Playing with the ELISION Ensemble for the first time was a wild ride – which is just how Ben Marks likes it. Now, he is discovering startling new possibilities for the trombone as composers explore the sounds ‘in the cracks’.
Daryl Buckley, AD of ELISION Ensemble, and Alex Raineri, AD of Brisbane Music Festival, remember a private, gentle, inspiring young man, considered one of Australia's most promising composers.
November’s playlist us brings up to date with the slew of new releases (and digital re-releases) over the past couple of months. There’s an exciting range from contemporary classical, jazz and sound art from composers who have featured before and some new faces.
This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
ELISION’s regular members are superbly captured in close-up as they perform on both conventional and unusual instruments in the Performance Series on YouTube.
MARCH STATIC will be performed at Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne, and feature new works by Liza Lim, Thomas Meadowcroft, Cathy Milliken and Damien Ricketson.
While live performance is returning, travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic mean virtually no international artists will tour here. Will we seize the chance to create a greater space for Indigenous, female and ethnically diverse voices to speak to us about Australia today?
Not so much a new music tasting plate as a sumptuous multi-course banquet.
Part marathon, part tasting plate, part John Cage’s Musicircus, Lyle Chan’s 12-hour festival will see Australia’s most innovative music-makers converge on City Recital Hall.
