2025 Classical Voice Program

The Classical Voice students at the Elder Conservatorium are in for a busy and exciting year in 2025. In addition to a packed teaching schedule, they will enjoy perhaps their broadest range of activities thus far encompassing choral, operatic and specialist vocal ensemble work. In May, they take part in a performance at St Peter's Cathedral of Maurice Duruflé's Requiem with the Elder Conservatorium Chorale and the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra. This will be the first Adelaide performance of the full orchestral version of Duruflé's magnum opus and will be conducted by Associate Professor Carl Crossin OAM.

Our second- and third-year Classical Voice students will join the Chorus of the State Opera South Australia for their performances of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) in August – performances which also feature new Head of Voice Teddy Tahu Rhodes as Sarastro. Thanks to Teddy for organising this fabulous opportunity for young singers.

All Classical Voice students will also be featured in excerpts from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro as part of The Big Sing project with the Adelaide Youth Orchestra in September. They will also have the opportunity to develop their small 'one-voice-to-a-part' vocal ensemble skills through a residency in late October with internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble coach and ex-countertenor with The Kings Singers, Timothy Wayne-Wright. This residency culminates in a concert in Elder Hall ('From little things...') on Saturday 1 November.