Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

Concrete (2013) AP
Sami Klemola

Dwindling as the Beginning of More Vibrant Things (2016) AP
Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh

Linearia (2007) AP
Dobromila Jaskot

Porcupine (2012) AP
Michelle Lou

A festival essential, the now legendary Argonaut Quartet returns to the Capital stage for BIFEM’s opening night. In this rich, layered concert, Taiwanese-Australian composer Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh’s newest string quartet, Dwindling as the Beginning of More Vibrant Things, receives its Australian premiere. Following on from his BIFEM début with defunensemble in 2015, Finnish composer Sami Klemola makes a welcome return to BIFEM through the Australian premiere of his string quartet Concrete. Perth-based Polish composer Dobromia Jaskot and US composer Michelle Lou make their BIFEM débuts, each with works of stunning beauty and acuity. A consistent highlight of the BIFEM experience, the Argonaut Quartet is, as always, not to be missed.

Argonaut String Quartet

Judith Hamann, Cello
Graeme Jennings, Violin l Viola
Erkki Veltheim, Violin l Viola
Elizabeth Welsh, Violin l Viola

Concrete Porcupine is supported by the Robert Salzer Foundation and the State Government of Victoria through Creative Victoria.

Featured non-Australian music: Sami Klemola, Dobromila Jaskot, Michelle Lou

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by email to info@bifem.com.au

Featured Australian Works

	Dwindling as the Beginning of More Vibrant Things : for string quartet (2016) by Annie Hsieh — Australian premiere — performed by Argonaut String Quartet
	Linearia (2007) by Dobromila Jaskot — Australian premiere

Featured artists

• Music of Dobromila Jaskot
• Performer Argonaut String Quartet