Applications are now open for Ensemble Offspring’s 2017 Hatched Academy, an intensive music program aimed at providing practical experience to emerging innovative young Australian performers and composers. Ensemble Offspring is looking for composers and performers under 30 with a passion for the ‘sonic weird and wonderful’. Designed to provide practical experience, the Academy will equip artists…
Ensemble Offspring is turning 20 this year and is celebrating with a double concert they have called Future Retro. Ensemble Offspring started in 1995 as a handful of musicians from the Sydney Conservatorium. Two decades and hundreds of premieres later, Sydney’s foremost new music ensemble is still pushing boundaries and breaking rules much to the delights…
In 2015, Ensemble Offspring is offering a rare opportunity to two composers and two performers to become a part of their mentoring programme, Hatched Academy. Designed to provide first-hand experience to emerging Australian artists, the programme draws on the skills and expertise of the Ensemble’s Artistic Directors, Damien Ricketson and Claire Edwardes, representing the perspectives…