Adelaide Hills Chamber Players

Adelaide Hills Chamber Players 2023 Summer Festival on this January! We are pleased to present the third Adelaide Hills Summer Festival of Fine Music.

With critical support from SA Government’s Arts SA and Hans and Petra Henkell we can offer two large ensemble programs and two chamber recital programs, each presented several times in and near the glorious Adelaide Hills. Romanticism and the Moderns, is the theme for our Festival, providing opportunities to present familiar and well- loved works of the 19th Century and, beside them, pitch major w

orks of the 20th Century that still receive far too little public playing time. William Hennessy AM joins us once again to lead our strings in a program building on the immense success of Lucinda Collins’ concerto offering in the 2022 Summer Festival. Our professional and community choristers will perform together in Bruckner’s famous Te Deum, accompanied by a novel arrangement for symphonic wind ensemble: rather like a grand organ accompaniment where you can see all the pipes! This choral/wind program will also celebrate the magnificent music of Igor Stravinsky with performances of his Mass and his Symphonies of Wind Instruments, iconic 20th century works. The chamber recital programs will be led by the remarkable Seraphim Trio, with one concert including Clara Schumann’s wonderful piano trio and the other in which Seraphim players will be joined by guests to explore more iconic 20th century works by Bartok and Katchachurian. Check out the program details in the following pages and book early to take advantage of heavy discounts available until November. We hope to see you at several of these events.

Sad to say, for the first time in five years we are unable to begin the new year with an Adelaide Hills Summer Music Fes...
10/01/2025

Sad to say, for the first time in five years we are unable to begin the new year with an Adelaide Hills Summer Music Festival.

With a mix of public and private support from 2021 to 2024, we have been able to offer a wide range of fine music programs, drawing upon masterpieces from Viennese Classicism, Romantic, Late Romantic eras and the 20th Century that have been wonderfully supported by enthusiastic audiences. Mozart and Mahler, Beethoven, Bloch, Bruckner and Bartok, Schumann, Stravinsky and Schoenberg and many others, have dotted these offerings, all presented by the best performers from South Australia and beyond.

Alas, efforts to identify funding from public and private sources for 2025 have proved fruitless……and, thus, South Australia reverts once more to the un-envied status of being the only mainland state of Australia without an ongoing, broad repertoire-based chamber orchestra…..a status that remained unchallenged after the demise of the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra in the 1990’s, until our first Summer Music Festival in 2021. UNESCO City of Music indeed!

There is a glimmer of light, however, at the end of the tunnel leading to 2026. I hope, soon, to be able to announce plans [with appropriate seed-funding] for an imaginative offering of wonderfully accessible fine music for instrumentalists and voices, drawn from the early 20th century.

Stay tuned for developments.

Brian Chatterton OAM
Artistic Director
Adelaide Hills Chamber Players

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