Bold and subtle, sonorous and delicate. You’ve never heard a tuba like this.

Forget everything you think you know about the tuba, as Vaughan Williams’ Concerto for Bass Tuba turns the spotlight on the orchestra’s biggest brass instrument.

TSO’s Principal Tuba Rachel Kelly takes centre stage, revealing her instrument’s lyrical voice and astonishing agility.

Also on the program: Doreen Carwithen’s cinematic Overture ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another), and Haydn’s life-affirming Symphony No 100, the ‘Military’.

Conducted by rising Australian star Ingrid Martin and hosted by our regular 6pm frontman, William Newbery.

This concert is part of our 6pm Series.

Watch the livestream on Thursday 4 Jun 2026 6pm
Available on demand Thursday 18 June until Thursday 16 July

PROGRAM
Carwithen Overture ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another)
Vaughan Williams Concerto for Bass Tuba in F minor
Haydn Symphony No 100 in G, ‘Military’
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

MUSICIANS
Ingrid Martin Conductor
Rachel Kelly Tuba
William Newbery Host

Federation Concert Hall, Nipaluna / Hobart

TAGS
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, orchestra, TSO, Hobart, Tasmania, Norway, Classical, Orchestral, violin, Tuba