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Lunchtime Concert - Worlds within Worlds
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
This captivating program celebrates the rich diversity of musical traditions and expressions from around the globe.
String Quartet Courses 2025
- Date: Sat, 24, 9:30 am - Sun, 25 May 2025, 7:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall, The University of Adelaide
Calling all emerging string quartets! Join us for two weekends of intensive string quartet tuition at the Elder Conservatorium. Open to all Australian and New Zealand string players.
Elder After Hours - Ritual
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2025, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
- Location: St Peter's Cathedral
From birth to death and every important occasion in between, rituals – small and large – are a vital part of our daily lives. This is a program of powerful, emotional and eloquent music connecting us to some of life’s important rituals. Duruflé’s iconic Requiem has been performed in Adelaide on many occasions in the most familiar version for choir, soloists and organ. This program however, features the first Adelaide performance of the Requiem in its full orchestral version.
Concert 1 – String Quartet Courses 2025
- Date: Sun, 25 May, 6:00 pm - Wed, 25 Jun 2025, 8:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall, The University of Adelaide
Twelve of the best young Australian string quartets perform works by Grieg, Haydn, Beethoven, Kreisler, Mozart and others in the culmination of our May 2025 String Quartet Course.
Lunchtime Concert - Best of Brazil
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Best of Brazil brings the vibrant rhythms and rich musical traditions of Brazil to the stage, featuring talented students from the Elder Conservatorium’s Jazz Department.
Big Band and Latin Ensemble featuring Dustan Cox
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
- Location: Scott Theatre, The University of Adelaide
The Elder Conservatorium's big Band and Latin Band are christening our new jazz venue – the Scott Theatre – with a concert featuring long-term jazz lecturer Dustan Cox on saxophones! Expect a night of Big Band classics and Latin evergreens with a few original works by staff and students. Rounding out the program, the Big Band will present a new adaptation of Mark Ferguson's 1959: The Twin Precipice, which was written especially for Cox and was first performed by him and the Elder Conservatorium Studio Orchestra in 2019.
[Read more about Big Band and Latin Ensemble featuring Dustan Cox]
Lunchtime Concert - Contrasts
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
This program, featuring our new staff ensemble, Lumen, delves into the interplay of sound and emotion, showcasing how composers use chamber music to express a spectrum of colours and textures.
Music and Mediation Conference
- Date: Mon, 9, 8:30 am - Tue, 10 Jun 2025, 8:00 pm
- Location: Level 5, Union House, The University of Adelaide
Mediation, in all its possible senses, from transmission to conflict resolution, is particularly relevant in times of technological innovation, sustainability challenges, forced displacement and struggles for equality or survival. This conference, generously supported by the Musicological Society of Australia (MSA), is concerned with the ways music and the study of music contribute to the many theories and practices around mediation.
The Cabaret Project (Elder Conservatorium Music Theatre)
- Date: Thu, 12, 6:30 pm - Fri, 13 Jun 2025, 9:30 pm
- Location: Nexus Arts
In this special showcase, third-year Music Theatre students present original cabaret works developed over six weeks of intensive writing, music, and performance workshops. Each piece is a reflection of their unique voice and creative vision – tackling the personal, the political, and everything in between.
[Read more about The Cabaret Project (Elder Conservatorium Music Theatre)]
Lunchtime Concert - Autumn Grace
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Acclaimed Scots/Australian fiddler Catherine Fraser is a vibrant and passionate exponent of the music of her heritage, and was the Director of the Southern Hemisphere International School of Scottish Fiddle for eleven years. Steeped in the Scottish fiddle tradition, the Catherine Fraser Trio perform repertoire from the wealth of Scottish collections – some dating as far back as the 1690s – as well as writing and arranging their own contemporary compositions.
