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    • 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…
    Featured Editor's Choice UKARIA Chamberfest

    UKARIA: Concert One | Citizenship Notes

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    Celebrating 20 years together, the four members of Brooklyn Rider are back at UKARIA with this survey of the string quartet tradition. Built around core works by Haydn, Beethoven, JS Bach and Schoenberg, their thematic programming promises to examine democracy and citizenship, including a visit to the pre-WWI world of Der…

    • Featured Editor's Choice UKARIA Chamberfest

    UKARIA: Concert Two | Chalk and Soot

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    Celebrating 20 years together, the four members of Brooklyn Rider are back at UKARIA with this survey of the string quartet tradition. Built around core works by Haydn, Beethoven, JS Bach and Schoenberg, their thematic programming promises to examine democracy and citizenship, including a visit to the pre-WWI world of Der…
    Featured Editor's Choice UKARIA Chamberfest

    UKARIA: Concert Three | Healing Modes

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    Celebrating 20 years together, the four members of Brooklyn Rider are back at UKARIA with this survey of the string quartet tradition. Built around core works by Haydn, Beethoven, JS Bach and Schoenberg, their thematic programming promises to examine democracy and citizenship, including a visit to the pre-WWI world of Der…
    Featured Editor's Choice UKARIA Chamberfest

    UKARIA: Concert Four | Morning Dances

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    Celebrating 20 years together, the four members of Brooklyn Rider are back at UKARIA with this survey of the string quartet tradition. Built around core works by Haydn, Beethoven, JS Bach and Schoenberg, their thematic programming promises to examine democracy and citizenship, including a visit to the pre-WWI world of Der…
    Editor's Choice UKARIA Chamberfest

    UKARIA: Concert Five | Ever Yours

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    Celebrating 20 years together, the four members of Brooklyn Rider are back at UKARIA with this survey of the string quartet tradition. Built around core works by Haydn, Beethoven, JS Bach and Schoenberg, their thematic programming promises to examine democracy and citizenship, including a visit to the pre-WWI world of Der…

    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,…

    UKARIA: Grace Barbé with Iain Grandage

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    Grace Barbé is a force of nature. A creative musician of the highest order who brings joy and energy to audiences across the globe. Born in the Seychelles, her music draws on the rich Kreol tradions of those Indian Ocean islands, driven by her polyrhythmic bass lines and extraordinary voice.…

    UKARIA: Kristian Winther with Konstantin Shamray

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    For this program – contrary to my own general philosophy of being anti-‘curation’, or in other words, of being against the modern norm of taking multiple historical works of genius and stringing them together in such a way as to unnecessarily impose the curator’s own artistic ‘vision’ of a particular…

    Australian Youth Orchestra: Momentum Ensemble with Timo-Veikko Valve

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    Australian Chamber Orchestra Principal Cello Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve directs the Australian Youth Orchestra’s Momentum Ensemble in a lush program for cello and strings that masterfully intertwines his Finnish heritage and his Australian experience. Jaako Kuusisto’s Wiima evokes the nostalgic charm of Sysmä, a Finnish town dear to Tipi’s childhood, while…