Summer Concerts | Friday Folk & Originals

Experience our retreat artists and visiting guest acts in concert at Eudlo Hall! Tickets $15-$45, early bird $35.  

Early Bird tickets end 25 December 2024. What a perfect Christmas present!  Book now to reserve your seat online.  You can select your seat!  A selection of drinks at the concert bar, and delicious interval refreshments are available for purchase. 

Concert 1:  Friday 10 January 7pm Folk & Originals featuring Headline Act Ilse de Ziah (Irish-Australian cellist and composer) with Ian Date (guitar)

Our Concert Program: 

Support Act: Emily Winter (cello, UQ School of Music Graduate 2024) & Lisa Pirlo ((pianist) performing Greenaway’s Poems I-III with artist poetry reading. 
Faculty Performances:
- Zoe Knighton (Mark Summers’ Julie-O)
- Julia Janiszewski vc1 & Louise King vc2 (DSQ Woodworks ar. for two cellos by Julia Janiszewski 
- Faculty Quintet featuring Ilse de Ziah, Zoe Knighton, Louise King, Julia Janiszewski, Lisa Pirlo (piano) (The Parting Glass arr. Jessica Wells, rescored by Sophie van Dijk, commissioned by Louise King)
INTERVAL
Headline Act featuring Ilse de Ziah (cello) & Ian Date (guitar) performing original music from their debut album ‘Here & There’

ABOUT SUMMER CONCERTS

Viva la Cello!  Our third Summer Concerts 2025 will be held at Eudlo Hall from 10-12 January, presenting three concerts for local and visiting audiences that celebrate the diversity and beauty of the cello featuring guest artists from Cork, Ireland, Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia and Budapest, Hungary.  

Expect innovation, excitement, surprise, passion and remarkable music fit for any world stage. Curated by a cellist, for cello lovers, The vision? Cello utopia!

This is a brave and bold summer concert series, unique to Australia. Concerts that shine a spotlight on the cello, and provide a regional stage for our homegrown and international guest artists who cross musical boundaries, innovate and inspire audiences. Summer Concerts that catapult our next gen of Australian cellists to a sublime level of artistic freedom. 

2025 Summer Concerts will feature special guest artists in concert, performing three diverse programs. 

• Friday 10 Jan 7pm, Folk and Originals
• Saturday 11 Jan 7pm, Baroque and Tango
• Sunday 12 Jan 3:30pm Classical Cellissimo!

Friday headline artists are Irish-Australian folk artist and composer, Ilse de Ziah with Ian Date on guitar, performing original music from their debut album ‘Here & There’, a melody-drenched album of sea, sand, love, loss, and hope. Composed and recorded in both Ireland and Australia, this album features classy compositions, uplifting vibes, and virtuosic improvisations.

Saturday's headline act is Brisbane-based Tango Enigmatico fresh from a micro-tour of the Sunshine Coast region, who specialise in Argentine Nuevo Tango featuring Flora Wong violin, Cara Tran piano, with Chloe Williamson on double bass. This concert will also feature Zoe Knighton, Flinders Quartet from Melbourne with Louise King, Cello Dreaming and Retreat Artists in solos, duos and trio performances.

Sunday’s afternoon concert will feature international master concert cellists Gyorgy Deri, Senior Lecturer Cello QCGU, Zoe Knighton and Louise King in a program of classical favourites by Frank Bridge, Popper, Schumann and Bartok. Emerging artists will perform works by Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Bach and Saint-Saens and the Retreat Cello Choir will perform works by Mozart, Gerschwin, Coldplay and Lady Gaga.