Last night APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre announced the winners of the 2015 Art Music Awards in a ceremony held at the City Recital Hall in Sydney. The awards recognise the achievement and creative success of composers, performers and practitioners in contemporary art music, jazz and experimental music. The award for the Orchestral Work of the Year…
Broken Consorts Ensemble Offspring and Ironwood Chamber Ensemble Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House 28 February 2015 Two ensembles from contrasting backgrounds – Ironwood Chamber ensemble, specialising in historical performance – and Ensemble Offspring – specialising in modern music – collaborated to perform an exquisite recital of works for broken consorts. The intriguing title refers…
Clash or confluence? Ensemble Offspring, Sydney’s innovative New Music ensemble, and Ironwood, specialists in early music join forces to create new sounds in Broken Consorts. Ensemble Offspring says “Like floating through a forest, Broken Consorts envelops the audience in a cocoon of bristlings, warblings and ethereal reverberations—a musical experience that exists across and beyond time.”…