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ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING 2025 SEASON
March 8 - November 22, 2025
Sydney | Eora, Regional NSW,
In our 30th anniversary season of groundbreaking new music we’re celebrating our beginnings – imaginative, resourceful and more than a bit audacious – while looking, as always, to the future. Our distinctive line-up is often referred to as a ‘Pierrot ensemble’ and Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire – perhaps the closest new music has to a ‘classic’ – has provided an anchor for our 2025 programming. Around this, we’ve curated a series of concerts that bring together powerful and joyful experiences: music that we’re excited to perform and share with you....
LUMEN MACHINE - EO
Sat April 12, 2025 7:30pm ACO on the Pier
Sun April 13, 2025 3:30pm Newcastle Conservatorium
Sydney & Newcastle
Cutting-edge technology meets extreme virtuosity when London based ‘cyborg pianist’ Zubin Kanga joins Ensemble Offspring at ACO on the Pier.
In a thrilling collaboration with London-based ‘cyborg pianist’ Zubin Kanga, four new chamber concertos have been commissioned for world premiere this April in Sydney and Newcastle. This explosive concert combines Ensemble Offspring’s forces with Zubin as soloist performing on microtonal keyboard, motion-sensor ring, light-control sensors and an old-school synthesiser.
CLAIRE X DOCTORS ORCHESTRA
Sunday June 1, 2025 2:30pm
Sydney Conservatorium of music
"Stars and Planets"
Verbrugghen Hall
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Program
Sally Greenaway: The Blue Mountains
Anne Cawrse: Dare to Declare with Marimba Soloist Claire Edwardes
Richard Strauss: Thus Sprach Zarathustra (Opening)
Gustav Holst: The Planets (Mars, Mercury, Jupiter)
John Williams: Star Wars Suite (Excerpts)
Conductor | Dr Joanna Drimatis
CLAIRE X TSO Psycho!
Thursday June 5, 2025 6pm
Federation Concert Hall
Experience the chilling suite from Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho (in a concert hall not a shower) the thrilling The Swan of Tuonela and the visual feast that is percussionist Claire Edwarde's Dances with Devils, driven concert filled with suspense and dark legends.
Program
Mozart Don Giovanni, Overture
Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela
Herrmann Psycho Suite
Grandage Dances with Devils (Percussion Concerto)
SOLO RECITAL BAMM CONCERT SERIES
Saturday 14 June, 2025 6pm
Bank Art Museum, Moree
Performing solo works by
Ross Edwards
Martin Wesley Smith
Anne Cawrse
Elena Kats-Chernin
Michael Smetanin
Maria Grenfell
Matthew Hindson.
AYO Momentum Ensemble & Claire Edwardes OAM
16 November 2024
Malthouse Theatre, VIC
Internationally acclaimed percussionist Claire Edwardes OAM, a champion of the contemporary classical genre, leads Momentum Ensemble in a program of living, breathing music.
Australian artists are the centerpiece of this collaboration. Don’t miss the world premiere of a new Alice Chance work, commissioned by AYO. Performed alongside the inimitable Ross Edwards’ Laikan, a set of dances rich with rhythmic vitality, this program delves deep into the diversity and innovation of Australia’s artistic voice.
SOLO RECITAL Coffs Harbour Music Society
Friday 29 November 2024 7:30pm
St John Paul College Theatre, Coffs Harbour
The Coffs Harbour Music Society presents Claire Edwardes in Concert.
Program: The Australian Marimba
Ross Edwards – Marimba Dances
Maria Grenfell – Stings and Wings
Hollis Taylor and Jon Rose – Dalrymple
Elena Kats-Chernin – Violet’s Etude
Martin Wesley Smith – For Marimba and Tape
Anne Cawrse – Dance Vignettes
Matthew Hindson – Flash
CLAIRE X MCO
Thu 30 May 2024 7:30pm
Sun 02 Jun 2024 2:30pm
Melbourne Recital Centre
Blazing Trails
Claire is the soloist with MCO for Natalie Williams’ percussion concerto Steeling Fire. The work pays homage to the women who fought for the right to work at the Port Kembla Steelworks in Wollongong in 1980, and features an arsenal of metallic sounds, some of which were sourced from the Steelworks. An effervescent Vivaldi concerto, written originally for the young recorder players at the orphanage in Venice where he taught, will be revealed anew on the vibraphone.