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Alan Holley

Ensemble Offspring partied for their 30th birthday celebrations

Ensemble Offspring | Divine Darkness 3 July 2025, The Neilson, ACO on the Pier, Walsh Bay, NSW Jack Symonds conductor   Jane Sheldon soprano  Claire Edwardes Artistic Director percussion  Jason Noble clarinets   Lamorna Nightingale flutes   Véronique Serret, Liisa Pallandi violins Henry Justo viola Blair Harris cello   Benjamin Ward double bass  Ronan Apcar piano (Hatched Emerging Performer)  When

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Pepe Newton

Backstage Music | 2025 – Living, Breathing, Buzzing with Possibility

Backstage Music | 2025 Season Launch April 4, 2025, Woodburn Creatives, Redfern Forget the plush red velvet and the sacred hush, Backstage Music is doing something different. And if their 2025 season launch is anything to go by, “different” is just what Australian new music needs. At its core, this isn’t just a concert series. It’s a bold manifesto: A

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Daniel Kaan

“I am absolutely in awe of the precision and musicality of Ensemble Offspring”

Ensemble Offspring | Light and Matter 3 August 2024, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW Program: Bree van Reyk – Remnant Magnetism (2024) Kaija Saariaho – Light and Matter (2014) May Lyon – Do Na Chaill (2024) Georges Aperghis – Wild Romance (2013) Performers: Claire Edwardes (Artistic Director, percussion) Jane Sheldon (soprano) Lamorna Nightingale (flutes) Ben Opie (oboe) Jason Noble

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Lliane Clarke

Enter the electrifying realm of BackStage Music’s experimental performance…

IMPOSTO| Presented by BackStage Music 14 June 2024 Woodburn Creatives On a wet winter night, I was drawn like a moth to the vibrant lights of Woodburn Creatives warehouse in Redfern. I stepped into the electrifying realm of BackStage Music’s experimental performance. All credit to the dynamic Lamorna Nightingale, who keeps pushing boundaries and serves us a platter of new

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Heidi Hereth

Song Company’s Superbloom ‘a form of worship in song’ superbly performed

The Song Company | Superbloom March 7, 2024, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW Superbloom describes the miraculous blooming of the desert after unusual rain – there is an extreme contrast between the arid and the lush. Guest Director Jane Sheldon embraced this concept to create an exciting program of contrasts, where some works are ‘arid’ in their sounds, while

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Pepe Newton

BackStage Music 2024 – Redefining classical music

BackStage Music invites you to embark on a musical journey like no other in 2024. As a haven for creative expression, this concert series promises to redefine classical music through innovative programming and collaborations.   “BackStage Music presents seven adventurous programs which stretch and shape the classical music experience through radical rethinking of how music is imagined and presented”  

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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 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

Halcyon’s 25 year dance of life, friendship and connection through music

Halcyon | The Dance of Life October 20, 2023, Walsh Bay Arts Precinct Halcyon’s concert on Friday night at Walsh Bay was a celebration of the ensemble’s 25th year. It was a wonderfully warm evening hosted by long time collaborator and friend of the ensemble Genevieve Lang who regaled us with touching stories of the many connections and collaborations behind

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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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Pepe Newton

Ensemble Offspring launch ‘The Offcast: Conversations with musical mavericks’

On May 3 Ensemble Offspring launches their new podcast ‘The Offcast’ – In a series of punchy and upbeat interviews Artistic Director Claire Edwardes chats to musical mavericks and pioneers from close to home and across the globe to find out what makes them tick and their inspiration to do things differently as well as their plans for the future.

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Q&A with Halcyon’s Jenny Duck-Chong ahead of IN NATURE

Ahead of Halcyon’s concert, In Nature, on Saturday 12th October, classikON’s Phillipa spoke to Halcyon’s Artistic Director, co-founder and mezzo-soprano, Jenny Duck-Chong about nature and poetry as artistic inspiration, the importance of supporting new music, and the unique soundscapes In Nature will evoke. classikON: Why do you think it is that composers throughout history, and still today, turn to nature as their inspiration?

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Kathryn Robinson

Jane Sheldon’s Symbiosis

As Jane explained at the beginning of the concert on Friday night, Symbiosis, from Ancient Greek meaning “together” and “living”, it is the close and often long-term interaction between two or more different biological species. “These hour-long programs are designed to cast a light on the symbiotic nature of chamber music performance: breathing together, thinking together, and witnessed at close

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Acacia Quartet + Jane Sheldon + Lyle Chan

Acacia Quartet performing works from their CD with Jane Sheldon ‘North+South’ were joined by two works by Lyle Chan. A perfect way to finish the week. Jane’s beautiful voice sang through a range of traditional, arranged, and new works, that washed the stress of the week away. Read our review of their CD North+South. These songs were interluded by the

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Acacia Quartet with Jane Sheldon: North + South

North + South is an eclectic collection of ten folk songs covering the Northern and Southern hemispheres of the globe. So we have Australian, English and Irish folksongs and some interesting arrangements by Benjamin Britain and avant garde composer Luciano Berio. Classic folksongs such as ‘I Wonder as I Wander’ are mixed with The Dying Stockman and the Plains of

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