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    • Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Storytime

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Kyle Stegall’s tenor guides us through Britten’s Les Illuminations, moving effortlessly between quiet reflection and urgent intensity. Adès reimagines Couperin’s elegant dances, weaving intricate rhythms and shifting tones through the strings. Ravel’s Mother GooseSuite invites us into a world of soft harp whispers and fluttering flutes, closing the program with…
    Keys to Life

    Elder Conservatorium: Keys to Life – Jayson Gillham and Iyad Sughayer

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Jayson Gillham returns to Australian stages alongside his close friend and fellow pianist Iyad Sughayer, making his Australian debut. There is something special about two friends sharing a stage. Festive, joyful and alive with the sheer pleasure of playing together, this is an evening that celebrates the beauty of what…

    • Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: She Speaks – Concert 2

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    WOMEN COMPOSERS, SPANNING CONTINENTS AND GENERATIONS, MEET IN A WEEKEND OF MUSICAL STORYTELLING. Bacewicz opens with restless energy, Clyne offers the still, meditative beauty of Within Her Arms, and Musgrave’s Night Windows sings with elegance for oboe and strings. Mason’s Upon Weightless Wingsglistens with radiant colour, Cawrse unveils an evocative…

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: She Speaks – Concert 1

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    WOMEN COMPOSERS, SPANNING CONTINENTS AND GENERATIONS, MEET IN A WEEKEND OF MUSICAL STORYTELLING. Ensemble Lumen joins She Speaks in 2026 as part of the Elder Conservatorium Lunchtime Series to spotlight the voices of women composers. Performed by the Conservatorium’s distinguished faculty, this concert offers a rare opportunity to hear music…

    Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Vitality

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    From hushed lyricism to fiery folk rhythms, this concert celebrates the incredible versatility of the ASO’s string players. Joseph Bologne’s Violin Concerto No.9 is a joyful window into the bright and energising performance styles of 18th-century France. Dvořák’s Nocturne offers a moment of tenderness and quiet melancholy before Bartók’s Divertimento…

    Adelaide Wind Orchestra: Kingfishers Catch Fire

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    The Adelaide Wind Orchestra presents Kingfishers Catch Fire at Elder Hall, University of Adelaide on Saturday 13 June at 7:30PM. The prograe spans the full range of the symphonic wind ensemble — from Percy Grainger's iconic Lincolnshire Posy to Jennifer Jolley's luminous Dune Aurora, Adam Gorb's majestic Pike's Peak, Frank…

    • Graduate Singers: Wildsong

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Wildsong examines humanity’s relationship with nature, through choral music ranging from the playful to the profound. From chirping crickets and soaring birds to bustling farmyards and the tranquillity of the rainforest, discover how composers have portrayed fauna both tame and wild, allegorical and literal. This performance features the Elder Conservatorium…
    Editor's Choice Interwoven

    Australian String Quartet: Interwoven

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    This program of vivid contrasts is anchored by Elizabeth Younan’s Interwoven, a recent work exploring connection and expression. Haydn’s String Quartet in A major – part of his revolutionary Sun series – brings wit and invention, while Prokofiev’s wartime Second Quartet in F major draws on Caucasian folk idioms. Clara Schumann’s Variations,…

    • Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Festivity

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    The concert opens with a musical love letter to home, Miriam Hyde’s An Adelaide Overture – evoking a lyrical sense of place. Strauss’s Horn Concerto No.2 follows, bringing warmth and wit to the spotlight in the hands of ASO Principal Horn Adrian Uren. The satisfying melodies of Mozart’s Symphony No.29…

    Elder Conservatorium: Sacred and Secular

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    In this special solo organ recital, Joshua van Konkelenberg (a lecturer at the Elder Conservatorium, and one of its most outstanding graduates) performs four works that showcase the majesty and grandeur of our resident instrument. J.S. Bach’s Fantasy and Fugue in C minor, BWV 546 stands as a monumental work…

    • Barton & Brodsky

    Adelaide Festival: Barton & Brodsky

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Witness musical history as chamber music masters, the Brodsky Quartet meet master yidaki artist William Barton to create a performance that revolutionises the idea of what a string quartet can become. In this dialogue between traditions, baroque precision meets ancient breath; European chamber music encounters First Nations wisdom. Barton's yidaki…