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UKARIA: Anthony Marwood and James Crabb

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
Internationally acclaimed soloists and renowned duo partners Anthony Marwood and James Crabb are no strangers to UKARIA: their imagination, virtuosity and generous musicianship have long cast a spell in the venue’s intimate space. In this program, the duo is joined by frequent collaborator and double bassist Rohan Dasika (Melbourne Symphony…

UKARIA: Quartet from Melbourne Chamber Orchestra with Andrea Lam

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
Friendship and conversation is at the heart of chamber music – as is evidenced in the sensitive musicianship of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra. In this program, MCO Artistic Director Sophie Rowell leads a quartet of the Orchestra’s players in a program that showcases the variety and versatility of chamber works…

UKARIA: Deline Briscoe with Iain Grandage

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
Deline Briscoe is a Yalanji woman of song whose roots are planted deep in both Yalanji culture and gospel traditions. Over two decades, she has shared stages with many artists loved both here at UKARIA and around the globe – artists like Archie Roach, Lou Bennett, Paul Kelly, Shane Howard…

UKARIA: Van Diemen’s Band and Ensemble Kaboul

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
Lutruwitan/Tasmanian Baroque ensemble Van Diemen’s Band invites listeners to experience a stunning blend of two distinct musical worlds: the Persian music of Afghanistan and Western Baroque. Created for MONA FOMA 2023 and performed to sold-out venues, this cross-cultural collaboration with Ensemble Kaboul features musicians Khaled Arman (rubab) and Siar Hashimi…

UKARIA: Cuarteto Quiroga

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
The ‘exquisite’ and ‘interpretatively fresh’ (New York Times) Cuarteto Quiroga celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2023 and now makes its UKARIA debut. The quartet has become a staple of the European and North American chamber music landscape and is renowned for its distinctive musical personality and charismatic music-making. Cuarteto Quiroga’s…

UKARIA: Benjamin Grosvenor

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor is an international sensation, heralded as a ‘genius who has reached the height of his interpretative powers’ (The Spectator). The youngest British musician ever signed as a Decca Classics recording artist, Grosvenor has performed with (among others) the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, London Philharmonic…
UKARIA Chamberfest

UKARIA: Concert One | Citizenship Notes

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
In Citizenship Notes, the string quartet is posited as a microcosmic democracy; a highly engaged ecosystem of equal voices with  clear rights and responsibilities. The flattened hierarchy of Haydn’s novel string quartet writing directly mirrors the  contemporaneous societal shifts afoot in the Age of Enlightenment. Two new commissions explore questions of citizenship and democracy in the…

Featured UKARIA Chamberfest

UKARIA: Concert Two | Chalk and Soot

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
In Citizenship Notes, the string quartet is posited as a microcosmic democracy; a highly engaged ecosystem of equal voices with  clear rights and responsibilities. The flattened hierarchy of Haydn’s novel string quartet writing directly mirrors the  contemporaneous societal shifts afoot in the Age of Enlightenment. Two new commissions explore questions of citizenship and democracy in the…
UKARIA Chamberfest

UKARIA: Concert Three | Healing Modes

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
In Citizenship Notes, the string quartet is posited as a microcosmic democracy; a highly engaged ecosystem of equal voices with  clear rights and responsibilities. The flattened hierarchy of Haydn’s novel string quartet writing directly mirrors the  contemporaneous societal shifts afoot in the Age of Enlightenment. Two new commissions explore questions of citizenship and democracy in the…
Featured UKARIA Chamberfest

UKARIA: Concert Four | Morning Dances

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
A big part of what inspires us as a string quartet is the possibility for collaboration across artistic disciplines. We have had a long history working with dancers and choreographers, having been the resident quartet at the Vail Dance Festival (Vail, Colorado, USA) for more than ten years. One of…
UKARIA Chamberfest

UKARIA: Concert Five | Ever Yours

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
When thinking about how to cap off this edition of Chamberfest, UKARIA's own Alison Beare suggested the idea of working with a fabulous string quartet from the Australian National Academy of Music. The idea immediately struck us for a couple of reasons. First, a couple of years ago, we did…

UKARIA: Daniel Müller-Schott with Konstantin Shamray

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
For this recital Müller-Schott is joined by Russian-Australian piano virtuoso Konstantin Shamray for a program that conveys the depth and breadth of the cello and piano repertoire. Bach’s characterful Suite No. 3 in C for solo cello is followed by a dramatic shift in gear: Shostakovich’s unexpectedly neo-classical Cello Sonata,…