Featuring four festival debuts and returning favourites the 2025 Coriole Music Festival will celebrate 25 years of one of Australia’s most loved chamber music festivals spanning three beautiful concerts and a showcase of the Fleurieu Peninsula’s finest food and wine over two days.
Coriole Music Festival Artistic Director and acclaimed soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, Simon Cobcroft has announced a line-up of internationally acclaimed musicians and festival favourites to mark his final program as Artistic Director and the 25th anniversary of the festival.
The 2025 festival will celebrate the world’s best chamber music, artist talks and South Australia’s finest food and wine in the spectacular surrounds of Coriole Vineyards, McLaren Vale on Saturday 17 May and Sunday 18 May 2025.
For the 2025 Coriole Music Festival Simon has curated a program exploring musical crossroads across three concerts including the music of Maurice Ravel, Richard Strauss, Felix Mendelssohn, Bela Bartok, Johannes Brahms and the Australian premiere of three of Unsuk Chin’s Piano Études.
The festival will also feature the world premiere of a Sonata for Cello and Piano by legendary Australian composer, Richard Mills, performed by Simon Cobcroft and Anna Goldsworthy.
“I am delighted to present a gathering of internationally lauded musicians, some making their Coriole Music Festival debut, and other familiar faces returning”, Simon Cobroft said.
“Much of the music programmed this year explores the crossroads of folk art and composed music, of the magical and the real, and of the sacred and the profane, offering a wildly contrasting collection of glittering masterworks.”
The 2025 festival boasts an incredible line-up including the Australian debut of celebrated British/Malaysian piano virtuoso, Mei Yi Foo. Also making their debut appearances in 2025 are the superb British/Australian flautist Joshua Batty, the exquisite Australian mezzo-soprano, Victoria Lambourn and acclaimed Australian clarinettist, Philip Arkinstall.
2025 will also welcome Coriole Music Festival favourites back to the stage including beloved Australian soprano Lorina Gore, young Australian violist Justin Julian, violinist Elizabeth Layton, the ever-popular Lyrebird Piano Trio and pianist, author and former festival Artistic Director, Anna Goldsworthy.
For Simon Cobcroft the program is testament to the festival’s reputation as a world-class chamber event.
“The program has truly assembled the best chamber musicians from not only Australia, but around the world. Coriole Music Festival has cemented itself alongside the greatest chamber music events in the world and we can’t wait to mark 25 years in 2025”, he said.
