Sydney’s Ensemble Offspring celebrates its 25th anniversary with Songbirds, a new album of contemporary Australian music that celebrates birds – nature’s own composers. Released on the ABC Classic label, Ensemble Offspring’s new album, Songbirds, is a beguiling collection of chamber works for flute, clarinet and vibraphone inspired by butcherbirds, blackbirds, lorikeets and leafcutter ants, frogs…
Melbourne Digital Concert Hall presents Birdsong at Dusk, a livestreamed performance by members of Ensemble Offspring in an intimate trio setting bringing together an array of original chamber works by Australian composers, as breath-taking as a lyrebird’s tail. Featuring Claire Edwardes on percussion, (vibraphone and waterphone), Jason Noble playing clarinet/bass clarinet and Lamorna Nightingale playing flute/alto…
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra has announed a major commissioning project supporting the future of Australian music. Called 50 Fanfares, this is a multi-season initiative which will see the Sydney Symphony commission and present the world premieres of new music by 50 Australian composers. The project has been designed to represent a broad range of Australian…