The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra has launched its 2015 season with an exciting mix of classics and quirky moderns alike, together with an impressive number of international guests.

South Australians can look forward to the likes of American soprano Susan Brewer, violinist Sarah Chang, conductors Vasily Petrenko and Yan Pascal Tortelier and pianists Benjamin Grosvenor and Garrick Ohlsson. “To attract performers of this quality is a real coup and testament to the quality, versatility and reputation of the ASO”, says Managing Director Vincent Ciccarello.

Fans of the orchestra can expect to hear a good deal of emotive music in 2015 with pieces from late Romantic greats Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler and the birthday boy Sibelius, all set to be performed as part of the Great Classics Series. Christine Brewer will sing Strauss’ Four Last Songs (the work with which she recently delighted Sydney audiences), while other promising collaborations include that of American pianist Garrick Ohlsson and the ASO’s own Chief Conductor Arvo Volmer. Ohlsson will play Brahms’ epic First Piano Concerto.

Also featuring in this series will be pianist Simon Trpčeski with leading Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko in a program named Russian Greats, which will include Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1 and Rachmaninov’s...