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    Elder Conservatorium: A Birthday Celebration – Charles Bodman Rae

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Konstantin Shamray - piano Mark Gaydon - bassoon Joe Chindamo OAM - piano Madeline Melrose - violin Katherine Moorhead - flute Charles Bodman Rae - piano This concert marks the 70th birthday of our seventh Sir Thomas Elder Professor of Music, Charles Bodman Rae. The program features several of his…

    Elder Conservatorium: Lunchtime Concert – The Trout

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    This special collaboration sees three of our faculty members team up with two very distinguished colleagues from overseas. Described by the Los Angeles Times as an ‘extraordinary musician’, Mark Menzies is a member of the LA Philharmonic, and is currently violin and viola professor at the Californian Institute of Arts. The German-born,…

    Elder Conservatorium: Lunchtime Concert – The Ringtone Cycle

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    This 2010 commission from the Seraphim Trio has a libretto from the Australian author Peter Goldsworthy. Subtitled a ‘cabaret quintet for soprano, violin, cello, piano and iPhone’, it is a mini-operetta that tells of a love affair starring a modern-day Brünnhilde and her phone. Koehne’s continuous flow of music recalls…

    Elder Conservatorium: Lunchtime Concert – Timeless Strings

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    This 2010 commission from the Seraphim Trio has a libretto from the Australian author Peter Goldsworthy. Subtitled a ‘cabaret quintet for soprano, violin, cello, piano and iPhone’, it is a mini-operetta that tells of a love affair starring a modern-day Brünnhilde and her phone. Koehne’s continuous flow of music recalls…

    Elder Conservatorium: Lunchtime Concert – French Guise

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Works by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Henri Desmarets, André Campra, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and Barbara Strozzi capture a musical expression of the life and times of Julie d’Aubigny, the 17th-century French sword-fighting opera singer. Today’s concert also includes the premiere of She Who Sings Strange Songs – a new song cycle by…

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    Elder Conservatorium: From little things…

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Here are the Elder Conservatorium Classical Voice students and Chorale as you may not have heard them before! Artist-in-Residence Timothy Wayne-Wright guides the Elder Conservatorium’s Classical Voice students and Chorale through an exciting and diverse program of small vocal ensemble and choral music. Timothy Wayne-Wright is one of the UK’s…
    Incandescence

    Elder Conservatorium: Elder After Hours – Lumen Gala

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Our Lumen Gala ignites the stage with a program that celebrates the brilliance and boundless possibilities of chamber music. Guillaume Connesson’s electrifying Techno Parade launches the evening with pulsating energy and modern flair. Claude Debussy’s iconic Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, presented in a shimmering arrangement by Graeme…
    Elder Con Lunchtime Concert

    Elder Conservatorium: Top Class

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Our annual classical performance showcase concert, featuring top student performers from the Elder Conservatorium of Music. Supported by the Peter Brooker Prize for Musical Excellence.

    Elder Conservatorium: Lunchtime Concert – Past and Present

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    A lunchtime concert where past and present collide, celebrating the boundless creativity of the next generation of composers alongside one of history’s greats. An evocative new work by emerging composer and Elder Conservatorium student Benjamin Betelli receives its world premiere. Beethoven’s luminous String Quartet No. 2 is a sparkling testament…
    Editor's Choice Born in Vienna

    Elder Conservatorium: Born in Vienna: Concert 2

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth curates a weekend celebrating Vienna’s role in shaping orchestral music. Concert 1 pairs Mozart’s Symphony No. 1 with Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante and Beethoven’s bold First Symphony. Concert 2 features the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3 and Mozart’s majestic Jupiter Symphony. The…
    After Hours Concert

    Elder Conservatorium: Born in Vienna

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Celebrating Vienna as the birthplace of orchestral music as we know it, this special performance presents Mozart’s first and last thoughts, Beethoven’s dramatic arrival onto the stage, and Schubert’s ‘Great’ C major Symphony, a work that sums up the Viennese Classical tradition while simultaneously knocking on the door of the…