The Australia Ensemble@UNSW presents its April concert themed around the American composer Martin Bresnick’s ensemble piece My Twentieth Century. This work by Bresnick (b1946) who teaches at Yale University, reflects, at times whimsically and reflectively, on the troubled century passed – a century of terrible conflict but also great discovery and renewal. In musical terms, this troubled century covers…
Sydney based string ensemble the Acacia Quartet presents Love Notes, a concert in their 2015 series called Acacia Presents…. In Love Notes, the Acacia Quartet will perform the music of Dvorak, Sculthorpe and Borodin along with a narration by Rachel Gregg of 12 Poems by Moravian novelist, poet and playwright Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky (1833 – 1875). As well, this year…
The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) welcomes three guest artists in their final national tour for 2014, Relativity. Award‐winning soprano Greta Bradman will join the ASQ to perform Paul Stanhope’s Sea Chronicles, a song cycle for soprano and string quartet which celebrates Australia’s unique coastal environment and the late Peter Sculthorpe’s Island Dreaming, a single‐movement work which draws together…