Ensemble Offspring

EVENTS

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AVANT GARDENS AUTUMN

9 May, Woollahra
10 May, Hurlstone Park
Three iconic female composers at the heart of an intimate trio program. It’s Mother’s Day, Offspring style, with music we love in the Avant Gardens.

Australia’s Musical Trailblazers

Formed in 1995, Sydney-based Ensemble Offspring is “Australia’s leading new music ensemble” (ClassikON)

Led by Claire Edwardes OAM on percussion, the ensemble comprises Lamorna Nightingale (flutes), Jason Noble (clarinets), Véronique Serret (violin) and Blair Harris (cello), with Ronan Apcar (piano) as 2025 Emerging Performer.
EO commissions more brand-new pieces of music than any other Australian group, and champion marginalised voices including female-identifying, emerging, and First Nations artists

Meet The Musicians

"This is an ensemble of Australia’s finest musicians performing innovative, relevant and engaging new music that bursts with imagination, energy and inspiration.”

Seesaw Magazine
“Here is EO at its most adventurous and its strongest, with sharply-refined performing chops to follow through on its ambitious programmatic swing.”

Limelight
“Ensemble Offspring deserves its reputation…they perform with joy, enthusiasm and great skill.”

ClassikON
"This program was notable for its energy and variety as much as for its neat new devices."

Sydney Morning Herald
"...the quiet achiever on the Australian musical landscape… It deserves our strong support."

Sydney Arts Guide
"Ensemble Offspring's micro-festival was a tribute to the transformative power of living new music, and sent the audience home grinning."

Limelight
“Claire’s animated introductions…delight the audience, who then sit spellbound…delighted by the virtuosity and the flawless synchronicity.”

ClassikON
"The experience is totally immersive yet gently, rather than boldly, persuasive."

The Adelaide Advertiser

Ensemble Offspring

EVENTS

AVANT GARDENS AUTUMN

Australia’s Musical Trailblazers

"This is an ensemble of Australia’s finest musicians performing innovative, relevant and engaging new music that bursts with imagination, energy and inspiration.”

“Here is EO at its most adventurous and its strongest, with sharply-refined performing chops to follow through on its ambitious programmatic swing.”

“Ensemble Offspring deserves its reputation…they perform with joy, enthusiasm and great skill.”

"This program was notable for its energy and variety as much as for its neat new devices."

"...the quiet achiever on the Australian musical landscape… It deserves our strong support."

"Ensemble Offspring's micro-festival was a tribute to the transformative power of living new music, and sent the audience home grinning."

“Claire’s animated introductions…delight the audience, who then sit spellbound…delighted by the virtuosity and the flawless synchronicity.”

"The experience is totally immersive yet gently, rather than boldly, persuasive."