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    • 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…

    • AYO Summer Music Festival

    Australian Youth Orchestra: Orchestral Concert IV

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Experience the fantastical and the unexpected when AYO’s Summer Music Festival returns to Adelaide in 2026. Led by internationally renowned conductors Alan Buribayev and Andrea Quinn, AYO alum Glenn Christensen (QSO) and under the guidance of NMC Creative Director, Monica Curro (MSO), this vibrant celebration of song, dance and storytelling…
    AYO Summer Music Festival

    Australian Youth Orchestra: Orchestral Concert III

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Experience the fantastical and the unexpected when AYO’s Summer Music Festival returns to Adelaide in 2026. Led by internationally renowned conductors Alan Buribayev and Andrea Quinn, AYO alum Glenn Christensen (QSO) and under the guidance of NMC Creative Director, Monica Curro (MSO), this vibrant celebration of song, dance and storytelling…
    AYO Summer Music Festival

    Australian Youth Orchestra: Chamber Music Concert

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Experience the fantastical and the unexpected when AYO’s Summer Music Festival returns to Adelaide in 2026. Led by internationally renowned conductors Alan Buribayev and Andrea Quinn, AYO alum Glenn Christensen (QSO) and under the guidance of NMC Creative Director, Monica Curro (MSO), this vibrant celebration of song, dance and storytelling…
    AYO Summer Music Festival

    Australian Youth Orchestra: Composition Showcase

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Experience the fantastical and the unexpected when AYO’s Summer Music Festival returns to Adelaide in 2026. Led by internationally renowned conductors Alan Buribayev and Andrea Quinn, AYO alum Glenn Christensen (QSO) and under the guidance of NMC Creative Director, Monica Curro (MSO), this vibrant celebration of song, dance and storytelling…
    AYO Summer Music Festival

    Australian Youth Orchestra: Brass & Percussion Concert

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Experience the fantastical and the unexpected when AYO’s Summer Music Festival returns to Adelaide in 2026. Led by internationally renowned conductors Alan Buribayev and Andrea Quinn, AYO alum Glenn Christensen (QSO) and under the guidance of NMC Creative Director, Monica Curro (MSO), this vibrant celebration of song, dance and storytelling…
    AYO Summer Music Festival

    Australian Youth Orchestra: Orchestral Concert II

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Experience the fantastical and the unexpected when AYO’s Summer Music Festival returns to Adelaide in 2026. Led by internationally renowned conductors Alan Buribayev and Andrea Quinn, AYO alum Glenn Christensen (QSO) and under the guidance of NMC Creative Director, Monica Curro (MSO), this vibrant celebration of song, dance and storytelling…
    AYO Summer Music Festival

    Australian Youth Orchestra: Orchestral Concert I

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Experience the fantastical and the unexpected when AYO’s Summer Music Festival returns to Adelaide in 2026. Led by internationally renowned conductors Alan Buribayev and Andrea Quinn, AYO alum Glenn Christensen (QSO) and under the guidance of NMC Creative Director, Monica Curro (MSO), this vibrant celebration of song, dance and storytelling…