Event
Everything I Touch
- Date: Sunday, 28 April 2019, 2.30pm
- Venue: St Columba Uniting Church (Woollahra) — 53A Ocean St, Woollahra, NSW
- Tickets: Adults: $30 | Children: $10 | Concession: $20 — Tickets can be purchased online
Event Details
This striking concert includes the premiere performance of the flute concerto Everything I Touch by Sydney composer Margery Smith, inspired by haikus and micro poetry and written specially to show the wizardry of Hourglass flautist, international star Ewa Kowalski.
The concert also features two more new works by Australian composers, the Russian Rag by the revered Elena Kats-Chernin, and the beloved masterpiece Brahms’s first Clarinet Sonata. The Hourglass Ensemble's special brand of unusual combinations of instruments, intimate and engaging performance, and explaining the music to draw you to the inside with the performers, will have you spellbound from start to finish.
Performers: Ewa Kowalski, Flute soloist; David Banney, Conductor; Andrew Kennedy, Clarinets & Artistic Director; Nicholas Russionello, Saxophones; Tomas Talmacs, Violin; Julia Russionello, Violin; Tara Hashambhoy, Viola; Caroline Hobbs, Cello; Serena Lim, Double Bass; Timothy Brigden, Percussion; Anna Rutkowska-Schock, Piano; Christopher Perrin, Trumpet; Rafael Salgado, French Horn
Featured non-Australian music: BRAHMS Sonata No. 1 for clarinet and piano
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website
Featured Australian Works
Clockwork Ghost (quartets: bass clarinet, piano, viola, cello) by Andrew Ball — performed by Hourglass Ensemble | |
Everything I Touch : for Flute & Chamber Orchestra (2019) by Margery Smith — World premiere — performed by Hourglass Ensemble and Ewa Kowalski | |
Serenade for flute, clarinet, saxophone and horn by Andrew Kennedy — World premiere | |
Terra Anima by Margaret Tesch-Muller — World premiere |
Featured artists
- Music of Elena Kats-Chernin
- New work by Andrew Kennedy
- New work by Margaret Tesch-Muller
- Performer Ewa Kowalski
- Performer Hourglass Ensemble
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