Elder Con Lunchtime Concerts

Elder Conservatorium: In Honour of Beryl Kimber (Leske)

Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide
This special concert honours the memory of Beryl Kimber (Leske), whose distinguished career as an international virtuoso and violin teacher at the Elder Conservatorium spanned decades, shaping generations of musicians. The program opens with J.S. Bach's Sonata No. 2 in A major, BWV 1015, a work of luminous elegance and…

Editor's Choice Barossa Weekend of Music

Australian String Quartet: Opening Night Concert

Angaston Town Hall Washington St, Angaston
Set among the Barossa Valley’s cellar doors and heritage venues, this boutique festival combines canonical chamber music with more contemporary fare, and a healthy serving of the best local produce. Hear Haydn and Prokofiev in Angaston Town Hall, a pairing of Beethoven and Bartók at Maggie Beer’s Farm Eatery, cross-genre…
Editor's Choice Barossa Weekend of Music

Australian String Quartet: Morning Concert

The Farm Eatery Pheasant Farm Rd, Nuriootpa
Set among the Barossa Valley’s cellar doors and heritage venues, this boutique festival combines canonical chamber music with more contemporary fare, and a healthy serving of the best local produce. Hear Haydn and Prokofiev in Angaston Town Hall, a pairing of Beethoven and Bartók at Maggie Beer’s Farm Eatery, cross-genre…

ELISION Ensemble: Silent Noise

Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford
ELISION’s three-year partnership with ANAM has become a meeting point between generations of performers who share a drive to explore new forms of musical expression. At the centre of Silent Noise is Helmut Lachenmann’s Mouvement (– vor der Erstarrung) (1982–84), a work that transforms the smallest gestures into sound —…

Australian National Academy of Music: ELISION & ANAM

Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford
This program begins with Milica Djordjević's Nalet, introducing a gripping and persevering energy as the ensemble pushes determinedly against an unseen resistance, delineative of Djordjević's struggle when composing this piece. Xenakis puts a spin on the sound an orchestra can create in Jalons, each movement developing upon rhythmic construction and…