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Robert Dessaix: Music in My Life and Work (Daylight Express)
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025, 12:30 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Robert Dessaix is one of Australia's most intriguing authors, with an abiding love of music. Professor Anna Goldsworthy is a concert pianist, author and Director of the University of Adelaide's Elder Conservatorium. Together they will explore the place of music in Dessaix's life and work, interspersed with performances by Goldsworthy of works close to Dessaix's heart and inspired by the conversation. Join us for a warm, intriguing and revealing hour of music and discovery.
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Lunchtime Concert - Songs of Travel and Distance
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Fresh from his appearance in Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence (the headline opera of the 2025 Adelaide Festival), baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes (our newest staff member) joins forces with Professor Anna Goldsworthy (Director of the Elder Conservatorium) to open our 2025 concert series with a poignant sojourn through the spatial and temporal landscapes of self-discovery.
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Lunchtime Concert - Veiled Disclosures
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Elegant, wistful and deeply expressive, Bridge’s eight-minute Lament was one of two duos performed by the composer and his teacher in 1912, and is today recognised as one of the most haunting musical dialogues ever written. Contrasting cheerful exuberance and a darker, veiled beauty of its own, Brahms’s second String Sextet in G major, Op. 36 (‘the most ethereal of Brahms’s longer works’, according to Sir Donald Tovey) provides the ideal companion piece, containing within its first movement a hidden cypher for Agathe von Siebold, to whom the composer had been engaged (but was destined never to marry) six years prior.
Lunchtime Concert - Echoes and Horizons
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Respighi’s Pines of Rome paints a vivid portrait of Italy’s eternal city, from its serene groves to its triumphant marches, using lush orchestral colours and evocative imagery. Charles Bodman Rae’s Clarinet Concerto is based on the composer’s Partita Dalriada, which has at its heart an ancient Scottish melody. This world-premiere performance features the Elder Conservatorium’s Head of Woodwind, clarinettist Lloyd Van’t Hoff.
Lunchtime Concert - Honours Jazz Ensemble
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Join us for an afternoon of jazz brilliance as the Elder Conservatorium’s jazz honours students bring the music of the legendary Billy Strayhorn to life. Strayhorn is well known for his collaborations with Duke Ellington and leaving an indelible mark on the jazz world. His compositions – rich with sophisticated melodies and lush harmonies – will be celebrated in this dynamic performance. From iconic classics, such as Take the A-Train and Lush Life, to lesser-known gems, experience the genius of one of jazz’s most influential composers, as these emerging musicians showcase their artistry and passion.
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Lunchtime Concert - Passion and Poetry
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Experience the magnetic artistry of pianist Aura Go as she joins the University of Adelaide’s Quartet-in-Residence, the Australian String Quartet, for a lunchtime concert of works by Zoltán Kodály and Amy Beach.
Elder After Hours - Dances and Dialogues
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Experience the vibrant world of solo guitar with a program that spans centuries and continents.
Elder After Hours - Fantasies for Twenty Fingers
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
The Neeman Piano Duo are a powerhouse husband-and-wife team: their twenty fingers have sounded together since 2008, at venues across the United States, Asia and Australia.
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Lunchtime Concert - The Touch of Dreams
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Three outstanding musicians come together to explore the unusual combination of clarinet, tenor and piano in a concert culminating with Louis Spohr’s Six German Songs, generally regarded as his finest contribution to the Lieder genre.
Lunchtime Concert - Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2025, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
A concert spanning Baroque brilliance, modern storytelling and romantic beauty.
