Tudor, Today And Tomorrow: Broken Consorts From Ironwood And Ensemble Offspring

Tudor, Today And Tomorrow: Broken Consorts From Ironwood And Ensemble Offspring

  Music from Tudor England meets contemporary sounds with a world premiere of a new Australian work when Ironwood and Ensemble Offspring combine a mix of old and new sounds in their Broken Consort series. Along with early music by William Lawes and Matthew Locke, the programme contains works by Mary Finsterer, Damien Ricketson and…

Concert Review: Hatched/Ensemble Offspring

Concert Review: Hatched/Ensemble Offspring

Ensemble Offspring: Hatched Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Thursday, October 30 at 8pm Callum G’Froerer, trumpet/ Jeremy Rose, saxophone/ Claire Edwardes, percussion/ Jason Noble, clarinet/ Lamorna Nightingale, flute The Hatched Academy has been a once-in-a-lifetime experience for its two inaugural ‘hatchlings’, Melbourne-based trumpeter Callum G’Froerer and composer/saxophonist Jeremy Rose. Ensemble Offspring artistic directors Claire…

Synergy Celebrates Its 40th With Reich’s ‘Drumming’

Synergy Celebrates Its 40th With Reich’s ‘Drumming’

Synergy Percussion celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2014 with a bang – they will perform Steve Reich’s incomparable Drumming during their anniversary concert. Inspired by African drumming patterns, this was the work that brought Reich major recognition in 1971. A feast for the ears, it’s so powerful and mesmerising that one critic noted  “it’s a…