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Ensemble Offspring leads us down their garden path

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens Book tickets to a Sunday morning recital at ‘someone’s house’ in the inner west Sydney suburb of Tempe (address to be disclosed to ticket holders before the event) and you’ll be invited into the backyards of some of Australia’s finest musicians. Ensemble Offspring, you are brilliant! We absolutely love this idea so we asked Artistic

Pepe Newton February 12, 2022

Ensemble Offspring leads us down their garden path

Pepe Newton February 8, 2022

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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

Pepe Newton November 9, 2021

‘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

Pepe Newton September 13, 2021

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Ensemble Offspring Sings an Ambitious Ode to the 90s

Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, June 5, 2021 Ensemble Offspring’s latest project The Surge was an ode to the 1990s and its impact on Australian life. Drawing on a host of themes – environmental concerns, Indigenous relations, the emergence of the internet and the flowering of the arts sector in Australia – the project impressively weaved together these disparate elements into a unique

Adam Jeffrey June 15, 2021

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CD Review: Offspring Bites 3 | En Masse

Ensemble Offspring are champions of new music and emerging composers. Hailing from Sydney, the ensemble has premiered more than 300 new works over their 25-year history. Lead by percussionist Claire Edwardes, the ensemble includes Jason Noble (clarinet), Lamorna Nightingale (flutes), Véronique Serret (violin), Blair Harris (cello), Rowena McNeish (cello), Benjamin Kopp (piano), Zubin Kanga (piano) and Roland Peelman (conductor). En

Claire Matthews March 5, 2021

Review: Oliver Shermacher – Prodigious talent and poise

Oliver Shermacher, virtuoso clarinet player and Willoughby Symphony Orchestra’s 2020 Artist in Residence, certainly had an esteemed audience at his recent concert… two guest reviewers, Claire Edwardes (percussionist, highly regarded in the Australian new music scene) and Andrew Howes (Sydney-based composer, building an international reputation for orchestral and choral music) offer their different perspectives on his Willoughby Recital on Wednesday

Pepe Newton November 12, 2020

Vast range of tone colours in Sideband’s first CD

Featuring core players and guests, the CD draws on an array of inspiration sources, from Japanese Haiku poetry to dust storms and electronic music.

Peter Leung November 24, 2015

The Sound of Burning Water: a stunning hour of solo percussion

A journey through ‘thirty years of solo percussion gems’. Backdropped by visual digital earth abstractions by Andrew Wholley, and electronic sound by Ilia Bezroukov, the audience were asked to let go and be suspended in a mindspace that listened, and listened again.

Lliane Clarke January 19, 2015

Welcoming Ensemble Offspring: Hatched

In allowing two younger, but already highly experienced musicians to be part of their group for a year, Ensemble Offspring are both giving to the future and also gaining from the energy and delight that these musicians bring to all they do. This well-designed concert, exploring a mix of emerging Australian composers and two of Germany’s big names, Karlheinz Stockhausen

Alan Holley November 10, 2014

Flinders Quartet danced the night away

Watching Edwards hold 4 mallets, playing the triangle & using her feet to hit a drum was truly impressive. One can only imagine how many beers she could hold in a pub without using a tray.

Jo Katz November 4, 2013

Claire Edwardes

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