Fearless musical innovator and GRAMMY-winning pianist, Hiromi, is widely regarded as one of Japan’s most extraordinary artists…

Adelaide Baroque House Concert: Swing to the sounds of 18th century taverns in the British Isles: John Playford, James Oswald and some Italian friends...

Eight contestants chosen from the best of the Adelaide Eisteddfod winners in piano, string, wind and voice divisions.

Join us for a remarkable afternoon of music and support our local young musicians.

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.

A delight for lovers of classical guitar, this annual showcase concert features an array of works for solo guitar and small chamber groups, culminating in a performance by the Elder Conservatorium Guitar Ensemble. Curated by Dr Oliver Fartach-Naini.

Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins dazzles with its energy and virtuosic flair, while Leopold Mozart’s Concerto for Alto Trombone showcases the instrument’s unique lyrical qualities. Dvořák’s serene Nocturne in B major brings a touch of romance and tranquility, setting the stage for David Diamond’s vibrant Rounds for String Orchestra, a playful and rhythmically engaging finale.

Chamber music from early C18th London including  divisions, Scottish folk songs, and pieces from Italian opera set for recorder, baroque oboe & harpsichord.

The sublime meets the sensational in Convergence, with music by Mozart, Ligeti and Schubert that ignites the imagination and brings the stunning voices of three legendary composers into focus.

This 2010 commission from the Seraphim Trio has a libretto from the Australian author Peter Goldsworthy. Subtitled a ‘cabaret quintet for soprano, violin, cello, piano and iPhone’, it is a mini-operetta that tells of a love affair starring a modern-day Brünnhilde and her phone. Koehne’s continuous flow of music recalls Wagner’s revolutionary ‘speech-song’, and members of the audience might need to brush up on tech jargon to fully appreciate the text! The score is also dotted with references to famous ring tones.

Visit Adelaide's most beautiful concert room with members of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, for concert of beautifully lyrical and dazzling music - Britten (Phantasy Quartet) and Penderecki (Clarinet Quartet). Featuring ASO principle clarinetist, Mitchell Berick and a string quartet from the ASO.

The sublime meets the sensational in Convergence, with music by Mozart, Ligeti and Schubert that ignites the imagination and brings the stunning voices of three legendary composers into focus.

James Huon George is gaining an outstanding reputation as pianist from South Australia. He has studied with Stefan Ammer, and Konstantin Shamray, and is now undertaking a Masters in Music Performance at the Elder Conservatorium under the tutelage of Lucinda Collins…

British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor is an international sensation, heralded as a ‘genius who has reached the height of his interpretative powers’ (The Spectator).

Renowned for both his virtuosity and poetic sensitivity, Grosvenor makes his much-anticipated UKARIA debut in this recital featuring three giants of the solo piano repertoire.

Agnes Weinstein, baroque violin
Jennifer Tingley, cello
Stephen van der Hoek, harpsichord

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, New Zealand-based pianist Michael Endres has been described as ‘one of the most interesting pianists recording today’ (Boston Globe), and an ‘outstanding Schubert interpreter’ (Gramophone).

Saoirse Kowalski is currently undertaking her Honours degree in Music (Classical Performance) at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, specialising in piano…

Join the Bowerbird Collective and soprano Bethany Hill as they take you on an musical journey into forests, under water, and across the lands.

Repertoire includes works by Vaughan Williams, Handel, Charpentier and Purcell, as well as Jodie O'Regan (SA), Karine Polwart and charming trad tunes.

The ‘exquisite’ and ‘interpretatively fresh’ (New York Times) Cuarteto Quiroga celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2023 and now makes its UKARIA debut.

This concert, featuring three markedly different string quartets, showcases the genre as a source of compositional inspiration, from Austria to Argentina.

Join us for a powerful evening of story and song with singer-songwriter Nathan May, as he premiers a new chamber music concert that blurs the lines between contemporary country, folk and Baroque traditions. In a collaboration with genre-defying violinist, Julian Farraretto and Adelaide Baroque string quartet, Nathan’s intimate songs – centred on connection to country, family and truth-telling – are reimagined through rich string textures, improvisation, and immersive staging by director, Chris Drummond.

Join The Bowerbird Collective and soprano Bethany Hill as they take you on a musical journey into forests, under water, and across the lands.

Repertoire includes works by Vaughan Williams, Handel, Charpentier and Purcell, as well as Jodie O'Regan (SA), Karine Polwart and charming trad tunes.

This concert marks the 70th birthday of our seventh Sir Thomas Elder Professor of Music, Charles Bodman Rae. The program features several of his own works alongside pieces by two significant composers with whom he had close personal associations, Olivier Messiaen and Witold Lutosławski.

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 that was later expanded for full orchestra.

Marcus Howard, 20, is a 3rd year undergraduate student at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, studying under Dr Oliver Fartach-Naini.

Kurenai (Claire) Nishioka started learning classical guitar at the age of 4 in Japan. She moved to Australia in 2023, where she now studies privately with Dr Oliver Fartach-Naini.

Lutruwitan/Tasmanian Baroque ensemble Van Diemen’s Band invites listeners to experience a stunning blend of two distinct musical worlds: the Persian music of Afghanistan and Western Baroque. Embodying artistry and advocacy, this performance preserves and celebrates musical traditions that Afghanistan’s current regime is attempting to silence.

Flute ensemble Coruscalia Collective  explores the connection between music and water in this program of classical and contemporary works that spans centuries. The program includes works by Australian composers May Howlett, Christopher Sainsbury and Karen De Nardi, as well as arrangements of Handel's Water Music and Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture.

Presented as part of the 2025 Nature Festival 

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.

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.

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 modern intensity, where bold contrasts and virtuosic flourishes flow effortlessly between tender warmth and fiery energy. After the interval, Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence bathes the listener in the golden hues of sweeping melodies and vibrant textures, blending Russian fervour with the sunlit allure of Italy. Together, these works weave a radiant tapestry, each a facet of chamber music’s boundless expressive power.