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20260503d 116 pianos & percussion festival finale

CIMF goes out with a BANG! Bravo

Canberra International Music Festival | Pianos & Percussion: Festival Finale 3 May, 2026, Snow Concert Hall, Red Hill, ACT The Canberra International Music Festival drew to a close in the […]

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Ensemble Offspring’s 2026 opener – Epic, Up Close

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens Summer March 1, 2026, Glebe, NSW Ensemble Offspring opens its 2026 season not in a concert hall but in a generous supporter’s living room. The […]

Moonlite, an Australian true-crime queer love story in oratorio form – first class!

Homophonic! and the Consort of Melbourne | Moonlite 26 July, 2025, Fitzroy Town Hall, VIC Based on The Moonlite Papers, the letters and statements of Andrew George Scott, which were […]

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Melbourne Conservatorium of Music’s excellent performance of music of ‘now’

Melbourne Conservatorium of Music | Recital April 15, 2025 , Hanson Dyer Hall, VIC Lisa-Maree Amos (flutes) Brent Miller (percussion) Peter de Jager (piano) Lisa-Maree Amos, Brent Miller and Peter […]

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What happens when nature speaks to Véronique Serret? Magic.

Véronique Serret | ‘Migrating Bird’ Album Launch May 31, 2024, The Great Club, Marrickville, NSW How great is The Great?! In the heart of Marrickville the transformed 1950’s Greek Macedonian […]

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Avant Gardens I – An intimate performance of eclectic soundworlds

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens I April 27, 2024, A Backyard in Inner West Sydney, NSW In their first Avant Gardens performance of the year, Ensemble Offspring leveraged the innate […]

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EO’s Psychedelic Frenzy – ‘Chaotic, dense, intense, but still quite charming’

Ensemble Offspring | Psychedelic Frenzy March 23, 2024, The Neilson Theatre, Walsh Bay ‘Beijing: loud, foggy, smoggy, Chaotic, dense, intense …still quite charming’ (Gander 2010) And so was the opening […]

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Ensemble Offspring negotiate fiendishly virtuosic music with total flair

Ensemble Offspring | Lone Hemispheres December 9, 2023, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre Guest reviewer: Tristan Coelho New music concerts can be thrilling in many ways. You never quite know what […]

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Music, She Wrote, Concert 2: Rubiks plays with time and tech

Music, She Wrote, Concert 2: Rubiks Collective March 30, 2023, ALPHA60, Melbourne Is there a group more at home in Katie Yap’s ‘Music, She Wrote’ festival than contemporary music dynamo […]

Ensemble Offspring’s exhilarating brand of living new music up close

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens 1 Sunday February 26, 2023, A home in Alexandria Back in 2020 Ensemble Offspring got creative, rather than just sitting around waiting for venues to […]

BackStage Music | The Mechanical Fiddle – long may the scene live!

Backstage Music: The Mechanical Fiddle Saturday, 4 February 7:30pm, Woodburn Creatives, Waterloo Featuring Kyla Matsuura-Miller on violin, and Claire Edwardes with Niki Johnson, Jack Peggie, Kerryn Joyce and Alison Pratt […]

Listen up! An experience that grabbed you by the eyes

Ensemble Offspring | Listen up! Sunday September 11, 6pm | Cell Block Theatre   Unfamiliarity is my friend. Most of us were brought up on music of a classical nature […]

Ensemble Offspring bend time and rhythm in all their glory

Ensemble Offspring | Time as Revelator Sat 16 July, 2022 | Carriageworks ‘Twas a brisk Winter’s evening in Sydney, but this did not curb the enthusiasm of the full house […]

Sydney Chamber Choir’s crisp rhythmic brilliance

Innocence and Experience | Sydney Chamber Choir Saturday 26 June, The Neilson, ACO Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay What a treat to be able to hear a concert in an amazing […]

Review: Melbourne Baroque Orchestra – Bursting back onto the scene

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Courting the Timpani February 13, 2022, 3pm at Toorak Uniting Church Right now is a very special time to attend concerts. Musicians whose diaries had previously […]

Claire Edwardes and Nick Russoniello, real, live musical enigmas

Just down the street from Sydney’s Green Square station, is a funkily designed space with high ceilings, terrazzo flooring and tessellated tiles, to me Mecca coffee screams out “make music […]

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‘Offspring for All’ Launches Sept 24

Offspring for All is the new digital series from APRA AMCOS State Luminary Award Winners – Ensemble Offspring. Bringing a handful of their highlight concerts each year to hungry ears […]

Rubiks Collective

Review: Rubiks’ luminous lamina of inspiring compositions

Rubiks Collective, This Soft Eclipse Thursday April 29, 2021 Back in their element in the return to the Melbourne Recital Centre, Rubiks Collective – joined by guests Kim Tan, Lucy […]

20260503d 116 pianos & percussion festival finale
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Pepe Newton

CIMF goes out with a BANG! Bravo

Canberra International Music Festival | Pianos & Percussion: Festival Finale 3 May, 2026, Snow Concert Hall, Red Hill, ACT The Canberra International Music Festival drew to a close in the Snow Concert Hall with a program that felt very true to the overall spirit of the festival — ambitious, diverse and immersed in culture. With lawns outside inviting a glass

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Pepe Newton

Ensemble Offspring’s 2026 opener – Epic, Up Close

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens Summer March 1, 2026, Glebe, NSW Ensemble Offspring opens its 2026 season not in a concert hall but in a generous supporter’s living room. The Avant Gardens series – this year spanning summer, autumn and spring – is salon culture revived with new music at its heart. The exact address is only revealed the week

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Daniel Brace

Moonlite, an Australian true-crime queer love story in oratorio form – first class!

Homophonic! and the Consort of Melbourne | Moonlite 26 July, 2025, Fitzroy Town Hall, VIC Based on The Moonlite Papers, the letters and statements of Andrew George Scott, which were written on death row in the late 19th century in Sydney’s Darlinghurst Goal and are now held in the archives of the National Library of Australia, ‘Moonlite’ an oratorio contains

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Alan Holley

Melbourne Conservatorium of Music’s excellent performance of music of ‘now’

Melbourne Conservatorium of Music  | Recital April 15, 2025 , Hanson Dyer Hall, VIC Lisa-Maree Amos (flutes) Brent Miller (percussion) Peter de Jager (piano) Lisa-Maree Amos, Brent Miller and Peter de Jager were the lynchpins of a most varied concert to a full house in the acoustically and visually pleasant Hanson Dyer Hall. With nine different composers it was to

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serret migrating bird
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Pepe Newton

What happens when nature speaks to Véronique Serret? Magic.

Véronique Serret | ‘Migrating Bird’ Album Launch May 31, 2024, The Great Club, Marrickville, NSW How great is The Great?! In the heart of Marrickville the transformed 1950’s Greek Macedonian Club was the the perfect venue for an album launch. A unique stage for a unique performance to showcase Véronique Serret’s just released album Migrating Bird. Classical music lovers will

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Guest Reviewer

Avant Gardens I – An intimate performance of eclectic soundworlds

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens I April 27, 2024, A Backyard in Inner West Sydney, NSW In their first Avant Gardens performance of the year, Ensemble Offspring leveraged the innate intimacy of this ‘house concert’ series to offer the audience a wonderfully eclectic program of modern chamber music. Featuring works by composers from Australia and across the globe, this program

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Courtney Cousins

EO’s Psychedelic Frenzy – ‘Chaotic, dense, intense, but still quite charming’

Ensemble Offspring | Psychedelic Frenzy March 23, 2024, The Neilson Theatre, Walsh Bay ‘Beijing: loud, foggy, smoggy, Chaotic, dense, intense …still quite charming’ (Gander 2010) And so was the opening work of Ensemble Offspring’s concert on Saturday night, based on the theme of ‘Psychedelic Frenzy’. In the intimate yet stylish concert space of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Sydney-based purveyor

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Guest Reviewer

Ensemble Offspring negotiate fiendishly virtuosic music with total flair

Ensemble Offspring | Lone Hemispheres December 9,  2023, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre Guest reviewer: Tristan Coelho New music concerts can be thrilling in many ways. You never quite know what to expect, especially if freshly written works are on the program. These concerts invariably push audiences to see and hear the world in rich, new ways, even if the music

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Pepe Newton

Music, She Wrote, Concert 2: Rubiks plays with time and tech

Music, She Wrote, Concert 2: Rubiks Collective March 30, 2023, ALPHA60, Melbourne Is there a group more at home in Katie Yap’s ‘Music, She Wrote’ festival than contemporary music dynamo Rubiks Collective? Having championed women composers since their inception in 2015, Rubiks are renowned for their bold and innovative programs. The second concert instalment of Katie Yap’s celebration of women

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Pepe Newton

Ensemble Offspring’s exhilarating brand of living new music up close

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens 1 Sunday February 26, 2023,  A home in Alexandria Back in 2020 Ensemble Offspring got creative, rather than just sitting around waiting for venues to get back to normal they created a series of outdoor events starting with ‘Ah Tempe!’, a musical walking tour of an inner Sydney suburb, and in 2022 ‘Avant Gardens’ was

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Daniel Kaan

BackStage Music | The Mechanical Fiddle – long may the scene live!

Backstage Music: The Mechanical Fiddle Saturday, 4 February 7:30pm, Woodburn Creatives, Waterloo Featuring Kyla Matsuura-Miller on violin, and Claire Edwardes with Niki Johnson, Jack Peggie, Kerryn Joyce and Alison Pratt on percussion. For those not familiar with Backstage Music, it is a Sydney based collective of musicians who foster new and adventurous music performed by both emerging and established artists;

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Ron Ringer

Listen up! An experience that grabbed you by the eyes

Ensemble Offspring | Listen up! Sunday  September 11, 6pm | Cell Block Theatre   Unfamiliarity is my friend. Most of us were brought up on music of a classical nature where rhyme and metrics lend themselves to a more immediate understanding. Listen up: it’s quite OK to be pitched out of one’s comfort zone.  Sunday night’s program at the Cell

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Jacqui Smith

Ensemble Offspring bend time and rhythm in all their glory

Ensemble Offspring | Time as Revelator Sat 16 July, 2022 | Carriageworks ‘Twas a brisk Winter’s evening in Sydney, but this did not curb the enthusiasm of the full house for Ensemble Offspring’s latest large-scale performance, in partnership with Carriageworks. Although our party was halved, the tickets were snapped up by an eager waiting list and we were warmly welcomed

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Jacqui Smith

Sydney Chamber Choir’s crisp rhythmic brilliance

Innocence and Experience | Sydney Chamber Choir Saturday 26 June, The Neilson, ACO Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay What a treat to be able to hear a concert in an amazing new performance space, on a sunny, winter’s afternoon on the revamped Pier 2/3 in Walsh Bay. The new space, created on an old pier, was a great way to get

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Ambassador thoughts
Pepe Newton

Review: Melbourne Baroque Orchestra – Bursting back onto the scene

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Courting the Timpani February 13, 2022, 3pm at Toorak Uniting Church Right now is a very special time to attend concerts. Musicians whose diaries had previously been overrun found themselves without any bookings, but suddenly had plenty of time for practice and self-reflection. Now that live concerts are finally reappearing (without being almost immediately cancelled!), the

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Ambassador thoughts
Pepe Newton

Claire Edwardes and Nick Russoniello, real, live musical enigmas

Just down the street from Sydney’s Green Square station, is a funkily designed space with high ceilings, terrazzo flooring and tessellated tiles, to me Mecca coffee screams out “make music in me!” and that is exactly what Vladimir Fanshil, co-founder of Live at Yours, is doing. Partnering with Mecca, and with the support of City of Sydney, Live at Yours

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‘Offspring for All’ Launches Sept 24

Offspring for All is the new digital series from APRA AMCOS State Luminary Award Winners – Ensemble Offspring. Bringing a handful of their highlight concerts each year to hungry ears from around Australia and the world, this ongoing initiative will stream live and pre-recorded concerts to YouTube which will then be available on-demand on the group’s website. Launch Date The

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Rubiks Collective
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Pepe Newton

Review: Rubiks’ luminous lamina of inspiring compositions

Rubiks Collective, This Soft Eclipse Thursday April 29, 2021 Back in their element in the return to the Melbourne Recital Centre, Rubiks Collective – joined by guests Kim Tan, Lucy Price, and Natasha Fearnside – displayed a thoughtful and evocative programme of musics young and old, with an underlying focus on meditation and transformation. The title of the programme, This

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