Ensemble Offspring's 'Trussed' cellist Blair Harris alongside Artistic Director Claire Edwardes and 2021 Hatched Associate Artist Will Harris, in works by iconic female composers Caroline Shaw, Kaija Saariaho and Karen Tanaka, a flower-pot classic by Frederic Rzewski and works celebrating low strings by Luke Styles and Alfred Schittke.
A relaxed and sociable and a chance to listen and learn from some of the most inspiring woman artists in the country!
Claire Edwardes teams up with young drummer Chloe Kim for an evening of percussive rhythms and new works by a smashing line up of Australian female composers. The live performances will be followed by a Keychange panel.
Ensemble Offspring presents 'The Surge', three world premieres included in a multi-layered feast of music, ideas, lessons from the past and – with a little luck – hope for the decade ahead!
Ensemble Offspring presents Slipstream, in the Seymour Nights series, joining forces on a new work by Perth composer Simon Charles commissioned last year as part of our Hatched HOME Academy in 2020, providing new opportunities for artists during COVID. Also in the line- up is Bitter Springs Creek 2014 by Hollis Taylor and Jon Rose...
Ensemble Offspring’s core members Claire Edwardes (marimba) and Jason Noble (bass clarinet) team up with acclaimed harpist Emily Granger in Blue Silence, an online concert to unearth masterpieces from the depths of living musical imagination.
Hear the next generation of gifted composers at Ensemble Offspring's Hatched Academy concert.
In the third Offspring for All digital concert, Ensemble Offspring honours the lives of three monumental composers lost to us in 2021 with performances of six works from the catalogues of musical revolutionaries Louis Andriessen, Frederic Rzewski and Ian Shanahan.
Sydney composer Kate Reid has written a new piece, Solander: A Song Cycle which will be premiered by the Sydney Chamber Choir conducted by Sam Allchurch with narrator John Gaden and percussionist Claire Edwardes on vibraphone, this weekend.
Sydney’s musical mavericks Ensemble Offspring present Time as Revelator, a one-night-only performance in Carriageworks’ stunning industrial arts precinct.
Time as Revelator celebrates the power of the beat, featuring a program of original works for instrumental chamber combinations from some of the most exciting local and international composers.
Incredible Floridas is Ensemble Offspring's June concert fearturing Richard Meale’s homage to the surrealist poetry of Arthur Rimbaud.
The Song Company joined by Ensemble Offspring and former director Roland Peelman, celebrates 40 years with a new commission by Ross Edwards.