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Chamber Music Adelaide champions the vibrant chamber music community of South Australia. We're here to support over 160 musicians from Baroque specialists to experimental innovators - helping them create, perform, and thrive.
As Australia's only member-based chamber music organisation, we commission new Australian works, provide performance platforms, and advocate for the artists who make our musical landscape so rich and diverse.
Whether you're a lifelong chamber music devotee or curious to discover something new, there's a world of intimate, powerful musical experiences waiting for you.
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Explore our concert diary to find performances across Adelaide and regional South Australia- from grand cultural institutions to unexpected spaces, featuring everything from beloved classics to brand-new commissions
What’s On
The Berlin-based Leonkoro Quartet has been making waves on the international chamber music scene since triumphing at the 2022 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. Now partnering exclusively with the Alpha Classics recording label, the Quartet has a string of critically-acclaimed albums and performs regularly at venues such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and NYC’s Carnegie Hall. On their first Australian tour, their recital programs reflect their interpretative range and their ‘profound sensitivity’…
In their second offering for UKARIA, the Leonkoro Quartet presents a unique selection of Austro-German voices old and new…
The Jazz Honours Ensemble performs the music of Hoagy Carmichael, the legendary composer and pianist behind some of the Great American Songbook's most enduring standards – including Georgia on My Mind, The Nearness of You, Skylark, and Stardust.
Nexus Arts Orchestra presents a collection of musical works reflecting its spirit of brilliant cross-cultural artistic collaboration. Featuring world premier compositions by South Australian cellist and composer, Jack Overall, and directed by renowned jazz violinist and composer, Julian Ferraretto, Letters from Home explores memory, identity and connection through sound.
Australian pianist and storyteller Aura Go has worked with Finnish/Australian-based cellist Timo-Veikko (Tipi) Valve for many years, performing nationally and internationally as a duo. She’s also toured extensively with virtuoso Australian violinist Kristian Winther…
ARIA Award-winning tabla player Bobby Singh returns to UKARIA for a collaboration that spans cultures, generations and borders. Featuring the compositions of tabla maestro Aneesh Pradhan, the music revolves around the nucleus of Bobby Singh – himself a student of Aneesh. Bridging Indian classical tradition, jazz and blues, the presence of Tjupurru’s didgeridoo grounds this collaboration in the roots of this land, with Bobby as the musical sutradhaar – the narrator who connects all the threads in this story…
A stunning array of musical threads that intersect in a program of vivid contrasts.
Join the Elder Conservatorium Wind Orchestra for three contemporary works that explore texture, rhythm, and inventive musical landscapes…
A stunning array of musical threads that intersect in a program of vivid contrasts.
Dubbed “the sorceress of percussion,” Claire Edwardes OAM has been a defining force in Australian new music for three decades…
A symphony so monumental it ushered in a new period of composition, Beethoven’s Eroica expanded the possibilities of the symphonic form…
Following on from our sold-out ‘Alehouse Sessions’, join us for a deeper dive into the music of old London Town from two of its most colourful characters – from fantasias to folk tunes, music for the spirit and music for merry-making!
Programme:
Tchaikovsky - "Children’s Album", Op. 39
Jankowski - "Time Sphere"
Boulanger - "Trois Morceaux pour piano"
Australis Collective makes its debut with an early evening program celebrating the brilliance and vitality of chamber music.
Join us at 5:30pm in the beautiful Eliza Hall for a one-hour performance featuring Beethoven’s Septet in E♭ major, Op. 20 - a work of wit, elegance and expansive lyricism - alongside Dvořák’s Bagatelles arr. Trish Dean, full of warmth, colour and unmistakable Bohemian character.
Ukrainian-Australian pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk returns with a characterful and dramatic program that showcases his ‘revelatory’ and ‘electrifying’ artistry. Each half opens with a distinctive evocation of childhood: Robert Schumann’s Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) offers an adult’s perspective, in a series of reminiscences of childhood experience. By contrast, Tchaikovsky’s Children’s Album – which begins the second half – is a twenty-four-part cycle written specifically for children…
Australis Collective makes its debut with an afternoon program celebrating the brilliance and vitality of chamber music. Join us for a one-hour performance featuring Beethoven’s Septet in E♭ major, Op. 20 - a work of wit, elegance and expansive lyricism - alongside Dvořák’s Bagatelles arr. Trish Dean, full of warmth, colour and unmistakable Bohemian character. Bringing together early-career professional performers trained at the University of Adelaide, Australis Collective is dedicated to creating vibrant performance opportunities and expanding South Australia’s chamber music landscape.
From the grandeur of ceremonial fanfares to the hushed reverence of sacred reflection, these works chart a journey through time, colour, and sound featuring brass and organ…
Wildsong examines humanity’s relationship with nature, through choral music ranging from playful to profound.
Radical Son is the creative moniker of David Leha, an artist from the Kamilaroi nation of Australia and the South Pacific nation of Tonga. His voice carries the compelling story of his turbulent past, restoration through culture and ever-deepening connection to Country, which has been captured in two critically-acclaimed albums: Cause ‘N Affect (2014) and Bilambiyal (2024)….
The 20th Season of Selby & Friends opens with a return of two special guests who wowed audiences two years ago – violinist Alexandra Osborne and cellist Clancy Newman. This dynamic duo joins Kathryn Selby for a concert comprising works by Beethoven and Elena Kats-Chernin that pay tribute to long-ago popular tunes; Fanny Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio, and Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 99.
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