Welcome - Coriole Music Festival

16–17 May 2026

A weekend of fine chamber music

Coriole Vineyards, McLaren Vale

Program

View the Coriole Music Festival Program for 2026 - held on the weekend of 16 - 17 May

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The Experience

All about Coriole Music Festival, what the history is and why we love having your company

About the Festival

Coriole Music Festival 2026

The next Coriole Music Festival will be held on 16–17 May 2026, in McLaren Vale, South Australia. Subscribe to our e-news to stay in touch!

Support us

Support us through a tax deductible donation, through our not-for-profit producing association, the McLaren Vale Music Festivals Association Inc. Read all about our 2026 commissions, or proceed directly to the donation form by following this link. Donations are used to ensure our financial sustainability through a strong corpus, keep ticket prices equitable, and engage composers to new commissions whenever we can. Thank you for your support!

You can view an archive of previous festivals, and view the photos in our gallery.

Reviews

20 May 2025: Limelight: Coriole Music Festival 2025 – Coriole celebrates its silver anniversary with two days of musical gold. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

In a year that sees the Coriole Music Festival celebrate its silver jubilee and mark the final year of Simon Cobcroft’s term as Artistic Director, the event’s programming and the excellence of performances reached new heights. read more

If one is really lucky, a performance can nail it all down through sheer might, and this happened more than once... One simply couldn’t get enough of their playing... read more

Artistic Director Simon Cobcroft further consolidates his prowess with this year’s festival, titled To Find a Way Home. It brought together a wide and varied collection of music – from composers, familiar and less so – with works special place to the festival’s local, interstate and overseas performers.... read more

Cobcroft has devised a musical programme which builds upon the festival’s already staunch foundations. Coriole must be one of the best boutique festivals in the country... read more

When Coriole Music Festival resumed in 2021 and 2022 under Anna Goldsworthy’s astute stewardship, it felt as if some sort of human victory had been won. Now under Cobcroft it feels doubly so. We can only look forward to more wonderful experiences next year and the following under his direction... read more

Top photo on this page from by Jamois.

All photos on this site by Louise Bagger Photography, Sam Roberts, Frank Lynch or Photos by Jamois from the 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 Coriole Music Festivals.