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This Saturday, something a little different is coming to our stage. 🎢The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra is bringing 'She Sp...
18/06/2026

This Saturday, something a little different is coming to our stage. 🎢

The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra is bringing 'She Speaks' to Elder Hall – a night of music by women composers, including three Australian premieres and a brand new world premiere. Works by GraΕΌyna Bacewicz, Evangeline Mason, Anne Cawrse, Anna Clyne, Thea Musgrave, and Imogen Holst: some of the most compelling orchestral music you've probably never heard.

This concert invites you to encounter music that many audiences are only just beginning to discover – works of depth, beauty and originality that deserve a place on today's concert stages. Whether you're a lifelong concertgoer or simply curious to hear something new, 'She Speaks' offers something special.

πŸ“… Saturday 20 June 7.00pm
πŸ“ Elder Hall

Book your tickets today: https://bit.ly/3S5AHjN

Chamber Music Adelaide (CMA) is committed to the creation of new Australian music, offering composers meaningful opportu...
18/06/2026

Chamber Music Adelaide (CMA) is committed to the creation of new Australian music, offering composers meaningful opportunities to develop and present new works alongside South Australian chamber musicians. Their commissioning program has an established track record of works that extend well beyond their premieres, with previous commissions going on to receive national recognition, further performances, recording opportunities, and significant career impact for the composers involved.

CMA is currently inviting South Australian composers to create a new work around the theme of gathering and reinvention – a piece that honours where chamber music has been and imagines where it might yet go. The work will bring together two chamber ensembles and mixed ability choir as the culmination performance of On the Terrace 2026. Two pathways are available: Independent ($8,500) and Mentored ($6,000).

πŸ“… Expressions of interest close Tuesday 23 June 2026. More info and apply πŸ‘‡
https://www.chambermusicadelaide.com.au/programs/commissioning-program

Join us this Friday afternoon for our final lunchtime concert for Season One 2026, featuring the wonderful Ensemble Lume...
17/06/2026

Join us this Friday afternoon for our final lunchtime concert for Season One 2026, featuring the wonderful Ensemble Lumen! Presented in partnership with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, 'She Speaks' returns to spotlight the voices of women composers. Reena Esmail's 'Saans' was written as a gift for a close friend's wedding, paralleling her love for Franck's Violin Sonata. Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir's 'Spectra' unfolds across six seamlessly connected movements, forming an 'ecosystem of materials that are carried from one performer to the next... continuously growing in and out of each other.' Amy Beach's Piano Quintet reveals her expressive, late-Romantic voice, exemplifying her as a landmark composer in the American tradition.

🎻 Elizabeth Layton | Violin
🎻 Helen Ayres | Violin
🎻 Stephen King | Viola
🎻 Edith Salzmann | Cello
🎹 Vivian Choi Milton | Piano

πŸ“… Friday 19 June 1.10pm
πŸ“ Elder Hall

Tickets available at πŸ‘‡
https://uofa.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/159938

In the final days of May, the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra (ECSO) travelled over 1,300kms to perform, for the...
17/06/2026

In the final days of May, the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra (ECSO) travelled over 1,300kms to perform, for the first time ever outside of SA, at the Bendigo Beethoven Festival in Bendigo, Victoria. The Festival ran from Friday 29–Sunday 31 May, with the ECSO performance on Saturday 30 May being preceded by a combined ECSO and Bendigo Symphony Orchestra brass section playing a sparkling fanfare composed by our own Dr Emma Gregan and conducted by Luke Severn. Associate Professor Luke Dollman and Elena Katahanas then conducted ECSO in Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 3 and 8 to a rapturous response from the audience at the Ulumbarra Theatre. A wonderful Festival and an invaluable experience for our orchestra!

Join us for Guitar Fest @ the Con, an exciting showcase of classical guitar at the Elder Conservatorium. Current classic...
17/06/2026

Join us for Guitar Fest @ the Con, an exciting showcase of classical guitar at the Elder Conservatorium. Current classical guitar students will perform alongside alumni and Open Music Academy students (directed by Caleb Lavery-Brook) in a vibrant and eclectic program. The repertoire includes works by Dietrich Buxtehude, Phillip Houghton, Dilermando Ries, Philip Glass, and Richard Charlton. The concert also features a world premiere by New Zealand composer Chris Everest, performed by Adelaide's own Opal Guitar Quartet – featuring Dylan Boller, Megan Robson, James Rawley, and Caleb Lavery-Brook, all Elder Conservatorium alumni.

πŸ“… Sunday 21 June 3.00pm
πŸ“ Madley Rehearsal Space
πŸšͺ Free Entry

πŸ“Έ: Opal Guitar Quartet featuring Dylan Boller, Megan Robson, James Rawley and Caleb Lavery-Brook.

Join us in Elder Hall tomorrow morning for a beautiful matinΓ©e concert with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, featuring o...
16/06/2026

Join us in Elder Hall tomorrow morning for a beautiful matinΓ©e concert with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, featuring our Head of Classical Performance, Elizabeth Layton, as director and soloist!

From hushed lyricism to fiery folk rhythms, this concert celebrates the incredible virtuosity of the ASO's string players. Joseph Bologne's Violin Concerto No. 9 is a joyful window into the bright and energising performance styles of eighteenth-century France. DvoΕ™Γ‘k's Nocturne offers a moment of tenderness and quiet melancholy before BartΓ³k's Divertimento dances between rustic spirit and shadowy reflection.

πŸ“… Wednesday 17 June 11.30am
πŸ“ Elder Hall

Tickets available at πŸ‘‡
https://www.aso.com.au/events/matinee-series-2-vitality/

Our Head of Woodwinds, Lloyd Van't Hoff, is currently on tour with the internationally-acclaimed Doric String Quartet fo...
16/06/2026

Our Head of Woodwinds, Lloyd Van't Hoff, is currently on tour with the internationally-acclaimed Doric String Quartet for Musica Viva Australia! They're performing the remarkable 'Alchymia' for Basset Clarinet and String Quartet by Thomas Adès together in Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, Adelaide and Perth. Adelaide audiences will have the chance to hear them at the Adelaide Town Hall on Thursday 25 June (7.30pm). Please come along and support Lloyd if you can!

πŸ“Έ: Alex Jamieson

Thank you to those of you who joined us for our lunchtime concert last Friday 12 June. It was a very special privilege f...
15/06/2026

Thank you to those of you who joined us for our lunchtime concert last Friday 12 June. It was a very special privilege for us to host the internationally acclaimed composer GAO Ping from the Chinese University of Hong Kong – Shenzhen School of Music, and to dedicate the afternoon to celebrating his music. The program included 'Prayer Songs' for String Quartet (2019), 'Porridge' – A Poem for Speaking Pianist (2022), 'Ephemera' for Clarinet and String Quartet (2014), and 'Searching for the Mountain' for Piano Trio (2022). A special thanks to our talented students – Nicholas Miceli (violin), Sofia Tortorelli (violin), Clara Salzmann (viola), Henry Say (cello), Gordon Richter (clarinet), and Adina Lopez (violin) – and staff members Elizabeth Layton (violin) and Edith Salzmann (cello) who brought these imaginative and inventive works to life!πŸ‘

A special congratulations to the wonderful Seraphim Trio – Helen Ayres (violin), Tim Nankervis (cello) and Anna Goldswor...
10/06/2026

A special congratulations to the wonderful Seraphim Trio – Helen Ayres (violin), Tim Nankervis (cello) and Anna Goldsworthy (piano) – for their deeply moving performance in our lunchtime concert 'Spring and Remembrance' last Friday 5 June, which featured Lili Boulanger's beautiful 'D'un matin de printemps' and Tchaikovsky's monumental Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 'In Memory a Great Artist'.

ABC Classic has recently released a new EP featuring the Lyrebird Trio – Glenn Christensen (violin), Simon Cobcroft (cel...
06/06/2026

ABC Classic has recently released a new EP featuring the Lyrebird Trio – Glenn Christensen (violin), Simon Cobcroft (cello) and Angela Turner (piano) – performing the Anniversary Trio by our Adjunct Lecturer in Composition, Dr. Anne Cawrse. Commissioned by Don and Veronica Aldridge to mark their 25th wedding anniversary, the work was premiered by the Lyrebird Trio at the 2023 Coriole Music Festival, where it was praised as 'flowing abundantly with inspiration and infectious rhythmic drive.'

'I first met Don and Veronica through their connection with both the Coriole Music and the Australian String Quartet. They are both generous and tireless supporters and advocates of the arts in Australia, in particular chamber music, and it has been a real privilege to be entrusted with the task of reflecting their life, relationship and love of music in this work for Piano Trio.'

– Dr. Anne Cawrse

Purchase / Stream Online πŸ‘‡
https://orcd.co/lyrebirdanniversary

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