Chamber Music Adelaide Announces the Return of ON THE TERRACE

Chamber Music Adelaide (CMA) has announced the return of its award-winning free event, On the Terrace in November 2017.

What better way to spend a summery Sunday in November than strolling between the Art Gallery of South Australia, South Australian Museum, State Library of South Australia and the Migration Museum, listening to chamber musicians in solos, duos, trios and quartets, perform a series of short recitals, between 11am and 4pm on Sunday 12 November.

Chamber Music Adelaide Chair Cheryl Pickering said she was thrilled On the Terrace won the 2016 Adelaide Critics' Circle Award/Independent Arts Foundation Innovation Award for its free event last year and was delighted that the Migration Museum joins the collaboration with CMA in 2017.

"Last year audiences were drawn to the North Terrace cultural boulevarde on a rainy Sunday in October where they were treated to beautiful music on a range of period and contemporary instruments, in glorious surrounds", said M. Pickering. She added that On the Terrace is a free event that can be enjoyed by families of all ages, including wheelchair users and blind and vision-impaired patrons.

"This year, with the help of headsets and professional audio describers from Access2Arts, blind and vision-impaired patrons will have a context in which the music is being performed, how it responds to or is influenced by the surrounds", M. Pickering said.

To book a place and headsets for the Touch Tours blind and vision-impaired patrons should visit Access2Arts.

Chamber Music Adelaide is proud to celebrate Adelaide's designation as a UNESCO City of Music. Adelaide joins 115 other cities in 54 countries as part of UNESCO's Creative Cities Network. #ADLCityOfMusic

Performers for On the Terrace include:

• Soundstream's Gabriella Smart on synthesiser, saxophonist Derek Pascoe and double bass player John Aue, improvising in response to the Australian content in the Elder Wing of Art Gallery of South Australia.
• At the Migration Museum, Various People Inc's Philip Griffin/oud, Nawres al Freh/ joza tarhu (Arabic violin) and Cheryl Pickering/mezzo soprano perform Arabic and Turkish classical and folk music in a musical gesture to those who've come to South Australia from the lands of the Middle East.
• The Firm presents the young pianist Michael Ierace playing works by Bach, Greig, Gershwin and South Australian composers, Anne Cawrse and Raymond Chapman Smith, at Treasures Wall at the Library.
• Adelaide Baroque's Emma Horwood/voice, Anne Whelan/harpsichord, Graham Strahle/viola da gamba and Jayne Varnish/recorders play Shakespeare's London, a program of 16th & 17th century songs, at the South Australian Museum.

Other performers include Kegelstatt Ensemble (Conversations by Australian composer Robert Davidson), Ensemble Galante (gems of the Italian Baroque by Vivaldi and Scarlatti), and Recitals Australia is presenting several young classical musicians, whose heritage harks from Australia, Cambodia, Poland, Iran, Denmark and Greece performing works from Africa, Brazil and Italy.

On the Terrace 2017 is supported by Australia Council for the Arts, City of Adelaide and Arts South Australia. For more information please visit Chamber Music Adelaide-On the Terrace

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