Ensemble Offspring | The Lucky Country: NAIDOC Week Panel & Concert

To mark NAIDOC Week 2026, Ensemble Offspring presents a powerful 30-minute work for quintet and narrator, by our First Nations Composer in Residence Mark Munk Ross. This world premiere performance traces an arc from tens of thousands of years of First Nations custodianship through the ruptures of colonisation, the resilience of migrant communities, and the rise of hip hop as

Pepe Newton May 12, 2026

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Deep Listening, Bright Futures at First Peoples 2025 Composer Showcase

Ngarra-Burria | First Peoples 2025 Composers Showcase Wednesday 15 October, 2025, Eugene Goossens Hall, Sydney, NSW Presented by Ensemble Offspring In a space named after one of Australia’s great composer-conductors, the next generation of composers took centre stage with stories not just of musical innovation, but of culture, resilience and presence. This was the 2025 Ngarra-Burria: First Peoples Composers Showcase,

Pepe Newton October 16, 2025

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Celebrating 40 years of The Song Company in style

The Song Company | Vespers for Mother Earth June 23, City Recital Hall, Sydney THE SONG COMPANY Susannah Lawergren, Annika Hinrichs, Anna Fraser – Sopranos Jessica O’Donoghue & Hannah Fraser – Mezzo Sopranos Timothy Reynolds & Louis Hurley – Tenors Hayden Barrington & Andrew O’Connor – Baritone & Bass Guest Director: Roland Peelman Ensemble Offspring & Guest Instrumentalists Lamorna Nightingale, Flute

Pepe Newton June 24, 2024

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Cut Paste Play – new musical territories in low-stakes spaces

Cut Paste Play Festival 23-24 March 2024, presented by the music box project, Church Street Studios, Camperdown, Sydney audiences were treated to an mind-bending weekend of new music in the Cut Paste Play festival at Church Street Studios presented by the music box project. With sheer commitment, passion and energy, the festival paid homage to the greats while celebrating the

Lliane Clarke March 26, 2024

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The Song Company’s sacred oratorio for our time and place

The Song Company | Songs from the Heart Oct 2, 2022, Riverside Theatres During his seven years as Artistic Director of The Song Company Antony Pitts has been trying to find his own authentic way of collaborating artistically with the First Nations people of Australia. He says, particularly as a relative newcomer to Australia from Great Britain, that doing this

Pepe Newton October 3, 2022

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Instinct, Improvisation and the Innigkeit: Sumn Conduit

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Whilst concert halls and theatres across Australia remain dark amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, newly formed experimental improvised music duo Sumn Conduit have released TRACK: a fifty-five minute composition conceived in real time in October 2019 at Carriageworks, Sydney as part of the Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art. The duo, consisting of Indigenous Australian improviser and experimental vocalist, Sonya Holowell and modular

Jeremy Boulton July 19, 2020

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