May 2024
Emerging Composers Forum
2025 Fundraiser
Your donation will be matched
dollar for dollar!
WHEN
Sunday 16 June 2024, 3pm
WHERE
The Loft
16 Fraser Street
Aldinga Beach SA
Since its establishment in 2012, Soundstream's Emerging Composers Forum has commissioned 24 emerging composers, whose performances have been recorded and broadcast through national radio.
The ECF Fundraiser raises funds to underpin the commissioning of new Australian works by Australia's up and coming composers through a mentorship program.
Our 2025 ECF looks to be one of our most exciting yet, with mentors including the Inarma Women's Choir from Titjikala NT and renowned soundscape composers Cheryl Leonard (US) and Jesse Budel (AUS) in residence at Aldinga Beach SA.
Thanks to the ACF Boost program, your donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar with a funding ‘boost’ up to $5,000 from Creative Australia.
The afternoon fundraiser will feature performances by Gabriella Smart and Jesse Budel of works by previous ECF participants.
Inarma Choir Workshops - April 2024
The Inarma Choir from Titjikala Community have gone from strength to
strength. Over several years the Elders, who have been singing together for 50
years, have worked tirelessly to invite younger women who are family to join
them. This long-term plan has now come to fruition, with an inspired group of
young women singing with the two remaining Elders. Acclaimed choral director
Christie Anderson (Adelaide Chamber Singers, Young Adelaide Voices) taught
the Choir for the week in the idyllic surrounds of Ross River NT. This workshop
was supported by Creative Australia.
In July, close family Elders from Ernabella will join a music workshop in Alice
Springs. These women share cultural roots and will sing gospel and original songs
in the Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara languages, sharing knowledge with their
sisters from Inarma Choir. The young women will be empowered through this
sharing of culture. This workshop is supported by Arts South Australia and the
University of Adelaide.
Parasymbiosis in Europe
Gabriella Smart travels to Europe in May 2024 to perform the world premiere of
her composition ‘Parasymbiosis’ with Kasper Toeplitz (bass, electronics) and Didier
Casamitjana (percussion, electronics), commissioned by Art Zoyd Studios (FRA), at
Music Meetings Festival in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
She will also undertake a three-day creative development in Amsterdam with Constantine Koukias (AUS/NETH) to complete a new work for piano and electronics, ‘VAST’, which has been commissioned by Hon. Chris Schacht.
Gabriella also joins her Trio ABE for performances in Wuppertal, Bonn, Köln and Saarbrücken (Germany), premiering the Electric Cristal, a new instrument created by Dylan Crismani (SA), and piano. The creation of the Electric Cristal, and Gabriella’s concert tour is generously supported by Arts South Australia.
Chamber Music Adelaide:
Perspectives Concert
10 and 11 May 2024
Adelaide Town Hall
Chamber Music as a living and evolving art form is celebrated with four new chamber works by South Australian composers, to be showcased at the Adelaide Town Hall.
Written especially for South Australian musicians and featuring artists including Desiree Frahn, Pelham Andrews, Adelaide Baroque and Celia Craig, these news works are premiered alongside works spanning chamber music’s rich history, including Sure on this Shining Night and folk songs set by Britten.
Each new work places text, song and story-telling at the heart of their piece, allowing the audience to experience the unique musical and cultural perspective of its composer.
With works by established composer Anne Cawrse as well as a unique collaboration between Arabana songwriter, Nathan May, and Julian Ferraretto, these concerts share the story of places through chamber music.
Presented by Chamber Music Adelaide and the City of Adelaide.
COMA: Audio Lost and Found
20 May, doors 6:30pm for 7pm start
The Wheatsheaf Hotel
39 George Street, Thebarton SA
$20 Non-members // $12 COMA Members
Two acoustic ecologists soundwalk into a pub, bringing soundscapes, bird calls and experimental vocals.
Jesse Budel, Electronics; Keira Simmons - Electronics.
Considering Matthew Shepard:
Video now available
Following our acclaimed performances last October, the video of our last performance of Considering Matthew Shepard is now available on Youtube.
A 21st-century, Grammy-nominated oratorio by Craig Hella Johnson, Considering Matthew Shepard reflects on the 1998 homophobic murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming USA.
Conducted by Jesse Budel and performed by soloists Mark Oates and Jennifer Trijo alongside a stellar ensemble of Adelaide choristers and instrumentalists, these performances took place on the 25th anniversary of Matthew’s death.
Watch our performance on the link below:
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