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Pepe Newton

A spellbinding Oracle of new music from Ensemble Offspring

Ensemble Offspring | The Oracle June 2, 2026, ACO Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW Before Ensemble Offspring’s The Oracle began, the audience gathered in a small rehearsal room at ACO on the Pier, looking out across Sydney Harbour as Vivid flickered beyond the glass. It was the perfect threshold for a concert about forces greater than us: water, weather, rock,

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Pepe Newton

Ensemble Offspring | Reich: Rejoice: Repeat

Ensemble Offspring celebrate Steve Reich’s 90th birthday with a joyous retrospective celebrating the hypnotic power of Reich’s signature rhythmic groove. In 2026 we’re celebrating Steve Reich’s 90th birthday. But who needs a birthday as an excuse? Steve Reich’s music is our guilty pleasure – we love listening to it and we absolutely adore playing it. In this program, we’re presenting

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Pepe Newton

Ensemble Offspring | Reich: Rejoice: Repeat

Ensemble Offspring celebrate Steve Reich’s 90th birthday with a joyous retrospective celebrating the hypnotic power of Reich’s signature rhythmic groove. In 2026 we’re celebrating Steve Reich’s 90th birthday. But who needs a birthday as an excuse? Steve Reich’s music is our guilty pleasure – we love listening to it and we absolutely adore playing it. In this program, we’re presenting

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Pepe Newton

Ensemble Offspring | Reich: Rejoice: Repeat

Ensemble Offspring celebrate Steve Reich’s 90th birthday with a joyous retrospective celebrating the hypnotic power of Reich’s signature rhythmic groove. In 2026 we’re celebrating Steve Reich’s 90th birthday. But who needs a birthday as an excuse? Steve Reich’s music is our guilty pleasure – we love listening to it and we absolutely adore playing it. In this program, we’re presenting

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Pepe Newton

Ensemble Offspring | The Oracle – Sydney

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

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Pepe Newton

Ensemble Offspring | The Oracle – Canberra

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

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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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EO’s Double Symmetry at Tempo Rubato a truly captivating concert

Ensemble Offspring | Double Symmetry 29th May 2025, Tempo Rubato, Brunswick, Melbourne Sometimes, a concert event lives up to the publicity hype that promoters and venues produce.  Ensemble Offspring is advertised as Australia’s leading new music group standing at the forefront of musical innovation for 30 years. The concert at Tempo Rubato in Melbourne on May 29 proved the claim.

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Daniel Kaan

EO’s concert of four world premieres – profound intellectual satisfaction

Ensemble Offspring | Lumen Machine 12 April, 2025, ACO Neilsen Theatre, Sydney, 12 April 2025 PROGRAM Brigitta Muntendorf: Weight and Load #2* Zubin Kanga: From the Machine* Amanda Cole: Dream Garden* Anna Meredith: Bumps Per Minute (arr. Jessica Wells) Tristan Coelho:  Hot Take* ARTISTS Claire Edwardes: Artistic Director, percussion Zubin Kanga: piano, keyboard, electronics Lamorna Nightingale: flutes Jason Noble: clarinets

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Lliane Clarke

Composers present dynamic new music from red dirt country at Moorambilla Voices Gala Concert

Moorambilla Voices | Riversong 2024: Spirit of Water   28-29 September 2024, Dubbo Regional Theatre No less than five new Australian premiere works, nine composers and a new digital film score came alive at the Moorambilla Voices Gala Concert, Riversong 2024: Spirit of Water, which I travelled to watch in Dubbo last weekend.  The powerful performance was a thematic multi-arts expression

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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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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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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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Alan Holley

Incredible Floridas, such intensity and beauty and drama

Ensemble Offspring | Incredible Floridas June 24, 2023, Carriageworks PROGRAM JOSEPHINE MACKEN – the imaginary line about which the body rotates (2023) Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion. World Premiere. MARTIN WESLEY-SMITH – For Marimba and Tape (1983) Marimba, electronics. AUGUSTIN BRAUD – Hexis (2023) Cello, percussion. World Premiere. RICHARD MEALE – Incredible Floridas (1971) Flute, clarinet, violin/viola, cello, piano,

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Claire Matthews

Camerata brings the distinct sound-world of the Australian landscape to life

Camerata | From my Homeland Thursday May 25, 2023, QPAC Camerata’s From my Homeland concert on Thursday night was a celebration of contemporary Australian chamber music, with the entire program comprising of music from our home.  Camerata was also celebrating 10 years as company-in-residence at QPAC, a decade of collaboration, friendship and music-making together.  The concert began with Margaret Sutherland’s

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Pepe Newton

Camerata’s 2023 Program, breathtakingly beautiful

Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra  Season 2023  Breathtakingly beautiful music to feed the soul   Join Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra in 2023 for a season of uniquely inspiring music all with their trademark innovation, passion, and energy. You’ll be swept up in the romance of Tchaikovsky’s beloved Serenade for Strings and revel in the Australian heartland with special guests,

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Pepe Newton

Rich, yearning soundscapes of BackStage’s Earthbound

BackStage Music | Earthbound August 26, 2022, Woodburn Creatives On Friday night, the tall beamed ceilings and four white walls of Woodburn Creatives in Redfern became an intimate canvas for Backstage Music’s Earthbound. Curated by Fiona Hill and Lamorna Nightingale, it centred upon six pieces by female-identifying composers, unveiling and provoking our shifting relationship with the natural world around use

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Adam Jeffrey

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

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