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Open Day 2024
Our staff and students have been busy preparing for Open Day 2024, coming up on Sunday 11 August. If you're around on campus, come and say hello, and please spread the word to all who may be interested! Below is a list of events featuring our students and staff.
Pop Culture/Vulture (Adelaide Cabaret Festival)
Head of Jazz Mark Ferguson and classical voice alumni Johanna Allen's Adelaide Cabaret Festival show 'Pop Culture/Vulture' was a resounding success.
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Open Music Academy Student Concerts (June 2024)
The Open Music Academy (OMA) celebrated the culmination of the first half of the teaching year with a series of captivating concerts held across two days (Friday 28–Saturday 29 June) at Madley Rehearsal Studio.
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Australian String Quartet's 'Vanguard' Tour Receives 4.5 Star Review
The Australian String Quartet's Vanguard tour culminated on Friday 5 July with a wonderful performance in Elder Hall – their last in a national tour that included concerts in Perth, Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide.
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Adelaide Cello Weekend (Thursday 11–Sunday 14 July)
Our second Adelaide Cello Weekend intensive for 2024 kicks off this Thursday 11 July, with cellists from all over the country meeting at the Conservatorium for lessons, masterclasses, cello ensemble and concerts!
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Vale Ronald Woodcock
It is with sadness that we announce the passing of concert violinist Ronald Woodcock, a much-loved member of the teaching staff of the Elder Conservatorium for around 25 years, from the early 1970s to the late 1990s.
Lloyd Van't Hoff with Selby & Friends
Our Head of Woodwinds, Lloyd Van't Hoff, is currently touring the country with Kathryn Selby (piano) and Natalie Chee (violin) as part of the Selby & Friends series, performing Brahms and Bartók in Adelaide (7 July), Sydney (8 July), Melbourne (10 July), Canberra (12 July), Bowral (13 July) and Turramurra (14 July).
Call for papers: Music-making in Australia
Transnational and transcultural exchange have long attracted scholarly investigation, but how to frame and analyse such contact has proved an ongoing challenge. Recently, the idea of 'global music history' has attracted music scholars as a new framework to explore the complex issues surrounding cultural contact, exchange, and entanglement from a decentred, non-hierarchical perspective, but it has also attracted criticism for reviving the problematic legacy of comparative musicology and appropriating approaches long used outside the Anglosphere. A special issue of the Journal of Musicological Research welcomes proposals of previously unpublished material that ask what research on Australian music and musicians can contribute to these discussions.
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Jazz Workshop with Sam Anning and Friends
The Jazz department were blessed with Australian jazz royalty as bassist Sam Anning brought his touring ensemble to Madley Rehearsal Studio for a wonderful workshop on the King's Birthday Holiday.
Student Achievements in the Adelaide Eisteddfod
Third-year viola student Tim Train has won the Under 25 string solo section at the Adelaide Eisteddfod, while the recently formed OMA String Quartet took out first prize in the Chamber Music Section.
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