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!