Five World Premieres In Ensemble Offspring’s Kontiki Racket

kontiki-racket_600

Three concerts, five world premieres, a panel discussion with leading ‘global’ music makers and an industry speed dating session offering one-on-one sessions with mentors – all in one weekend!

Ensemble Offspring’s Kontiki Racket features thirteen musicians including its Hatched Academy artists, music by iconic composers Xenakis and Boulez and European sensations Romitelli and Mantovani.

Australian composers Alex Pozniak, Lachlan Skipworth and others will have their works premiered during this micro festival of new sounds form around the world.

The festival also features international guest, composer and sound artist, Juan Felipe Waller (Berlin/Mexico), whose 2014 Noisy Egg commission,Detone Retune, will be restaged.

Conducted by Roland Peelman, the performers include Claire Edwardes (percussion), Zubin Kanga (piano), Sonya Holowell (voice), Lamorna Nightingale (flute), Jason Noble (clarinet), Ngaire de Korte (oboe), Veronique Serret (violin), Blair Harris (cello), David Moran (cello, Hatched Academy performer), Mary Rapp (cello, Hatched Academy performer) and Julia Reidy (guitar/ Hatched Academy composer).

Click here to book.

Similar Posts

  • Bel A Cappella Turns Twenty

    In 2015, choral ensemble Bel a cappella celebrates 20 years of performing with their inaugural concert at the beautiful, awe-inspiring Cell Block Theatre at the National Art School – a dramatic structure and a significant feature of Australia’s colonial and cultural heritage as it was once the Old Darlinghurst Gaol.  Conducted by Music Director Anthony Pasquill, Bel a cappella…

  • Lux Aeterna from bel a capella

      This weekend Bel a capella presents ‘Lux Aeterna’, a clever programme of mostly 20th century gems of choral music. The repertoire pairs Paul Stanhope’s Lux Aeterna with Elgar’s ethereal work of the same name, and two collections of five songs – Sir Michael Tippett’s rhythmic Five Negro Spirituals and Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs. As well, the…

  • 2011 Melbourne Festival’s closing concert on stvdio

    This Friday evening  November 25th, STVDIO will be broadcasting the closing night concert of the 2011 Melbourne Festival “notes from a hard road and beyond”, which feature some of the world’s most influential protest songs through the years. International performers including soul singer Joss Stone,  gospel legend Mavis Staples, Rickie-Lee Jones, John Schumann, hip hop artist…

  • Balmain Boheme

    Puccini’s heartbreaking love story is to be staged in Balmain’s own Cafe Momus- “Casual Mondays.” Dress bohemian style or just stroll in, relax, and experience the amazing voices of this top young cast performing the world’s most beloved opera. This is opera as theatre – intimate and intense! Performed in Italian and staged with an edited…

  • Opera In The Pub At The Empire

    Opera Bites has teamed up with the exquisite Empire Hotel to bring their winning opera formula to a pub near you! Discover celebrated highlights from the world’s favourite operas with arias and ensembles served up to you with canapes and champagne. Expect to be humming all the way home with favourites you’ll know and love…

  • Rare writers inspire Halcyon’s ‘Life on Paper’

      “Write in this book – Things that I see Things that I hear and know”                      Sei Shonagon, circa 1000  How do three composers respond to three writers from very different worlds?  Take a rich and stimulating musical journey with Halcyon inspired by  poets and writers who help us understand our lives from every wondrous…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *