Now bearing the title Chamberfest, the intimate South Australian performance space has released the series’ 2025 program, this one curated by the NYC-based Brooklyn Rider.

Coinciding with the quartet’s 20-year anniversary, the string quartet is “delighted” to be making its return after a “deeply memorable” visit to UKARIA during its Australian visit in early 2024.

Brooklyn Rider. Photo © Shervin Lainez

“For one, we love taking a wide lens to the beautiful historic string quartet tradition – so you will hear core repertory works from Haydn, Beethoven, Bach, and Schoenberg. But also a diverse range of topical works from our lifetime, many of which are recent Brooklyn Rider commissions and including numerous works by Australian composers),” said the quartet.

“We also seek to convene conversations through the programmatic enterprise. So – we take a lens to democracy and citizenship, we visit the unique pre-WWI world of Der Blaue Reiter (our namesake), and we celebrate healing and music in a special Saturday evening musical meditation.”

The first concert on 31 October, Citizenship Notes, “takes a lens...