Longing and transcendence in the poetry of Christina Rossetti and James Joyce as transformed into song by composers including Barber, Laitman, Rorem and Conte. Also featuring the warming melodies of Kodály, Grieg and Sibelius.

Beloved Adelaide bass, Pelham Andrews, joins forces with song-specialist, pianist Penelope Cashman, for an afternoon of song in the intimate and beautiful setting of Coriole Winery's Top House. Well known for his powerful presence on the operatic stage, this is a unique opportunity to experience Andrews’ extraordinary emotional range and poetic sensitivity up close in a program spanning the breadth of the artsong genre.

An unforgettable evening of music, poetry, and cultural fusion, featuring acclaimed Iranian Australian qanun player and composer, Vahideh Eisaei and ARIA award-winning cellist and sound artist Zoë Barry in a special collaboration with Adelaide's Own Silk Strings Ensemble.

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.