Excellence in Early Music

Greg Dikmans playing a baroque flute

Greg Dikmans

Baroque Flute & Artist Director

Lucinda Moon playing a baroque violin

Lucinda Moon

Baroque Violin & Associate Director


Dialogue: The Art of Elegant Conversation

For several years Greg and Lucinda have been presenting concerts built around the theme: Dialogue: The Art of Elegant Conversation.

In much of the more intimate 18th-century chamber music the melodic lines interact in a continuous musical dialogue, which was sometimes described as a conversation galante (‘courteous conversation’).

“This is the music of elegant conversation that, with the natural charms and sensitivity of its melodies and the classical beauty of its forms, delights the intellect and moves the heart.”

Greg Dikmans
Bedroom of the King: Intimate music from the court of Versailles and the salons of Paris

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Baroque Music Performance Research Project

In 2010 the Elysium Ensemble’s principals, Greg Dikmans (baroque flute) and Lucinda Moon (baroque violin), initiated a Baroque Music Performance Research Project that they are currently pursuing in conjunction with the Early Music Studio at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne.

The aim of the project is to identify neglected or newly discovered, high quality chamber music from the Baroque and early-Classical periods (1600–1800) with a view to bringing it to a wider audience through historically informed performances and recordings.

Johann Joachim Quantz

Johann Joachim Quantz

Quantz CD Coming in 2013

In 2012 Greg and Lucinda finalised their first recording of duets by Johann Joachim Quantz (1697–1773).

These previously unrecorded works are of high quality and interest, presenting the musical ideas as a continuously evolving musical conversation (which Quantz described as ‘an elaborate music written in a contrapuntal or imitative style’).

They are excellent examples of Quantz’s intermediate position between the Baroque and Classical periods.



Elysium Ensemble gratefully acknowledges the support of

Early Music Studio The University of Melbourne Simone Pérèle

Photos of Greg & Lucinda: Jodie Hutchinson (2010)