Ensemble Offspring has released a series of videos entitled Lone Hemispheres: The Solo Sessions as one of its responses to music-making in the COVID era. Sponsored by a COVID grant from the City of Sydney, Many months in the making, our series of 12 videos were recorded at Baker Street Studios, highlighting modern masterpieces alongside…
Sydney’s Ensemble Offspring celebrates its 25th anniversary with Songbirds, a new album of contemporary Australian music that celebrates birds – nature’s own composers. Released on the ABC Classic label, Ensemble Offspring’s new album, Songbirds, is a beguiling collection of chamber works for flute, clarinet and vibraphone inspired by butcherbirds, blackbirds, lorikeets and leafcutter ants, frogs…
Melbourne Digital Concert Hall presents Birdsong at Dusk, a livestreamed performance by members of Ensemble Offspring in an intimate trio setting bringing together an array of original chamber works by Australian composers, as breath-taking as a lyrebird’s tail. Featuring Claire Edwardes on percussion, (vibraphone and waterphone), Jason Noble playing clarinet/bass clarinet and Lamorna Nightingale playing flute/alto…