Concert Review: Cycles/ Australia Ensemble UNSW
The Australia Ensemble UNSW’s “Cycles” program was “a display of solid, skilful ensemble playing.”
The Australia Ensemble UNSW’s “Cycles” program was “a display of solid, skilful ensemble playing.”
Australia Ensemble is joined by guest artists soprano Sara Macliver, Andrew Barnes, bassoon, Robert Johnson, horn and Andrew Meisel, double bass in a programme entitled Thirteen ways of Looking at a Blackbird, after the poem by Wallace Steven. The concert includes the first performance of a new work for voice and ensemble by Ian Munro,…
The Australia Ensemble@UNSW presents a free lunchtime concert featuring the music of Amy Beach, America’s first successful female composer who wrote with the seasoned hand of the late Romantics. Her marvellous Flute quintet is the centrepiece for this intimate concert, with Poulenc’s quirky Sonata for clarinet and bassoon and Smetana’s Z Domoviny providing ideal bookends….