“Kontiki Racket”. The name alone arouses curiosity. It’s what new music performers Ensemble Offspring have christened the mini-festival of concerts, talks and mingling this weekend, which will feature three concerts, five world premieres, a panel discussion with global music makers and an industry speed dating session offering one-on-one sessions with mentors. Kontiki Racket showcases thirteen…
The Australia Piano Quartet with guest violinist Anna Da Silva Chen, performs a quartet of four works in a programme titled Liebestod. The themes of love and death run through this programme and are revealed in Wagner’s dramatic Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde. In a new arrangement by Bernard Rofe, the soloistic qualities of the…
To farewell the old year and ring in the new, the Song Company presents 12 new songs and stories, one for each month of the year. After a year traversing the globe (metaphorically of course) and discovering the musical gems hidden throughout Prague, Turkey and Italy, the Song Company’s final program will see them…