UKARIA Cultural Centre in the Adelaide Hills hosts Chamberfest Concert Four: The Mighty and Mundane on 4 October 2026, a 90-minute program led by soprano Siobhan Stagg featuring works by Bach, Poulenc, and Chausson alongside the premiere of Anne Cawrse's Snapshots of Love and Life, a seven-movement song cycle setting poetry by Adelaide writer Anna Goldsworthy. Stagg performs with soprano Rachel Fenlon, mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston, pianist Jonathan Ware, and the chamber ensemble Quatuor Agate, presenting Australian works by Andrew Ford, David Hirschfelder, and John Rodgers plus Ukrainian composer Anna Korsun's Last Flight. Tickets $80 adults, $75 concession, $40 under-40s.

Chamberfest returns to UKARIA Cultural Centre on 4 October 2026 with a concert that spans centuries and continents without losing its thread. Concert Four, titled The Mighty and Mundane, runs 90 minutes and is led by soprano Siobhan Stagg, whose international career has made her one of the more compelling voices to bring home to the Adelaide Hills stage.

The program opens with Bach, his Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit transcribed for four-hand piano, a quietly monumental way to begin. From there it moves through Francis Poulenc's Sonata for Four Hands and Chausson's La Chanson perpétuelle, works chosen for their emotional range as much as their historical spread.

The centrepiece is a premiere: Anne Cawrse's Snapshots of Love and Life, a seven-movement song cycle set to poetry by Adelaide's own Anna Goldsworthy. The piece looks at nontraditional approaches to love and relationships within contemporary family life, and having a local poet's words set for this occasion gives the concert a genuine Adelaide anchor amid the international repertoire.

Stagg is joined by soprano Rachel Fenlon, mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston, pianist Jonathan Ware, and the chamber ensemble Quatuor Agate. That's a substantial line-up for a chamber program, and it reflects the ambition of the evening's design. Quatuor Agate also bring Ukrainian composer Anna Korsun's Last Flight, a work commissioned for their ECHO Rising Stars nomination and one of the more contemporary inclusions on the bill.

Rounding out the program are works by Andrew Ford, David Hirschfelder, and the late John Rodgers, several of which were originally commissioned by Katie Noonan in collaboration with the Brodsky Quartet. It's a lineage worth noting: these pieces carry a history of Australian chamber music commissioning that predates this concert by years, and hearing them alongside a brand-new Cawrse premiere gives the program a sense of continuity rather than novelty for its own sake.

UKARIA's acoustic and setting have long made it one of the more distinctive rooms in the state for this kind of intimate, text-driven programming, and a concert built around voice, four-hand piano and string quartet plays to exactly those strengths.

Tickets are $80 for adults, $75 concession, and $40 for patrons under 40, a pricing structure that keeps the door open for younger audiences to hear music of this calibre in a room built for it.

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