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Fanfare! (Elder Brass)
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
- Location: Hartley Concert Room, The University of Adelaide
Join the Elder Conservatorium's flagship brass ensemble, Elder Brass, for a diverse offering of brass music from the heraldic to the hymnal, with a few unexpected twists! The program includes works for orchestral brass ensemble as well as chamber music for trombone ensemble, horn quartet, and a brass sextet featuring tuba soloist Stan McDonald. Hear pieces by Rimsky-Korsakov, Koetsier, Danielsson, and more, as well as an Australian premiere by American composer Steven Juliani and an energetic new work by Elder Conservatorium composition student, Ben Betelli.
String Quartet Courses 2025
- Date: Sat, 9, 9:30 am - Sun, 10 Aug 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.
Lunchtime Concert - Ravel 150
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
In a concert commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maurice Ravel, pianist Roy Howat offers an exquisite selection of works highlighting the intriguing connections between Ravel, Chopin and Chabrier.
Gala Concert – South Australian Honour Choir
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025, 7:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall, The University of Adelaide
Experience the inaugural performance of the South Australian Honour Choir under the direction of Dr Carl Crossin, Christie Anderson and Jonathan Bligh in the incredible acoustic of Elder Hall.
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Elder After Hours - Beauty and Power
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Beethoven’s five sonatas for cello and piano span the full arc of the composer’s creative life, from the young man mastering traditions in order to break them, to the transcendent inner beauty of the mature master. In this special Elder After Hours concert, Timo-Veikko Valve (Principal Cello of the Australian Chamber Orchestra) and Aura Go (Head of Piano at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University) perform three of these visionary works, paired with the intensity of Anton Webern’s twentieth-century works for cello and piano: music of immense scope distilled into mere moments of beauty and power.
Lunchtime Concert - Airs and Graces
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
A fun and fiery display of baroque virtuosity by five of Australia’s leading period performers.
Lunchtime Concert - Rhythms of Celebration
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
This program is a jubilant celebration of rhythm, spirit, and energy.
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Elder After Hours - Classical meets Jazz: Crossing the Great Divide
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Gershwin’s Cuban Overture, a lively and rhythmically-charged celebration of Latin American influences, is filled with the composer’s signature flair. Mark Simeon Ferguson’s Live and Die With the Butterflies is an evocative work combining lyrical beauty with cinematic intensity. Ravel’s Bolero, a masterpiece of orchestral color and hypnotic rhythm, is performed here in its original form followed by a reimagined version featuring improvisations that breathe new energy and creativity into its iconic theme.
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Lunchtime Concert - Pictures and Dances
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
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.
Baroque Academy 2025
- Date: Tue, 23, 10:00 am - Fri, 26 Sep 2025, 9:00 pm
- Location: Elder Conservatorium of Music
Adelaide Baroque's core musicians along with some of the most celebrated Australian baroque performers and teachers will present a significant four-day intensive and immersive experience, open to secondary students, tertiary students and young professionals. The Academy will present concerts, masterclasses, lectures, Baroque dance classes and workshops.
