Mozart's Sister is going on concert tour!
The Maria Anna Mozart Concert Tour brings a cinematic experience to audiences across Australia.
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In 2024, good.film worked on the release of the AACTA Award Winning film Mozart's Sister - an Australian documentary about the vanished compositions of Wolfgang Mozart’s sister. Maria Anna (known affectionately as ‘Nannerl’) once played side-by-side with her little brother, as the two toured Europe and performed before kings and queens. Her disappearance from public life, and her vanished compositions, tells a larger story about the erasure of women’s contributions to classical music.
After the film screened, we announced the ‘Mozart’s Sister Pledge’: a call to action for diversity in classical music. As part of the pledge, we invited you to share why this change is important to you (and had some incredible responses - see below!).
Now, here’s the part you don’t know… Since then, we’ve taken the results of the Mozart’s Sister pledge to some incredible partners, including orchestras around Australia, Minderoo Foundation and Create NSW. As a result, we’re delighted to announce that the Maria Anna Mozart Concert Tour has received grant funding! A huge thank you to the aforementioned partners who have been so supportive.
The tour invites orchestras and ensembles around Australia to bring the film’s powerful original score to life in concert. It centres the Mozart’s Sister soundtrack, composed by acclaimed Australian composer Jessica Wells. The program will also feature a Mozart concerto with the ghost of Maria Anna’s fingerprints, additional diverse work chosen by each orchestra, and cinematic visuals from the film’s director Madeleine Hetherton-Miau.
The tour will take place between March-October 2026, with full dates and locations to be announced soon. To find out about a performance near you, join the Mozart’s Sister mailing list:
An Immersive Concert Experience
Presented as an immersive visual concert, the performance combines excerpts from Mozart’s Sister, live orchestral performance, and live narration to re-tell Maria Anna Mozart’s remarkable life.
The concert program examines how the music from so many women has been lost to history, and invites audiences to reflect on whose stories are remembered, performed, and celebrated on stages today.
"Mozart’s Sister had such an incredible release and this tour is a beautiful next chapter. Hearing Jess Wells’ score brought to life by orchestras will open Maria Anna Mozart’s story to new audiences, and give people a powerful new way to experience her legacy."
Madeleine Hetherton-Miau, Director, Mozart’s Sister
"Composing the score for Mozart’s Sister was a huge privilege! Too often, brilliant contemporary compositions don’t get programmed simply because audiences don’t recognise the names behind them. This tour changes that (who doesn’t love Mozart?), while championing diverse composers and new work."
Jess Wells, Composer, Mozart’s Sister.
Why this tour matters now
The tour arrives at a time when classical music institutions are being challenged to better reflect the communities they serve. In 2024, only 11.8% of works performed by Australian orchestras were composed by female or gender diverse composers, a figure that highlights broader issues around diversity and representation in the sector.
The Maria Anna Mozart Concert Tour celebrates the work of an iconic composer whose contributions were erased, while also spotlighting incredible contemporary voices like Jessica Wells and featured works chosen by each orchestra. Presented with support from Create NSW and Mindaroo Foundation, the concert is an invitation to experience classical music as vibrant, modern, and powerfully relevant.
About Mozart's Sister
For the first 16 years of her life, Maria-Anna Mozart shared equal billing with her younger brother Wolfgang, performing before Kings and Queens until she was forced to withdraw from public life. Mozart’s Sister is a ‘musical-true-crime’ story that unravels what happened to her long-lost compositions, from multi-awarded Director/Producer Madeleine Hetherton-Miau and Producer Rebecca Barry.
Mozart’s Sister re-launched in Jan 2026 on ABC iView, after a hugely successful cinema release saw it become the 4th ranked documentary at the 2024 Australian box office. It has won multiple awards, including Best Music in a feature documentary in Australia at the AACTA Awards.
About composer Jessica Wells
Jessica is the composer of the ‘Mozart’s Sister’ soundtrack, with extensive experience composing, arranging and producing music across classical, film and commercial industries. She is one of Australia’s most sought-after composers: in 2025 she premiered her new concerto for Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and her full-length ballet for West Australian Ballet. She is passionate about mentoring and uplifting composers, as recognised as the recipient of the 2024 Art Music Luminary Award (NSW).
Join the mailing list and get in touch
The Maria Anna Mozart Concert Tour will be taking place at various locations around Australia between March-October 2026. Don’t miss the chance to see this groundbreaking concert: sign up to the newsletter to get updated when the full list of dates and tickets are available.
If you’re an orchestra, school, organisation or supporter who’d like to learn more about the concert program (including how to get involved!) you can reach out at [email protected].
Our Favourite Responses to the Mozart’s Sister Pledge
We asked you to share your vision of what diversity in classical music means to you, and had some incredible responses:
“A rich diversity of works, compositions and performances that embrace equality would be music to my ears!”
“I would dream to see music directed and played by more women. I want my daughters to feel that it is absolutely natural for a woman to become a composer.”
“Opportunities to hear more people’s unique voices through their compositions”
“Actually hearing stories from multiple perspectives, therefore encouraging empathy and contributing to a fairer, progressive society.”
“Every concert includes music, performers, staff and audience members from many different backgrounds and sectors in society. I want to see myself reflected in what is performed, and I want other people to feel the same and feel like they can be a part of the amazing world of Classical music.”
"Greater cultural diversity thus new sound experiences"
"More women leading in the sector. Concerts that are produced by women, from the compositions to the performance, artistic director, mise en scène, etc…"
"Its a matter of justice and equality between the whole diverse world of people that create music, and the right to be heard as a composer and listened to by the audiences according to their work."
“"For arts organisations to present more contemporary works by women will greater reflect the audiences that listen to the music. It will create a richer music landscape and make more meaningful contributions to the cultural landscape in Australia” “More diversity improves the richness of human experience"
"More diverse works instead of the same shows over and over."
"Broader voices, richer experiences, inclusive storytelling."
