Elder Hall relaunched

By Anna Goldsworthy

In April 2023, we launched a refurbished Elder Hall, thanks to the generosity of our community through the Take a Seat fundraising campaign.

To celebrate, the Elder Conservatorium of Music presents our 2023 concert series, Awakenings

Our mission at the Elder Conservatorium is to awaken the artistry of the next generation of musicians across the genres of classical, jazz, music theatre, composition, popular music, and sonic arts. But it is also to awaken future audiences and music-lovers.

Our season’s theme speaks to music’s great power to awaken us all: emotionally, spiritually, sensually, intellectually.

In a program that spans the Baroque era until today, we present much-loved classics ranging from Beethoven’s Eroica symphony to Miles Davies’ Kind of Blue

Over recent years, many of us have been waking up to the rich legacy of female composers, and we are thrilled this year to be presenting works by Dorothy Fields, Lili Boulanger, Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Valerie Coleman, Sally Beamish, Moya Henderson, Caroline Shaw and Holly Harrison, with premieres by Brodie King and our own Anne Cawrse. Many of our performers are well-known faces to our audiences, particularly the wonderful staff and student musicians from the Elder Conservatorium. We are delighted also to welcome a number of visitors for the first time, and in April, we presented the first ever collaboration between our thriving Music Theatre program and the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra in Leonard Bernstein’s lively tribute to his beloved New York, On the Town It is a privilege to present acclaimed performers from around Australia and the world alongside the musicians of tomorrow, and we invite the broader University of Adelaide community to share this journey with us. Details on are on our website. Professor Anna Goldsworthy is Director of the Elder Conservatorium of Music.

Other events

The University of Adelaide looks forward to an exciting calendar of events in the second half of 2023. Alumni receptions will be held in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, US, UK and Europe. Plans are currently underway for a ‘Back to Campus’ reunion event in spring 2023, for the graduating classes of 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003 and 2013. We are eager to connect with our global alumni community at upcoming events and in the lead up to the University’s 150th anniversary in 2024.

Make sure you update your details so you don’t miss out on future events and invitations.

www.adelaide.edu/alumni.

For a full list of upcoming events, visit www.adelaide.edu/events