Ensemble Offspring

The Oracle

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Consult the oracle and experience an ancient and charismatic vision of the future with Ensemble Offspring and friends.

Our biggest and boldest program of the season is also our most subtle and surreal, with music that will overwhelm you with its delicate beauty and luminous sonorities. 

Christopher Cerrone’s ethereal quartet, How to Breathe Underwater leads into the resonant dreamworld of Tobias Broström – haunting music featuring an uncharacteristically tender trumpet. Kate Moore holds a mirror to 13th-century Spain with a modern-day cantiga, Rose of roses, flower of flowers. In its unsung tale, the nightingale, pierced by a rose thorn, sings itself to death.

English composer Tansy Davies has written Lost Science as an imaginary journey into the Earth’s interior. She evokes ancient spaces that ‘speak to us in moans, groans, echoes and whispers’, summoning visions of the Divine Feminine, from Isis to Joan of Arc.

New music turns to ancient, elemental inspiration in this revelatory program of brand new music. Join us as we consult The Oracle.

Program
CHRISTOPHER CERRONE How to Breathe Underwater (2011)
TOBIAS BROSTRÖM Dream Variations for trumpet and percussion (2011)
KATE MOORE Joyful Melodies (2024)
KATE MOORE Rose of roses, flower of flowers (2025) Australian premiere
TANSY DAVIES Lost Science (2024) Australian premiere & Ensemble Offspring co-commission

Performers
Claire Edwardes (Artistic Director, percussion soloist), Lamorna Nightingale (flutes), Jason Noble (clarinets), Arkie Moore (trumpet – Hatched Emerging Artist), Véronique Serret (violin/voice), Ella Beard (viola), Blair Harris (cello), Niki Johnson (percussion)

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Street One | Reserved | Duration 70 Minutes
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