featuring the world premiere of ‘new work tbc’ by Sarah Elise Thompson for countertenor and piano

Close-Up: Max Riebl – from Bach to Elvis Presley and back!

With a voice that’s described as “exquisite” (Limelight Magazine) and “luminous” (The Australian), Melbourne-based countertenor Max Riebl joins Associate Artistic Director Francis Greep to reinvent the recital experience. This intimate program weaves effortlessly between Bach’s Lutheran cantatas, mid-20th-century classics from Elvis, and a new work by Sarah Elise Thompson.


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featuring the world premiere of ‘new work tbc’ by Sarah Elise Thompson for countertenor and piano

Close-Up: Max Riebl – from Bach to Elvis Presley and back!

With a voice that’s described as “exquisite” (Limelight Magazine) and “luminous” (The Australian), Melbourne-based countertenor Max Riebl joins Associate Artistic Director Francis Greep to reinvent the recital experience. This intimate program weaves effortlessly between Bach’s Lutheran cantatas, mid-20th-century classics from Elvis, and a new work by Sarah Elise Thompson.


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featuring the world premiere of ‘new work tbc’ by Sarah Elise Thompson for countertenor and piano

Close-Up: Max Riebl – from Bach to Elvis Presley and back!

With a voice that’s described as “exquisite” (Limelight Magazine) and “luminous” (The Australian), Melbourne-based countertenor Max Riebl joins Associate Artistic Director Francis Greep to reinvent the recital experience. This intimate program weaves effortlessly between Bach’s Lutheran cantatas, mid-20th-century classics from Elvis, and a new work by Sarah Elise Thompson.


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featuring the world premiere of ‘new work tbc’ by Sarah Elise Thompson for countertenor and piano

Close-Up: Max Riebl – from Bach to Elvis Presley and back!

With a voice that’s described as “exquisite” (Limelight Magazine) and “luminous” (The Australian), Melbourne-based countertenor Max Riebl joins Associate Artistic Director Francis Greep to reinvent the recital experience. This intimate program weaves effortlessly between Bach’s Lutheran cantatas, mid-20th-century classics from Elvis, and a new work by Sarah Elise Thompson.


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featuring the world premiere of Sarah Elise Thompson’s ‘Retreat’ for oboe and organ

Bowral Autumn Music Festival - Emerging Artists 
Organist Hamish Wagstaff and Oboist Mikaela Sukkar

Kindly sponsored by Berrima District Music Group

J.S. Bach - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Anna Amalia - Sonata in F major

D. Buxtehude - Prelude in C BuxWV 137

Jeanne Demessieux - Rorate Caeli and Attende Domine
C.Franck - Cantabile in B major

B. Britten - 6 Metamorphoses After Ovid
Sarah Elise Thompson - 'Retreat'  World Premiere commission for BAMF 2020 (Australian work)

​We welcome our talented emerging artists Mikaela Sukkar, oboist with the Australian Youth Orchestra, and Hamish Wagstaff, Assistant Organist and Conductor at Christ Church St Lawrence. Their beautiful program includes music from the rarely hear 18th century German Princess Anna Amalia and a new composition, written especially for them by fellow Sydney Conservatorium of Music graduate Sarah Elise Thompson.

featuring the world premiere of Sarah Elise Thompson’s ‘striking out’ for pierrot ensemble.

Hear new Australian works by the mentors who have been working with our team of novice composers, at the end of their week of workshops and masterclasses.

Hatched Academy is our intensive performance and composition mentoring program designed to provide practical experience to the next generation of innovative young Australian artists. Hatched Academy participants are our artistic and cultural leaders of the future.

PERFORMANCE
Friday 13 December
ESCAC, Darlinghurst
FREE

PERFORMERS
Claire Edwardes (Artistic Director/percussion)
Henry Justo (viola)
Blair Harris (cello)
Lamorna Nightingale (flute)
Jason Noble (clarinet)

COMPOSERS
Sarah Elise Thompson (Sydney)
Dr Steve Barry (Sydney)
Lisa Cheney (Melbourne)
Thomas Misson (Hobart)
Angus Davison (Sydney)
Lewis Ingham (Melbourne)

PROGRAM
Sarah Elise Thompson - Striking Out 5’
Dr Steve Barry - Microsonata 8’
Angus Davison - Warhol in The Tenderloin 7’
Lisa Cheney - The Secrets of Shadows 6’
Tom Misson - Adieu 9’
Lewis Ingham - Jovian Glimpses 9.5’

MENTORS
Kate Neal (AUS)
Ken Thomson (US)

featuring the premiere of Sarah Elise Thompson’s ‘i’ll meet you there’ (2019) - for bass trombone and piano

SPIRAL and ARTISTS FROM MANY CULTURES

~featuring ‘Bixler 225’ - Sarah Elise Thompson

FREE EVENT

An after work wind-down: The hypnotic flow of new music sensation, SPIRAL, in the company of many enthralling Festival artists.

On the banks of the Parramatta River, this concert event showcases SPIRAL, Sydney’s latest new music sensation, in collaboration with culturally diverse artists from Western Sydney.

Borrowing from the minimalist tradition of Philip Glass, the program features compositions for flute, saxophone, synthesiser, electronic piano, guitar, double bass and electric bass, inspired by the perpetual motion of the river. Their hypnotic, cyclical music aims to bring the audience into "a trance-like state, leading us out of our bodies, and swirling into a higher consciousness."

Guest Musicians:

Maharshi Raval - Indian Tabla

Maharshi is an awarding winning and internationally acclaimed tabla player from Benaras Gharana (school) living in Sydney. Maharshi is a student of Late Pt. Nandan Mehta who was a disciple of the legend of Benaras Gharana Late Pt. Shri Kishen Maharaj and has been learning for the last 25 years at Saptak School of Music in Ahmedabad.

Shohrat Tursun - Dutar and vocals

Shohrat is a master dutar player, singer and actor. He is an ambassador of Uyghur culture and music and has appeared in concerts in Japan, China, USA and Germany. He has also recorded a CD in Japan.

Presented by City of Parramatta

~ featuring ‘Bixler 225’ - Sarah Elise Thompson

Sample Sydney's awesome art music scene - from electronics to chamber music - in a chilled out warehouse space. Come along, Something Will Happen!

Something Will Happen brings together Lamorna Nightingale, SPIRAL and Nicholas Russoniello and Elizabeth Jigalin to create musical buffet humming with originality and expression.

Four 20-minute sets are scattered throughout the night for a warehouse party with a difference in Kammerklang's sonic speakeasy: the Barbiturates Warehouse Space in Marrickville.

Let your hair down for this chill pub vibe, grab a drink, have a chat, - it's our job to excite and entertain you - not your job to be quiet.

Join us for a night out with Sydney's artistic underground... Something Will Happen.

About the Artists:
Kammerklang (literally “chamber sound”) is an Australian arts company specialising in the collaboration of music and other artforms, literally focusing on the fusion of sound and the “chamber” or space it’s performed in. Whether that space includes dancers, paintings, video projection, sculpture or circus performers depends on the project and nature of the works featured.

The aim of Kammerklang is to present and promote new artistic creation that is inquisitive, detailed and accessible while still fostering exploration and communication between the arts. Featuring guest artists from all fields, a large chamber orchestra, and numerous young talented composers and artists, Kammerklang is “Sounds Made Real”.

Our Guests:
Flautist, Lamorna Nightingale brings us three new works off her new album, Other Voices
Emerging ensemble SPIRAL present their minimalism inspired sonic explorations
Award winning saxophonist Nick Russoniello presents his new composition "Suite for Sax and Loop".
Elizabeth Jigalin will be performing new soundtracks alongside a collection of her favourite old silent film shorts.

Made Now Music presents: Formations

Saturday, April 13th at Glasshouse - Brisbane CBD- Doors at 7pm, Music from 7:30. $15 entry.

// SPIRAL
SPIRAL: “Hey Let’s Go To Queensland Tour” (Brisbane)

SPIRAL is a Sydney-based new music group of seven composer-performers, formed in 2016 by students at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Over the last 3 years, they have been invited to perform in concerts including Vivid Sydney, Backstage Music, and regularly present shows at 107 Redfern. In 2018, SPIRAL were invited to participate in a workshop with renowned US ensemble, Bang On A Can All Stars. The group have commissioned many new works both by its members and upcoming local composers. Characterised by their energetic performances and minimalist textures, SPIRAL aims to invigorate new music and engage audiences in unique, accessible concerts.

Performing:
Iron Filings (2018) – Oscar Smith
Bixler 225 (2018) – Sarah Elise Thompson
Odd Logic (2018) – Angus Davis

// ZAC SAKREWSKI
Zac Sakrewski is an improviser, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and educator from the Sunshine Coast. With his strong desire to experiment and a love of electro-acoustics, Zac has developed a unique playing style, taking the traditional techniques of the Double Bass and using effect pedals to create soundscapes, completely contrary to what a listener would expect.
https://zacsakrewski.bandcamp.com/

// KIERAN WELCH
Kieran Welch (b. 1992) is an Australian violist, curator, event producer, DJ, educator and writer. He combines this diverse, yet complementary set of skills with a passion for presenting a wide range of musical genres to varied audiences, and a thorough training in classical viola performance.
https://www.kieranwelch.com/

SPIRAL is a Sydney-based new music group of seven composer-performers, formed in 2016 by students at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Over the last 3 years, they have been invited to perform in concerts including Vivid Sydney, Backstage Music, and regularly present shows at 107 Redfern. In 2018, SPIRAL were invited to participate in a workshop with renowned US ensemble, Bang On A Can All Stars. The group have commissioned many new works both by its members and upcoming local composers. Characterized by their energetic performances and minimalist textures, SPIRAL aims to invigorate new music and engage audiences with unique, accessible concerts.

SPIRAL is making their Queensland debut in Toowoomba at St. Luke's Church Hall, with Double Bassist Will Hansen looking forward to returning to his hometown.

Tickets- $10
Children Under 16- FREE Admission

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SPIRAL is:

Will Hansen- Double Bass
Rory Knott- Bass Guitar
Johannes MacDonald- Flute
Josephine Macken- Flute
Oscar Smith- Keys
Sarah Elise Thompson- Keys
Josh Winestock- Electric Guitar

Program:
Hey Let's Go to Woolies (2017) – Joe Lisk
Iron Filings (2018) – Oscar Smith
Bixler 225 (2018) – Sarah Elise Thompson
Odd Logic (2018) – Angus Davison

Sarah Elise Thompson - Undone for soprano, violin, and piano.
Written especially for Plexus (Monica Curro, and Stefan Cassomenos) and Soprano Deborah Cheetnam.
Text by Stephanie Millett.
2019

Premiering at Women In Music Festival Part II, Storey Hall RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC
10th March 2019

CONCERT DETAILS

The second concert will open with another very special Welcome to Country, presented by Boon Wurrung Elder N'Arwee't Carolyn Briggs.

Next, a beautiful dance interpretation of Rachel Shields' Yuluwurri Gaayli/ Rainbow Child will be performed by Kathleen Gonzalez and troupe, with stunning images of Kulin Nation country as a backdrop., and musicians interpreting and responding to the dance in improvisation.  

Yuluwurri Gaayli/ Rainbow Child tells the  story of Nainiouman Coya Coya, who knows that there is a song of love in all things, and of the Rainbow Serpent which travels throughout the lands to gather all the songs of love as a very special gift...

The next concert item is the winning piece from the Emerging Composer Competition, Sarah Elise Thompson.  We can tell you that the performance will be given by magnificent soprano, Deborah Cheetham, OAM.  Absolutely cannot wait! 

The competition winning piece will be followed by Maize Wallin who will guide us deep into a new Game, Noise Drawers, showing us more of the marvellous world of sound and music in Games.

The film component of tonight's concert offers the short film The Telegram Man, with a new score for string quartet and piano by Petra Salsjo, conducted by film composer Jessica Wells, and a short excerpt from  the winner of Best Music for Feature Film at the 2018 APRA Screen Music Awards, written by Caitlin Yeo for string quartet and conducted by Jessica Wells.

​To close our concert, Michelle Nicolle and her band will transport us back through the decades, with smoky, sultry, sensual songs, all written by women.  Sensational!​

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An Evening with Huizi Zhang and Shane Hagan--Guitar and Piano solo recital
7:00pm: Shane Hagan
7:30pm:Huizi Zhang piano solo (1hr)

$10
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The concert will feature pieces by several emerging composers whose diverse
music lure the listener into new impressions which are representative of
the current state of the avant-garde classical music stage. All of the
pieces were written in 2018, with a few of them them set to receive their
world premieres at this concert.https://www.huizizhang.com/bio/
https://www.shanehagan.net/about

9pm, Free Admission

Performed by Keiko Murakami at São Sebastião Chapel, Ponta Do Sol, Madeira

Kupka's Piano are joined by acclaimed Melbourne-based uilleann pipes virtuoso Matthew Horsley and experimental composer and erhu performer Jasmin Leung to present MIGRATIONS, a unique double-bill concert of new and recently composed works by Australian, New Zealand and European composers.

Works in this program are by Liam Flenady, Alex Taylor (NZ), Rebecca Saunders (UK/GER), Sarah Elise Thompson, and Jasmin Leung.

This concert is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts. 

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SPIRAL is back for their final concert of 2018, featuring Philip Glass’s landmark 1981 composition, “Glassworks”, and a newly commissioned musical counterpart by Sydney composer Aidan Charles Rosa titled “Metalworks”. Join us in the Music Workshop at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music for a night of hypnotic rhythm and ecstatic energy that’s not to be missed.
Free entry and general admission!

FEATURING

SPIRAL
(Johannes MacDonald, Josephine Macken, Sarah Elise Thompson, Oscar Smith, Joshua Winestock, Rory Knott and Will Hansen)

Soprano and Alto Saxophones- Jasmine Mills, Samuel Dong

Tenor Saxophones- Tom Spencer, Jordan Brynes

Horn- Jack Stephens

Viola- Sophie Nickel

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A word from Aidan Charles Rosa, composer of Metalworks-

“In the same way that “Glassworks” may be regarded as a summation of the musical interests of Philip Glass, Metalworks similarly embodies various sounds from my own musical interests, including the influence of minimalism, post-minimalism, and British progressive rock, strewn with cosmic allegory. Metalworks is essentially the alchemical odyssey, the mystical transmutation of lead into gold.”

Wqxr.org, on “Glassworks”,

“This collection of short, accessible pieces from 1982 was specifically made to introduce Glass to a wider audience, and sure enough, it remains one of his most popular recordings. It includes fine examples of both sides of Glass's art, from the lyricism of "Facades" to the kinetic energy of "Floe." The opening piano solo, called "Opening," reappears in a version for winds and keyboard at the end of the album (called "Closing," naturally), and, with its 3-against-2 rhythms, offers an appealing insight into how Glass's music works.”

Huizi Zhang’s second stop from Carnegie Hall will be in Detroit, MI, Wednesday, November 7th at the N'Namdi Center. This concert features pieces by several emerging composers whose diverse music lure the listener into new impressions which are representative of the current state of the avant-garde classical music stage. All of the pieces were written in 2018, with seven of them set to receive their world premieres at this concert.

Performer Huizi Zhang Bio: https://www.huizizhang.com/bio/

Program:
Sarah Elise Thompson: Pink Salt
Fabian Beltran: 3 Etudes
Christopher Parrello: Pyramid (2018 Premiere)
North Star (2018)
Jun An Chew: Hyetal Days
Gu Wei: Passage 2&3

lost+sound is delighted to take you on another technicolour journey with the second of our pop+up curated concert experiences.

It’s an exhibition for your ears. Like individual paintings in a gallery, complete worlds are waiting to be discovered in four twenty-minute sets – each more distinctive than the last.

We’re returning to San Telmo Studios in Chippendale for a night of intimate music-making, couch-sitting and cheese consuming. Join us for good company and better culture.

LINE-UP
8pm + JAMES HAZEL
8:30pm + CHLOE CHUNG
9pm + CHRIS PIDCOCK
9:30pm + JACQUES EMERY AND CHLOE KIM

tickets || cash only

adult: $15
concession: $10

VENUE: San Telmo Studios, Chippendale.
Walk through the archway off Wellington Street. Turn left and venture up the stairs. From there...follow the music.