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    • UKARIA: Attacca Quartet

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    Two-time GRAMMY Award-winning Attacca Quartet is one of the most fearless and opinionated young quartets at work today. They make their UKARIA debut with a recital that exemplifies the ensemble’s unique character and programming style. Renowned in the US and Europe for the deft blending of old and new compositional…

    • Featured UKARIA Chamberfest

    UKARIA: Concert One | Origins

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    An evocative plainchant of Hildegard von Bingen begins each half of this journey through a millennium of creation stories. Fauré’s late song cycle, La Chanson d’Eve (The Song of Eve) tells the genesis story through the eyes of Eve. We hear a little-known Mozartian gem about belief and conviction which you’re…
    Featured UKARIA Chamberfest

    UKARIA: Concert Two | Dead Poets Society

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    '‘The storytelling genius of Schubert needs no introduction, and we are blessed to have one of his great native interpreters with Austrian mezzo, Sophie Rennert. Her voice is that of red velvet. The Disappearance of Lisa Gherardini was inspired by the audacious, real-life theft of the Mona Lisa from the…
    Featured UKARIA Chamberfest

    UKARIA: Concert Three | Kurtág 100

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    ‘Have you ever been to a 100th birthday party? As part of my research for this festival, I attended György Kurtág’s 100th birthday concert in Budapest. The Maestro gets around in a wheelchair these days, but his eyes are crystal clear. “My mother tongue is Bartók,” Kurtág says, “and Bartók’s…
    Featured UKARIA Chamberfest

    UKARIA: Concert Four | The Mighty and Mundane

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    'We celebrate a fresh song cycle by two Adelaide women: Anna Goldsworthy and Anne Cawrse. In Snapshots, Goldsworthy’s poetry reckons with love in a nontraditional way, observing how ‘failed’ relationships morph into new and different futures for families today. With splashes of humour and deep sincerity, this is like Schumann’s Frauenliebe und…
    Featured UKARIA Chamberfest

    UKARIA: Concert Five | Full Flight – One Destination

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    ‘The Chamberfest team unites and expands into a mini orchestra for Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs) and the exquisite Rosenkavalier trio (arranged especially for us by James Ledger). I’ve sung the part of Sophie in this opera on some of the great stages of Europe, but tonight I’ll debut the elegant Marschallin…
    Paul Lewis

    UKARIA: Paul Lewis

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    Internationally regarded as one of the leading musicians of his generation, Paul Lewis’ cycles of core piano repertoire by Beethoven and Schubert have received universal critical acclaim. For his latest project beginning in 2026, Paul turns his attention to Mozart: ‘For many years I’ve wanted to spend some time focusing…
    Paul Lewis

    UKARIA: Paul Lewis

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    Internationally regarded as one of the leading musicians of his generation, Paul Lewis’ cycles of core piano repertoire by Beethoven and Schubert have received universal critical acclaim. For his latest project beginning in 2026, Paul turns his attention to Mozart: ‘For many years I’ve wanted to spend some time focusing…
    Editor's Choice Voyager

    Australian String Quartet: Voyager

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    Garth Knox’s Satellites opens Voyager with a kaleidoscopic exploration of sound and texture that expands the sonic possibilities of the string quartet. Bartók’s arresting String Quartet No.4, a tour de force of rhythmic energy, then takes you to a playground of Hungarian folk influences and raw emotion. Beethoven’s monumental String Quartet in B-flat Major,…