Events: Elder After Hours

Elder After Hours - Fantasies for Twenty Fingers

Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: Elder Hall

The Neeman Piano Duo are a powerhouse husband-and-wife team: their twenty fingers have sounded together since 2008, at venues across the United States, Asia and Australia.

Elder After Hours - Rapture

Date: Fri, 16 May 2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Elder Hall

Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11 in F minor bursts forth, opening Rapture with unrivalled energy and intensity, setting the scene for a concert of remarkable contrasts. Experience the world premiere of Australian jazz composer Vanessa Perica’s No Feeling is Final, a four-movement quartet drawing inspiration from the composer’s own life and all its joys, twists and turns. Janáček’s Intimate Letters transports us to the fever dreams and passions of unrequited love, before Golijov’s tender Tenebrae reminds us of the wonder and fragility of human existence.

Elder After Hours - Ritual

Date: Sat, 24 May 2025, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: St Peter's Cathedral

From birth to death and every important occasion in between, rituals – small and large – are a vital part of our daily lives. This is a program of powerful, emotional and eloquent music connecting us to some of life’s important rituals. Duruflé’s iconic Requiem has been performed in Adelaide on many occasions in the most familiar version for choir, soloists and organ. This program however, features the first Adelaide performance of the Requiem in its full orchestral version.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Elder After Hours - Convergence

Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Elder Hall

With a warm and welcoming embrace, the grace of Mozart’s lyrical Prussian Quartet in D major opens this concert of music familiar, daring and masterful. Ligeti’s groundbreaking String Quartet No. 2 is a kaleidoscopic journey through otherworldly textures and virtuosic writing for strings. The second half of Convergence reaches its emotional peak with one of the greatest quartets of all time, Schubert’s enduringly popular fourteenth quartet (Death and the Maiden) – a gripping celebration of life and death.

Elder After Hours - Guitarissimo

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2025, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Elder Hall

A delight for lovers of classical guitar, this annual showcase concert features an array of works for solo guitar and small chamber groups, culminating in a performance by the Elder Conservatorium Guitar Ensemble. Curated by Dr Oliver Fartach-Naini.

Elder After Hours - From little things...

Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2025, 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location: Elder Hall

Here are the Elder Conservatorium Classical Voice students and Chorale as you may not have heard them before! Artist-in-Residence Timothy Wayne-Wright guides the Elder Conservatorium’s Classical Voice students and Chorale through an exciting and diverse program of small vocal ensemble and choral music.