This Recitals Australia Lunch Hour series concert features James Skelton and Simón Pazos Quintana.

Adelaide Baroque present their first House Concert! This is an opportunity to experience an Adelaide Baroque performance up close - a 1-hour concert in an intimate setting. This first concert features solo and chamber works of grand design by masters of the German baroque: Bach, Telemann, Pisendel, Hasse and Zelenka.

Mitchell Berick clarinet
Kyle Stegall tenor
Penelope Cashman piano

MAGPIE artsong’s artistic directors, Kyle Stegall and Penelope Cashman, join ASO clarinettist, Mitchell Berick, in an Elder Hall Lunchtime Recital exploring the unusual combination of clarinet, tenor and piano. This varied and evocative program features the American composer Martin Kennedy’s ‘The Touch of Dreams’, alongside works by Schubert, Sobeck and Spohr.

Rapture pulses with a vital force through the music of Beethoven, Perica, Janáček and Golijov that illustrates the power of the string quartet to express our deepest desires and greatest fears.

Rapture pulses with a vital force through the music of Beethoven, Perica, Janáček and Golijov that illustrates the power of the string quartet to express our deepest desires and greatest fears.

In May 2025, ACO Collective travels to UKARIA for an intensive residency during which the ACO Emerging Artists will work side-by-side with their ACO Mentors. Together, they will immerse themselves in favourites from Romantic chamber repertoire and new Australian music.

A breathtaking concert program with an Australian premiere by the renowned Lera Auerbach, Schumann’s tempestuous final piano trio and the heartbreaking piano trio by Smetana.

In this special event, Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich performs an intimate recital of JS Bach’s music for solo violin. This recital, in which Lozakovich presents three works – the sunny E major Partita, the brooding G minor Sonata and the stormy D minor Partita (which includes the famous Chaconne) – is an opportunity to hear a young star converse with Bach at the beginning of their career.

Laura Vaughan | Baryton,
Heidi von Bernewitz | viola,
Thomas Marlin | cello

The little-known baryton is a Classical instrument similar in size to a cello, with 6 gut bowed strings plus a course of 10 metal strings which resonate sympathetically and are also plucked like a harp. This magnificent instrument reached its zenith at the court of Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy in Vienna during the time of composer Joseph Haydn, and there exists a significant repertoire of chamber music for baryton which is very rarely performed. Laura Vaughan is one of the foremost performers on the viola da Gamba in Australia and her Baryton is the first in Australia, made by Henner Harders, it is a copy of one by Daniel Agnatius Stadlmann, Vienna, 1732.

In this unique choral cultural exchange, UKARIA welcomes Nobuntu as Ensemble-in-Residence; a vocal quartet who embody a new wave of female African artists dedicated to sharing their heritage and traditions through the universal language of music. This residency opens a musical dialogue between Nobuntu and Academy Voices, a brand-new ensemble directed by Jonathan Bligh.

Kristian Winther, Timo-Veikko Valve and Aura Go are no strangers to UKARIA. Each of these celebrated soloists and chamber musicians has featured frequently in recent years amid their busy and varied schedules around Australia and internationally, but Winther, Valve and Go have rarely performed together. This special performance for UKARIA is a unique opportunity to hear them explore the specificity and diversity of the piano trio genre.

The Leipzig-based vocal sextet Sjaella returns to UKARIA with a program exploring the age-old human dilemma between the head and the heart. Sjaella feeds the hearts and stimulates the minds of their listeners, as they ask: ‘How can we listen to both inner poles of reason and emotion, and learn to trust them?’

Opening with a gorgeous arrangement of Debussy’s Afternoon of a Faun, two iconic works follow from the piano trio genre – Beethoven’s Ghost Trio and Shostakovich’s powerful and haunting second trio.

An afternoon of delights from the French court and Parisian salons: Marais, Couperin, Hottetterre and others.

Internationally celebrated Spanish pianist Javier Perianes returns to UKARIA with a personal and evocative program of Italian and Spanish music composed over two centuries. In this program, Perianes puts Scarlatti’s response to Spanish musical culture in dialogue with two Spanish-born High Romantic, Impressionist voices.

Tim Kerstin | Lute

Emma Horwood | Soprano

The lute music of John Dowland and Daniel Bacheler. John Dowland and Daniel Bacheler were the two preeminent lutenists of the English Golden Age. This concert is a playful juxtaposition of their lute music, exploring shared themes and motifs, plus parodies they made of each other’s work. As a special feature, Emma Horwood will perform songs linked to the lute pieces presented.

Bethany Hill | soprano
David Greco | baritone

Adelaide Baroque Orchestra led by Ben Dollman

Two of Bach’s masterful cantatas for solo voice, Ich habe Genug, BWV 82 with ARIA Award-nominated baritone David Greco, and Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199 with versatile and critically acclaimed operatic soprano, Bethany Hill on a rare return trip to Australia form the U.S. where she is now based.

A tribute to the song masters in the Mendelssohns by Australian Anne Cawrse followed by beautiful trios by forever favourites Chopin and Schubert.

The first of two Adelaide Baroque Academy concerts features the outstanding academy faculty in music showcasing the virtuosic fire of the Baroque. Music by Bach, Handel, Telemann, Geminiani, and Schmelzer.

The second of two Adelaide Baroque Academy concerts features the outstanding academy faculty performing alongside the academy students and joined by the high school students for a grand finale performing the music of Handel, Hasse, Avison, Rebel, Vivaldi and Dall'Abaco.

The sublime meets the sensational in Convergence, with music by Mozart, Ligeti and Schubert that ignites the imagination and brings the stunning voices of three legendary composers into focus.

The sublime meets the sensational in Convergence, with music by Mozart, Ligeti and Schubert that ignites the imagination and brings the stunning voices of three legendary composers into focus.

Chamber music from early C18th London including  divisions, Scottish folk songs, and pieces from Italian opera set for recorder, baroque oboe & harpsichord.

Adelaide Chamber Singers celebrate 40 years in 2025 with an equally grand offering. Forty for 40. Forty singers, forty parts. Thomas Tallis’ 40-part motet Spem in alium performed alongside a commissioned major work in 40 parts by Carl Crossin. Featuring members of Rising Voices and former-ACS singers conducted by Christie Anderson.

Adelaide Baroque House Concert: Swing to the sounds of 18th century taverns in the British Isles: John Playford, James Oswald and some Italian friends...

Intimate chamber music arranged from cantatas by two of the Baroque era’s most celebrated composers. Vocal lines are substituted by the recorder, oboe, oboe d’amore and cello, with each instrument displaying poignant and ornate obbligato roles. 

Adelaide Baroque House Concert: Exuberance and imagination in early string music from Venice, Bologna and Florence: Marini, Vitali, Buonamente and more!

Musical Portraits features two exceptionally gifted masters of the Baroque who inhabited stylistically different artistic environments - François Couperin, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Personalities and sentiments are evocatively depicted by the character pieces, and a ‘Portrait of Love’ showcases beautifully mellow tones of baroque oboe d’amore.

Jane Downer, baroque oboe d'amore 

Lesley Lewis, harpsichord 

The Selby & Friends season closes with big piano quartets filled to the brim with the most gorgeous melodies by Fauré and Brahms along with a fabulous stand-alone work from Australian Matthew Hindson.

Kate Macfarlane | Soprano

Hannah Lane | Baroque Harp

Nick Pollock | Theorbo

Kate Macfarlane and Ensemble 642 (Hannah Lane – baroque harp, Nicholas Pollock – lutes) return to Adelaide to explore the highly expressive mad songs of seventeenth century England. The program draws on the poetry, music and drama of this intriguing genre, interspersing contemporary readings and folk song to evoke the tumult of the human mind, and the dramatic intensity brought on by madness, longing and love.

Adelaide Chamber Singers’ Rising Voices will help you end the year on a musical high as they lift our voices to ‘raise you’ with music of emotional power and inspiration. Conducted by Carl Crossin.