2010 New Music Network Concert Series
March 16th 2010 06:25
Launching the 2010 New Music Network Concert Series
In 2010, the New Music Network is proud to present concerts and events in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.
The series brings together Australia’s leading exponents of contemporary art music and improvisation and displays the passion and commitment of both the Network and the many musicians within it.
This year the Network is pleased to present a concert as part of the ISCM World New Music Days and delighted to welcome Australia’s foremost conductor Simone Young to present the 2010 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address. In 2010 audiences will have no better opportunity to connect and engage with the best of Australia's new music than with the New Music Network.
The Song Company and Synergy Percussion
Gethsemane - a cleansing ritual for Easter
Conceived and composed by Gerard Brophy, Gethsemane refers to the place where Christ faces the realisation of his imminent death. Using the traditional Jeremiah lamentations, as well as contemporary accounts of life on the streets of Calcutta today, this major new work interweaves music, spoken word and ritualised movement.
In the wake of the memorable Tenebrae and Visitatio productions, Gethsemane represents a new and timeless meditation on poverty, abandonment and compassion.
PERFORMERS: The Song Company, Synergy Percussion, Martin del Amo dancer / choreographer, Christina Leonard saxophones, Bob Scott sound design, Gerard Brophy music.
DATE Wednesday 31 March 2010
TIME 7.30pm (pre-concert talk 20 mins prior to show)
TICKETS Adult $66, Conc $49, Under 30 $41
WHERE City Recital Hall, Angel Place, SYDNEY
BOOKING 02 8256 2222 or tickets available at the box office
ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING THE WORLD IN SYDNEY
- ISCM WORLD NEW MUSIC DAYS
Resident ensemble at the 2010 ISCM World New Music Days, Ensemble Offspring will again dazzle listeners with their combination of virtuosity and musical brilliance. The ensemble presents selected works spanning the globe: from France, Gerard Grisey’s iconic Talea and from Australia, Not Broken Bruised Reed written especially for Ensemble Offspring by Bruce Crossman.
Complimenting these are works by Canadians Jeffrey Ryan and Paul Steenhuisen, New Zealand’s Alexandra Hay and Denmark’s Christian Winther Christensen.
2010 ISCM World New Music Days presented by the Aurora Festival, Sydney Conservatorium of Music and ABC Classic FM in collaboration with the Australian Music Centre, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Blacktown Arts Centre and supported by Australia Council for the Arts, Arts NSW, Ars Musica Australis and the New Music Network.
PERFORMERS: Roland Peelman conductor, Lamorna Nightingale flute, Jason Noble clarinet, Diana Springford clarinet, Anna McMichael violin, Veronique Serret violin, James Eccles viola, Geoffrey Gartner cello, Claire Edwardes percussion, Zubin Kanga piano
DATE Monday 3 May 2010
TIME 8pm
WHERE Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $30 / Conc and Under 30 $20
BOOK by phone (02) 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door
Kammer Ensemble
The music of different cultures is KAMMER’s inspiration for their 2010 concert. The second avant-garde movement spurs music of folk and religious culture and in many pieces the rhythms evolve from dance demonstrating extraordinary strength. KAMMER perform works by Osvaldo Golijov to commemorate his 50th birthday. The hauntingly beautiful Voice of the Whale by George Crumb is already a twentieth century masterpiece - KAMMER are delighted to have an opportunity to visit this major work. Robert Davidson’s Strata is heavily influenced by Indonesian Gamelan music and culture - it is an extremely joyous and energetic work. In 2007, Daniel Rojas wrote Danzas Amorosas for the Ensemble. Since then they have performed it on many occasions. In this version, the work gets beefed up for larger forces and it promises to be extremely exciting, a bit like musical Top Gear.
PERFORMERS: Lisa Osmialowski flute, John Lewis clarinet, James Cuddeford violin, Sophie Cole violin, Nicole Forsyth viola, Daniel Yeadon cello, David Cooper bass, Stephanie McCallum piano.
DATE Saturday 26 June 2010
TIME 7.30pm
WHERE Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $30 / Conc and Under 30 $20
BOOK by phone 02 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door
Yakumo Honjin Aphids in association with Sphere (Japan)
A music installation for video, miniature percussion, violin and harpYakumo Honjin was created in and inspired by a 280 year old Samurai hotel near Lake Shinji in far west Japan. A meditation on the concept of ‘oku’ – or hidden – a theory which informs traditional Japanese architecture, garden design and music. Yakumo Honjin tours the east coast of Australia following performances in Matsue Castle in Japan. Aphids is supported y Arts Victoria.
ARTISTS: David Young composer, Rosemary Joy instrument artist, Peter Humble video artist, Yasutaka Hemmi (Japan) violin, Takayo Matsumura (Japan) harp, Eugene Ughetti & Matthias Schack-Arnott percussion, Adam Stewart woodwork
DATE Tuesday 29 June 2010
THREE PERFORMANCES 7pm; 7:40pm; 8:30pm, Duration: 30 mins
Performed to only 30 people at a time.
WHERE Elizabeth Bay House, 7 Onslow Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $20 / Conc and Under 30 $12
For information about this concert phone 0411 606 077
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL: BOOK by phone (02) 8256 2222
Constellation - Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey
A durational chamber work for 12 or 13 composers. Madeleine and Tim commissioned 11 composers to write works, each composer responding to their year of birth in the Chinese zodiac. Constellation imagines the entanglements of artistic connection and considers the interaction of the human in the process of creation in an increasingly ephemeral world.
Performances by Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey will accumulate every 12 or 13 hours following the exhibition opening on July 1 at 7pm.
ARTISTS: Ros Bandt, Carolyn Connors, Rohan Drape, Madeleine Flynn, Robin Fox, Sebastian Harris, Tim Humphrey, Anita Hustas, Neil Kelly, Graeme Leak, Kate Neal, Wang Zheng Ting and David Young.
Three-week exhibition with performance interruptions. Event supported by Liquid Architecture.
DATE Thursday 1 July to Sunday 18 July 2010
TIME Gallery Open 11am – 5pm
WHERE Red Gallery, 157 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy Nth, MELBOURNE
FREE EVENT
austraLYSISThe Late Night Sonic Space
In the first of two collaborations with the vocal ensemble Halcyon, austraLYSIS presents The Late Night Sonic Space, performed in the intimacy of Studio 227 at the ABC Centre, Ultimo. The program includes two large purely electroacoustic works including one by Canadian Robert Normandeau, together with the first performance of Roger Dean’s Toy Language 1, for Jenny Duck-Chong of Halcyon, with live electronics. A sound and text work by Hazel Smith and Joanna Still (UK), Clay Conversations 2 rounds out the program. There will also be live chat with austraLYSIS members, providing an unusual opportunity to hear the creators’ thoughts about the music at first hand. Presented with support by ABC Classic FM.
DATE Saturday 31 July 2010
TIME 10.30pm
WHERE Studio 227, ABC Centre, Ultimo, SYDNEY
FREE EVENT
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
PHONE 0411 606 077
Simone Young presents 12th Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address
Music in the age of soundbites
Australian born Simone Young has a world-wide reputation as one of the leading conductors of her generation in both operatic and symphonic repertoire. In August 2005, she took up the post of General Manager and Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Music Director of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. She has since been elected to the Akademie der Kuenste in Hamburg, nominated ‘Conductor of the Year’ by Opernwelt Magazine and awarded a Professorship at the Musikhochschule in Hamburg. Simone has received Honorary Doctorates from Monash University and the University of New South Wales, and has been honoured with the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004 and in 2005 received the prestigious Goethe Institute Medal. As well as conducting operas in the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane Festivals, Simone regularly returns to Australia, this year to work with West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Australian National Academy of Music and the Sydney Symphony. Presented with support from Historic Houses Trust, Sydney and Federation Square, Melbourne.
SYDNEY
DATE 6pm Monday 2 August
WHERE The Mint, 10 Macquarie St, SYDNEY
Courtesy of the Sydney Symphony
MELBOURNE
DATE 7:30pm Wednesday 11 August
WHERE BMW Edge, Federation Square, MELBOURNE
Courtesy of the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)
FREE EVENT
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
PHONE 0411 606 077
Continuum Sax, MATCH Percussion with guests Natsuko Yoshimoto and Roland Peelman
Last Blues
The world premiere of Brian Howard’s Last Blues brings together an ensemble of Australia’s most influential and talented exponents of new music. Continuum Sax are joined by MATCH percussion, conductor Roland Peelman and violinist Natsuko Yoshimoto presenting a rare opportunity to hear the work of one of Australia’s most respected composers. Brian Howard’s Last Blues, borrowing its title from Cesare Pavese’s evocative poem, invokes memory and loss through a compelling and yet fragile dialogue between the violin and ensemble. This intriguing and innovative concert also features the exuberant Bagatelles by György Ligeti and new works by Margery Smith and Mary Finsterer. Presented with support by ABC Classic FM.
PERFORMERS: Natsuko Yoshimoto violin, Daryl Pratt and Alison Eddington percussion, Margery Smith, James Nightingale, Martin Kay, Jarrod Whitbourn saxophones and Roland Peelman conductor.
DATE Tuesday 24 August 2010
TIME 8pm
WHERE Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Centre Ultimo, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $30 / Conc and Under 30 $20
BOOK by phone (02) 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door
Speak Percussion In celebration of Speak Percussion’s 10th birthday this program reflects it’s oeuvre and dedication to new and challenging Australian art music. All the works are focused around the keyboard percussion family and were premiered by the group.
Speak Percussion contributes to contemporary music by dealing with percussion in innovative ways. Their art exists beyond percussion ensemble and new music practice in an evolving and hybrid form. They have commissioned many new works for percussion and have collaborated with artists from diverse disciplines. Supported by Sound Travellers.
PERFORMERS: Eugene Ughetti, Peter Neville, Leah Scholes and Matthias Schack-Arnott
DATE Saturday 25 September 2010
TIME 7pm
WHERE Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $30 / Conc and Under 30 $20
BOOK by phone (02) 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door
Clocked Out After the Kingfisher’s Wing: a new work by Erik Griswold
After the kingfisher’s wing
Has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still
At the still point of the turning world.
– T.S. Eliot (from ‘Burnt Norton’)
The mystical imagery of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets is the inspiration for composer Erik Griswold’s major new work After the kingfisher’s wing, a labyrinth of intricate textures, mind bending polyrhythms, still points interrupted by sudden bursts of energy.
PERFORMERS: Janet McKay flute, Anthony Burr clarinet, Graeme Jennings violin, Liam Viney piano, and Vanessa Tomlinson percussion
DATE Wednesday 6 October 2010
TIME 6.30pm
WHERE Ian Hangar Recital Hall, Queensland Conservatorium, BRISBANE
TICKETS Adult $15 / Conc and Under 30 $10
BOOKINGS phone (07) 3735 6241, www.clockedout.org
Machine for Making Sense and Ensemble Offspring West Head Project V
at Middle Head Sydney Harbour National Park
We are all condemned to silence unless we create our own relationship with the world and try to tie other people into the meaning we create. That is what composing is.
– Jacques Attali
Over the past three years the West Head Project was presented at Ku-ring-gai National Park. In 2010, the project continued the tradition at Middle Head, Mosman in the Sydney Harbour National Park. With a beautiful natural setting, the point offers an amazing group of abandoned military bunkers and gun positions that function as amphitheatres.
If we climbed out of the recreational vehicle and sat on the ground, we might begin to get the message that we can't afford to hear, the message that, since contact, Aborigines have never stopped transmitting. The land is the source of everything. – Germaine Greer
PERFORMERS: Jim Denley wind instruments, Monika Brooks accordain, Sam Pettigrew double bass and members of Ensemble Offspring
DATE Sunday 7 November 2010
TIME 4pm
WHERE Middle Head, Sydney Harbour National Park, SYDNEY
ENTRY BY DONATION Suggested Donation Adult $30 / Conc and Under 30 $20
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
PHONE 0411 606 077
Halcyon with austraLYSIS atmospheres
Renowned for its stunning performances of contemporary vocal chamber music, Halcyon enters the world of electronic music with atmospheres, a sound adventure spanning almost three decades of musical experimentation. In this special collaboration, electro-acoustic experts Roger Dean and Greg White of austraLYSIS transform the pure voices of Halcyon, enhancing the human voice beyond its natural capabilities into intriguing new sound territories.
Program includes the music of English composer and pioneer of ‘sonic art’ Trevor Wishart, emerging Polish composer Kasia Glowicka, esteemed Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s characteristically luxuriant and mysterious electronic textures and the premiere of a new work for Halcyon,Toy Language 2, by Roger Dean.
DATE Wednesday 15 December
TIME 7.30pm
WHERE Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $30 / Conc and Under 30 $20
BOOK by phone (02) 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door
new music mini series
1. THE NOISE Biodiversity
In celebration of The International Year of Biodiversity, Australia’s most adventurous new string quartet, The NOISE, is staging a one-off event at the Australian Museum. Take a stroll through the museum’s skeleton gallery and then join The NOISE beneath the cavernous jaws of the sperm whale, as they embark on a series of improvisations inspired by the teeming life in our fragile biosphere. Expect to hear quirky wombat promenades, ethereal whale-song and dazzling symphonies of insects… in short, a new improvised ‘Carnival of the Animals’ and a heartfelt plea for the biodiversity of our planet. Supported by the Australian Museum.
Ticket includes free entry to the museum’s Biodiversity Exhibition.
DATE Thursday 8 July 2010
TIME 7pm
WHERE Australian Museum, William Street, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $20 / Conc and Under 30 $12
BOOK by phone (02) 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door
2. Quiver Ensemble join with
Tristram Williams and Jessica Aszodi Presented by the New Music Network and the Melbourne Recital Centre This concert highlights the talents of the four co-directors of Quiver as soloists and chamber musicians. The four Australian solo compositions will be punctuated by semi-improvised, electro-acoustic scene performed by Tristram Williams (trumpet) and Jessica Aszodi (voice) and will culminate in a collaborative work involving all six artists. The works are Chris Dench’s new work from Phase and Portraits*, Thomas Meadowcroft’s Cars and Sunsets, Liza Lim’s Sonorous Body and Brendan Colbert’s Pro Tempore (solo marimba)*
PERFORMERS: Tristram Williams trumpet, Jessica Aszodi voice,
Quiver: Aviva Endean clarinet, Rebecca Lane flute, Luke Paulding piano,
Matthias Schack-Arnott marimba
DATE Friday 20 August 2010
TIME 6pm
WHERE The Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, MELBOURNE
TICKETS Adult $35 / Conc $25
BOOK by phone (03) 9699 3333 or tickets available at the door
3. Sympatico
Sympatico present a program exploring the interaction between electronically generated sound, real-time electro-acoustic sound manipulation and the pure acoustic instrumentation of piano, percussion and trumpet. Featured works by Thomas Green are a hybrid of synthetic sounds, albeit mainly from analogue sources such as the Moog synthesizer, and the careful placement of acoustic instrumentation within this sound world results in an organic use of electronic sources. The concert also marks the DVD launch of a project Sympatico completed with film artist Joel Deveraux and audio engineer Mark Smith in 2009. Embracing new media and cutting edge developments in audio and visual production, Sympatico are an ensemble born of the age of information who are not afraid to show it !,
PERFORMERS: Kellee Green piano, Clint Allen trumpet, Thomas Green composition / electronics, Dave Kemp percussion, amplified vibraphone & malletkat, Joel Deveraux projections
DATE Saturday 28 August, 2010
TIME 6pm
WHERE Recital Hall, Queensland Conservatorium, BRISBANE
TICKETS Adult $20 / Conc and Under 30 $12
BOOKINGS phone (07) 3735 6241 or tickets available at the door
4. An Infinity Room (A.I.R) – Julian Day
An Infinity Room is an new ensemble comprising various synthesizers, keyboards and electronic organs. Led by composer Julian Day, the group strives towards a Zen-like sense of spaciousness, resonance and poise. A.I.R uses graphic scores, simple performance techniques and semi-improvised structures to create a haunting aura of drones and rich harmonic fields.
A.I.R. recently supported Japanese artists aus and Cokiyu on their Australian tour and was a featured ensemble at Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS) in 2009. The group will tour the UK and Europe in late 2010.
Julian Day is a composer and sound artist based in Sydney. He also hosts New Music Up Late on ABC Classic FM. Described as an ‘epic and intimate formalist’, he is interested in creating lush and evocative sound worlds through simple and often surprising means.
DATE Friday 3 September 2010
TIME 8pm
WHERE Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $20 / Conc and Under 30 $12
BOOK by phone (02) 8256 2222, or tickets available at the door
5. Double Duos – Laura Chislett Jones, Thomas Jones, Daryl Pratt and Alison Pratt
The neo-expressionism of Wolfgang Rihm and Elliott Carter’s crystalline lyricism set this concert on a trajectory which explores new music chamber repertoire in an acoustic setting and with electronics. The trajectory is further outlined by four composers of the younger generation who represent, in these works, dramatically varied sounds worlds: complexity, minimalism, timbral exploration and ritualised and re-interpreted folk music. Rosalind Page’s Courbe dominante takes inspiration from Kandinsky, Schoenberg and sound sources from planetary origins (Saturn) which she has transformed into a series of Baroque-referenced dance movements. Polish composer, Hanna Kulenty, is represented by her ‘European trance music’ which uses digital delay. Giorgio Colombo Taccani’s Luz, written for Laura and Thomas Jones, reflects refined timbral and harmonic beauty. Diego Luzuriaga is becoming well-known for his lively and passionate music which takes elements of Ecuadorean–Andean folk music as its point of departure. Luzuriaga’s Double Duo has lent its name to this concert as the four instrumental performers are two married couples.
PERFORMERS: Laura Chislett Jones flute, Thomas Jones violin, Daryl Pratt percussion, Alison Pratt percussion, David Gilfillan sound projection
DATE Sunday 21 November 2010
TIME 5pm
WHERE Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $20 / Conc and Under 30 $12
BOOK by phone (02) 8256 2222, or tickets available at the door
VENUES
AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM
Cnr William & College St, Sydney
Bookings: 0411 606 077
Email: nmn@newmusicnetwork.com.au
BMW EDGE
Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne
Bookings: 0411 606 077
Email: nmn@newmusicnetwork.com.au
CITY RECITAL CENTRE, ANGEL PLACE
Bookings: (02) 8256 2222
Email: tickets@cityrecitalhall.com
Internet: www.cityrecitalhall.com
ELIZABETH BAY HOUSE
7 Onslow Avenue, Elizabeth Bay
Bookings: (02) 8256 2222
Email: tickets@cityrecitalhall.com
Internet: www.cityrecitalhall.com
EUGENE GOOSSENS HALL
ABC Centre, 700 Harris Street, Ultimo
Bookings: (02) 8256 2222
Email: tickets@cityrecitalhall.com
Internet: www.cityrecitalhall.com
IAN HANGER RECITAL HALL
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
16 Russell Street, South Bank
Phone: (07) 3735 6241
www.griffith.edu.au/concerts
MIDDLE HEAD, Manly National Park
Bookings: 0411 606 077
Email: nmn@newmusicnetwork.com.au
THE MINT
1 Macquarie Street, Sydney
Bookings: 0411 606 077
Email: nmn@newmusicnetwork.com.au
THE SALON
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank
Bookings: (03) 9699 3333
Internet: www.melbournerecital.com.au
SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC
Macquarie St, Sydney
Bookings: (02) 8256 2222
Email: tickets@cityrecitalhall.com
Internet: www.music.usyd.edu.au
Please contact the New Music Network for more information on the 2010 Concert Series and Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address.
NMN Manager: Philippa Horn
Tel: 0411 606 077
Email: nmn@newmusicnetwork.com.au
PO Box A661
Sydney South NSW 1235 Australia
ABN: 69 568 255 635
In 2010, the New Music Network is proud to present concerts and events in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.
The series brings together Australia’s leading exponents of contemporary art music and improvisation and displays the passion and commitment of both the Network and the many musicians within it.
The Song Company and Synergy Percussion
Gethsemane - a cleansing ritual for Easter
Conceived and composed by Gerard Brophy, Gethsemane refers to the place where Christ faces the realisation of his imminent death. Using the traditional Jeremiah lamentations, as well as contemporary accounts of life on the streets of Calcutta today, this major new work interweaves music, spoken word and ritualised movement.
In the wake of the memorable Tenebrae and Visitatio productions, Gethsemane represents a new and timeless meditation on poverty, abandonment and compassion.
PERFORMERS: The Song Company, Synergy Percussion, Martin del Amo dancer / choreographer, Christina Leonard saxophones, Bob Scott sound design, Gerard Brophy music.
DATE Wednesday 31 March 2010
TIME 7.30pm (pre-concert talk 20 mins prior to show)
TICKETS Adult $66, Conc $49, Under 30 $41
WHERE City Recital Hall, Angel Place, SYDNEY
BOOKING 02 8256 2222 or tickets available at the box office
ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING THE WORLD IN SYDNEY
- ISCM WORLD NEW MUSIC DAYS
Resident ensemble at the 2010 ISCM World New Music Days, Ensemble Offspring will again dazzle listeners with their combination of virtuosity and musical brilliance. The ensemble presents selected works spanning the globe: from France, Gerard Grisey’s iconic Talea and from Australia, Not Broken Bruised Reed written especially for Ensemble Offspring by Bruce Crossman.
Complimenting these are works by Canadians Jeffrey Ryan and Paul Steenhuisen, New Zealand’s Alexandra Hay and Denmark’s Christian Winther Christensen.
2010 ISCM World New Music Days presented by the Aurora Festival, Sydney Conservatorium of Music and ABC Classic FM in collaboration with the Australian Music Centre, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Blacktown Arts Centre and supported by Australia Council for the Arts, Arts NSW, Ars Musica Australis and the New Music Network.
PERFORMERS: Roland Peelman conductor, Lamorna Nightingale flute, Jason Noble clarinet, Diana Springford clarinet, Anna McMichael violin, Veronique Serret violin, James Eccles viola, Geoffrey Gartner cello, Claire Edwardes percussion, Zubin Kanga piano
DATE Monday 3 May 2010
TIME 8pm
WHERE Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $30 / Conc and Under 30 $20
BOOK by phone (02) 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door
Kammer Ensemble
The music of different cultures is KAMMER’s inspiration for their 2010 concert. The second avant-garde movement spurs music of folk and religious culture and in many pieces the rhythms evolve from dance demonstrating extraordinary strength. KAMMER perform works by Osvaldo Golijov to commemorate his 50th birthday. The hauntingly beautiful Voice of the Whale by George Crumb is already a twentieth century masterpiece - KAMMER are delighted to have an opportunity to visit this major work. Robert Davidson’s Strata is heavily influenced by Indonesian Gamelan music and culture - it is an extremely joyous and energetic work. In 2007, Daniel Rojas wrote Danzas Amorosas for the Ensemble. Since then they have performed it on many occasions. In this version, the work gets beefed up for larger forces and it promises to be extremely exciting, a bit like musical Top Gear.
PERFORMERS: Lisa Osmialowski flute, John Lewis clarinet, James Cuddeford violin, Sophie Cole violin, Nicole Forsyth viola, Daniel Yeadon cello, David Cooper bass, Stephanie McCallum piano.
DATE Saturday 26 June 2010
TIME 7.30pm
WHERE Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $30 / Conc and Under 30 $20
BOOK by phone 02 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door
Yakumo Honjin Aphids in association with Sphere (Japan)
A music installation for video, miniature percussion, violin and harpYakumo Honjin was created in and inspired by a 280 year old Samurai hotel near Lake Shinji in far west Japan. A meditation on the concept of ‘oku’ – or hidden – a theory which informs traditional Japanese architecture, garden design and music. Yakumo Honjin tours the east coast of Australia following performances in Matsue Castle in Japan. Aphids is supported y Arts Victoria.
ARTISTS: David Young composer, Rosemary Joy instrument artist, Peter Humble video artist, Yasutaka Hemmi (Japan) violin, Takayo Matsumura (Japan) harp, Eugene Ughetti & Matthias Schack-Arnott percussion, Adam Stewart woodwork
DATE Tuesday 29 June 2010
THREE PERFORMANCES 7pm; 7:40pm; 8:30pm, Duration: 30 mins
Performed to only 30 people at a time.
WHERE Elizabeth Bay House, 7 Onslow Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $20 / Conc and Under 30 $12
For information about this concert phone 0411 606 077
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL: BOOK by phone (02) 8256 2222
Constellation - Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey
A durational chamber work for 12 or 13 composers. Madeleine and Tim commissioned 11 composers to write works, each composer responding to their year of birth in the Chinese zodiac. Constellation imagines the entanglements of artistic connection and considers the interaction of the human in the process of creation in an increasingly ephemeral world.
Performances by Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey will accumulate every 12 or 13 hours following the exhibition opening on July 1 at 7pm.
ARTISTS: Ros Bandt, Carolyn Connors, Rohan Drape, Madeleine Flynn, Robin Fox, Sebastian Harris, Tim Humphrey, Anita Hustas, Neil Kelly, Graeme Leak, Kate Neal, Wang Zheng Ting and David Young.
Three-week exhibition with performance interruptions. Event supported by Liquid Architecture.
DATE Thursday 1 July to Sunday 18 July 2010
TIME Gallery Open 11am – 5pm
WHERE Red Gallery, 157 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy Nth, MELBOURNE
FREE EVENT
austraLYSISThe Late Night Sonic Space
In the first of two collaborations with the vocal ensemble Halcyon, austraLYSIS presents The Late Night Sonic Space, performed in the intimacy of Studio 227 at the ABC Centre, Ultimo. The program includes two large purely electroacoustic works including one by Canadian Robert Normandeau, together with the first performance of Roger Dean’s Toy Language 1, for Jenny Duck-Chong of Halcyon, with live electronics. A sound and text work by Hazel Smith and Joanna Still (UK), Clay Conversations 2 rounds out the program. There will also be live chat with austraLYSIS members, providing an unusual opportunity to hear the creators’ thoughts about the music at first hand. Presented with support by ABC Classic FM.
DATE Saturday 31 July 2010
TIME 10.30pm
WHERE Studio 227, ABC Centre, Ultimo, SYDNEY
FREE EVENT
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
PHONE 0411 606 077
Simone Young presents 12th Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address
Music in the age of soundbites
Australian born Simone Young has a world-wide reputation as one of the leading conductors of her generation in both operatic and symphonic repertoire. In August 2005, she took up the post of General Manager and Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Music Director of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. She has since been elected to the Akademie der Kuenste in Hamburg, nominated ‘Conductor of the Year’ by Opernwelt Magazine and awarded a Professorship at the Musikhochschule in Hamburg. Simone has received Honorary Doctorates from Monash University and the University of New South Wales, and has been honoured with the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004 and in 2005 received the prestigious Goethe Institute Medal. As well as conducting operas in the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane Festivals, Simone regularly returns to Australia, this year to work with West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Australian National Academy of Music and the Sydney Symphony. Presented with support from Historic Houses Trust, Sydney and Federation Square, Melbourne.
SYDNEY
DATE 6pm Monday 2 August
WHERE The Mint, 10 Macquarie St, SYDNEY
Courtesy of the Sydney Symphony
MELBOURNE
DATE 7:30pm Wednesday 11 August
WHERE BMW Edge, Federation Square, MELBOURNE
Courtesy of the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)
FREE EVENT
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
PHONE 0411 606 077
Continuum Sax, MATCH Percussion with guests Natsuko Yoshimoto and Roland Peelman
Last Blues
The world premiere of Brian Howard’s Last Blues brings together an ensemble of Australia’s most influential and talented exponents of new music. Continuum Sax are joined by MATCH percussion, conductor Roland Peelman and violinist Natsuko Yoshimoto presenting a rare opportunity to hear the work of one of Australia’s most respected composers. Brian Howard’s Last Blues, borrowing its title from Cesare Pavese’s evocative poem, invokes memory and loss through a compelling and yet fragile dialogue between the violin and ensemble. This intriguing and innovative concert also features the exuberant Bagatelles by György Ligeti and new works by Margery Smith and Mary Finsterer. Presented with support by ABC Classic FM.
PERFORMERS: Natsuko Yoshimoto violin, Daryl Pratt and Alison Eddington percussion, Margery Smith, James Nightingale, Martin Kay, Jarrod Whitbourn saxophones and Roland Peelman conductor.
DATE Tuesday 24 August 2010
TIME 8pm
WHERE Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Centre Ultimo, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $30 / Conc and Under 30 $20
BOOK by phone (02) 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door
Speak Percussion In celebration of Speak Percussion’s 10th birthday this program reflects it’s oeuvre and dedication to new and challenging Australian art music. All the works are focused around the keyboard percussion family and were premiered by the group.
Speak Percussion contributes to contemporary music by dealing with percussion in innovative ways. Their art exists beyond percussion ensemble and new music practice in an evolving and hybrid form. They have commissioned many new works for percussion and have collaborated with artists from diverse disciplines. Supported by Sound Travellers.
PERFORMERS: Eugene Ughetti, Peter Neville, Leah Scholes and Matthias Schack-Arnott
DATE Saturday 25 September 2010
TIME 7pm
WHERE Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $30 / Conc and Under 30 $20
BOOK by phone (02) 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door
Clocked Out After the Kingfisher’s Wing: a new work by Erik Griswold
After the kingfisher’s wing
Has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still
At the still point of the turning world.
– T.S. Eliot (from ‘Burnt Norton’)
The mystical imagery of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets is the inspiration for composer Erik Griswold’s major new work After the kingfisher’s wing, a labyrinth of intricate textures, mind bending polyrhythms, still points interrupted by sudden bursts of energy.
PERFORMERS: Janet McKay flute, Anthony Burr clarinet, Graeme Jennings violin, Liam Viney piano, and Vanessa Tomlinson percussion
DATE Wednesday 6 October 2010
TIME 6.30pm
WHERE Ian Hangar Recital Hall, Queensland Conservatorium, BRISBANE
TICKETS Adult $15 / Conc and Under 30 $10
BOOKINGS phone (07) 3735 6241, www.clockedout.org
Machine for Making Sense and Ensemble Offspring West Head Project V
at Middle Head Sydney Harbour National Park
We are all condemned to silence unless we create our own relationship with the world and try to tie other people into the meaning we create. That is what composing is.
– Jacques Attali
Over the past three years the West Head Project was presented at Ku-ring-gai National Park. In 2010, the project continued the tradition at Middle Head, Mosman in the Sydney Harbour National Park. With a beautiful natural setting, the point offers an amazing group of abandoned military bunkers and gun positions that function as amphitheatres.
If we climbed out of the recreational vehicle and sat on the ground, we might begin to get the message that we can't afford to hear, the message that, since contact, Aborigines have never stopped transmitting. The land is the source of everything. – Germaine Greer
PERFORMERS: Jim Denley wind instruments, Monika Brooks accordain, Sam Pettigrew double bass and members of Ensemble Offspring
DATE Sunday 7 November 2010
TIME 4pm
WHERE Middle Head, Sydney Harbour National Park, SYDNEY
ENTRY BY DONATION Suggested Donation Adult $30 / Conc and Under 30 $20
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
PHONE 0411 606 077
Halcyon with austraLYSIS atmospheres
Renowned for its stunning performances of contemporary vocal chamber music, Halcyon enters the world of electronic music with atmospheres, a sound adventure spanning almost three decades of musical experimentation. In this special collaboration, electro-acoustic experts Roger Dean and Greg White of austraLYSIS transform the pure voices of Halcyon, enhancing the human voice beyond its natural capabilities into intriguing new sound territories.
Program includes the music of English composer and pioneer of ‘sonic art’ Trevor Wishart, emerging Polish composer Kasia Glowicka, esteemed Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s characteristically luxuriant and mysterious electronic textures and the premiere of a new work for Halcyon,Toy Language 2, by Roger Dean.
DATE Wednesday 15 December
TIME 7.30pm
WHERE Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $30 / Conc and Under 30 $20
BOOK by phone (02) 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door
new music mini series
1. THE NOISE Biodiversity
In celebration of The International Year of Biodiversity, Australia’s most adventurous new string quartet, The NOISE, is staging a one-off event at the Australian Museum. Take a stroll through the museum’s skeleton gallery and then join The NOISE beneath the cavernous jaws of the sperm whale, as they embark on a series of improvisations inspired by the teeming life in our fragile biosphere. Expect to hear quirky wombat promenades, ethereal whale-song and dazzling symphonies of insects… in short, a new improvised ‘Carnival of the Animals’ and a heartfelt plea for the biodiversity of our planet. Supported by the Australian Museum.
Ticket includes free entry to the museum’s Biodiversity Exhibition.
DATE Thursday 8 July 2010
TIME 7pm
WHERE Australian Museum, William Street, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $20 / Conc and Under 30 $12
BOOK by phone (02) 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door
2. Quiver Ensemble join with
Tristram Williams and Jessica Aszodi Presented by the New Music Network and the Melbourne Recital Centre This concert highlights the talents of the four co-directors of Quiver as soloists and chamber musicians. The four Australian solo compositions will be punctuated by semi-improvised, electro-acoustic scene performed by Tristram Williams (trumpet) and Jessica Aszodi (voice) and will culminate in a collaborative work involving all six artists. The works are Chris Dench’s new work from Phase and Portraits*, Thomas Meadowcroft’s Cars and Sunsets, Liza Lim’s Sonorous Body and Brendan Colbert’s Pro Tempore (solo marimba)*
PERFORMERS: Tristram Williams trumpet, Jessica Aszodi voice,
Quiver: Aviva Endean clarinet, Rebecca Lane flute, Luke Paulding piano,
Matthias Schack-Arnott marimba
DATE Friday 20 August 2010
TIME 6pm
WHERE The Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, MELBOURNE
TICKETS Adult $35 / Conc $25
BOOK by phone (03) 9699 3333 or tickets available at the door
3. Sympatico
Sympatico present a program exploring the interaction between electronically generated sound, real-time electro-acoustic sound manipulation and the pure acoustic instrumentation of piano, percussion and trumpet. Featured works by Thomas Green are a hybrid of synthetic sounds, albeit mainly from analogue sources such as the Moog synthesizer, and the careful placement of acoustic instrumentation within this sound world results in an organic use of electronic sources. The concert also marks the DVD launch of a project Sympatico completed with film artist Joel Deveraux and audio engineer Mark Smith in 2009. Embracing new media and cutting edge developments in audio and visual production, Sympatico are an ensemble born of the age of information who are not afraid to show it !,
PERFORMERS: Kellee Green piano, Clint Allen trumpet, Thomas Green composition / electronics, Dave Kemp percussion, amplified vibraphone & malletkat, Joel Deveraux projections
DATE Saturday 28 August, 2010
TIME 6pm
WHERE Recital Hall, Queensland Conservatorium, BRISBANE
TICKETS Adult $20 / Conc and Under 30 $12
BOOKINGS phone (07) 3735 6241 or tickets available at the door
4. An Infinity Room (A.I.R) – Julian Day
An Infinity Room is an new ensemble comprising various synthesizers, keyboards and electronic organs. Led by composer Julian Day, the group strives towards a Zen-like sense of spaciousness, resonance and poise. A.I.R uses graphic scores, simple performance techniques and semi-improvised structures to create a haunting aura of drones and rich harmonic fields.
A.I.R. recently supported Japanese artists aus and Cokiyu on their Australian tour and was a featured ensemble at Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS) in 2009. The group will tour the UK and Europe in late 2010.
Julian Day is a composer and sound artist based in Sydney. He also hosts New Music Up Late on ABC Classic FM. Described as an ‘epic and intimate formalist’, he is interested in creating lush and evocative sound worlds through simple and often surprising means.
DATE Friday 3 September 2010
TIME 8pm
WHERE Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $20 / Conc and Under 30 $12
BOOK by phone (02) 8256 2222, or tickets available at the door
5. Double Duos – Laura Chislett Jones, Thomas Jones, Daryl Pratt and Alison Pratt
The neo-expressionism of Wolfgang Rihm and Elliott Carter’s crystalline lyricism set this concert on a trajectory which explores new music chamber repertoire in an acoustic setting and with electronics. The trajectory is further outlined by four composers of the younger generation who represent, in these works, dramatically varied sounds worlds: complexity, minimalism, timbral exploration and ritualised and re-interpreted folk music. Rosalind Page’s Courbe dominante takes inspiration from Kandinsky, Schoenberg and sound sources from planetary origins (Saturn) which she has transformed into a series of Baroque-referenced dance movements. Polish composer, Hanna Kulenty, is represented by her ‘European trance music’ which uses digital delay. Giorgio Colombo Taccani’s Luz, written for Laura and Thomas Jones, reflects refined timbral and harmonic beauty. Diego Luzuriaga is becoming well-known for his lively and passionate music which takes elements of Ecuadorean–Andean folk music as its point of departure. Luzuriaga’s Double Duo has lent its name to this concert as the four instrumental performers are two married couples.
PERFORMERS: Laura Chislett Jones flute, Thomas Jones violin, Daryl Pratt percussion, Alison Pratt percussion, David Gilfillan sound projection
DATE Sunday 21 November 2010
TIME 5pm
WHERE Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium, SYDNEY
TICKETS Adult $20 / Conc and Under 30 $12
BOOK by phone (02) 8256 2222, or tickets available at the door
VENUES
AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM
Cnr William & College St, Sydney
Bookings: 0411 606 077
Email: nmn@newmusicnetwork.com.au
BMW EDGE
Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne
Bookings: 0411 606 077
Email: nmn@newmusicnetwork.com.au
CITY RECITAL CENTRE, ANGEL PLACE
Bookings: (02) 8256 2222
Email: tickets@cityrecitalhall.com
Internet: www.cityrecitalhall.com
ELIZABETH BAY HOUSE
7 Onslow Avenue, Elizabeth Bay
Bookings: (02) 8256 2222
Email: tickets@cityrecitalhall.com
Internet: www.cityrecitalhall.com
EUGENE GOOSSENS HALL
ABC Centre, 700 Harris Street, Ultimo
Bookings: (02) 8256 2222
Email: tickets@cityrecitalhall.com
Internet: www.cityrecitalhall.com
IAN HANGER RECITAL HALL
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
16 Russell Street, South Bank
Phone: (07) 3735 6241
www.griffith.edu.au/concerts
MIDDLE HEAD, Manly National Park
Bookings: 0411 606 077
Email: nmn@newmusicnetwork.com.au
THE MINT
1 Macquarie Street, Sydney
Bookings: 0411 606 077
Email: nmn@newmusicnetwork.com.au
THE SALON
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank
Bookings: (03) 9699 3333
Internet: www.melbournerecital.com.au
SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC
Macquarie St, Sydney
Bookings: (02) 8256 2222
Email: tickets@cityrecitalhall.com
Internet: www.music.usyd.edu.au
Please contact the New Music Network for more information on the 2010 Concert Series and Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address.
NMN Manager: Philippa Horn
Tel: 0411 606 077
Email: nmn@newmusicnetwork.com.au
PO Box A661
Sydney South NSW 1235 Australia
ABN: 69 568 255 635
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