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Oliver Fartach-Naini and Lee Song-Ou in South Korea

Oliver Fartach-Naini and Lee Song-Ou in South Korea

Oliver Fartach-Naini and guitar duo partner Lee Song-Ou teamed up in South Korea for performances in Busan on Sunday 14 April and Daegu on Tuesday 16 April. The well-receive concerts included two recent compositions that Stephen Whittington has written for an album the duo will be recording in October.

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'Live and Die with the Butterflies Part 2 – on a Knife's Edge' (Floods of Fire)

Live and Die with the Butterflies

Back in March, our Head of Jazz, Mark Simeon Ferguson, put together a group of third-year students to perform for the Elder Con Jazz Department's contribution to Floods of Fire in the Adelaide Festival. The project was called 'Live and Die with the Butterflies part 2 – On a Knife's Edge' and featured climatologist and PhD candidate Darren Wray, his amazing ball contraption, his excellent commentary on how we can all make a difference for the health of our planet and two new and one revised composition by Ferguson.

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Peter Johns Joins Music Theatre Faculty

Peter Johns

We are delighted to welcome Peter Johns to our Music Theatre faculty!

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Erin James Joins Music Theatre Faculty

Erin James

We are delighted to welcome Erin James to our Music Theatre faculty!

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Renowned Baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes Joins Adelaide's Elder Conservatorium

Teddy Tahu Rhodes

Internationally recognised opera singer, Teddy Tahu Rhodes has been appointed to the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music where he will play a leading role in its Classical Voice department as a teacher and mentor.

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Floods of Fire

Floods of Fire (Adelaide Festival)

On Saturday 16 March, the university transformed into a festival site for Floods of Fire, a vibrant community-led celebration closing the 2024 Adelaide Festival.

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I'll Be Your Mirror / In Conversation with Laurie Anderson (Adelaide Festival)

Laurie Anderson

The distinguished American composer, performer, writer, film maker – and much more – Laurie Anderson, described by the New York Times as one of the world's most influential artists, was the focus of two events in the Adelaide Festival.

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Is this the gate? (Daylight Express)

Is this the gate? (Daylight Express)

Elder Conservatorium staff performed a major excerpt from a new opera by Nicolas Lens, with a libretto by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, based on his novel Elizabeth Costello. In this world premiere, soprano Judith Dodsworth, violinists Elizabeth Layton and Helen Ayres, Stephen King (viola), Tom Marlin (cello), Michael Ierace (piano) and Matthew Kneale (bassoon) gave a performance described as 'outstanding' in The Barefoot Review.

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Dancing with the Birds (Daylight Express)

Dancing with the Birds (Daylight Express)

The opening concert in this year's Adelaide Festival Daylight Express series featured several current and former Elder Conservatorium staff members. Titled 'Dancing with the Birds', this concert showcased the talents of our very own Elizabeth Layton, Lucinda Collins, Anna Goldsworthy, as well as Lloyd Van't Hoff who both performed in and curated the event

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Lloyd Van't Hoff in Orange Chamber Music Festival

Lloyd Van't Hoff Performing in the Orange Chamber Music Festival

Congratulations to our Head of Woodwind, Lloyd Van't Hoff, who recently performed in the Orange Chamber Music Festival (Thursday 7–Sunday 10 March) with inspiring colleagues including Zoe Freisburg (violin), Vatch Jambazian (piano), Ensemble Trivium, the Orava Quartet, The Song Company, and the Nexus Quartet, amongst others.

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