About Us

The Somnus Quintet is a Sydney-based chamber group consisting of 5 friends who share a love for music and Japanese culture. We specialise in Japanese film & anime scores, video game soundtracks, and pop music, meeting up weekly to practice and arrange our own music.

Formed in 2018 as a string quartet by members of Kuringai Youth Orchestra, we quickly grew to become a piano quintet to better accommodate the anime and video games themes we wanted to perform.

Our debut performance was at SMASH! 2018 and we have performed at every SMASH! since, as well as at Madman Anime Festival Sydney in 2020 and J-Fest Australia in 2025. We also had our first combined anime music gig in 2024, Memories of Spring with Sunset Morioh and KiZUNA.

Somnus Quintet are also the founders of JAM Fest Sydney, a Japanese and anime music festival that premiered in 2023, which is now run as a non-for-profit association by volunteers.