This special collaboration sees three of our faculty members team up with two very distinguished colleagues from overseas. Described by the Los Angeles Times as an ‘extraordinary musician’, Mark Menzies is a member of the LA Philharmonic, and is currently violin and viola professor at the Californian Institute of Arts. The German-born,…

Konstantin Shamray - piano Mark Gaydon - bassoon Joe Chindamo OAM - piano Madeline Melrose - violin Katherine Moorhead - flute Charles Bodman Rae - piano This concert marks the 70th birthday of our seventh Sir Thomas Elder Professor of Music, Charles Bodman Rae. The program features several of his…

The unique sonic alchemy of two pianos has long served as one of the most reliable vehicles through which to faithfully reproduce orchestral sonorities and textures. Liszt, Brahms, Ravel and Rachmaninoff (to name only a few celebrated examples) all initially turned to four hands as the medium for a composition…

Professor Anna Goldsworthy (Director of the Elder Conservatorium) and Andrew Haveron (Concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra) both possess that rare quality necessary for all enduring artistic partnerships: an irrepressible energy that becomes atomic in one another’s company. Their previous Adelaide performances have all been defined by a scintillating intensity,…

In its third concert for 2025, Ensemble Lumen draws the audience into a dance of light and shadow, where three remarkable works shimmer with their own unique brilliance. Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Winds opens, glowing with graceful interplay and crystalline elegance. Carl Vine’s Flute Sonata follows, a beacon of…