ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING
SONGBIRDS
Songbirds captures the magical bird calls of the red centre, virtuosic avian displays and Indigenous musical perspectives on these beguiling creatures of the sky with original chamber music by Australian composers.
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Past Shows
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Peninsula Summer Music Festival, Mornington Peninsula
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Musica Viva Tasmania, Hobart Town Hall
Music in the Regions Tour - Ganmain, Wagga Wagga, Temora, Young, Braidwood, Gunning
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Mount Wilson Music Series
Brisbane Music Festival
Baldarin Sali, Helsinki
Corrugations Music Series, Alice Springs
Arafura Music Collective presents, Darwin
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Blackheath Chamber Music Festival
Four Winds Chamber Series
Melbourne Recital Centre
Noosa Music Festival
Bellingen Muse Festival
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Old 505 Theatre, Newtown (formerly called Birdsong at Dusk)
Sydney Festival, Q Station Manly (formerly called Birdsong at Dusk)
Watch and Listen
Songbirds Album
Critical Acclaim
“★★★★ the now-ubiquitous bushfire haze, a premonitory reminder of the destruction that climate change threatens to all that this concert celebrated.””
“Yet the charm of the song of birds...mingled with music in seven recent Australian pieces, did not fail. Most magical was Hollis Taylor and Jon Rose’s Bitter Springs Creek 2014”
“Ensemble Offspring played Gerard Brophy’s rhythmically demanding Beautiful Birds with precision and élan”
“A highly successful interspecies collaboration!”
“Caitlin Yeo’s A Tawny Tale is built on a simple motive that is then transformed to capture the stillness of the bird, along with the sudden, darting movements as it catches insects. There was a lot of variety in the piece and exploration of different instrumental colours. The audience was very appreciative!”
“...the musicians joined the contrapuntal web, matching the avian virtuosity with their own”
“Edwardes’ solo percussion work Screechers & Sorrows featured chirps and echoes from the waterphone, an instrument of metal spikes protruding from a water-filled disk which creates eerie resonance of surprising depth”