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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.
Baroque Academy 2025 Faculty Concert – 'Baroque Fire'
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
- Location: Elder Hall, The University of Adelaide
The first of two Adelaide Barouqe Academy concerts features the outstanding faculty in music showcasing the virtuosic fire of the Baroque. Music by Bach, Handel, Telemann, Geminiani, and Schmelzer.
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Elder After Hours - Radiance
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
In its third concert for 2025, Ensemble Lumen draws the audience into a dance of light and shadow, where three remarkable works shimmer with their own unique brilliance.
Lunchtime Concert - Cycles of Life
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Professor Anna Goldsworthy (Director of the Elder Conservatorium) and Andrew Haveron (Concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra) both possess that rare quality necessary for all enduring artistic partnerships: an irrepressible energy that becomes atomic in one another’s company. It will be a special pleasure to see them reunite in Elder Hall to perform sonatas by Beethoven and Franck.
Baroque Academy 2025 Student and Faculty Concert
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall, The University of Adelaide
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.
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Lunchtime Concert - Orchestral Pianos
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
In a recital that opens with a sparkling arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite for two pianos, staff pianist Michael Ierace is joined by Sydney-based pianist Vatche Jambazian (a Masters graduate of The Juilliard School in New York) to explore the inverse of this process, culminating in the premiere of a new two-piano version of Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra by Dr Joe Chindamo OAM.
Elder After Hours - A Birthday Celebration: Charles Bodman Rae
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
This concert marks the 70th birthday of our seventh Sir Thomas Elder Professor of Music, Charles Bodman Rae.
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Lunchtime Concert - The Trout
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
This special collaboration sees three of our faculty members team up with two very distinguished colleagues from overseas.
Lunchtime Concert - The Ringtone Cycle
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
This 2010 commission from the Seraphim Trio has a libretto from the Australian author Peter Goldsworthy. Subtitled a ‘cabaret quintet for soprano, violin, cello, piano and iPhone’, it is a mini-operetta that tells of a love affair starring a modern-day Brünnhilde and her phone. Koehne’s continuous flow of music recalls Wagner’s revolutionary ‘speech-song’, and members of the audience might need to brush up on tech jargon to fully appreciate the text! The score is also dotted with references to famous ring tones.
