Ensemble Offspring presents a showcase of the sheer virtuosity of three of its core musicians in Lone Hemispheres, an evening of works inspired by the uncompromising power and aural intensity of a true revolutionary, Iannis Xenakis, architect, mathematician and composer. His music is fiendishly difficult, yet described as “joyously elemental music which turns collections of pitches and rhythms…
Joy – Farrenc and Beethoven Omega Ensemble, City Recital Hall, 25 September, 2018 Schubert’s exquisite-single movement trio piece known as Notturno in E flat major D 897 was the curtain raiser to Omega Ensemble’s Joy which featured as well, music by Beethoven, Louise Farrenc and Kats-Chernin. The music might have matched the twilight outside, but…
Shards of sound and jagged rhythms envelop your ears and tickle your feet as Ensemble Offspring brings to life the wild and uncompromising squiggles of local composers Alex Pozniak, Tristan Coelho and Holly Harrison. With sound worlds so distinctive, Ensemble Offspring needed to coin a new name for their music, and they called it Spectral…