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Consult the oracle and experience an ancient and charismatic vision of the future with Ensemble Offspring and friends.
Our biggest and boldest program of the season is also our most subtle and surreal, with music that will overwhelm you with its delicate beauty and luminous sonorities.
Christopher Cerrone’s ethereal quartet, How to Breathe Underwater leads into the resonant dreamworld of Tobias Broström – haunting music featuring an uncharacteristically tender trumpet. Kate Moore holds a mirror to 13th-century Spain with a modern-day cantiga, Rose of roses, flower of flowers. In its unsung tale, the nightingale, pierced by a rose thorn, sings itself to death.
Two large-scale works receive their Australian premieres. English composer Tansy Davies has written Lost Science as an imaginary journey into the Earth’s interior. She evokes ancient spaces that ‘speak to us in moans, groans, echoes and whispers’, summoning visions of the Divine Feminine, from Isis to Joan of Arc. And Kate Moore’s new percussion concerto, written for her long-time friend Claire Edwardes and co-commissioned with Amsterdam’s Het Muziek, builds on her fascination with storms and the sensual experience of being in nature at the mercy of the elements. The result is equal parts edgy, exhilarating, transcendental, terrifying and beautiful.
ARTISTS
Ensemble Offspring
Clark Rundell (conductor)
Claire Edwardes (Artistic Director, percussion soloist)
Lamorna Nightingale (flutes)
Nicola Bell (oboe)
Jason Noble (clarinets)
Ben Hoadley (bassoon)
Arkie Moore (trumpet – Hatched Emerging Performer)
Nigel Crocker (trombones)
Véronique Serret (violin/voice)
Alexandra Osborne (violin)
Ella Beard (viola)
Blair Harris (cello)
Benjamin Ward (double bass)
Niki Johnson (percussion)
Ronan Apcar (piano)
PROGRAM
Christopher Cerrone – How to Breathe Underwater (2011)
Tobias Broström – Dream Variations (2011)
Tansy Davies – Lost Science (2024)
Kate Moore – Rose of roses, flower of flowers (2025)
Kate Moore – Percussion Concerto (2026)
