Events for Ensemble Offspring

Date Event
09-04-2009

Tehillim - Melbourne

Ensemble Offspring and Halcyon join forces to present Steve Reich's Tehillim - an ecstatic vibrant work celebrating the biblical psalms.


25-04-2009

Kontakte - Brisbane

The godfather of electronic music Karlheinz Stockhausen meets the latest in electronica with guest sound-artist Pimmon.


29-04-2009

Thirteen Colours - Melbourne

A delicate immersion of the senses based on light and sound spectra featuring rarely heard works by Gérard Grisey and Tristan Murial.


30-05-2009

Thirteen Colours - Sydney

A delicate immersion of the senses based on light and sound spectra featuring rarely heard works by Gérard Grisey, Tristan Murial and John Luther Adams.


06-06-2009

Zodiac - Sydney

Twelve sublime melodies representing the zodiac signs form are the basis for a unique version of Stockhausen's famous Tierkreis.


07-06-2009

Open Music - Melbourne

An eclectic selection of 20th century classics designed to elicit a multitude of interpretations including works by Philip Glass, John Zorn and John Cage.


28-06-2009

Open Music - Armidale

An eclectic selection of 20th century classics designed to elicit a multitude of interpretations including works by Philip Glass and John Zorn.


16-09-2009

THNMF - Kontakte - Perth

Totally Huge New Muisc Festival Perth

Ensemble-in-residence

A brief history of electronic music beginning with the latest electronic sound-worlds of Pimmon and ending with the godfather Karlheinz Stockhausen and his seminal Kontakte - with a unique musical segue in the middle.


17-09-2009

THNMF - Ensemble Offspring soloists - Perth

Totally Huge New Muisc Festival Perth

Ensemble-in-residence

Soloists from Ensemble Offspring will perform works from
Puts, Xenakis, Carter, Tonkin, Ricketson and Adams.

 


18-09-2009

THNMF - Open Music - Perth

Totally Huge New Muisc Festival Perth

Ensemble-in-residence

The concept of the open form has appeared in many of Ensemble Offspring's programs. The open form challenges the idea that the musical work is a fixed entity in the imagination of the composer and deliberately promotes a multitude of possible versions.


01-10-2009

Kontakte - Sydney

The godfather of electronic music Karlheinz Stockhausen meets the latest in electronica with guest sound-artist Pimmon.


02-10-2009

Kontakte - Newcastle

The godfather of electronic music Karlheinz Stockhausen meets the latest in electronica with guest sound-artist Pimmon.


15-10-2009

Creative Explosion in the West - Sydney

Ensemble Offspring will be interacting with the rich knowledge Diaspora and improvising traditions characteristic of Western Sydney, especially the Korean, Philippine and Japanese traditions in 2009.


22-10-2009

Creative Explosion in the West - Sydney

Ensemble Offspring will be interacting with the rich knowledge Diaspora and improvising traditions characteristic of Western Sydney, especially the Korean, Philippine and Japanese traditions in 2009.


13-11-2009

The Origin Cycle - Canberra

In The Origin Cycle, for soprano and chamber ensemble, fragments of Darwin's great book are set to music by Australian composers Elliott Gyger, Elena Kats-Chernin, Kate Neal, Rosalind Page, Paul Stanhope, Nicholas Vines, and Dan Walker.


19-11-2009

The Origin Cycle - Sydney

In The Origin Cycle, for soprano and chamber ensemble, fragments of Darwin's great book are set to music by Australian composers Elliott Gyger, Elena Kats-Chernin, Kate Neal, Rosalind Page, Paul Stanhope, Nicholas Vines, and Dan Walker.