# Flutist Melanie Walters celebrates LGBTQIA+ composers in Adelaide premiere program

**Featured** — On Your Markus  
**Event:** Melanie Walters  
**Tickets:** https://feast.org.au/events/radiant-music/  
**Published:** 31 October 2026  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/melanie-walters/

Flutist Melanie Walters presents Radiant Music, an Adelaide premiere program of contemporary solo works by LGBTQIA+ composers including Yoshi Weinberg, Timoth Hagen, Eve Beglarian, Cameron Lam and Nico Muhly. The program features the South Australian premiere of Weinberg's Some people are flowers.

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**Radiant Music**

**Melanie Walters**

Join flutist Melanie Walters for an eclectic performance of contemporary solo music by LGBTQIA+ composers. Program includes the SA premiere of Yoshi Weinberg’s Some people are flowers, and music by Timoth Hagen, Eve Beglarian, Cameron Lam and Nico Muhly.  
  
Reviews of previous shows:  
★★★★★ "Mesmerising and inspiring" Fringefeed  
★★★★★ "This highly original program was superbly played by Walters, whose command of the tonal possibilities of this instrument is truly exceptional" The Advertiser

![Musician studying sheet music and compositional scores spread across a wooden table from above.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/admin/2026/10/98e81450-74aa-49cb-9fda-452f43754564.jpg)

**About the presenter: Melanie Walters**

Dr Melanie Walters has been described as a “champion of new music in South Australia”(The Serenade Files), and her flute-playing as “truly exceptional” (The Advertiser)  
She holds a PhD in flute performance, for which she has received a Dean’s Commendation, and a Master of Music degree in Australian flute music. Melanie is an active freelance performer and has played with ensembles including Soundstream Collective, Stereo//Mono flute and electronics duo, Southern Cross Symphony and Chronology Arts. She was a performance fellow at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival in the US and has also performed at Musica Viva Sessions, Recital Australia’s ReClassified concert series, Chamber Music Adelaide, Adelaide Contemporary Experiment, Port Adelaide Artists Forum and the Australian Flute Festival.

Her solo performances have included recitals at the Tilde New Music Festival in Melbourne and the Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference in Perth, and gigs at COMA (Creative Original Music Adelaide), Experimental Night at The Metro, and 3D Radio’s Live at the Sound Lounge. She represented South Australia in Eliza Shephard’s March of the Women: Connecting Australia recording project and is currently Principal Flute of Adelaide Wind Orchestra & Artistic Director of Coruscalia Collective.

**Website: ****[www.melaniewalters.com/](http://www.melaniewalters.com/)**

![Musician with glasses holding a flute outdoors with blurred red flowers in background.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/admin/2026/10/e63763f7-d2cb-49b3-8c12-a23341751141.jpg)