Kammerklang 2009 – Sydney

“...a showcase of new Australian visual art and music, featuring acclaimed percussionist: Claire Edwardes and chamber orchestra”

Thursday 28th May
            Art exhibition @ 5:00pm
            Pre-concert Talk @ 6:30pm
            Concert @ 7:00pm

Music Workshop @ The Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Tickets $15
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Artists

Claire Edwardes, Percussionist - Guest Artist 2009
Kammerklang Orchestra

Program

Cameron Lam – Orphic Hymn # 3: To Nyx (Night)*
Peter McNamara – The Styx*
Cameron Lam – The Colour of Woods*
Chris Williams - New Ecstasies*
Chris Williams - Amid your Candles and Lilies*
Amy Bastow - Minimalism isn't dead...*
Jason Pestana – Koniuchy*
Jason Pestana – The Beginning of the End*
Peggy Polias - The Moon*
Stuart Greenbaum - Chamber concerto for flute, percussion and large ensemble

*World premiere

A collaboration between established and emerging performers, composers and visual artists, Kammerklang 2009 is the first iteration of an annual concert project. 7 composers, 20 performers and more than 10 visual artists have been brought together to produce one of the most exciting student-based initiatives in contemporary Australian art.

Come and experience the atrium of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music transformed into an art gallery. The exhibition will include works, created in response to the concert program, by professional artists and students from Sydney College of the Arts (University of Sydney) and the College of Fine Arts (University of NSW). Selected art works will be available for purchase.

Acclaimed, Sydney-based percussionist Claire Edwardes will premiere percussion solos: The Colour of Woods and New Ecstasies , and for solo and percussion and chamber orchestra: The Styx, accompanied by the tertiary student and graduate performers comprising the Kammerklang chamber orchestra.

Shaun Barlow (flute) and Daniel Luscombe (percussion) feature as soloists performing Stuart Greenbaum's Chamber Concerto for flute, percussion and large ensemble. The piece was premiered by Claire Edwardes, Emma Sholl and the Sydney Omega Ensemble in 2008, commissioned by Fr. Arthur Bridge and Ars Musica Australis.

“Working alongside Claire, one of the performers that the piece was written for, is such a privilege. You receive an insight like no other when you can tap into the knowledge of such an artist.” - Shaun Barlow on preparing the Greenbaum.

Duration: 50” – 20” interval – 50”