Date: Saturday 5 July 2025
Time: 4.00pm (doors open 3.30pm)
Venue: “Toonarbin” 51 Dornoch Terrace, West End
Ticket price: $86 (includes concert, drinks and nibbles)
Street parking is available.
We’re delighted to be returning to “Toonarbin” for another concert, in one of Brisbane’s oldest historic residences, a grand family home that houses a superb Australian art collection, curated by the owners, Carmel and Allen.
“Toonarbin” will soon be undergoing renovations, so this will be our last time there for 2025.
This time we’re starting in the late afternoon, so we’d like to offer our guests a little more to eat and drink – a relaxing way to help soak up the historic atmosphere, the music and the artworks.
We’ve asked our friend, expert wine writer and sommelier Olivia Evans, to choose wines that complement the surroundings, and to talk about how wine, like music and art, is a product of time, place and artistry.
Join us in the ballroom, sit side-by-side with some great Australian art, enjoy some wine on the grand back terrace, and immerse yourself in music with great storytelling, truthfulness and emotional generosity at its heart.
Tickets include the concert, wine (or non-alcoholic beverages) and nibbles.
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“Toonarbin” is one of Brisbane’s oldest homes. Built in the 1860’s it was a home to three generations of Captain Henry O’Reilly’s family until it was sold to the Catholic Church in the 1920’s. It became a convent for the next 80 years, undergoing substantial modification including the red brick cladding that you see today around the original Georgian mansion.
The convent was then sold by the Church. On the brink of being gutted and modernized, it was bought in 2007 by the present owners. Over the next five years they undertook a painstaking restoration of the interior of the building to its original magnificent form. Today it is a grand family home, much like it was in Brisbane’s early days.
“Toonarbin” houses a beautiful art collection of Australian paintings covering the period from the late 1800’s.