Event
ELISION
- Date: Friday, 11 May 2012, 8:10pm
- Venue: Conservatorium Theatre, Brisbane — Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, 140 Grey Street, South Brisbane, QLD
- Series: This event is part of the Crossbows Festival series
Event Details
ELISION is Australia's premier international contemporary music ensemble. Its musicians have established a reputation for delivering authoritative and virtuosic interpretations of complex, unusual and challenging aesthetics, often developed in close collaboration with the composer.
International concert and recording engagements received include performances for Maerzmusik, the Berlin Philharmonie and Konzerthaus, Wien Modern, the WestdeutscherRundfunk, and Radio Bremen, Festival Ars Musica of Brussels, IRCAM as part of the Agora festival, the 50th Warsaw Autumn Festival, the Festival d'Automne of Paris, transit festival, the Ultima Festival of Oslo and the Chekhov International theatre festival of Moscow.
Since 2009 ELISION has maintained ongoing concert activity in London and regular appearances for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Recent CD releases include a portrait of Brian Ferneyhough with the distinguished Viennese label KAIROS, Aaron Cassidy with NEOS and Sam Hayden, forthcoming on NMC.
Repertoire being performed on Friday 11 May:
Liza Lim - gyfu (2012) Australian premiere (oboe, percussion)
Timothy McCormack - One flat thing reproduced (2008) Australian premiere (violin, oboe, percussion)
Timothy McCormack - Here is a sequence of signs, each having a sound and a meaning for solo trombone with harmon mute (2008) Australian premiere
Rebecca Saunders - to and fro (2010) (violin and oboe) Australian premiere
Richard Barrett - wound i- v (2009-2010) Australian premiere (oboe, violin, percussion, lapsteel guitar, clarinet, violoncello)
Elision ensemble/Richard Barrett codex (2012) 12' World Premier (oboe, trombone, violin, percussion, electric guitar, clarinet, violoncello)
Performers:
Peter Veale - oboe
Richard Haynes - clarinet in B-flat, Eb, and contrabass clarinet
Benjamin Marks - trombone
Peter Neville - percussion
Graeme Jennings- violin
Judith Hamann - violoncello
Daryl Buckley - electric guitar, lapsteel, effects
Featured non-Australian music: McCormack, Saunders, Barrett
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website
Featured Australian Works
| Gyfu (Gift) : oboe solo by Liza Lim — Australian premiere — performed by Peter Veale |
Featured artists
- Performer Peter Veale
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