Founded by Carl Crossin in 2002, the Elder Conservatorium Chorale draws its membership from the Elder Conservatorium, the greater Adelaide University student body and from the wider community. 

The Chorale presents a variety of public performances each year with programs that include a wide range of unaccompanied choral music, as well as major choral/orchestral works in collaboration withthe Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra.

Such collaborations have included Beethoven’s Symphony No 9, Britten’s War Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s oratorios Israel in Egypt and Messiah, Bach’s Johannes Passion and Matthäus Passion, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time and Requiems by Brahms, Verdi, Mozart, Fauré and Duruflé, as well as contemporary works such as .  Ian Grandage’s ANZAC memorial work Towards First Light and Eric Whitacre’s powerful The Sacred Veil.

The Chorale has also performed to critical acclaim at national conferences of the Australian National Choral Association and the Australian Society for Music Education.

Highlights of 2025 included a performance in St. Peter’s Cathedral North Adelaide, of Maurice Durufle’s Requiem Op. 47 with the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carl Crossin and an intensive residency and closing concert with ensemble coach Timothy Wayne-Wright – ex-member of The Kings Singers and international ensemble coach.

The current year (2026) has included a collaboration with Adelaide’s Graduate Singers (under the direction of Karl Geiger)in Semester 1, while the second half of the year features concerts in both Adelaide and Sydney in collaboration with Sydney Conservatorium Chamber Choir (conductor, Paul Stanhope), performance as part of the Kodaly National Conference and the South Australian Honour Choir’s Voices of Adelaide weekend in September; and the continuation of Chorale’s much loved Christmas concerts.