Long Listen: A Short Festival Teaser

Eudlo Hall Eudlo Hall, 19 Rosebed Street, Eudlo, QLD, Australia
Join us for a punchy session of short works for harp and flute with two of the world’s most dynamic and engaging artists. Up close and personal, this is music making at it’s best. Perfect for your lunchbox listen.

Long Listen: Spin Bird

Eudlo Hall Eudlo Hall, 19 Rosebed Street, Eudlo, QLD, Australia
Join us for a punchy session of short works for harp and flute with two of the world’s most dynamic and engaging artists. Up close and personal, this is music making at it’s best. Perfect for your lunchbox listen.
Event Series Blood Lore

Omega Ensemble: Blood Lore

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Hailed as “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart”, Grammy Award-winning composer Missy Mazzoli’s music has been praised for her “apocalyptic imagination”. Written for amplified viola and electronics, Tooth and Nail is is made up almost entirely of viola samples, allowing the live viola to play in counterpoint with its own sound. Characterised by…
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Sydney Chamber Opera: earth.voice.body

Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sydney Chamber Opera returns with a triple bill of interlinking monodramas. First up, Mitchell Riley stars in The Shape of the Earth. Based on Patrick White’s novel Voss, it’s composed by Jack Symonds and Pierce Wilcox. Then comes Poulenc’s La voix humaine performed by Celeste Lazarenko. And finally, Quatre instants,…
Event Series Blood Lore

Omega Ensemble: Blood Lore

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Hailed as “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart”, Grammy Award-winning composer Missy Mazzoli’s music has been praised for her “apocalyptic imagination”. Written for amplified viola and electronics, Tooth and Nail is is made up almost entirely of viola samples, allowing the live viola to play in counterpoint with its own sound. Characterised by…

Merrigong Theatre Company: Visions of Nar

Wollongong Town Hall Corner of Crown St & Kembla St, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Daughter of the Seas (ABC Jazz/Earshift Music) is the debut album from Visions of Nar, a collaboration between Armenian pianist Zela Margossian and Australian saxophonist Jeremy Rose. The album features the ancient sounds of tabla player Bobby Singh, electric soundscapes of guitarist Hilary Geddes and Kurdish percussionist Adem Yilmaz. The 11 original…

The Base: Visions of Nar

The Base 3 Turdor Street, Newcastle West, NSW, Australia
Daughter of the Seas (ABC Jazz/Earshift Music) is the debut album from Visions of Nar, a collaboration between Armenian pianist Zela Margossian and Australian saxophonist Jeremy Rose. The album features the ancient sounds of tabla player Bobby Singh, electric soundscapes of guitarist Hilary Geddes and Kurdish percussionist Adem Yilmaz. The 11 original…
Event Series Dancing In The Moonlight

Sydney Opera House: Dancing In The Moonlight

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Australia’s contemporary music champions HOURGLASS again bring you fresh, lively, and brilliant chamber works by twentieth century women composers from around the globe, as far as the USA, France, and Poland, and new work from home. Internationally celebrated pianist Anna Rutkowska and elite Sydney flautist Ewa Kowalski play luscious staples…

Musica Viva Australia: Vision String Quartet

Perth Concert Hall 5 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
An Australian debut for Vision String Quartet – a crack ensemble from Berlin who performs from memory, offering a deeper, more immersive experience for audiences. The conductor Jeffrey Tate once described the string quartet as ‘the most perfect expression of human behavior’. Composers from Haydn to Adès have reveled in this…
Event Series Dancing In The Moonlight

Sydney Opera House: Dancing In The Moonlight

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Australia’s contemporary music champions HOURGLASS again bring you fresh, lively, and brilliant chamber works by twentieth century women composers from around the globe, as far as the USA, France, and Poland, and new work from home. Internationally celebrated pianist Anna Rutkowska and elite Sydney flautist Ewa Kowalski play luscious staples…
Editor's Choice

Sydney Chamber Opera: earth.voice.body

Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sydney Chamber Opera returns with a triple bill of interlinking monodramas. First up, Mitchell Riley stars in The Shape of the Earth. Based on Patrick White’s novel Voss, it’s composed by Jack Symonds and Pierce Wilcox. Then comes Poulenc’s La voix humaine performed by Celeste Lazarenko. And finally, Quatre instants,…
Event Series Blood Lore

Omega Ensemble: Blood Lore

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Hailed as “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart”, Grammy Award-winning composer Missy Mazzoli’s music has been praised for her “apocalyptic imagination”. Written for amplified viola and electronics, Tooth and Nail is is made up almost entirely of viola samples, allowing the live viola to play in counterpoint with its own sound. Characterised by…

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