Aurora Festival 2014

Aurora Festival 2014

  The 2014 Aurora Festival is set to run from April 30th – May 3rd. Highlights this year include the April 30 opening night concert in which the centrepiece will be the world premiere of  Voyage through radiant stars by the Australian composer Brian Howard, a 60 minute work for solo saxophone and 18 musicians.  Also…

‘Bespoke for Air’: New Thoughts In Sound For Radio

‘Bespoke for Air’: New Thoughts In Sound For Radio

  Bespoke for Air is the second edition of Synergy Percussion’s annual new works micro-festival, in which they will again collaborate with four composers whom they have never worked with before. Supported by APRA and ABC Classic FM, Synergy Percussion  requested pieces that could be recorded fluently but which would also look striking live on stage. Composers James Humberstone, Kate Moore, Julian Day and Evan Mannell have…

Aurora Festival shines a new dawn in the west

Aurora Festival shines a new dawn in the west

For most of us, the sun rises in the east. For contemporary music fans, dawn happens in Sydney’s west where the aptly named Aurora Festival of Living Music launches on May 4th. Running till the 13th of May the 4th Aurora festival is one of the few arenas which gives voice to living Australian composers of contemporary chamber music. Inaugurated in 2006 by…