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.

Internationally acclaimed soloists and renowned duo partners Anthony Marwood and James Crabb are no strangers to UKARIA: their imagination, virtuosity and generous musicianship have long cast a spell in the venue’s intimate space. In this program, the duo is joined by frequent collaborator and double bassist Rohan Dasika, as well as a string quartet of next-generation talent from ANAM, to present a program that speaks to their unique musical partnership and interests.

Kim Worley, tenor, and Yundi Yuan, piano present Beethoven’s To A Distant Beloved with Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer. Alongside these epic works is Raymond Chapman’s setting of Novalis’ seminal early romantic text, and Quincy Grant’s settings of poems by the Austrian expressionist George Trakl.  

Gordon Richter completed his studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2023 and has recently started a Masters of Music at the Elder Conservatorium. He is an aspiring clarinettist who has studied with many renowned teachers, including Ben Mellefont, Chris Richards, Frank Celata, Edgar Heßke and Lloyd Van’t Hoff…

Kegelstatt Ensemble

This intimate performance brings together flute, viola, and guitar in a program that explores musical encounters across time. Works by Kapeller and Kreutzer offer classical elegance, contrasted with the rhythmic vitality of Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango and the expressive depth of Frederic Hand’s Samatureya. Interwoven solo works by J.S. and C.P.E. Bach provide quiet moments of reflection in a program that moves between eras, styles, and texture.

Julia Dmochowska-Paech, piano

Step into a slow, immersive sound journey where nature, music and deep listening intertwine. Inspired by synesthesia - the blending of senses, like seeing colour in sound - this serene performance invites you to relax, wander, and reconnect through a richly textured live soundscape.

Spanish-born Australian pianist Simón Pazos Quintana – a recent doctoral graduate of the Elder Conservatorium – is rapidly building a reputation as one of South Australia’s busiest musicians, appearing regularly as a collaborative pianist, chamber musician, recitalist, and concerto soloist. In his debut solo recital in our Elder Hall series, he performs eight vignettes from Dvořák’s rarely-heard Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85 (‘the great forgotten cycle of 19th-century piano music’, according to Leif Ove Andsnes) and concludes with a tour of his homeland through Turina’s irresistible Danzas fantásticas, Op. 22.

Yasmin Rowe, piano

Syntony presents a concert of five centuries of glorious English choral music. At the heart of the program are three works full of luscious harmonies by Henry Purcell. We sing of wisdom, love, beauty and birds in anthems, madrigals and folksongs. They also commemorate the 400^th Anniversary of Orlando Gibbons’ death with his iconic lament The Silver Swan.

A tribute to the song masters in the Mendelssohns by Australian Anne Cawrse followed by beautiful trios by forever favourites Chopin and Schubert.

In this program, MCO Artistic Director Sophie Rowell leads a quartet of the Orchestra’s players in a program that showcases the variety and versatility of chamber works for strings and piano. They are joined in their musical exploration by internationally lauded pianist and renowned chamber musician Andrea Lam.

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

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.

Born in Melbourne, violinist Nicholas Miceli is currently pursuing a Masters degree at the Elder Conservatorium of Music under the guidance of Elizabeth Layton. Prior to this, he graduated from the University of Melbourne, completing a Bachelor of Music with Honours, studying with Dr Curt Thompson and Sophie Rowell

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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).

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

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.

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…

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.

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.

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

Jane Downer, recorder & baroque oboe d'amore
Lesley Lewis, harpsichord

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.

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.

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...

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

Journey through the rich folk traditions of Greater Khorasan with Spanish-Iranian duo, Badieh. 

Matteo Cardelli, piano

Works by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Henri Desmarets, André Campra, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and Barbara Strozzi capture a musical expression of the life and times of Julie d’Aubigny, the 17th-century French sword-fighting opera singer. Today’s concert also includes the premiere of She Who Sings Strange Songs – a new song cycle by our Adjunct Lecturer in Composition, Dr Anne Cawrse.

Celebrating his 80th birthday, pioneering artist, William Yang, reflects on his extraordinary life in Milestone. 

Matteo Cardelli, piano

Blending traditional Sufi music with modern styles, the critically acclaimed Farhan Shah & SufiOz promote peace and tolerance though music.

Soaring harmonies meet blistering guitar, fiddle, sitar, tabla, triple mandolins, didgeridoo, and Indian beatboxing in this genre-defying fusion.

Featuring Josh Bennett, Andrew Clermont, Parvyn Singh, and guest Tim Bennett, it's a joyous global jam session like no other.

Live cello, electronics and sounds of the Bornean Forest meet storytelling and hip hop in The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio).

A nameless water spirit on an endless plastic ocean searches for lost memories and ultimately, humanity. Exploring family, ecological collapse, and Southeast Asian colonial history, The Offering is a seafaring epic. 

Live cello, electronics and sounds of the Bornean Forest meet storytelling and hip hop in The Offering (A Plastic Ocean Oratorio).

A nameless water spirit on an endless plastic ocean searches for lost memories and ultimately, humanity. Exploring family, ecological collapse, and Southeast Asian colonial history, The Offering is a seafaring epic. 

Intimate chamber music arranged from cantatas by two of the Baroque era’s most celebrated composers. Vocal lines are substituted by the recorder, oboe, oboe d’amore and cello, with each instrument displaying poignant and ornate obbligato roles. 

Brendan O'Donnell, recorder
Jane Downer, baroque oboe & oboe d'amore
Kim Worley, baroque cello

Gil Sullivan, piano

A lunchtime concert where past and present collide, celebrating the boundless creativity of the next generation of composers alongside one of history’s greats. An evocative new work by emerging composer and Elder Conservatorium student Benjamin Betelli receives its world premiere. Beethoven’s luminous String Quartet No. 2 is a sparkling testament to the genius of his early quartets, brimming with elegance and vitality.

‘Grace Barbé is a force of nature. A creative musician of the highest order who brings joy and energy to audiences across the globe.

For this special intimate performance, she is joined by long-time collaborator guitarist Jamie Searle, and local string players Julian Ferraretto and Steve King.’ – Iain Grandage

Adelaide Baroque House Concert: Exuberance and imagination in early string music from Venice, Bologna and Florence: Marini, Vitali, Buonamente and more!

‘For this program – contrary to my own general philosophy of being anti-‘curation’, or in other words, of being against the modern norm of taking multiple historical works of genius and stringing them together in such a way as to unnecessarily impose the curator’s own artistic ‘vision’ of a particular theme or connection – Konstantin and I have created a first half where seemingly disparate works by Sciarrino, Webern, Messiaen, Ysaÿe, and Debussy are closely bonded to one another, but in an intangible, unspoken, dream-like manner which elaboration might only cause to evaporate, and which while creating an invisible, unifying link between works, highlights the individuality of each composer. Rather than continuing this ‘curation’, the second half is of opposing personality, continuing on from the end of the first where the denouement of Messiaen’s piece bursts the thematic bubble, with Clara Schumann and Richard Strauss’ by turns lyrical and heroic works sweeping us through rugged reality.’ – Iain Grandage

Musical Portraits features two exceptionally gifted masters of the Baroque who inhabited stylistically different artistic environments - François Couperin, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Personalities and sentiments are evocatively depicted by the character pieces, and a ‘Portrait of Love’ showcases beautifully mellow tones of baroque oboe d’amore.

Jane Downer, baroque oboe d'amore 

Lesley Lewis, harpsichord 

Jane Downer, baroque oboe d'amore
Lesley Lewis, harpsichord

The Selby & Friends season closes with big piano quartets filled to the brim with the most gorgeous melodies by Fauré and Brahms along with a fabulous stand-alone work from Australian Matthew Hindson.

Australian Chamber Orchestra Principal Cello Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve directs the Australian Youth Orchestra’s Momentum Ensemble in a lush program for cello and strings that masterfully intertwines his Finnish heritage and his Australian experience. Jaako Kuusisto’s Wiima evokes the nostalgic charm of Sysmä, a Finnish town dear to Tipi’s childhood, while Crystalline, by the Australian composer Olivia Bettina Davies, shimmers with delicate textures. The centrepiece of the program is Tipi’s own arrangement of Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata, in which his 1616 Brothers Amati cello will sing with warmth and lyricism. The concert concludes with the introspective gaze of Sibelius’ Voces intimae, interspersed with select movements from Peter Sculthorpe’s dark String Quartet No. 8, to weave Finnish and Australian traditions into a captivating tapestry.

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.

Anca Stana, piano

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.

Anca Stana, piano

James Huon George, piano

James Huon George, piano

Hamish Strathdee, guitar

Anna Pope, soprano
Emma Horwood, soprano
Kenneth Pope, bass

Federico Bucaioni, piano
Gioia Barbera, piano