Eve Klein

World Premier 7 May 2026,  St John's Cathedral, Brisbane

A new Australian symphony by Eve Klein. Presented by UQ Arts, the University of Queensland, featuring The University of Queensland Symphony Orchestra, The UQ Chorale and the UQ Chamber Singers. 

Symphony for the History of Time is a programmatic symphony telling the story of our universe as we currently understand it based upon the cosmology research of Professor Tamara Davis and her research collaborations with The Dark Energy Survey (DES) and The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). 

Audiences will be surrounded by 172 musicians in motion in a darkened St John's Cathedral lit by wondrous projections of the distant reaches of our universe. Starting before the Big Bang with current scientific theories of how our universe may have come into being, then progressing through the Big Bang, to the formation of galaxies and stars, Symphony for the History of Time is a musical translation of this science, using the symphony orchestra as a palette to understand the infinite complexities of the history of our universe, and our fragile human perception within it.

Duration: 60 Minutes. 

Images courtesy of the University of Queensland.