
Chamber Music Adelaide is looking for an Artistic Representative to join our Board.
This is your chance to help shape the future of chamber music in SA, advocate for your peers, and bring real artistic insight to our strategic direction.
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What’s On
Join mezzo soprano / soprano Katelyn Crawford and pianist Alexander Hanysz for a selection of songs, and a piano solo, on the theme of ‘Fantasy and Fairytales’. Be transported to the lands of forests, fairies, and dreams with music from England, America and Europe, as well as contributions from Australia's own Don Kay (with text by Mike Cooper) and John Polglase. The recital begins and ends with fairies, but explores many other worlds in between.
Celebrating the sacred and profane with passion, fire, and madness! Inflame You is for early music lovers
Featuring music to die for by Gesualdo, Monteverdi and Pärt.
Conducted by Christie Anderson
An afternoon of delights from the French court and Parisian salons: Marais, Couperin, Hottetterre and others.
Tim Kerstin | Lute
Emma Horwood | Soprano
The lute music of John Dowland and Daniel Bacheler. John Dowland and Daniel Bacheler were the two preeminent lutenists of the English Golden Age. This concert is a playful juxtaposition of their lute music, exploring shared themes and motifs, plus parodies they made of each other’s work. As a special feature, Emma Horwood will perform songs linked to the lute pieces presented.
Bethany Hill | soprano
David Greco | baritone
Adelaide Baroque Orchestra led by Ben Dollman
Two of Bach’s masterful cantatas for solo voice, Ich habe Genug, BWV 82 with ARIA Award-nominated baritone David Greco, and Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199 with versatile and critically acclaimed operatic soprano, Bethany Hill on a rare return trip to Australia form the U.S. where she is now based.
The first of two Adelaide Baroque Academy concerts features the outstanding academy faculty in music showcasing the virtuosic fire of the Baroque. Music by Bach, Handel, Telemann, Geminiani, and Schmelzer.
The second of two Adelaide Baroque Academy concerts features the outstanding academy faculty performing alongside the academy students and joined by the high school students for a grand finale performing the music of Handel, Hasse, Avison, Rebel, Vivaldi and Dall'Abaco.
Adelaide Chamber Singers celebrate 40 years in 2025 with an equally grand offering. Forty for 40. Forty singers, forty parts. Thomas Tallis’ 40-part motet Spem in alium performed alongside a commissioned major work in 40 parts by Carl Crossin. Featuring members of Rising Voices and former-ACS singers conducted by Christie Anderson.
Adelaide Baroque House Concert: Swing to the sounds of 18th century taverns in the British Isles: John Playford, James Oswald and some Italian friends...
Adelaide Baroque House Concert: Exuberance and imagination in early string music from Venice, Bologna and Florence: Marini, Vitali, Buonamente and more!
Kate Macfarlane | Soprano
Hannah Lane | Baroque Harp
Nick Pollock | Theorbo
Kate Macfarlane and Ensemble 642 (Hannah Lane – baroque harp, Nicholas Pollock – lutes) return to Adelaide to explore the highly expressive mad songs of seventeenth century England. The program draws on the poetry, music and drama of this intriguing genre, interspersing contemporary readings and folk song to evoke the tumult of the human mind, and the dramatic intensity brought on by madness, longing and love.
Adelaide Chamber Singers’ Rising Voices will help you end the year on a musical high as they lift our voices to ‘raise you’ with music of emotional power and inspiration. Conducted by Carl Crossin.
Handel’s music is eternal, optimistic, lively, and given fresh life in this invigorating and inspiring performance. What Christmas is complete without the joyous music of “For unto us a child is Born”, the Hallelujah Chorus, and the resounding final Amen? And no more fitting venue than the beautiful surrounds of St Peter’s Cathedral.

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