Australia’s most innovative and cutting-edge collective, Ensemble Offspring is bringing back Kontiki Racket, its vibrant 2-day festival celebrating new music, arts and culture. The festival will feature artist talks, live video installations, and exciting new performances from Ensemble Offspring and the highly acclaimed Zephyr Quartet from South Australia. The festival’s musical highlights include world premieres from…
The Australian String Quartet’s (ASQ) “Travel across time” program presented by the Sydney Mozart Society features works across the centuries by composers expressing the noblest of feelings. It begins with the Baroque sophistication of Scarlatti’s graceful sonata; Romantic lushness heightens the tenderness of Puccini’s Crisantemi; Mozart’s string quartet has charm and delicacy expressed with Classical elegance,…
The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) presents its final 2018 tour performance with a program of celebrated works by Schubert and Shostakovich, complemented by the world premiere of a work by Australian composer James Ledger, specially commissioned by the ASQ. Western Australian composer James Ledger’s revolutionary new work The Distortion Mirror adds microphones to the ASQ’s Guadagnini…