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…
Harpist Emily Granger performs an enchanting evening of French works by Debussy, Ravel, Satie, and more. She is joined by flautist Katie Zagorski and violist Charlotte Fetherston in Debussy’s Sonata for flute, viola and harp. Featured throughout are virtuosic arrangements. The program closes with Debussy’s Danse Sacrée et Danse Profane with Tristan Coelho at the…
Ensemble Offspring’s Lone Hemispheres features chamber musicians as soloists in works inspired by masterpieces of the European avant-garde. Performing alone yet moving within each other’s orbit, flautist Lamorna Nightingale, clarinetist Jason Noble and percussionist Claire Edwardes explore harmonious solitude in world premieres by Damien Ricketson, 2017 Noisy Women Commission recipient Elizabeth Younan and local composer,…