Event
Felix Werder at 90
- Date: Thursday, 23 February 2012, 7.30pm
- Venue: Iwaki Auditorium — ABC Southbank Centre, 120-130 Southbank Boulevard, South Melbourne, VIC Tickets: This is a free event
Event Details
ABC Classic FM and JOLT Arts with support from the Footscray Community Arts Centre present a special tribute concert to the iconoclastic Australian composer Felix Werder. Virtuoso pianist Michael Kieran Harvey performs alongside leading Australian contemporary music ensembles Speak Percussion and the Silo Quartet in a program that celebrates Werder’s ongoing compositional legacy. Warren Burt will present an electronic restoration of Werder’s 1974 work ‘The Tempest’. The event will also be recorded by ABC Classic FM for broadcast on New Music Up Late on Saturday 25 February.
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by email to RSVP@joltarts.org
Featured Australian Works
| Dice (solo piano) by Felix Werder — World premiere | |
| Ill Tempered Clavier (solo piano) by Felix Werder — Australian premiere — performed by Michael Kieran Harvey | |
| Quinny on the Roof : percussion by Felix Werder | |
| Recipe for disaster : percussion (2000) by Felix Werder — performed by Eugene Ughetti |
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| The H factor : string quartet (2012) by Felix Werder — World premiere — performed by Silo String Quartet |
| The Tempest : electronics by Felix Werder |
Featured artists
- Performance/sound art by Warren Burt
- Performer Eugene Ughetti
- Performer Michael Kieran Harvey
- Performer Silo String Quartet
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