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Lunchtime Concert - Irving Berlin!
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021, 1:10 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Irving Berlin wrote some of the greatest works in the American Song Book including ‘Blue Skies, ‘Cheek to Cheek, ‘Putting on the Ritz and ‘How Deep is the Ocean?’. Join jazz guitar lecturer James Muller and the Honours Ensemble from the Elder Conservatorium as they bring some of Berlin’s most beautiful works to life with fresh new arrangements.
String Whispers Erhu Concert
- Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021, 7:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Join us for a rare opportunity to explore the beauty of the erhu, one of the most popular traditional Chinese musical instruments.
Lunchtime Concert - Mercurial Spirit
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021, 1:10 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
A short, transparent work, almost Haydenesque in character, Shostakovich’s Ninth sits lightly between such giants as his tragic Eighth and Tenth Symphonies. Schumann’s cello concerto has recently become a staple piece of the romantic cello repertoire after a century of obscurity. It’s a work that combines the composer’s most unique and personal qualities – intense lyricism, rhythmic vigor and a fair amount of ambiguity.
Orchestral Open Day
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Location: Madley Rehearsal Studio
Meet staff and students from the Elder Conservatorium, ask questions and learn about the Classical Performance courses and events we offer.
Evening Concert - A Night in Havana
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021, 6:30 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Elder Conservatorium jazz trumpet teacher Lazaro Numa was born in Cuba and studied at the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory of Music in Havana. In 2019 he toured Europe with the Afro-Cuban Allstars. However, Lazaro is more than just a trumpet player – he brings a wealth of knowledge on piano, valve trombone and all of the Cuban percussion instruments, as well as being a handy singer too! Join Lazaro, the Big Band, and the Latin Ensemble for a night of Danzón, Son, Mambo, Cha Cha Cha and more.
Lunchtime Concert - American Flair
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021, 1:10 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
A staple of the twentieth-century piccolo repertoire, Lowell Liebermann’s entry into the genre is an exquisite piece of modern music with a wide array of influences and an accessible harmonic style. Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story synthesize everything great about the original score – jazzy licks, Latin dance rhythms, complex modern harmonies, and operatic melodies.
Lunchtime Concert - Cities of Music
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021, 1:10 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Join Heidi von Bernewitz and Rob Nairn for viola and bass duos, featuring the music of Beethoven and his circle, together with extraordinary new music from Australia and the US.
Lunchtime Concert - Exquisite Strings
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021, 1:10 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Gustav Holst’s C Major Suite is a light-hearted piece composed for his students in the St Paul’s Girls’ School. Carulli’s Guitar Concerto in E Minor is a milestone of the repertoire and an exceptionally balanced and refined work of the Classical period. From the elegiac opening to the heroic final movement, Nielsen’s Little Suite for Strings is a great collection of human emotions.
Evening Concert - Water Music
- Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021, 6:30 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Like music, water is essential for life! It purifies, clarifies, reflects and symbolises so many things in our lives. And for this Lunchtime concert at least, we give you a slightly different slant to the idea of a ‘liquid lunch’!
Lunchtime Concert - Transcendent Beauty
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021, 1:10 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Fanny Hensel has found a place alongside the nineteenth century’s most innovative and relevant lieder composers, side-by-side with giants such as Robert Schumann and her own brother Felix Mendelssohn. These musical settings of colossal figures of German romantic poetry like Eichendorff, Heine, Geibel and Goethe explore the feelings of melancholy, unrequited love and the transcendental beauty of nature.
