We welcome Ronan Apcar to the Ensemble Offspring team!

3 Feb

Tuesday 3 February, 2026

Following his standout Ensemble Offspring debut in 2025 as our Hatched Emerging Performer, we are thrilled to welcome pianist Ronan Apcar to the EO family as a permanent member from 2026!

Ronan showed himself to be a virtuosic, empathetic and compelling performer throughout 2025, most notably at Future Classics in the premiere of Thomas Meadowcroft’s Old Rags – a complex series of vignettes for solo piano written especially for him. Limelight praised the performance, writing: “…we are suddenly pulled into the memory while Apcar dives into an intricately written ragtime. A testament to this collaboration, Apcar’s virtuosic skills shine in this vibrant work.”

Ronan Apcar is a pianist as well as composer with a reputation of versatility, verve, and tenacity. His experience and fluency across all kinds of music - jazz to avant-garde, classical to house music - translates into his on stage presence and musical interpretations. Described as “a force to be reckoned with” (ClassikON), in 2025 Ronan showed his new music prowess in collaboration with Ensemble Apex on a piano concerto project uncovering and rediscovering Dulcie Holland’s music to great acclaim. Ronan is already well respected for his eclectic programming of contemporary and new music and navigates a diverse musical life as a performer, composer, and collaborator in concerts, festivals, and projects across metropolitan and regional NSW, Victoria, and the ACT.

You can see Ronan perform as part of Ensemble Offspring in The Oracle, Reich: Rejoice: Repeat and Future Classics in 2026.