David Harrington’s admiration for Trio Da Kali goes beyond music: every note of their performances embodies the full spectrum of human experience. The Trio’s name means ’to give a pledge’, referring to the 700-year musical tradition on which their music-making is founded. The first half of this concert showcases the…

Acclaimed ensemble Bandaluzia will present their latest show in an exhilarating display of contemporary flamenco music and dance. A performance replete with a unique range of creative influences, from the great canon of the flamenco tradition, to inspiration from Debussy, Jazz, Radiohead and Contemporary dance. Bandaluzia subtly intertwines this inspiration…

This concert celebrates the joy of sound. Janáček’s String Quartet No. 2 Intimate Letters was originally written for the unique sound of the viola d’amore; we sample that version, together with a performance featuring the viola. Multi-instrumentalist Garth Knox, whom Harrington reveres for his approach to music making, is our guide. He’ll…

To mark their 50th anniversary, the Kronos Quartet chose to look forward, not back. Cue one of the most ambitious commissioning projects of recent times: 50 new works, with scores and recordings of each madefreely available. Together, these works form a snapshot of the possibilities for the string quartet in…

The AHE commence their season with two wonderful quartets that morph effortlessly from the lofty to the lowbrow. Then Fanny Mendelssohn’s quartet, apparently the first ever composed by a woman, offers an elegant, if far from ladylike, riposte. Beethoven never set Shakespeare, even in translation, but his instrumental works often…

In a fitting culmination, Horizons draws to a close with all artists on stage together. Presented from the stage by David Harrington, this collaborative concert culminates in a rhapsodic performance of Terry Riley’s cult hit Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector.

French-German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt, known to Australian and international audiences as one of the finest instrumentalists performing today, presents an intimate one-off Adelaide Festival performance as part of Daylight Express. Hailed as having “technique to burn, near perfect intonation, superb control of extreme registers and harmonics”, Altstaedt will perform the revered…