Ensemble Offspring’s Kontiki Racket Is Back!

Ensemble Offspring’s Kontiki Racket Is Back!

  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…

Ensemble Offspring Celebrates A Decade of ‘Sizzle’

Ensemble Offspring Celebrates A Decade of ‘Sizzle’

From art music to pop and everything in-between, Ensemble Offspring’s Sizzle returns for its 10th year of free, family-friendly aural delights and adventures. This year, Ensemble Offspring is joined by a school concert band, a remount of some of the songs of Seven Stories featuring Jodi Phillis of The Clouds, our Hatched Academy Associate Artist Henry Justo on viola…

Halcyon’s ‘Shining Shores’ Celebrates Two Decades Of New Music

Halcyon’s ‘Shining Shores’ Celebrates Two Decades Of New Music

Celebrating 20 years of performing, promoting, recording and curating new music, Halcyon’s last program for 2018, Shining Shores, collects pieces inspired by the natural elements of water and moonlight. Taking time to reflect on the world around us, we wander beside the flowing Seine in Rosalind Page’s Apollinairesongs, are transfixed by the life in rockpools…