Event
Avant Gardens: Songbirds Glebe
- Date: Saturday, 8 March 2025, 5pm
- Venue: Boyce St, Glebe (Private Venue) — Glebe, NSW
- Tickets: Adults: $99 | Concession: $49 — Tickets can be purchased online
Event Details
Beguiling audiences since 2019, Songbirds has become an Ensemble Offspring crowd-favourite. Ever since, we have toured Songbirds around Australia and the world, and our home crowd have been begging us to bring it into their gardens. Now Songbirds returns as a 30th birthday treat for our first musical garden party of 2025. In an intimate, salon setting, Nature comes to you, as a trio of flute, clarinet and percussion evokes virtuosic avian displays and the weird and wonderful sounds of the Australian bush. The musical guest list includes the pied butcherbird, magpies, a laughing kookaburra, a frenzied flock of rainbow lorikeets, even a nightingale… Everything you’ll hear was written especially for Ensemble Offspring by composers who’ve woken up with ‘Nature’s first musicians’, hung out with them on their balconies and documented their songs. Brenda Gifford and Nardi Simpson bring Indigenous perspective, turning eyes and ears to the sky. The results are musical conversations – scintillating and playful – as we literally riff with the birds.
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by email to admin@ensembleoffspring.com
Featured Australian Works
| Beautiful birds (trios: flute, bass clarinet, vibraphone) (2019) [Flamingos, Hummingbirds] by Gerard Brophy — performed by Jason Noble, Lamorna Nightingale and Claire Edwardes |
| Dawn Searching : clarinet with piano by Nick Russoniello — performed by Ensemble Offspring | |
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| Lorikeet Corroboree (trios: flute, clarinet, vibraphone) (2015) by Fiona Loader — performed by Claire Edwardes, Lamorna Nightingale and Jason Noble |
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| Mungala (Clouds) : for alto flute and percussion (2018) by Brenda Gifford — performed by Claire Edwardes and Lamorna Nightingale |
| N'Dhala Gorge : chamber ensemble by Hollis Taylor and Jon Rose — performed by Claire Edwardes, Jason Noble and Lamorna Nightingale | |
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| Of Stars and Birds : for flute, Bb clarinet and vibraphone (2020) by Nardi Simpson — performed by Lamorna Nightingale, Claire Edwardes and Jason Noble |
| A Tawny Tale (2025) by Caitlin Yeo — World premiere | |
| Bird Riffs (2024) by Robert Davidson |
Featured artists
- Performer Claire Edwardes
- Performer Lamorna Nightingale
- Performer Jason Noble
- Performer Ensemble Offspring
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