Elder Conservatorium

Name: Elder Conservatorium
Address: North Tce, Adelaide, SA, 5000, AU
Telephone: +61883135995

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Shaping visionary artists since 1898 for tomorrow's music and entertainment industry. Official Adelaide University account.

03/11/2026

Join us this Friday evening for a double-header of the Elder Conservatorium Guitar Ensemble and Saxophone Ensemble!

📅 Friday 6 November 2026 7.30pm
📍 Scott Theatre
🎟 Free entry, register below 👇

https://events.humanitix.com/jazz-in-scott-theatre-elder-conservatorium-guitar-and-jazz-sax-ensembles

03/11/2026

On Monday 13 October, the finalists were announced for the 2026 Ruby Awards, reflecting the diversity and breadth of South Australia's creative landscape, from First Nations artists and regional communities to emerging creatives, established organisations and new work. We were particularly thrilled to see some of our alumni and friends nominated, including:

🏅Outstanding Achievement – Children and Young People
🎶 Crescendo Youth Music Festival, the Adelaide Youth Orchestras

🏅Outstanding Achievement – Regional
🎶 'Where We Meet: Chamber Music in Port Augusta', Chamber Music Adelaide and Port Augusta Performing Arts (featuring CASM and ECMSPA alumnus Nathan May, and ECMSPA PhD graduate Dr Julian Ferraretto)

🏅Outstanding Achievement – New Work (Individual or Group)
🎶 'Stories in Song', Nathan May (CASM and ECMSPA alumnus) in collaboration with Chamber Music Adelaide and Nexus Arts

🏅 Young Achiever – Frank Ford Memorial Award
🎶 Charlee Watt (Open Music Academy alumna)

The winners will be announced at the 2026 Ruby Awards annual awards evening on Friday 13 November.

See the full list of finalists 👇
https://www.create.sa.gov.au/resources/news-and-media-releases/2026-ruby-awards-finalists-announced

03/11/2026

Elder Conservatorium PhD candidate Simon Monger (violin) and pianist Amir Farid (piano) – who performed in our Elder Hall lunchtime concert on Friday 28 August – have released a single from their upcoming double CD 'Moóre is More' with Genuin Classics and Deutschland Radio Berlin. The single is a recording of the first movement of Emánuel Moóre's Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 23.

Stream the recording 👇
https://www.genuin.de/streaming-27010-emanuel-moor-violin-sonata-no-3-op-23-i-moderato

02/11/2026

Beloved by Adelaide audiences for his fearless virtuosity and intellectual depth, Konstantin Shamray returns to the Harris International Piano Series at Elder Hall this Sunday with a wide-ranging recital spanning three centuries: the rhythmic vitality of J. S. Bach’s English Suite No. 6, the mysticism of Messiaen’s Preludes, and the shimmering technical ingenuity of Debussy’s Etudes. After interval, Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 6 brings explosive drama and biting irony, before Shamray concludes with one of his specialties, Scriabin’s Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28.

📆 Sunday 8 November 2.00pm
📍 Elder Hall

Tickets available at 👇
https://events.humanitix.com/konstantin-shamray-harris-international-piano-series-98t6ka8p

02/11/2026

Celebrate the end of the year with our Open Music Academy (OMA) Gala Concert 2026, featuring both solo and ensemble performances from our Academy and Discovery programs, including music by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Marvin Hamlisch, Giulio Caccini, Percy Grainger, and much more!

📆 Saturday 7 November 6.00pm
📍 Elder Hall

Attendance is free, but registration is essential via the link below 👇
https://events.humanitix.com/open-music-academy-oma-gala-concert-2026

02/11/2026

From Thursday 8–Sunday 11 October, our 2026 graduating class and second-year students of the Elder Conservatorium Music Theatre degree put on six spectacular performances of '& Juliet' in the Scott Theatre. This vibrant, hilarious musical follows Juliet as she refuses to die for Romeo and instead embarks on a journey of self-discovery with her friends, new and old. Celebrating second chances, empowerment, and the joy of choosing your own path, this production was bursting with colour, humour, and unapologetic fun, set to an irresistible playlist of chart-topping hits by songwriter Max Martin.

A huge thanks to the creative team – Matthew Hyde (director), Paul Sinkinson (music director), Zoë Komazec (choreographer), Christopher Snape (lighting designer) and Jamie Mensforth (sound designer) – for their tireless efforts pulling this impressive production together, and a special congratulations to students Natalie Soáres and Allycia Angeles (Juliet); Teagan Garvey (Romeo); Sammi Keough and Laura Henderson (Anne); Michael Jones (Shakespeare); Charlotte Lee and Issy Coomber (Angelique); Leo Sage and Isaiah Wood (Lance); Samuel Cannizzaro and Corey Major (Francois); Liam Goodes and Jeremy Fokas (May); Amelia Beveridge (Lady Capulate); Eligh Dungey (Capulet); Gabriella Fernandez (Rosaline); Grace Cher (Portia); Will Lydement (Helena); Taylor Schwartz (Judith); Flynn Spencer (Richard); Neve Sargeant (Lucy); Kiara Brunker (Eleanor); Ranz Custodio (Cloakroom Attendant) and Charlotte Lawrence (Bouncer) for their fantastic performances!

'The elaborate combination of all the production elements truly elevates this show to a professional status [...]. The Elder Conservatorium of Music Theatre's production of & Juliet is a glorious reminder of how bloody fun musical theatre can be. Whatever you make of its jukebox pop-y chaos, this production will have you bopping, smiling and bursting with pride for the talent that is fostered here in Adelaide.'

– Sophie Tsoulos, The Scoop

📸 Greg Balcombe

01/11/2026

Join Recitals Australia for a celebration of our 2026 achievements, with a concert afternoon featuring all seven of our Elder Conservatorium Fellows! Featuring Teresa Chen (voice), Callum Logan (voice), Nicholas Miceli (violin), Patrick Moorhouse (oboe), Chiara Panetta (bassoon), Vincenzo Panetta (trombone), and Maria Tynan (piano) in collaboration with pianist Simón Pazos Quintana playing music by Schubert, Bartók, Jolivet, Poulenc, Smibert, and more!

📆 Sunday 8 November 2.30pm
📍 UKARIA Cultural Centre

Tickets available at 👇
https://recitalsaustralia.org.au/programs/08-november-2026-fellowship-celebration/

01/11/2026

Elder Conservatorium Jazz Voice Lecturer Lauren Henderson recently joined ABC Jazz as their October Artist in Residence. On Thursday 1 October, she joined ECMSPA Masters graduate Dave McEvoy (piano) to present a series of originals and covers, showcasing her love of jazz standards, The Carpenters and her own kids, who play a big part on her direction as an artist. On Friday 2 October, she shared some of the artists who have inspired her, including music by Kurt Elling, Betty Carter and Carmen Mcrae in duo form, the Pat Metheny Unity Group and South Australian vocalist Anita Wardell. You can also watch Lauren and Dave perform the classic 'Bein' Green' on ABC listen, and 'Lush Life' by the legendary Billy Strayhorn on the ABC Jazz page. Huge congratulations, Lauren! 👏

01/11/2026

Professor Anna Goldsworthy recently joined ethicist Dr Simon Longstaff, the Venerable Associate Professor Juewei, and theologian Father Paolo Benanti, AI advisor to the Holy See, for an event on Friday 9 October at the Gradient Institute in Sydney, entitled ‘What is AI asking of us?’. On the weekend of Saturday 10–Sunday 11 October, Anna was in conversation with Artistic Director Monica Curro at the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival about AI’s implications for the arts. She also joined distinguished international writers Andrew O’Hagan, Sophie Gee, and Siang Lu for the opening event at the Canberra Writer's Festival on Thursday 15 October, ‘For the Love of Books’.

31/10/2026

Rob Nairn recently gave the premiere performances of the Concerto for Violone in E-flat major by Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831). Lost for over two-hundred years, the Concerto was rediscovered in 2024 by musicologist Darija Andzakovic and the announcement made in 2025. The modern premiere performances were given by the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra across eight concerts at the Melbourne Recital Centre (Thursday 15–Sunday 18 October) and Sydney's City Recital Hall (Wednesday 21–Tuesday 27 October), followed by a recording. The Concerto is thought to have been written somewhere between 1776 and 1780 for the double bass virtuoso Johann Matthias Sperger (1750–1812). The performance on Saturday 17 October at the Melbourne Recital Centre received a five-star review in Limelight.

'Nairn's premiere performance of the Concerto comes as close as possible to recreating its original sound in the 21st century.'

– Elizabeth Quinn, Limelight

📸: Laura Manariti

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+61883135995

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https://adelaideuni.edu.au/about/school/elder-conservatorium-of-music-and-school-of-performing-arts/

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