Season Preview: Your guide to the arts in 2024

With three festival debuts, a world premiere work and a handful of returning favourites, the 2024 Coriole Music Festival lineup has been revealed. Themed ‘To Find a Way Home’, the festival offers three concerts at McLaren Vale’s Coriole Vineyards across the weekend of 18-19 May.

“Whether it’s finding a way home, a lost home or the search for a place to belong, for all of the featured composers the term home carries many different meanings”, said Artistic Director Simon Cobcroft.

Coriole Chamber Music Festival 2023. Photo © Jamois

In 2022, the cellist was appointed the festival’s new Artistic Director after the departure of Anna Goldsworthy for a three-year tenure; Cobcroft’s debut festival earned a five-star Limelight review in May.

“Cobcroft has devised a musical programme which builds upon the festival’s already staunch foundations,” wrote Brett Allen-Bayes. “Coriole must be one of the best boutique festivals in the country.”

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