Ensemble Offspring’s Lone Hemispheres Features Two World Premieres

Ensemble Offspring’s Lone Hemispheres Features Two World Premieres

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…

Three World Premieres From Ensemble Offspring In ‘Spectral Tech’

Three World Premieres From Ensemble Offspring In ‘Spectral Tech’

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…

Ensemble Offspring Showcases 2017 ‘Hatchlings’

Ensemble Offspring Showcases 2017 ‘Hatchlings’

Ensemble Offspring’s springboard for emerging composers Hatched Academy, presents the works of four successful composers to enter their 2017 training programme. These four successful ‘Hatchlings’ were chosen from over 60 applications. They are Ciaran Frame (NSW composer), Luke Carbon (VIC clarinet + sax), Jasmin Leung (QLD composer) and Kieran Welch (QLD viola). The concert will feature the premieres…