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    • Adelaide Summer Orchestra: Sibelius & Kodaly

    Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    The Adelaide Summer Orchestra performs Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto in D minor, with Tianyou Ma as soloist, and Zoltan Kodály's Dances of Galanta. Nicholas Braithwaite and Philip Paine conduct.

    • Editor's Choice Jupiter

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Jupiter

    Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Marking its 90th anniversary, the ASO’s first concert for 2026 is one of luminous contrasts and bold premieres. Conductor Douglas Boyd and pianist Konstantin Shamray return for Rachmaninov’s virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 2, a hallmark of late-Romantic expression. The concert also features the Australian premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Go For It, an…
    Editor's Choice Jupiter

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Jupiter

    Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Marking its 90th anniversary, the ASO’s first concert for 2026 is one of luminous contrasts and bold premieres. Conductor Douglas Boyd and pianist Konstantin Shamray return for Rachmaninov’s virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 2, a hallmark of late-Romantic expression. The concert also features the Australian premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Go For It, an…

    • Editor's Choice A Winter’s Journey

    Musica Viva Australia: A Winter’s Journey

    Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Allan Clayton, one of the finest tenors on the world stage, returns for a substantial national tour of Winterreise. Lindy Hume’s evocative staging, titled A Winter’s Tale, imagines Schubert’s increasingly disillusioned wanderer trekking through a desolate landscape made up of Fred Williams’ paintings of Australia and brought to life by…
    The Devil’s Violin

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: The Devil’s Violin

    Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    The devil played the violin for Tartini in a dream. The music was charismatic, electrifying, fiendishly difficult and utterly transfixing. Tartini awoke and transcribed the melody, penning the Devil’s Trill sonata. It can only be played by someone astounding. Ilya Gringolts is that player, returning with his dazzling virtuosity and commanding stage presence for…

    • Beethoven’s Ghost

    Musica Viva Australia: Beethoven’s Ghost

    Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    What makes a great piano trio? Is it celebrity? Is it longevity? Or is it serendipity? Three magnificent musicians, brought together at the right time and the right place? Aura Go, Australian pianist, storyteller and FutureMaker, has worked with Finnish/Australian-based cellist Timo-Veikko (Tipi) Valve for many years, performing nationally and…
    Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

    Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Schubert composed like an oil painter, drawing from a rich palette of melodic and harmonic colours. With a divine lyricism at its heart, his music is imbued with an intimacy and intensity that taps into the full range of human emotion. Richard Tognetti’s affinity for Schubert is evident in every…

    • Isles of Light

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: Isles of Light

    Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    The British Isles boast a magnificent anthology of music grounded in lush, poetic landscapes and thriving cities. This concert will transport you there. British violin and viola virtuoso Lawrence Power makes his ACO debut directing music from Thomas Tallis’ evocative theme - made famous by Vaughan Williams - to the…
    Doric String Quartet & Lloyd Van’t Hoff

    Musica Viva Australia: Doric String Quartet & Lloyd Van’t Hoff

    Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Thomas Adès' Alchymia has been hailed as ‘simply one of the best chamber music compositions of our time’ (Guardian). Inspired by the music of Shakespearean England, but with a voice all of its own, this major work for string quartet and basset clarinet was premiered in 2021 and has become…

    • Leila Josefowicz & John Novacek

    Musica Viva Australia: Leila Josefowicz & John Novacek

    Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Prepare to be kissed by a fairy, haunted by a dream and transformed by music when Canadian virtuoso violinist Leila Josefowicz and fellow-Canadian pianist John Novacek bring their fantastical tales and captivating sounds to tour Australia. Josefowicz and Novacek have been playing together since they were eight, and their enduring partnership…
    From Winter’s Stillness

    Australian Chamber Orchestra: From Winter’s Stillness

    Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    From the cold, clear quiet of a wintery morning, comes the music of an ancient landscape: the snow-strewn mountains and shores along the Baltic and Nordic seas. Richard Tognetti directs this extraordinary collaboration between the international vocal phenomenon Trio Mediæval, jazz trumpeter Arve Henriksen and the ACO. Playing with a…

    • Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford

    Musica Viva Australia: Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford

    Adelaide Town Hall 128 King William Street, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    In the intricate weave of sounds that make up a baroque ensemble, the lute is central. It’s fitting, then, that French-American lutenist Thomas Dunford is at the centre of some of the most exciting early music making of the moment. A regular collaborator with everyone from Les Arts Florissants to…