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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.

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.

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'

Adelaide Baroque Academy 2025 – 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.

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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