Hear beautiful carols including classic favourites as well as uncommon gems from Medieval England, contemporary Australia and many other times and places. At the end, audience members will be invitedte you to sing along with Lumina with much-loved carols such as Away in a Manger and Good King Wenceslaus.

Nothing says Christmas like carolling, cathedrals, community and cheer! Join Rising Voices (previously known as ACS2), members of ACS, and Cathedral Organist David Heah, to let the spaces of St Peter’s Cathedral ring and resound with the joy of the season.

Paula Custodio, flute
Nicky Poznak, piano

Programme:
Faure - Fantasie
Franck - Sonata in A Major
i - Allegretto Ben Monderato
ii - Allegro
iii - Recitation-Fantasia
iv - Allegretto poco mosso

Simón Pazos Quintana, piano

Programme:
Mompou - "Impresiones Íntimas"
Granados - "8 Valses poéticos"
Albéniz - "Suite española", Op. 47 - No. 6 “Aragón”

Recitals Australia presents the final concert of the Spring series, featuring young artists from 2024 competing for $3000 in prize money. Ticket price includes a complementary afternoon tea.

Lumina Vocal Ensemble is an Adelaide-based choir with an international following. The group specialises in discovering and performing music that is rarely heard, especially medieval music, music by women composers, Australian artists and music from around the world. 

This Christmas, Lumina will take State Library visitors on an international journey through 700 years of Christmas carols, including carols from medieval England and Prague, Renaissance Spain and Germany, then on to traditional favourites and Australian contemporary Christmas songs. Audience members will be invited to join Lumina in singing some well-known carols towards the end of the program. 

Stephen Van Der Hoek performs Bach’s Italian Concerto in the beautiful setting of the North Adelaide Baroque Concert Hall.

Alex Forbes, piano, performs Mozart, Prokofiev and Debussy.

Omnium-gatherum, a ‘medley of various things’ around the piano, features two solo concerts during November and December, with two acclaimed pianists with divergent practices.

In this concert, Gabriella Smart performs her own work, Nuance for piano and Seaboard Roli.

Adelaide flute ensemble Coruscalia Collective will take the audience from the barren, icy landscape of Estonia to the far reaches of space in this concert of music by living composers, using a range of instruments from piccolo to bass flute, with visuals designed by artist Orlando Mee.

The music includes works by Australian composer Karen De Nardi and Vincent Giles, and international composers Catherine McMichael, Nicole Chamberlain and Gareth McLearnon.

Agnes Weinstein, violin, and James Logan, lute, perform works by Daniel Purcell, Nicola Matteis, Nicolas Vallet and Handel.

Recitals Australia Junior Series presents exceptional young musicians in concert. This concert presents Ada Wang, 11 years old, performing on the piano and viola. Ada is the winner of several prizes in the Adelaide Eisteddfod in piano, strings, and woodwind sections, plays first desk viola in the Sinfonia Orchestra in AdYO and has been offered a position in the Adelaide Youth Orchestra in 2025.

Ada presents a varied program including Mozart, Pinto and Villa Lobos.

For thirty years, the Goldner String Quartet has been at the heart of Australian chamber music. From their fruitful relationships with key composers, to their mentoring of young quartets, to their international advocacy for the quality and imagination of Australian music-makers, the four members of the quartet have played a leading role in shaping Australia’s chamber music culture. The quartet’s thirtieth season is also its final season – truly an end to a musical era. Join the Goldner String Quartet one last time to pay tribute to one of Australia’s great ensembles. In this special event, they play music that has been dear to their collective life: work by their friend and collaborator Matthew Hindson; Beethoven’s hymn of thanks, the Heiliger Dankgesang; and Schubert’s powerful and poignant Death and the Maiden.

Two of Adelaide’s most popular music ensembles – Graduate Singers, an auditioned choir known affectionately as Grads, and Adelaide CantataBand, a group of professional Baroque specialists – are coming together for the first time. Their upcoming concert ‘Donum mirabile: A wondrous gift’ sees the combined ensembles, directed by Kim Worley, performing music by Antonio Vivaldi, Anton Bruckner, and Benjamin Britten, and rare and significant works by female composers, including Adelaide’s own Anna Zweck. Featuring Andrew Georg (organ) and Baroque ensemble led by Holly Piccoli.

Ocean Winds presents new and much loved music  to celebrate the glory of the ocean. With new music composed by Jodie O'Regan and much loved sea-themed works ranging from Vaughan Williams to sea shanties songs, join Windsong Quintet and friends for this very special house concert.

Omnium-gatherum, a ‘medley of various things’ around the piano, features two solo concerts during November and December, with two acclaimed pianists with divergent practices.

Marianna Grynchuk performs Schubert, D’Netto, Jigalin and Liszt.

Junior Series: Ryan Nie and Lucas Truong

Piano

Beethoven, Debussy, Brahms and more

Introducing Lina Tur Bonet, a fearless musical imaginista, and her crack team of period-instrument professionals.

Regarded as one of the most exciting violinists of her generation, Tur Bonet has delighted and fascinated fans across Europe with her performances of repertoire ranging from Bach to Messiaen. Now she makes her Australian debut with Musica Alchemica, her hand-picked ensemble who bring honesty and joyful sense of discovery to these works by Corelli, Telemann, Biber and other jewels of the Baroque.

Join Marta and Matej Sutora from Adelaide Virtuosi Trio for a heartwarming and captivating Sunday afternoon filled with immersive music. This concert aims to combine enjoyment with support for the Ukrainian people in need

Our 2024 Season closes with a stunning and fascinating program of contrasting elements – from Spain to France, Latvia to Germany, this concert shines with national pride, fervour and melody and gives us insight into the incredible development over a short space of time of the genre of chamber music and, in particular, the piano trio.

What greater way to celebrate the joy of music than with two of the most popular masterworks from two of the greatest of Baroque composers: Handel’s “Ode for St Cecilia’s Day”, HWV 76 and Bach’s Cantata “Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen”, BWV 51 in the glorious acoustic of St Peter’s Cathedral.

A captivating journey exploring the evolution of the sonata form. Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 110 in A-flat major is a profound work from the composer’s late period, rich with lyrical beauty and emotional depth. Serbian composer Vladimir Tošić's Retida No. 6 offers a striking contrast, with minimalist textures and rhythmic intricacies, bridging the classical and contemporary worlds. Henri Dutilleux's Sonata Op. 1 blends French lyricism with modern harmonic language, presenting a bold reinterpretation of the sonata form in the 20th century. 

City of Adelaide together with Chamber Music Adelaide present the Kegelstatt Ensemble for a FREE lunchtime concert. Kegelstatt Ensemble present a captivating program featuring chamber works that showcase the unique timbres of the flute, clarinet, and guitar. Highlights include beautiful works by Joseph Kreutzer and the evocative “Small Spanish Rhapsody” by Ferdinand Rebay, which infuses the performance with Spanish flair and rhythmic vitality. Kegelstatt Ensemble features Linda Pirie on flute, Stephanie Wake-Dyster on clarinet, and Caleb Lavery on guitar.

Recitals Australia Junior Series Concert:

Ania Choi and Felix Suo

Cello and Piano

Dvořák, Chopin and more

There is a distinct core to the sound of Nordic composers of the 19th and 20th century.  A powerful chordal resonance pervades the Mustonen and Grieg quartets on this program, which combine with Haydn to reveal a sound-world that shimmers with brilliance.  

Sarah Meagher - recorder

Jane Downer - baroque oboe

Kim Worley - baroque cello

Shimmering Pearls is a programme of intimate chamber music by Bach and Telemann embracing Fantasias, Variations, and instrumental arrangements from Cantatas highlighting sparkling obbligato writing for the recorder.

Sarah Meagher - recorder

Jane Downer - baroque oboe

Kim Worley - baroque cello

Thrilling Strains of the Baroque - chamber music by Telemann, Handel and Bach embracing Fantasy, Dance and pastoral Melody

Recitals Australia presents James Logan, lute, with Callum Logan, voice, in this lunchtime concert at North Adelaide Baptist Church.

Recitals Australia presents pianist Yining Zhang in this lunchtime concert at North Adelaide Baptist Church.