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Elder Conservatorium Chorale

The Elder Conservatorium Chorale (ECC) was established at the beginning of 2002 and is conducted by Carl Crossin, who is well-known nationally as one of Australia's leading choral conductors. (Carl Crossin is a member of the permanent staff of the Conservatorium and is also Head of the Bachelor of Music Studies Program.)  The Chorale is a large chorus which rehearses once a week and which can perform either with or without the Symphony Orchestra. The 2002 concert season concluded with the Chorale and ECSO performing Mozart’s Requiem (view review), and subsequent seasons have also featured large-scale choral works.

In 2005 the Elder Conservatorium of Music entered into a new artistic collaboration with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) in order to establish the Adelaide Symphony Chorus (ASC), which is essentially the Elder Conservatorium Chorale fused with the Adelaide Chamber Singers.  In this form, as the ASC, they opened the ASO's 2005 Season with stunning performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, in the Adelaide Festival Theatre.  This relation with the ASO has been consolidated in 2006 when the Chorale performs as the ASC in the Requiem by Brahms and in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.  Through this high-level collaboration the Elder Conservatorium students who make up the Chorale and the ASC are making a major contribution to the cultural and artistic life of South Australia.