Event
Atlas of the Sky : Sydney Festival
- Date: Thursday, 16 January 2020, 8pm
- Venue: City Recital Hall — 2 Angel Place, Sydney, NSW
- Series: This event is part of the Sydney Festival 2020 series
- Tickets: Adult: $50 - $60 | Concession: $45 | Under 30: $39 (bookin fees apply) — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on (02) 8880 9214
Event Details
Liza Lim is one of Australia’s most celebrated contemporary classical composers. Her latest work brings together the virtuosic instrumentalism of Speak Percussion, the incredible voice of soprano Jessica Aszodi, and vocal sounds from a ‘crowd’ of 16 trained and untrained performers.
Inspired by the poetry of Eliot Weinberger and Bei Dao, and reflecting the turbulent rhythms of our world, Atlas of the Sky whips up a maelstrom of driving rhythms, swarming percussion and vocals.
The singers and performers use purpose-built instruments, including string drums, stones, wood blocks and the semantron – a resonant plank of wood used in Greek and Eastern European Christian Orthodox ritual – to tell aural stories about the stars, the power of crowds and changing constellations of memory.
Atlas of the Sky was awarded the Art Music prize for Best Performance of the Year at the 2019 APRA AMCOS Australia Awards.
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website
Featured Australian Works
| Atlas of the Sky (soprano with ensemble) by Liza Lim — performed by Jessica Aszodi and Speak Percussion |
Featured artists
- Performer Speak Percussion
- Performer Jessica Aszodi
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