow Connection

Paul Williams & Kenny Asche

Sally Slade Warner

More programs coming soon!