THE MECHANICAL FIDDLE - Saturday 4 February 2023
Ensemble Offspring brings together a crack team of Sydney’s finest percussionists with violinist and 2021 Freedman Fellowship winner, Kyla Matsuura-Miller. Together this eclectic ensemble presents Lou Harrison’s iconic Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra, a work which transports the classical violin into the machine-inspired world of junk percussion, and manages to do it with moments of intense beauty.
An equally hypnotic percussion ensemble classic, The Lonely Cowbell by Dutch composer Theo Loevendie, is partnered with works written especially for Ensemble Offspring by Andrew Ford and Eric Avery (Ngiyampaa, Yuin, Bandjalang, and Gumbangirri artist). Finally, Kyla owns the stage with a new solo for violin by Melbourne-based composer Jaslyn Robertson.
Program
Theo Loevendie – Doppleriana (2003) percussion trio
Jaslyn Robertson – Dream-state (2021) violin
Theo Loevendie – The Lonely Cowbell (2003)
percussion trio
Andrew Ford – War and Peace Mvt. II (2004) violin, percussion
Eric Avery – Wind (Of Ancestors) (2022) violin, percussion
Lou Harrison – Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra (1961)
violin, 5 percussionists
Venue: 82 Cope St Waterloo
Date: Saturday 4 February 7:30pm
ARTISTS
Featuring Kyla Matsuura-Miller and Claire Edwardes with Niki Johnson, Jack Peggie, Keryn Joyce and Alison Pratt on percussion.
Media
Kyla is on the Music Show Sunday at 11am - tune in to hear more about what she is performing at The Mechanical Fiddle on Saturday 4th Feb. We can't wait to host this exciting young artist at BackStage!
... Violinist Kyla Matsuura-Miller’s 2021 Classical Freedman winning performance was based on a Japanese folksong, a sign that this is a musician who is expanding the boundaries of classical music and commissioning important new works from diverse voices....
With thanks to our funding partners
Performance space provided by the generous assistance of Phoenix Central Park
