August–December 2026

AUGUST–DECEMBER 2026

UKARIA honours our First Nations by fostering a shared sense of respect for this land, and we acknowledge and pay our respects to the Peramangk, traditional custodians of the land on which the Cultural Centre stands.

CALENDAR

Sunday 2 August Attacca Quartet

Sunday 30 August Lucas and Arthur Jussen

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Sunday 9 August

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Friday 4–Sunday 6 September

Friday 2–Sunday 4 October Chamberfest Curated by Siobhan Stagg

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Robin Tritschler with Andrea Katz

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Saturday 22 August

SOLD OUT

Friday 18 September

Sunday 16 August

Australian String Quartet with Julian Smiles

James Morrison Jazz Weekend

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Kate Miller-Heidke with Keir Nuttall

Friday 9 October Ruth Moody

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Adelaide Chamber Singers with Umberto Clerici and James Crabb

Saturday 10 October Za Górami Alice Zawadzki, Fred Thomas and Misha Mullov-Abbado

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AUGUST–DECEMBER 2026

Sunday 11 October

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Richard Tognetti and Alexander Gavrylyuk

Thursday 12 and Friday 13 November Tim Freedman’s Chamber Eight

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Saturday 17 SOLD OUT and Sunday 18 October

Sunday 1 November

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Paul Lewis | Mozart+

Australia Ensemble UNSW with Piers Lane

Sunday 29 November 38

Sunday 6 December

Marwood, Valve, Cassomenos

Ning Feng with Angela Li

Saturday 7 November 34 Miles Davis at 100 Curated by Carl Orr Featuring Phil Slater

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KEY TO SYMBOLS ON CONCERT PAGES Complimentary afternoon tea Light meal Under 40 tickets Bus service

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Photo: Randy Larcombe

WELCOME Our hall embedded in nature embraces sound, and every performance leaves an indelible impression on its walls.

Already this year we’ve heard a remarkable diversity of artists – Martin Hayes on his Irish fiddle, Roomful of Teeth pushing vocal boundaries and Bobby Singh’s crosscultural exploration.

It’s especially heartening that artists continue to be inspired by this place, bringing so many new ideas, opportunities and projects to us. It’s an important reminder of our mission to inspire artists and audiences, and of our ambition to meet that challenge. Siobhan Stagg’s curation of Chamberfest reflects this sense of purpose, as does the launch of Kate Miller-Heidke’s new album and the debut of Tim Freedman’s Chamber Eight.

In the months ahead, many artists will visit for the first time, like the fraternal piano duo of Lucas and Arthur Jussen from the Netherlands, the trailblazing Attacca Quartet from New York and violin virtuoso Ning Feng from Berlin, who is bringing an extraordinary collection of instruments to create a unique listening experience.

We are also honoured to welcome many returning artists, like Paul Lewis who embarks on a multi-year world tour exploring the keyboard music of Mozart. It’s equally gratifying when returning artists perform together as new or old friends, as with Richard Tognetti and Alexander Gavrylyuk.

Although the James Morrison Weekend is now sold out, there are other offerings that celebrate jazz, folk and fusion artists. Carl Orr has curated an evening to mark the centenary of Miles Davis, Ruth Moody weaves her Americana magic, and the music of Za Górami strikes its own folk path with classical, improvisatory and jazz influences.

Our 2026 concerts reflect the relationship we have developed with you and with these artists over the last eleven years. They are also an expression of a desire to find what’s new or different, and captivating. Inspiration sometimes requires an adventurous spirit.

Our sincere thanks for your continued support and our gratitude to everyone who has given a gift to ensure UKARIA remains vibrant in perpetuity!

There is so much to look forward to in the months ahead and as always, we invite you to join us.

Ulrike Klein AO Alison Beare Founder CEO

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ATTACCA QUARTET SUNDAY 2 AUGUST 2.30PM Two-time GRAMMY Award-winning Attacca Quartet is one of the most fearless and opinionated young quartets at work today. They make their UKARIA debut with a recital that exemplifies the ensemble’s unique character and programming style.

Renowned in the US and Europe for the deft blending of old and new compositional voices, the Quartet’s first half is designed as a spirited exchange. The protagonists are young American composers of the moment Caroline Shaw and Paul Wiancko, Ravel’s String Quartet (featured in Attacca’s latest album) and an arrangement of Radiohead by the Quartet’s violist Nathan Schram.

The second half is a study in contrasts, and an opportunity to hear the Attacca Quartet present their account of a canonical staple: Beethoven’s ground-breaking Op. 132 Quartet. This 200-year-old quartet, written in the last years of the composer’s life, features the revered Heiliger Dankgesang movement, the ‘hymn of thanksgiving’ for recovery after a serious illness. This recital is an opportunity to hear a trailblazing ensemble present their take on one of the most venerated works in the chamber music repertoire.

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Amy Schroeder | Violin Domenic Salerni | Violin Nathan Schram | Viola Andrew Yee | Cello Caroline Shaw Entr’acte Paul Wiancko Part I: The Thousandth Encounter from Benkei’s Standing Death Radiohead 2+2=5 (arr. Nathan Schram for string quartet) Caroline Shaw Second Essay (Echo) from Three Essays Maurice Ravel Allegro moderato from String Quartet in F, M. 35 Caroline Shaw Root from The Evergreen Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132

Photo: David Goddard

ROBIN TRITSCHLER WITH ANDREA KATZ SUNDAY 9 AUGUST 2.30PM ‘With his mellifluous tone, flawless technical prowess and impeccable diction, the Irish tenor covers himself in glory.’

Robin Tritschler | Tenor Andrea Katz | Piano

– Gramophone Songs by: Robin Tritschler made his Australian recital debut at UKARIA in 2024 with Olli Mustonen.

He is well known on the world’s concert stages from London’s Wigmore Hall to the Seol Arts Centre, and he has sung and recorded with leading orchestras including Ensemble Pygmalion directed by Raphaël Pichon. He is joined here by the Argentinian-born, Melbourne-based pianist Andrea Katz, a prolific recitalist performing with prominent vocalists and instrumentalists including violinist Pekka Kuusisto, and singers Yvonne Kenny, Peter Coleman-Wright and Emma Matthews.

Johannes Brahms

Tritschler has curated this program around the poetry of Heinrich Heine. Testament to Heine’s fame in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there are many English, French and Russian songs using translations of his verse that sit alongside the scores of German Lieder.

Tritschler’s choices honour that multilingual legacy with songs inspired by sweet seductions and pastoral fancies. The concert culminates with Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe (The Poet’s Love) in which he set sixteen of Heine’s poems from the Book of Songs. Schumann’s selections emphasise the narrator’s tragic story, but he hoped his musical settings might help ‘lift that mask so that wild tears may be transformed into pearls.’

Franz Liszt

Frank Bridge Anton Bruckner Edvard Grieg Adolf Jensen Frederick Loewe Felix Mendelssohn Giacomo Meyerbeer Sergei Rachmaninov Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Camille Saint-Saëns Clara Schumann Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Robert Schumann Dichterliebe, Op. 48

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AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET WITH JULIAN SMILES SUNDAY 16 AUGUST 2.30PM In this special collaboration between the Australian String Quartet and lifetime member of the Goldner String Quartet, cellist Julian Smiles, contemporary American composer Samuel Adams sets the tone for a moving program. His third quartet is titled Alma, the Spanish word for ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’, and the work explores intimate landscapes of fine texture and intensity. Tchaikovsky’s tender Andante Cantabile speaks to a quieter idea of self. Originally the second movement of his first string quartet, Tchaikovsky confessed that the Andante’s wistful theme – based on a folksong he heard sung by a gardener – had moved him to tears. Such interior musical geographies gesture to Schubert’s final great chamber work, the kaleidoscopic Quintet in C. Completed six weeks before the composer’s death at the age of thirty-one, the Quintet heartrendingly suggests an artist in the very midst of life, seeing clearly all its heady joys, all its darkness.

Australian String Quartet Dale Barltrop | Violin Francesca Hiew | Violin Chris Cartlidge | Viola Michael Dahlenberg | Cello Julian Smiles | Cello Samuel Adams String Quartet No. 3, Alma Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Andante Cantabile arranged for cello and strings Franz Schubert Quintet in C, D. 956

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Photo: Sam Robert Photography featuring Beaumont House

ADELAIDE CHAMBER SINGERS WITH UMBERTO CLERICI AND JAMES CRABB SATURDAY 22 AUGUST 4.30PM ‘Night is full of light,’ writes the Australian poet Kate Llewellyn in her poem Faith. In this considered program, cellist Umberto Clerici joins classical accordionist James Crabb and the Adelaide Chamber Singers for a meditation at day’s end.

This late afternoon program opens with Bach’s setting of a sixteenth century Lutheran hymn. Bach’s prayer for grace is answered by a different kind of hymn, the late British composer John Tavener’s haunting Svyati for solo cello and choir that draws on Slavonic liturgical music. The mood is momentarily lightened before interval with Bach’s robust and lively Gamba Sonata No. 3 in G minor, here arranged for cello and accordion.

In the second half, renowned Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds draws our gaze heavenwards with his soaring Stars written for a cappella voices and tuned wine glasses, and Australian composer Anne Cawrse’s setting of Kate Llewellyn’s poetry conjures the memory of a garden to rhyme with UKARIA’s own.

In a yearning choral work, Joseph Twist sets visionary American poet Wendell Berry’s words. Berry’s poem searches for an antidote to the ‘despair for the world’ that ‘grows in me,’ until it finds a resting place in the night, in ‘the peace of wild things.’

Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina’s In Croce for cello and accordion dramatises a relationship between heaven and earth that is ecstatic, piercing and strange, before British composer Owain Park lulls us towards a gentle finale with an ancient night prayer reimagined for voices and accordion. As the sun sets, the program ends as it began, with Bach’s quiet, vulnerable plea for grace.

Adelaide Chamber Singers Christie Anderson | Artistic Director and Conductor Umberto Clerici | Cello James Crabb | Classical Accordion Johann Sebastian Bach Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 63 John Tavener Svyati Johann Sebastian Bach Gamba Sonata No. 3 in G minor, BWV 1029 Ēriks Ešenvalds Stars Anne Cawrse White Petals from All Flesh is Fire Joe Twist The Peace of Wild Things Sofia Gubaidulina In Croce Owain Park Night Prayer Johann Sebastian Bach Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 63 Post-concert dining Two course dinner with the artists 6.30pm | $84

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LUCAS AND ARTHUR JUSSEN SUNDAY 30 AUGUST 2.30PM Dutch brothers and piano duo partners Lucas and Arthur Jussen are lauded on the world’s great stages as ‘formidable storytellers’ (Tagesspiegel). Protégés of Maria João Pires, the Jussen brothers signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon in 2010 and have since recorded nine albums. They have appeared as soloists with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony, among others. The Jussens will be heard throughout the 2025/2026 season in the US, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

The Jussen brothers’ program will first give an account of the genre’s origins with music by composers who became important advocates of the piano duo. Mozart’s duos constitute some of the earliest writing for this instrumentation, while Schubert’s numerous works for four hands and Mendelssohn’s sparkling contributions reflect a nineteenth century salon culture and increasing access to pianos in middle-class homes.

For their second half, the Jussens leave the Viennese salon for Paris and the ballet. Igor Stravinsky’s inflammatory The Rite of Spring – which brought the Théâtre des Champs Élysées audience to blows at its ballet premiere – first appeared for piano four hands and was given a memorable reading by the composer and Claude Debussy in 1913. In 2026 – one hundred and thirteen years later – Lucas and Arthur Jussen deliver their interpretation of this raw, elemental musical drama, in the form that Stravinsky first heard his creation performed.

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Lucas Jussen | Piano Arthur Jussen | Piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sonata for Four Hands in D, KV. 381 Franz Schubert Fantasie in F minor, D. 940 Felix Mendelssohn Andante and Allegro Brilliant for Four Hands Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

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KATE MILLER-HEIDKE THE KISS AND THE ABYSS ALBUM LAUNCH | SPECIAL EVENT FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 7.30PM Join genre-defying singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke as she launches her new album, and explores territory that is at once ancient and new – deconstructing our past, illuminating the present, and casting her eye towards our future – with her new gothic folk masterpiece, The Kiss and The Abyss.

On her new album, Kate Miller-Heidke returns to her musical roots – while pushing further into the unknown than ever before. A striking fusion of gothic folk, theatrical storytelling and avant-garde textures, the new album finds one of Australia’s most singular voices at her most fearless, expansive and self-assured. Kate takes the folk music that was the first love of her songwriting youth, and refracts it through a darker, more experienced lens, to focus on the ills – and the hopes – of the modern world.

The Kiss and The Abyss is a meditation on the Internet Age – its distortions, seductions, and impact on our humanity. Old-world instrumentation and mythological imagery collide with distinctly modern anxieties, creating a body of work that feels both timeless and sharply of the moment, reflecting the emotional and ideological battlegrounds of contemporary life. Filled with intricate vocals, rich folk textures, and expansive, cinematic soundscapes, it is a work that feels both grounded and otherworldly.

Join Kate Miller-Heide, with longtime collaborator Keir Nuttall on guitar, as she performs a wide selection of tracks from the album – some for the first time – alongside the songs that have made her one of the most acclaimed and respected singers, songwriters, and creative forces in contemporary Australian music.

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Kate Miller-Heidke | Vocals / Keys Keir Nuttall | Guitar SPECIAL EVENT PRICING Adult | $100 Concession | $95 This concert is generously supported by

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CHAMBERFEST 26 CURATED BY SIOBHAN STAGG FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER–SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER ‘You are already an integral part of this festival. Yes, you!

Siobhan Stagg | Curator / Soprano

In her book The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker posits that events don’t begin at the printed time. They begin when an invitation is sent out, at the first spark of contact between host and guests. The tone is set, and energy begins to flow.

Quatuor Agate Helen Charlston | Mezzo-soprano Rachel Fenlon | Soprano / Piano Jonathan Ware | Piano Leonard Weiss | Conductor Natsuko Yoshimoto | Violin

Following Parker’s lead, I don’t think that Chamberfest will begin when the lights go down at the first concert in October. The festival experience begins the minute you read this text, feel even a slight surge of curiosity or anticipation, and commit to booking your place.

These five programs are deeply personal for me. I’ve travelled the world gathering impulses and poring over possible programs, imagining and re-imagining the emotional arc of the weekend.

With the state of the world, I think we need live music more than ever, as a healthy interruption to the algorithmic biases in our daily online lives. I feel it’s fundamentally important for artists to engage with art from both sides of the stage. I’m a ravenous concert attendee and am fascinated by how our reception to music fluctuates on any given day, depending on what comes before or after it. Consciously or not, musicians are responding to the audience’s energy in real time, every time they perform. This means that as an audience member, you contribute more to every performance than you may realise.

This Chamberfest weekend promises moments of absolute beauty, rapture and revelation. There will also likely be moments of newness and unfamiliar textures. But rest assured, I’ve carefully prepared the path ahead of you. It’s safe, authentic, enriching. I respect your presence enormously, and your unique energy will impact the music we make at UKARIA.’ – Siobhan Stagg

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Single tickets and flexi packages available at ukaria.com/chamberfest-2026

Photo: Todd Rosenberg

RUTH MOODY THE WANDERER RETURNS FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER 7.30PM ‘I can’t take her off my jukebox’

Ruth Moody | Vocals / Acoustic Guitar / Banjo

– Mark Knopfler

Ben Plotnick | Violin / Viola / Vocals

From the wild west coast of Canada, singersongwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ruth Moody brings her luminous voice and evocative songs to UKARIA. She has won two JUNOS (Canada’s top music award), and as a solo artist and founding member of The Wailin’ Jennys has enthralled audiences around the world. Her collaborations with Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler have brought wider acclaim and European tours with his band.

Sam Howard | Double Bass / Vocals

Moody’s latest album, Wanderer, is a moving chronicle of her life over the past decade with songs that dance to themes of love, loss, and motherhood. Ultimately, they speak to a longing for home. Described as having ‘the prettiest voice in all of North Americana these days’ (HuffPost) and originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Moody has sung the span of a continent.

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This concert is generously supported by

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ZA GÓRAMI ALICE ZAWADZKI, FRED THOMAS AND MISHA MULLOV-ABBADO SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 7.30PM Za Górami is the name of this trio’s critically acclaimed first album. It translates from Polish as ‘behind the mountains’ but it implies something like ‘once upon a time’ used to introduce stories and fairytales. Allusions to mystery and mastery develop naturally from the group’s combined heritage and celebrated careers.

Alice Zawadzki | Voice / Violin Fred Thomas | Piano / Drums Misha Mullov-Abbado | Double Bass

Their fusion of folk idioms has forged a stylistic world of their own, combining traditional song, chamber music, improvisation and jazz in fluid musical forms. This concert will capture their first recording project together.

‘Collected on our travels and taught to us by our friends, these are songs we have learnt and loved together.

Gathered from Argentina, France, Venezuela, Poland and the deep well of Sephardic culture, these folk tales speak to the moon, the mountains, the rain, the madness of humans and the prophecies of birds.’ – Alice, Fred and Misha

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RICHARD TOGNETTI AND ALEXANDER GAVRYLYUK SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER 2.30PM Visionary musicians and collaborators Alexander Gavrylyuk and Richard Tognetti join forces for a recital of chamber music in its most conversational, confiding form: the piano and violin duo. Their first half lingers in a mythic, fairytale world. Polish composer Karol Szymanowski employs an innovative array of techniques to evoke three familiar Greek myths – the Fountain of Arethusa, Narcissus, and Pan and the Dryads – while Sergei Prokofiev’s second violin sonata gestures to the soundscapes of his ballet Cinderella. The sonata’s light-hearted, neoclassical first movement belies the tumult that materialises later in the work, in true fairytale fashion.

Gavrylyuk and Tognetti then turn to one of the great contributions to the duo repertoire, Brahms’ third and final sonata for piano and violin.

By the time of the sonata’s composition, Brahms had completed all his symphonies and concertos, as well as many of his major chamber works. The D minor sonata showcases the composer’s masterful grasp of these instruments’ capabilities and is almost orchestral in scope. Full of tense urgency and high drama, the work demands everything of its two protagonists.

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Richard Tognetti | Violin Alexander Gavrylyuk | Piano Karol Szymanowski Mythes, Op. 30 Sergei Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14 Johannes Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108

Photo: Randy Larcombe

HOSPITALITY DINING IN THE GARDEN TERRACE The Garden Terrace is a beautiful gathering place, and the ideal setting to augment your concert-going experience.

Details about the dining option on offer for each concert are available at the end of each event page on our website – offerings include light lunches ($17, GF $19), wood-oven pizza nights ($44, GF $41), antipasti platters (serves 2, from $33), and two course dinners ($84), respective to each event.

The bar is open from ninety minutes before each performance and during interval, where you can enjoy a glass of wine or barista coffee. A variety of sweets are also available to purchase.

Due to catering requirements and limited capacity, we ask that you pre-book the dining option in advance, and please note that all food offerings are in addition to the cost of the concert and require a separate booking.

Book via www.ukaria.com/events or contact us on (08) 8227 1277.

BUS SERVICE We offer a bus service from Adelaide to the Cultural Centre ($22 return trip) for all concerts in our August–December 2026 season. Please see page 49 for more information and conditions.

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AUSTRALIA ENSEMBLE UNSW WITH PIERS LANE SUNDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2.30PM The London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane AO returns to UKARIA in collaboration with the distinguished Australia Ensemble UNSW. Their program crafts a Franco-Australian exchange that luxuriates in delicately drawn character and colour, opening on a Parisian wonderland. Francis Poulenc’s incidental music for violin, clarinet and piano – written to accompany the playwright Jean Anouilh’s satirical comedy of errors L’Invitation au Château – dances a whimsical two-step with the music of his predecessor Claude Debussy. Here, Piers Lane’s talent for ‘poetry and drama’ (The Age) takes centre stage in Debussy’s glimmering Suite Bergamasque.

Australian composer Martin Wesley-Smith was a political activist as well as a devotee of Lewis Carroll. His Merry-go-round (2002) for clarinet, cello and electronics approaches sombre subject matter – the fate of children in war-torn Afghanistan – with a deceptive lightness of touch that can descend into a raw power, reminiscent of Through the Looking Glass. The program concludes with Maurice Ravel’s piano trio masterpiece, written on the cusp of the First World War. His Piano Trio in A minor propelled the genre into a new era, demanding both virtuosity and chamber music subtlety from its players to combine the sounds of 1914 Paris with those of a wider, more diverse world.

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Australia Ensemble UNSW David Griffiths | Clarinet Dimity Hall | Violin Julian Smiles | Cello Piers Lane | Piano Francis Poulenc L’Invitation au Château, FP. 138 Claude Debussy Suite Bergamasque, L. 75 Martin Wesley-Smith Merry-go-round Maurice Ravel Piano Trio in A minor

Photo: Keith Saunders Photo: Dovile Sermokas

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MILES DAVIS AT 100 CURATED BY CARL ORR SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 7.30PM This year is the centenary of Miles Davis, one of the most innovative musicians and bandleaders of the twentieth century, and artists around the world have been paying homage to him on this important milestone. Doing justice to the legacy of this groundbreaking artist requires serious connections and jazz-chops. Carl Orr has the necessary credentials in fistfuls.

In the 1980s Carl was gigging in Sydney with Jackie Orszaczky and Miroslav Bukovsky. He moved to London in 1995 following a tour with jazz-fusion legend and ‘the world’s greatest drummer’ Billy Cobham, who played a key role on pivotal Davis records like Bitches Brew, Live–Evil and Jack Johnson. Carl was the guitarist for Cobham’s 2017 residency at Ronnie Scott’s in London and has performed with other Davis bandmates including George Duke, Bennie Maupin, and Marcus Miller. Carl’s own multi-year residency at Ronnie Scott’s ran to more than 300 shows.

Carl Orr | Guitars Phil Slater | Trumpet Paul White | Keys Victor Rounds | Bass John McDermott | Drums

For this survey of Davis’s work, Carl is joined by a crack band of jazz and fusion artists. The concert moves chronologically before exploring the impact Davis had on artists like Cobham and on Carl’s own output. This tribute to Davis distils how the so-called ‘Prince of Darkness’ and his acolytes have inspired generations of musicians.

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TIM FREEDMAN’S CHAMBER EIGHT SPECIAL EVENT THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 7.30PM FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER 7.30PM Tim Freedman joins forces with a new chamber ensemble to perform the world premiere of Tim Freedman’s Chamber Eight directed by Daniel Denholm.

After The Whitlams’ sold-out weekend with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in April, Freedman returns to South Australia with a more intimate line up, rediscovering the source material of the orchestral arrangements: the gorgeous chamber pieces commissioned for the Australian Chamber Orchestra in 2003 by Peter Sculthorpe, Brett Dean and Daniel Denholm.

The concert will also feature refined versions of the large ensemble scores recently composed for the concert hall by Jamie Messenger and James Ledger. With the addition of two new UKARIA-commissioned arrangements by Denholm, this will be a new canvas for the stories and songs that have become so beloved by Whitlams fans.

Local string luminaries Julian Ferraretto, Emily Tulloch, Stephen King and Thomas Marlin will be joined by violin heroine Veronique Serret, flute and clarinet specialist Adam Page, and Sydney’s double bass supremo Jonathon Zwartz.

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Tim Freedman | Vocals / Piano Veronique Serret | Violin / Voice Julian Ferraretto | Violin Emily Tulloch | Violin Stephen King | Viola Thomas Marlin | Cello Jonathan Zwartz | Bass Adam Page | Clarinet / Alto Flute Daniel Denholm | Director / Arrangements SPECIAL EVENT PRICING Adult | $100 Concession | $95 These concerts are generously supported by

MARWOOD, VALVE, CASSOMENOS SUNDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2.30PM Celebrated British violinist Anthony Marwood returns to UKARIA for an exploration of the piano trio with two friends and master musicians: Australian Chamber Orchestra Principal Cellist Timo-Veikko Valve, and concert pianist and composer Stefan Cassomenos. They present two landmarks of the piano trio repertoire that place friendship at their core.

Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2, completed in 1944 as the Second World War raged towards its end, is dedicated to the memory of the composer’s great friend Ivan Sollertinsky. ‘He was my closest friend,’ Shostakovich wrote, ‘It will be unbelievably hard for me to live without him.’ The Trio explores both personal and national grief, juxtaposing unique textures with older musical forms to create a searing account of life lived and lost.

The program’s second half introduces another account of friendship in Beethoven’s Archduke Trio, named for the composer’s student, friend and most devoted patron, the Archduke Rudolf of Austria. The work marks the end of a fruitful decade of composition, and speaks to a humorous, affectionate friendship of mutual regard, one that would endure until the end of Beethoven’s life.

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Anthony Marwood | Violin Timo-Veikko Valve | Cello Stefan Cassomenos | Piano Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Trio in B-flat, Op. 97 Archduke

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Photo: Tianyou Zhang

NING FENG WITH ANGELA LI SUNDAY 6 DECEMBER 2.30PM ‘It will be an incredible journey to witness the glory of the violin!’

– Ning Feng Our 2026 season closes with a program to entice the discerning ear. Six exquisite violins crafted by luthiers of the Golden Period – Stradivari, Amati, Guadagnini, Rugeri and Guarneri del Gesù – will be presented in a succession of virtuosic works. These instruments, belonging to a private collector, represent just over a century of unrivalled craftsmanship, with this concert providing a rare listening experience.

Who better to showcase these instruments than internationally-acclaimed violinist Ning Feng, who brings his ‘innate musicality’ and ‘stunning virtuosity’ to the endeavour.

Based in Berlin, where he is Violin Professor at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule, Feng is a regular recitalist at Wigmore Hall, and names Nelson Goerner, Daniel Müller-Schott and Edgar Moreau among his chamber music partners.

At UKARIA, Feng will collaborate with Melbourne-based pianist Angela Li on eight works that explore the unique characteristics of these magnificent instruments.

Ning Feng | Violin Angela Li | Piano Violin: Nicolò Amati, 1665 Charles Gounod / Johann Sebastian Bach Ave Maria Richard Strauss Morgen! Op. 27, No. 4 Violin: Francesco Rugeri, 1694 Fritz Kreisler Marche miniature viennoise Violin: Antonio Stradivari, 1699, Crespi Franz Liszt Consolation Violin: Antonio Stradivari, 1712, Hrimali Johann Sebastian Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV 1004 Violin: Guarneri del Gesù, 1730 Igor Frolov Concert Fantasy on themes from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess Violin: Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, 1777 Arvo Pärt Fratres Violins: Antonio Stradivari, 1699 and 1712 Tan Dun Hero Sonata This concert is presented in association with

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UKARIA at sunset, Claudio Raschella Ariadne Greif, Chamberfest 25, Claudio Raschella Summer garden, Randy Larcombe Audience at Cédric Tiberghien, March 2026, Ben Nicholls Makoto Ozone, February 2026, Ben Nicholls Nobuntu with Academy Voices, June 2025, Claudio Raschella

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CONDITIONS OF SALE All sales are non-refundable once the order has been finalised, except as required by law, or as outlined in the Live Performance Australia Ticketing Code of Practice (if an event is cancelled, rescheduled or significantly relocated).

TRANSFERS AND CREDITS Tickets are transferable to family or friends if you’re unable to attend – we do not require a name change, so they can just quote your booking name at the door.

Requests for credit must be made by email or phone at least 14 days before the date of the event – this includes concert tickets, bus service bookings, meals and light meals.

REFUNDS We do not offer refunds except as required by law, or as outlined in the Live Performance Australia Ticketing Code of Practice (if an event is cancelled, rescheduled, or significantly re-located).

To view UKARIA’s full Terms and Conditions, please visit www.ukaria.com/tcs

BEFORE YOU VISIT

AT THE VENUE

EASY-ACCESS SEATING

PARKING AT UKARIA

If you require easy-access seating, please let our team know at least one week prior by phoning the office on (08) 8227 1277. Accessible seats are located on the ground floor of the auditorium.

While there is ample parking available on site, please take care when parking close to other vehicles. Please use the carpark markers as your guide, and be considerate of fellow patrons by not parking across multiple spaces.

Please note that due to the small size of UKARIA’s auditorium, we can only offer limited accessibility seating.

If you book with a larger group, we would be grateful if able-bodied members of your group would consider sitting in the row behind so that our team can accommodate as many mobility-impaired patrons as possible.

SEATING

GETTING TO UKARIA

We welcome photography inside the main hall before or after the concert, or at interval if applicable. During performances, all unauthorised photography and recording of the artists is strictly prohibited.

BUS SERVICE The cost of a bus ticket is a flat fee of $22 return for each day, and we do not offer a reduced price for one-way travel. If you arrive after the departure time and miss the bus, your concert and bus ticket are non-refundable.

Tickets for the bus service will be taken off sale at 5.00pm on the Wednesday prior to the concert date.

All seating is General Admission (there is not a bad seat in the house!) and doors to the concert hall usually open thirty minutes prior to the concert start time.

FILMING AND PHOTOGRAPHY

EXTERNAL FOOD AND DRINK To abide by SA Health regulations, consumption of food and drink that has not been purchased on our premises is not permissible.

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For more information, please visit www.ukaria.com/busservice

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The 2026 Season is proudly presented by UKARIA.

STAFF

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Alison Beare | Chief Executive Officer

Ulrike Klein AO | Founder

Emma van Lierop | General Manager, Operations

Rob Brookman AM | Chair

Liam Taylor | Venue and Production Manager

Colin Cornish AM

Céline Rittner | Food and Beverage Manager

Rod Cornish

Tahlia Lamey | Senior Communications Coordinator

Amanda Harkness

Ben Nicholls | Senior Communications and Programming Coordinator

Sam Saunders

John Carter | Facilities Manager

Mathew Trinca AM

Vernon Schulz | Bookkeeper

Mary Vallentine AO

2026 SEASON BROCHURE CREDITS

UKARIA FOUNDATION BOARD

Concert descriptions | Brigid Coleridge, Ben Nicholls and Tahlia Lamey

David McKee AO | Chair Susanna Anderson James Lake Diana McLaurin AM Kirsty Roderick

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Design | Orange Fridge Photography | Cover and inside cover by Randy Larcombe Season Partner

EMBRACING THE LIFE FORCE OF NATURE. FROM SEED TO SKIN. FROM OUR FARM TO YOU.

Australian Farm Grown since 1985

Proudly supporting UKARIA

UKARIA Cultural Centre 119 Williams Road, Mount Barker Summit SA 5251 Australia UKARIA Head Office & Postal 911, Level 9, 147 Pirie Street Adelaide SA 5000 Australia P +61 8 8227 1277 E info@ukaria.com www.ukaria.com