The Australia Ensemble will begin its 2020 season with a powerful program, Storm and Tempest. Performing with guest artists, the ensemble will explore the tumult of stormy weather, tempestuous emotion, and the promise of new things rising from the ruins of the old. Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin channels a revolutionary spirit and the anarchy of…
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 sound patterns of the eastern Australian seaboard are always nearby the music of Ross Edwards. The Australia Ensemble’s September program The Dance of Nature includes the premiere of Ross Edwards’ new work Animisms, written for the Australia Ensemble@UNSW, celebrating the rich diversity of the natural world and dedicated to his one-time teacher, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Also a…