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Ensemble Offspring

Phone: +61 409 848 750

Address: Tempe 2044 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.ensembleoffspring.com

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25.01.2022 Our friends down in Melbourne, the Flinders Quartet have been hard at work with their 2020 Composer Development Program. Featuring new works by Thomas Misson (ex-Hatched Academy), Scott Copeman, Helen Wanders, Daniel Riley and Lee Bradshaw. Watch it now! http://ow.ly/KgNY50CsS4m

24.01.2022 "Introducing Tony, my new contrabass clarinet." Maknongan (1976), composed by Giacinto Scelsi. Published by Durand Salabert Universal Classical. Released as part of Lone Hemispheres: The Solo Sessions. ... Performed by Jason Noble (Contrabass Clarinet). "Introducing Tony, my new contrabass clarinet. Tony and I really enjoyed getting out of the house, dressing up and collaborating with the wonderful Michelle St Anne. Giacinto Scelsi’s Maknongan can be performed on any bass instrument, so it was a fitting choice for Tony’s first video recording." Jason Noble Lone Hemispheres is Ensemble Offspring’s solo series, highlighting modern masterpieces alongside new Australian solo works. For our 2020 solo sessions, creative designer, Michelle St Anne was asked to direct the 12 videos. She writes My theme was 'all dressed up with no place to go', hence the socks and bare feet combined with high fashion. The videos are in black and white and a still life is featured on the left of the performer for each work, highlighting how the mundane of everyday life can become poetic over time. 2020 Ensemble Offspring Recorded at BAKER STREET STUDIOS, Sydney Video & Sound by Matt McGuigan, Hospital Hill Creative Direction by Michelle St Anne, The Living Room Theatre Ensemble Offspring is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts advisory body, and the NSW Government through Create NSW. Lone Hemispheres Solo Sessions were supported by the City of Sydney. We live and play on Gadigal land.

24.01.2022 One concert only, late on a Saturday night in a town in Tassie. Robin Fox teamed up with Claire Edwardes and Zubin Kanga and dazzled.

23.01.2022 Come to Spectral Tech on Saturday to hear the results!

22.01.2022 highlight photos by Christopher Hayles

21.01.2022 Check out EO clarinettist Jason Nobles freshly released album. THRUM, with Kim Cunio on piano, explores the fragility of multiphonics with sounds inside the piano. https://www.jasonnoble-clarinettist.com/blo/thrum-new-album

20.01.2022 Our birthday has come and gone in a flash, but given that weve had some interruptions the past week, we want to properly finish off our 25 Year Flashback videos! Our penultimate video features composer Cathy Milliken and our own violinist Vronique Serret, sharing their favourite memories of EO. #ensembleoffspring #iloveEO #25yearsofEO #25thbirthday

20.01.2022 November saw core members of EO tour the eastern states, (Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberrar) along with Perth-based composer Chris Tonkin showcasing a live soundtrack accompanying the classic vampire horror film, Nosferatu. Presented by the fabulous Goethe Institute, Sydney.

20.01.2022 All photos by Chantel Bann, shared courtesy of Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. Concerts on 12 & 13 January 2019, including members of Ensemble Offspring, Ensemble Adapter and International Contemporary Ensemble.

19.01.2022 The very opening of Holly Harrisons Gabi and funky piece Bend/Boogie/Break - thanks to Musica Viva for having us all week too - its been intense and awesome! See everyone at the concert tomorrow night!!!

19.01.2022 Thanks to Limelight for a 4.5 star review of our Inguz show at the beautiful Cell Block Theatre last week - and thanks to the National Art School and Great Southern Nights for hosting us - good times!

16.01.2022 Replica Garden by Bree van Reyk recorded in studio by Bob Scott with video by Martin Fox - what fun this was to record for Bree's Botanical Gardens commission for the Canberra International Music Festival! http://ow.ly/10H750CrN4S

16.01.2022 Composer Genevieve Murphy flew in from Amsterdam to spend a week of intense creativity with Ensemble Offspring. The new work, based around Genevieves attempts to conquer her arachnophobia, will premiere in 2020.

16.01.2022 Our final birthday video! Its time to release the final instalment of our co-founder Damien Ricketsons epic memory countdown. Damien ends on a poignant reflection of the 2020 weve all had, and looks toward the Ensembles future. Thank you for taking the time to share these memories with us, Damien, its been amazing! #ensembleoffspring #iloveEO #25yearsofEO #25thbirthday

15.01.2022 Saturday 29th September, Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

15.01.2022 Photo by Chris Sainsbury

12.01.2022 A week with emerging composers from many nations.

12.01.2022 Photographer Christopher Hayles visited our Composer Summer School to make a record of all the fun.

10.01.2022 Thank you Mark for this thoughtful reflection. If you want to see an example of who we are bringing in to nurture the next generation of composers we have a unique chance for you Friday at Glebe Town Hall: 5pm and 7pm hear new works by Composer Summer School mentors Cathy Milliken, Matthew Shlomowitz and Amanda Cole.

10.01.2022 This Live Stream on Music and AI tomorrow evening at 6pm, presented by the wonderful Jochen Gutsch of the Goethe Institute with our friends Goetz Richter and Ollie Bown looks super interesting - we will be tuning in that's for sure! http://ow.ly/SnJL50CsRfA

10.01.2022 What is Spectral Tech? Composers Alex Pozniak and Tristan Coelho visited Eastside Radio to tell us about it, and you can hear the interview via the Friday Drive playback: https://eastsidefm.org/ep/friday-drive-400pm-14th-sep-2018/

09.01.2022 Local composer Holly Harrison has written us Bend/Boogie/Break, which we will be premiering at Spectral Tech next week. Read more about her work here: https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au//tso-australian-c

09.01.2022 Another charming review thanks to Classikon - thanks Adam Jeffrey for your support :) "It was a pleasure to discover how the warmth of the Cell Block only enhanced the piece’s sound world without muddying the clarity of its interweaving lines." "an ethereal sound world characterised by languid long tones, almost all of which were some sort of extended technique for each instrument. Morton Feldman would’ve loved it, and so did I."

07.01.2022 Back in March 2020, the amazing series who toured us around Scotland and Ireland last year, The Night With, won a big award - the SMIA Award for Creative Programming (Scottish Awards for New Music). Here is Matthew Whiteside, the Artistic Director of The Night With, with the beautiful award which he finally picked up thanks to COVID. We are so proud to have been featured in the 2019 season alongside Duo van Vliet, Garth Knox, The Hermes Experiment, Tom Poulson, Danielle Price, Timothy Cooper and Turning the Elements. More info on the winners here https://newmusicscotland.co.uk/awards2020/

07.01.2022 Performing alone yet moving within each others orbit, Lamorna Nightingale (flute), Jason Noble (clarinet) and Claire Edwardes (percussion) explored harmonious solitude in world premieres by Damien Ricketson, 2017 Noisy Women Commission recipient Elizabeth Younan and local composer, Tristan Coelho. Creative Director: Michelle St Anne The Living Room Theatre Photography: Nathaniel Fay

06.01.2022 9-13 December 2019 Presented by Ensemble Offspring Head Mentor Kate Neal

06.01.2022 Short tour, big love.

05.01.2022 Our Musical Microparks tickets available via Sydney Festival website from 9am this morning. FYI this is our postponed Fever Pitch event with a new name (who wants to think about fevers right now?) If you happened to buy a ticket to our first iteration back in April which was cancelled due to COVID then we would be very happy to refund you so that you can use the cash to buy a new ticket via SF. We are so happy that Sydney Festival have come on board as a partner for this event (along with City of Sydney) - Wesley Enoch has been amazing in his support of local arts companies in need of a partner after a plethora of cancellations this year! We can't wait!!!

03.01.2022 Tristan Coelho tells CutCommon all about his Spectral Tech inspiration. https://www.cutcommonmag.com/tristan-coelho-talks-us-throu/

01.01.2022 We will premiere Hollys Bend/Boogie/Break at Spectral Tech on Saturday.