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OMA 2025 Program Launch and Welcome Concert
- Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025, 4:30 pm
- Location: Elder Hall, The University of Adelaide
To celebrate the launch of our new Open Music Academy (OMA) programs, the Elder Conservatorium is hosting a free 2025 Program Launch and Welcome Concert to kick off the New Year. The afternoon is a unique oportunity for staff, students and audiences to get to know each other, and to introduce our Associate Director, Edith Salzmann, who will provide an overview of our new programs.
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Ensemble Lumen: Towards the Light (Daylight Express)
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025, 12:30 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
In its debut performance, Ensemble Lumen explores facets of light in all its radiant forms. The program will illuminate the rarely heard music of William Shield, whose melodies once charmed the ears of Mozart and Beethoven. Dai Fujikura brings the solo horn to life in yurayura, conjuring the mesmerising dance of a candle-lit flame. The Australian premiere of Libby Larsen's Trio Noir draws a shimmering sonic parallel between music and the mystery of film noir, while Dohnányi's sweeping Sextet embarks on a dramatic journey through light and shadow.
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Ensemble Musikfabrik
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025, 4:30 pm
- Location: Madley Rehearsal Studio, The University of Adelaide
An exclusive performance by musicians from Ensemble Musikfabrik, one of the world's leading contemporary ensembles based in Cologne, in residence at the Elder Conservatorium of Music.
Claire de Sévigné: From Mozart to the Merry Widow (Daylight Express)
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025, 12:30 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Claire de Sévigné's recent performances have been described as 'remarkable in every way'. Similarly praised for conjuring 'serenity incarnate' as well as for her 'high-flown coloratura', both sides of this extraordinary Canadian soprano will be showcased in this one-off recital, as she steps off the stage of the Adelaide Festival's main opera Innocence.
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Robert Dessaix: Music in My Life and Work (Daylight Express)
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025, 12:30 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Robert Dessaix is one of Australia's most intriguing authors, with an abiding love of music. Professor Anna Goldsworthy is a concert pianist, author and Director of the University of Adelaide's Elder Conservatorium. Together they will explore the place of music in Dessaix's life and work, interspersed with performances by Goldsworthy of works close to Dessaix's heart and inspired by the conversation. Join us for a warm, intriguing and revealing hour of music and discovery.
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Lunchtime Concert - Songs of Travel and Distance
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Fresh from his appearance in Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence (the headline opera of the 2025 Adelaide Festival), baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes (our newest staff member) joins forces with Professor Anna Goldsworthy (Director of the Elder Conservatorium) to open our 2025 concert series with a poignant sojourn through the spatial and temporal landscapes of self-discovery.
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Lunchtime Concert - Veiled Disclosures
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Elegant, wistful and deeply expressive, Bridge’s eight-minute Lament was one of two duos performed by the composer and his teacher in 1912, and is today recognised as one of the most haunting musical dialogues ever written. Contrasting cheerful exuberance and a darker, veiled beauty of its own, Brahms’s second String Sextet in G major, Op. 36 (‘the most ethereal of Brahms’s longer works’, according to Sir Donald Tovey) provides the ideal companion piece, containing within its first movement a hidden cypher for Agathe von Siebold, to whom the composer had been engaged (but was destined never to marry) six years prior.
Lunchtime Concert - Echoes and Horizons
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Respighi’s Pines of Rome paints a vivid portrait of Italy’s eternal city, from its serene groves to its triumphant marches, using lush orchestral colours and evocative imagery. Charles Bodman Rae’s Clarinet Concerto is based on the composer’s Partita Dalriada, which has at its heart an ancient Scottish melody. This world-premiere performance features the Elder Conservatorium’s Head of Woodwind, clarinettist Lloyd Van’t Hoff.
Lunchtime Concert - Honours Jazz Ensemble
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Join us for an afternoon of jazz brilliance as the Elder Conservatorium’s jazz honours students bring the music of the legendary Billy Strayhorn to life. Strayhorn is well known for his collaborations with Duke Ellington and leaving an indelible mark on the jazz world. His compositions – rich with sophisticated melodies and lush harmonies – will be celebrated in this dynamic performance. From iconic classics, such as Take the A-Train and Lush Life, to lesser-known gems, experience the genius of one of jazz’s most influential composers, as these emerging musicians showcase their artistry and passion.
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Lunchtime Concert - Passion and Poetry
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location: Elder Hall
Experience the magnetic artistry of pianist Aura Go as she joins the University of Adelaide’s Quartet-in-Residence, the Australian String Quartet, for a lunchtime concert of works by Zoltán Kodály and Amy Beach.
