Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

Sydney Wind Symphony is proud to present in collaboration with Queenwood Girls School a special concert program showcasing soloist Claire Edwardes premiering Dare to Declare Concerto for Marimba by Anne Cawrse with wind ensemble. The concert program also gives voice to compositions by emerging Australian artists Christine Pan and Eleanor Brimblecombe alongside a line-up of Australian compositions including Matthew Hindson’s rhythmically driving ‘Requiem for a City’, Jodie Blackshaw’s ‘The Blessing of Light’ from her Symphony No 1 and Percy Grainger’s melodious depiction of the Australian countryside in ‘Colonial Song’. Acclaim for Dare to Declare “The work gains its subtitle from three Australian arts figures who inspired its movements: poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal, painter Clarice Beckett and composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Add another female champion to the list, because marimbist Claire Edwardes, the concerto’s dedicatee, is a luminary in her field too. Darting from one end of the 2.6m-wide instrument to the other, she dazzled with energy and authority. ”- In Review (Dare to Declare, ASO)

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on 0419 607 448 or by email to committee@sydneywindsymphony.com.au

Featured Australian Works

	Collecting : symphonic wind band by Christine Pan — performed by Sydney Wind Symphony
	Colonial song : symphonic wind band by Percy Grainger — performed by Sydney Wind Symphony
	Dare to Declare : Concerto for Marimba and Concert Band (2023) by Anne Cawrse — Australian premiere — performed by Fiona Lucas, Claire Edwardes and Sydney Wind Symphony
	Requiem for a city : for symphonic wind band (2015) by Matthew Hindson and Paul Mac — performed by Sydney Wind Symphony
	The Blessing of Light : from 'Symphony No. 1' : symphonic wind band by Jodie Blackshaw — performed by Sydney Wind Symphony
	River Story by Eleanor Brimblecombe

Featured artists

• Music of Eleanor Brimblecombe
• Performer Sydney Wind Symphony
• Performer Claire Edwardes
• Conductor Fiona Lucas