Performance Projects
From intimate cabaret shows to full orchestral productions, Vov Dylan’s performance projects span classical, crossover, and contemporary styles, each offering its own distinctive blend of music, storytelling, and audience connection.
Highlights include:
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Variety / Solo Cabaret Shows – Over two decades of touring on land and sea, blending classical, Broadway, rock, pop, and more in interactive, audience-driven performances.
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Kismet: Vignettes for Violin and Piano – New works by Elena Kats-Chernin, combining narrative music-making with award-winning recordings.
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La Vida Apasionada – A Latin-inspired suite by Dr Margaret Brandman, performed and recorded in multiple arrangements, with integrated educational programs for senior music students.
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Sentimental Journey – Nearly 20 years of collaboration with pianist Glenn Amer, delivering popular classics, jazz favourites, and engaging stories.
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The Band Played On: Music from the Titanic – Recreating the spirit, repertoire, and charm of the Titanic’s band with The Palace Orchestra.
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Heart Strings – An international collaboration with Mary-Jess, Glenn Amer, and The Palace Orchestra, blending music from classical to world styles.
Whether as a soloist, in collaboration with celebrated artists, or with his own orchestra, Vov’s projects are united by virtuosity, warmth, and an instinct for creating memorable, audience-focused performances.
Please scroll down to see details on all current projects and touring shows.
VARIETY / SOLO CABARET SHOWSIn a dynamic show encompassing Classical, Broadway, Rock, Pop, Contemporary, and more Vov Dylan's solo Cabaret show has been touring on land and on the sea for over 2 decades. A program that is constantly evolving to suit the audiences featuring melodies that audiences engage, sing, and clap along with from the opening strains to the last notes. In this show, Vov's favourite (and frequent) compliment from audiences is "I never thought I would like the Violin - but now I love it!". |
KISMET: Vignettes for Violin and PianoKismet: Vignettes for Violin and Piano is a musical experience that features Vov Dylan on violin and Clemens Leske on piano, as they perform new compositions from celebrated Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin. This performance showcases the unique ability of Kats-Chernin to weave stories into her music, with each piece carrying its own distinctive narrative, which is then intimately shared with the audience. |
LA VIDA APASIONADAA new suite by composer Dr Margaret Brandman. This ambitious project was started in 2021 and has sprung multiple branches of performance and educational opportunities. Comprising a suite of 8 new latin inspired melodies, this collection was initially written for an ensemble of 2 Violins, Cello, Double Bass and Piano, this has now been adapted for Violin and Piano, as well as Violin, Piano and Double Bass. A ‘sneak peak’ of this program was presented to the International Piano Teachers conference in 2022 and from this point the educational benefits have been developed and explored more. The Violin and Piano adaptions of the suite have all been now listed as recommended works for HSC students by the Australian Music Centre This program has now become the foundation of a new combined performance and educational workshop program to suit senior High School Music students where it encompasses Composition, Solo Performance Skills, Ensemble Skills and a Performance opportunity. Recorded and performed by Vov Dylan and composer Margaret Brandman alongside Nicole Murray-Prior (Double Bass), Maryana Sywak (Violin), Michal Wieczorek (Cello) this brings together concepts of contemporary Australian Classical Music and world music influences not only through the compositions but by also the co-performers. | The overture / sneak peak at the main melodies of the suite featuring Vov Dylan and Composer Margaret Brandman on Piano. Vov Dylan frequently performs the finale of this suite with his Cabaret shows. This video is a melding of 3 different backing bands on 4 different occasions.
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SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY A Musical Celebration of Good Music and Unforgettable Stories Join violinist Vov Dylan and pianist Glenn Amer for "Sentimental Journey," a show blending popular classics, Broadway hits, jazz favourites, and novelty pieces. With nearly 20 years of collaboration, Dylan and Amer have released nearly 15 albums and performed to sold-out audiences across Australia, internationally, and on cruises. Their programme combines diverse musical styles with engaging stories, showcasing their talents and offering an enjoyable and memorable experience that has audiences singing along, laughing and reminiscing Don’t miss this opportunity to see two exceptional artists in a performance that promises to captivate and entertain. |
| A concert and collaboration featuring a wide-ranging selection of music — from classical highlights to jazz standards, Broadway melodies to continental café tunes — all performed with humour, relatability and an invitation for audiences to sing and dance-a-long to the performers. Additionally, the concert will feature a selection of new Australian works written specifically for Vov and John to perform, including a special performance of “La Vida Apasionada”, the new suite by Margaret Brandman, which debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA Classical Charts in March 2025. |
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THE BAND PLAYED ON: MUSIC FROM THE TITANICOn the 10th of April 1912 the RMS Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage. Over 100 years later the story and the legend of the very brief voyage of the Titanic has continued to grow and fascinate every generation since. One of the legends of the Titanic is that of the musicians - the band that continued to play on deck while the ship sank around them in order to help provide peace and calm in a time that was anything but. VOV DYLAN and members of THE PALACE ORCHESTRA recreate on stage the band and the music as played on the Titanic as “THE BAND PLAYED ON”. All musical selections are taken from “The White Star Line Songbook” - and all pieces are still well known today. In this show you hear period arrangements of numbers like: The Blue Danube, Pavane, Humoresque, The Can Can, Tales Of Hoffman, William Tell Overture, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Alexanders Ragtime Band, Ave Maria and Nearer My God To Thee (the fabled very last number). THE BAND PLAYED ON is peppered with anecdotes and stories that are often not known, and audiences can expect so sway, laugh, sing and want to dance along to the melodies being played - as the worlds most famous cruise ship has its Show, Party and Cafe Orchestra recreated for modern audiences. |
HEART STRINGSA new international collaboration between Mary-Jess, Vov Dylan, Glenn Amer and the Palace Orchestra. Encompassing music from Classical and Operatic Highlights to Broadway, Latin, Continental Chinese and more. This collaboration began at the opening of the "Anping Great Maritime Castle" Tainan City, Taiwan in 2023. |
BEYOND THE DANUBE
Envisage if you will the curtains open and on stage is a lush Viennese Orchestra of between 7 and 30 members, Opera Singers, Ballroom Dancers, all dressed in Glamorous Evening Wear. The Orchestra starts to play and immediately the audience starts to sway, hum and sing-a-long to the melodies coming from the stage.
BEYOND THE DANUBE is a spectacular show featuring a combination of superb international guest artists, musicians that are the highest acclaim in Australia, and led by The World’s Fastest Violinist in a show that will delight fans of classical and popular music of all ages.
The impressive, delightful and versatile repertoire presented includes the ever popular The Blue Danube Waltz, the edge of your seat excitement of the William Tell Overture, Highlights from Carmen, Gypsy thrills with Czardas, a surprisingly completely unique rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, plus some fabulous interpretations of Zorba, Unchained Melody, Swan Lake and the Radetzky March to name just a few.
At the front of the show is VOV DYLAN a Violinist whose talents were first recognised at age of 21 months and has spent the rest of his life with Violin in hand and audience in front. He has performed throughout the world on concert stages, cabaret stages and theatres as his generation’s leading Variety Instrumental act specialising in presenting the Classics in a down to earth easily accessible manner. He has performed and presented on Radio, TV and Movie’s and as a recording artist has released 9 albums to date, with a further 2 albums due throughout 2017. He is a contract player to Fanfare Classics with global distribution of his albums via Sony Music and MGM.
VOV DYLAN’S strength is in being able to make the Violin sing straight to the heart while getting your foot to tap in joy of the music and leave your jaw dropped on the floor from a virtuosic display that is unmatchable from any other Violinist in the world.