Flute ensemble Coruscalia Collective goes wonderfully wild at the Adelaide Fringe this year!  Inspired by our feathered, furred and scaly friends, Coruscalia Collective brings a concert full of birds, cats and other curious creatures.

This eclectic program of jazz and classical music includes works with narration and visual art, and all the pieces are by living composers, including US composers Nicole Chamberlain and Michael Isaacson, and Adelaide composer Hannah Wilkinson. 

For over 40 years Adelaide Baroque has given concerts of early music to enthusiastic audiences in Adelaide, interstate and abroad. Concert programs have been innovative and varied, featuring music from the vast repertoire of 17th and 18th century European music as well as some contemporary music from Australia, including new commissioned works. 

Let Adelaide Baroque take you on a journey into musical history with a vitality that is timeless – relevant to life in 2024 and beyond! Since 1977, Adelaide Baroque has gained a reputation for original and creative programming performing a vast array of chamber music for smaller ensembles, featuring soloists on historic instruments. Our aim is to excite contemporary audiences with the power of baroque music.

Flute ensemble Coruscalia Collective goes wonderfully wild at the Adelaide Fringe this year!  Inspired by our feathered, furred and scaly friends, Coruscalia Collective brings a concert full of birds, cats and other curious creatures.

This eclectic program of jazz and classical music includes works with narration and visual art, and all the pieces are by living composers, including US composers Nicole Chamberlain and Michael Isaacson, and Adelaide composer Hannah Wilkinson. 

For over 40 years Adelaide Baroque has given concerts of early music to enthusiastic audiences in Adelaide, interstate and abroad. Concert programs have been innovative and varied, featuring music from the vast repertoire of 17th and 18th century European music as well as some contemporary music from Australia, including new commissioned works. 

Let Adelaide Baroque take you on a journey into musical history with a vitality that is timeless – relevant to life in 2024 and beyond! Since 1977, Adelaide Baroque has gained a reputation for original and creative programming performing a vast array of chamber music for smaller ensembles, featuring soloists on historic instruments. Our aim is to excite contemporary audiences with the power of baroque music.

nyilamum – song cycles is a concert program that intertwines ancient stories and a celebration of language with contemporary reflections on land, identity, and resilience featuring music from Yorta Yorta Dja Dja Wurrung Dr Lou Bennett AM and Paul Stanhope.

Embark on a captivating musical journey led by the extraordinary saxophonist Jack Chao Heng Zhang, whose talent has wowed audiences across Asia, Europe, and North America. Experience the magic of the saxophone like never before as Jack takes you through a stunning repertoire spanning the Baroque to the modern era, showcasing the instrument's rich and versatile voice.

This unaccompanied performance will highlight the saxophone’s timeless charm and elegance, promising an evening of pure musical brilliance.

Don’t miss the chance to witness a master at work and fall in love with the classical saxophone! 

In its debut performance, Ensemble Lumen explores facets of light in all its radiant forms. The program will illuminate the rarely heard music of William Shield, whose melodies once charmed the ears of Mozart and Beethoven. Dai Fujikura brings the solo horn to life in yuraryura, conjuring the mesmerising dance of a candle-lit flame. The Australian premiere of Libby Larsen’s Trio Noir draws a shimmering sonic parallel between music and the mystery of film noir, while Dohnányi’s sweeping Sextet embarks on a dramatic journey through light and shadow.

An exclusive performance by musicians from Ensemble Musikfabrik, one of the world's leading contemporary music ensembles based in Cologne, in residence at the Elder Conservatorium of Music. Their program features a new work by Adelaide-based composer Georgina Bowden alongside trios by Dylan Lardelli, Juliet Palmer, and Gordon Williamson, as well as a quartet by Liza Lim and a side-by side performance of Richard Barrett's Codex IV with Elder Conservatorium students. 

Embark on a captivating musical journey led by the extraordinary saxophonist Jack Chao Heng Zhang, whose talent has wowed audiences across Asia, Europe, and North America. Experience the magic of the saxophone like never before as Jack takes you through a stunning repertoire spanning the Baroque to the modern era, showcasing the instrument's rich and versatile voice.

This unaccompanied performance will highlight the saxophone’s timeless charm and elegance, promising an evening of pure musical brilliance.

Don’t miss the chance to witness a master at work and fall in love with the classical saxophone! 

A program of classical recitals presented by some of Adelaide’s best and brightest emerging artists!

Get ready for another captivating evening of classical music with the dynamic violin duo, Marta and Matej Sutora!

This time, they'll be showcasing their exceptional talent with music pieces of two remarkable composers: Mozart's Violin Duo, a delightful and intricate composition, and Spohr's Duo Concertante, a stirring work that reveals the full emotional spectrum of the violin.

Jess Hitchcock is a musical polymath: an opera singer, a jazz singer, a singer songwriter, a composer, a storyteller. Her endlessly versatile voice can make itself at home in a studio, on a stage or in a football stadium.

Penny Quartet is a multifaceted, award-winning Australian string quartet with a boundless appetite for the new. Together, Hitchcock and Penny Quartet present an evening of music through the looking-glass of 11 Australian composers, each commissioned to take one of Hitchcock’s songs and arrange it for voice and string quartet.

Join one of the world’s most transcendent modern pianists for an evening of music from her extensive catalogue including her 2023 album Ghosts.

Featuring notable collaborations with Patrick Watson, Ólafur Arnalds and Duncan Bellamy (Portico Quartet), Ghosts blends a lifetime of musical exploration into a unique, cosmic soundscape, drawing inspiration from artists as diverse as Enya, The Smile, James Blake and Pink Floyd.

Hear an exquisite and exciting range of Australian chamber music in this recital for winds and strings, performed by some of Adelaide's most versatile and skilled freelance musicians. The program will include music by Sally Greenaway, Anne Cawrse, Catherine Likhuta and more!

Claire de Sévigné’s recent performances have been described as “remarkable in every way”. Similarly praised for conjuring “serenity incarnate” as well as for her “high-flown coloratura”, both sides of this extraordinary Canadian soprano will be showcased in this one-off recital, as she steps off the stage of our main opera Innocence. From operatic favourites by Handel and Mozart to heart-warming operetta, the concert’s centrepiece is the luminous The Shepherd on the Rock by Schubert, an extended feature for soprano, clarinet and piano.

Beethoven and Shostakovich were two of the most prolific composers for string quartet, and their message of humanity and healing is brought to life by the award winning Affinity Quartet in their Adelaide debut.

Hear an exquisite and exciting range of Australian chamber music in this recital for winds and strings, performed by some of Adelaide's most versatile and skilled freelance musicians. The program will include music by Sally Greenaway, Anne Cawrse, Catherine Likhuta and more!

David Harrington is one of the most influential, progressive and imaginative musical minds of our generation. As founder of the Kronos Quartet he changed the classical music landscape, rethinking what a string quartet could be, and how classical musicians could collaborate and reimagine their place in the world.

Ahead of his Horizons weekend at UKARIA, David makes a one-off appearance in town. Presenting one of his renowned Listening Parties, he and his laptop will take us on a fascinating journey into the music that has shaped his life and craft. Adding a live music element, David will be joined on stage by his friend Garth Knox, a similarly free-spirited musician.

This recital leads us into a world of ancient gods and myths, bringing to life the connection of nature and song. Finnish mezzo-soprano Jenny Carlstedt, who is in Adelaide for Innocence, weaves a journey through the centuries, from the faun-like Pan in Debussy’s ravishing Chansons de Bilitis to the Swedish composer Ture Rangström’s description of “the trees singing, the meadows whispering and the whole earth listening to his melodies”. This is a rare chance to hear Carlstedt in an intimate setting, accompanied by Michael Ierace on piano, performing the music closest to her heart.

Music and literature have deep and entwining roots. This new format brings two of our foremost cultural minds together to explore those connections on a personal basis. Robert Dessaix is one of Australia’s most intriguing authors, with an abiding love of music. Professor Anna Goldsworthy is a concert pianist, author and Director of the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium. Together they will explore the place of music in Dessaix’s life and work, interspersed with performances by Goldsworthy of works close to Dessaix’s heart and inspired by the conversation. Join us for a warm, intriguing and revealing hour of music and discovery.

In our opening concert, David Harrington introduces performances from all the Horizons artists. Each will play music close to their heart and reflective of their own musical traditions, whether from Vietnam, Australia, Indonesia, the UK or elsewhere. The evening begins with a traditional praise song from Mali.

Musical instruments migrate from one culture to another, finding new contexts while retaining their distinctiveness. Inspired by these journeys, this concert celebrates cross-cultural collaboration. At its heart are the Vietnamese instruments of Van-Anh Vo, presented in collaboration with Trio Da Kali, Peni Candra Rini and Affinity Quartet. Interpretations of Satie and Mahler will feature as a springboard for improvisation.

The language of Bach is often described as being ‘universal’. In this performance it finds a new cultural context as movements from the Goldberg Variations are interspersed with improvisations by Lassana Diabaté on the balafon, a West African xylophone. Peter Sculthorpe’s Jabiru Dreaming opens the concert, whose music David Harrington describes as central to defining his vision for new musical horizons.

This concert celebrates the joy of sound. Janáček’s String Quartet No. 2 Intimate Letters was originally written for the unique sound of the viola d’amore; we sample that version, together with a performance featuring the viola. Multi-instrumentalist Garth Knox, whom Harrington reveres for his approach to music making, is our guide. He’ll give us a glimpse into the way that he conceives sound, and duet with Chloë Sobek on the violone (a Renaissance double bass) and Christopher Cartlidge (violist of the Australian String Quartet).

To mark their 50th anniversary, the Kronos Quartet chose to look forward, not back. Cue one of the most ambitious commissioning projects of recent times: 50 new works, with scores and recordings of each made freely available. Together, these works form a snapshot of the possibilities for the string quartet in the hands of some of the most diverse and distinguished composers today. This concert surveys Harrington’s handpicked selections from the 50 For the Future catalogue, together with collaborative performances of Peter Sculthorpe and Henry Purcell.

In a fitting culmination, Horizons draws to a close with all artists on stage together. Presented from the stage by David Harrington, this collaborative concert culminates in a rhapsodic performance of Terry Riley’s cult hit Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector.

French-German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt, known to Australian and international audiences as one of the finest instrumentalists performing today, presents an intimate one-off Adelaide Festival performance as part of Daylight Express. Hailed as having “technique to burn, near perfect intonation, superb control of extreme registers and harmonics”, Altstaedt will perform the revered solo cello Suite No. 1 in G major and No. 5 in C minor of JS Bach, and Dutilleux's Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher on his 1749 Guadagnini cello.

Flute ensemble Coruscalia Collective goes wonderfully wild at the Adelaide Fringe this year!  Inspired by our feathered, furred and scaly friends, Coruscalia Collective brings a concert full of birds, cats and other curious creatures.

This eclectic program of jazz and classical music includes works with narration and visual art, and all the pieces are by living composers, including US composers Nicole Chamberlain and Michael Isaacson, and Adelaide composer Hannah Wilkinson. 

Join us for a dazzling evening of music both familiar and explorative in Adelaide’s magnificent Town Hall with a virtuosic lineup of musicians from this year’s Horizons: Chamber Landscapes program.

This eclectic ensemble of music artists from across the world will explore the meeting points between the various landscapes of their craft. Exceptional instrumentalists and singers from Australia, Vietnam, Mali and Indonesia share the stage for astonishing interpretations and reinventions of western classical music – including works by Satie, Mahler, Purcell and Bach – alongside traditional forms from each of their countries.

This performance showcases some of Vienna’s finest classical fruits, with Schubert’s Notturno for Piano Trio, Op. 148, a sparkling duet from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata, Op. 47b for string quintet and the majestic Kaiser-Walzer Op. 437 by Johann Strauss (arr. Schoenberg). The talented young musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music, alongside Paavali Jumppanen on piano and Zoë Black on violin, bring to life this music as though it were written just yesterday.

For over 40 years Adelaide Baroque has given concerts of early music to enthusiastic audiences in Adelaide, interstate and abroad. Concert programs have been innovative and varied, featuring music from the vast repertoire of 17th and 18th century European music as well as some contemporary music from Australia, including new commissioned works. 

Let Adelaide Baroque take you on a journey into musical history with a vitality that is timeless – relevant to life in 2024 and beyond! Since 1977, Adelaide Baroque has gained a reputation for original and creative programming performing a vast array of chamber music for smaller ensembles, featuring soloists on historic instruments. Our aim is to excite contemporary audiences with the power of baroque music.

A program of classical recitals presented by some of Adelaide’s best and brightest emerging artists!

This concert features Angus McBride, bassoon with pianist Simón Pazos Quintana.

For over 40 years Adelaide Baroque has given concerts of early music to enthusiastic audiences in Adelaide, interstate and abroad. Concert programs have been innovative and varied, featuring music from the vast repertoire of 17th and 18th century European music as well as some contemporary music from Australia, including new commissioned works. 

Let Adelaide Baroque take you on a journey into musical history with a vitality that is timeless – relevant to life in 2024 and beyond! Since 1977, Adelaide Baroque has gained a reputation for original and creative programming performing a vast array of chamber music for smaller ensembles, featuring soloists on historic instruments. Our aim is to excite contemporary audiences with the power of baroque music.

In their first encounter in Paris in 2001, Paavali Jumppanen performed the notoriously difficult second Piano Sonata for the composer Pierre Boulez. Boulez was so impressed that he invited Jumppanen to record his complete sonatas. He also advised Jumppanen to combine this Sonata with Beethoven’s momentous Piano Sonata No. 29 Hammerklavier. In this concert, this epic coupling is heard for the first time in Australia, as a special tribute to the 100th anniversary of Boulez.

Adelaide Chamber Singers Heal You is a transformative journey of healing, peace, and belonging. Part of the 2025 Adelaide Festival program, ACS articulate this healing with exquisite musical responses, from early 20th Century works and contemporary repertoire. Also featuring music by Joanna Marsh, Ēriks Ešenvalds and Emeli Sandé.

Conducted by Christie Anderson

A program of classical recitals presented by some of Adelaide’s best and brightest emerging artists!

This concert features Alex Byrne, flute with pianist.

A program of classical recitals presented by some of Adelaide’s best and brightest emerging artists!

This concert features Bridget McCullough, viola with violinst Lucy Macourt.

Two generation-defining artists turn to a composer close to their heart – Franz Schubert – for a very special two-concert Adelaide Festival residency. 

A program of classical recitals presented by some of Adelaide’s best and brightest emerging artists!

This concert features violinist Lucy Macourt with other members of the 4 States Quartet: Isabelle Watson (violin), Sterling Rieck (viola), Chiara Kelle (Cello), and pianist

A program of classical recitals presented by some of Adelaide’s best and brightest emerging artists!

This concert features Bridget McCullough, viola with violinst Lucy Macourt.

A program of classical recitals presented by some of Adelaide’s best and brightest emerging artists!

This concert features Jenny Su, piano with violinist Kai Gerbi.

German baritone Matthias Goerne and Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov are regarded as the pinnacles of their respective worlds. Any chance to see them perform individually is a gem. To see them together is unmissable. 

Together they perform Schubert’s song cycle Die schöne Müllerin (The Fair Maid of the Mill), a beautiful “Lieder” based on the poems of Wilhelm Müller. A predecessor to Winterreise, this is a lyrical and emotional odyssey of love and heartbreak, with music just as gorgeous and captivating as its well-known successor. 

Get ready for another captivating evening of classical music with the dynamic violin duo, Marta and Matej Sutora!

This time, they'll be showcasing their exceptional talent with music pieces of two remarkable composers: Mozart's Violin Duo, a delightful and intricate composition, and Spohr's Duo Concertante, a stirring work that reveals the full emotional spectrum of the violin.

A program of classical recitals presented by some of Adelaide’s best and brightest emerging artists!

This concert features Angus McBride, bassoon with pianist Simón Pazos Quintana.

A program of classical recitals presented by some of Adelaide’s best and brightest emerging artists!

This concert features Alex Byrne, flute with pianist.

Get ready for another captivating evening of classical music with the dynamic violin duo, Marta and Matej Sutora!

This time, they'll be showcasing their exceptional talent with music pieces of two remarkable composers: Mozart's Violin Duo, a delightful and intricate composition, and Spohr's Duo Concertante, a stirring work that reveals the full emotional spectrum of the violin.

A program of classical recitals presented by some of Adelaide’s best and brightest emerging artists!

This concert features Bridget McCullough, viola with pianist.

A program of classical recitals presented by some of Adelaide’s best and brightest emerging artists!

This concert features Bridget McCullough, viola with violinst Lucy Macourt.

A program of classical recitals presented by some of Adelaide’s best and brightest emerging artists!

This concert features Adam Draper, trombone with pianist Simón Pazos Quintana.

Flute ensemble Coruscalia Collective goes wonderfully wild at the Adelaide Fringe this year!  Inspired by our feathered, furred and scaly friends, Coruscalia Collective brings a concert full of birds, cats and other curious creatures.

This eclectic program of jazz and classical music includes works with narration and visual art, and all the pieces are by living composers, including US composers Nicole Chamberlain and Michael Isaacson, and Adelaide composer Hannah Wilkinson. 

A program of classical recitals presented by some of Adelaide’s best and brightest emerging artists!

This concert features Jenny Su, piano with violinist Kai Gerbi.

In a true meeting of musical minds, American countertenor Reginald Mobley and pianist Paul Grabowsky unite at UKARIA to present Mobley’s latest, much-feted album Because. Originally recorded with French jazz pianist Baptiste Trotignon, Because celebrates spiritual and gospel traditions, alongside music of black composers such as Florence Price and Harry Burleigh.

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.

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.

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?’

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.

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.

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 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.