EVENTS // Lone Hemispheres – Ensemble Offspring
CONTENT COURTESY ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING Performing alone yet moving within each other’s orbit, Ensemble Offspring’s world-renowned chamber musicians step into the spotlight as soloists. Now in […]
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The Hatched Composer Intensive is bringing you a “taste of the music of tomorrow”
BY CUTCOMMON There’s an old adage in the world of music, and that’s to know the rules before you break them. Composer Damien Ricketson is […]
EVENTS // Ensemble Offspring presents Hatched Composer Showcase
CONTENT COURTESY ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING An evening of fresh ideas, celebrating the next generation of musical thinkers. This showcase is the culmination of the 2023 Hatched […]
How Brenda Gifford is sharing “community, language, culture” through her newest composition
BY LILY BRYANT Have you ever considered the way spoken word plays a musical role in a classical piece? Personally, I understood the use of […]
LIVE REVIEW // Isobel hears Ensemble Offspring’s Still Life with Avalanche
BY ISOBEL ARCHER Our team gives a warm welcome to Isobel in her first review as a CutCommon contributor! Still Life with AvalancheEnsemble OffspringUtzon Room, […]
EVENTS // Still Life with Avalanche
CONTENT COURTESY ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING Repetition, chaos and beauty become one in this program of musical extremes, where the greatest contemporary composers examine every aspect of […]
We chat with two composers about their world premieres in this Ensemble Offspring event
BY CUTCOMMON Ensemble Offspring is a champion of new music. But this group isn’t afraid to dig up some classics — especially if it’s the […]
James Henry and Ensemble Offspring will celebrate National Reconciliation Week through music and conversation
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE National Reconciliation Week takes place from 27 May to 3 June. This year, the theme is: Be a Voice for Generations. Voices […]
EVENTS // Ensemble Offspring presents Incredible Floridas
CONTENT COURTESY ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING Experience chamber music at its most intense, visceral, and radical. Richard Meale’s Incredible Floridas is an homage to the surrealist poetry of Arthur […]
We asked 5 composers about their music for Ensemble Offspring’s Echoes and Orbits program
BY CUTCOMMON Ensemble Offspring is gearing up for four concerts that it claims will “take listeners into a new stratosphere of sounds”. The Echoes and […]