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CLAIRE EDWARDES
PERCUSSION
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Performances 2007
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28 January |
South Coast Music
Society, St
Bernards Church, Batehaven
Solo Percussion Recital (Musica Viva Countrywide Touring) incl. works by
Edwards, Ford, Xenakis, Bach, Corea, Schumann, de Leeuw, Smadbeck
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8 -18 March |
Lulie The Iceberg, Sydney Theatre
Company Music by Drew Crawford; (percussion music recorded by Claire Edwardes and
Jeremy Barnett)
www.sydneytheatrecompany.com.au
Lulie the Iceberg is the
epic story of a young iceberg which breaks free of the Greenland Icecap to
embark on a courageous ocean journey. Along the way Lulie (from Iluliaq, a
Greenlandic word meaning the soul of ice) has many new, wonderful, dangerous and
exciting adventures. Helped by the winds, the currents and a wealth of
extraordinary sea creatures and birds, he learns lessons in life and the
environment to eventually become one of the Wise Elders of Antarctica. |
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19 - 23 March |
Head Adjudicator, SCEGGS Darlinghurst Music Eisteddfod
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24 March 7pm |
Music Viva Armidale
presents
Solo Percussion Recital,
Armidale
Town Hall incl. works by Edwards, Ford, Xenakis, Bach, Corea, Schumann, de Leeuw,
Abe
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25 March 10 am |
Armidale Percussion Workshop @
NECOM, Armidale Town Hall
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27 March 8pm |
Music for
Children - Unicef Fundraising Concert with Miki Tsunoda & friends,
Federation Square, Melbourne incl. works by Ford, Edwards, Rzweski
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13 April 8 pm |
Ensemble
Offspring Concert 1 Eggs and Baskets,
Australian Centre
for
Photography,
257 Oxford St,
Paddington
www.ensembleoffspring.org.au
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22 April 11 am |
Arts in the
Valley Festival Reflections on the Nature of Water Claire
Edwardes Solo
Percussion Concert, Big Rock, Kangaroo Valley incl. works by Edwards, Bach,
Rzweski, Abe, Druckman
www.artsinthevalley.net.au
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25 April 8 pm
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Totally Huge
New Music Festival, presented by TURA, The Bakery, Perth
Solo percussion concert
features works
for
percussion,
electronics and multi media
by Crane, J.L.Adams, Kyriakides, Wesley-Smith, Campion
www.tura.com.au
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26 April 8 pm
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Totally Huge New Music Festival,
presented by TURA, Art Gallery of WA "Cage Uncaged" with The Song Company
incl. Cage and new works by S.Adams. Bright, Smetanin & Nas
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30
April 7:30 pm
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Totally Huge New Music Festival,
presented by TURA, WAAPA "Resonator - Van de Aa
portrait" performance of Michel van de Aa "Solo for percussion"
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3 May 8 pm
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Totally Huge New Music Festival,
presented by TURA, Kulcha "Windstrokes"
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8 May 8 pm |
Canberra
Festival of Chamber Music with Adam Jeffrey (percussion) + Silver & Garburg
Piano Duo (Israel). Works by Britten & Bartok
www.cicmf.org
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12 May
3 pm |
Canberra Festival of Chamber
Music, Duo Sol +
Claire Edwardes.
Works by Paul Dresher, Lou
Harrison, Somei Satoh, Ross Edwards & Stuart Greenbaum
www.cicmf.org
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13 - 25 May
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Windstrokes TURA Tour with William Barton (didjeridoo), Iain Grandage
(cello) and Mel Robinson (cello/vocals), Western Australia
www.tura.com.au performances in Beagle Bay,
Djarindjin/Lombardina, One Arm Point, Kununurra, Broome
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9 June 8:30 pm |
La Vie Sur Terre presents Duo Vertigo and the
Esquire Saxophone Quartet,
Het Concertzaal, Tilburg, The
Netherlands www.laviesurterre.nl
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15 June 8:30 pm |
Festival Classique Den Haag
presents Slagwerk Groep Den
Haag/Champ d'Action "Minimal Music" Den Haag incl.
Music for Mallets Voices and Organs by Steve Reich
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16/17 June |
Festival Classique Den Haag
presents Slagwerk Groep Den
Haag - Miniature Percussion Project with David Young and Rosemary Joy (x 5
performances)
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17 June 2 & 5 pm |
Festival Classique Den Haag
presents Duo Vertigo - This is Percussion? incl. works by Shlomowitz,
Parkinson, Lely, Rzweski, de Man, Reich, Cage
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1 July |
Solo performance
of Ross Edwards' More Marimba Dances at the Opening
Ceremony, IAML, Mitchell
Library, Sydney
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11 July
8.30 pm |
Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Civic Theatre, Townsville. Brett
Dean "Recollections" (AP) with Kees Boersma, Ben Jacks, Piers Lane, Paul
Dean et al
www.afcm.com.au
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12 July
5.30 pm |
Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Civic Theatre, Townsville - Sunset
Series - Andrew Ford "War and Peace" with Miki Tsunoda (violin)
www.afcm.com.au
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14 July
10 am |
Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Riverway Arts Centre, Townsville -
Young Families Concert - Rudyard Kipling with percussion
www.afcm.com.au
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14 July
8.30 pm |
Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Civic Theatre, Townsville -
Vintage Classics plus One - Harrison Birtwistle "The Axe Manual" (AP) with
Bernadette Balkus (piano)
www.afcm.com.au
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July 8 pm |
Ensemble Offspring Concert 2 Sibelius Student Composers Awards,
Music Workshop,
Sydney Conservatorium of Music 8pm
In collaboration
with Sibelius Australia, Ensemble Offspring unearths the finest that Australia’s next generation of composers have to offer. Also featuring
works written especially for the ensemble by Bozidar Kos, Michael Smetanin and Michael Finnissy
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4 August
8pm |
Ensemble Offspring Concert 3 Tehillim with Synergy and Halcyon,
City
Recital
Hall, Sydney
For the first time,
three of Sydney’s
leading exponents of new music, Ensemble Offspring, Halcyon & Synergy
Percussion, join forces to present Steve Reich’s monumental work Tehillim.
World premiere by Damien Ricketson, Australian premiere by Gyorgy Ligeti and
the otherworldly sounds of Claude Vivier.
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10,11,13 August |
Sydney Symphony Orchestra Turangalila Olivier Messiaen
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August
8
pm |
Ensemble Offspring Tehillim
with Synergy and Halcyon,
Riverside Theatre,
Parramatta
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August 8 pm |
Ensemble Offspring Concert 4 Crippled Symmetry/King of Denmark,
Eastside Arts,
Paddington Uniting Church
Iconic New York composer Morton Feldman is renowned for his delicate colours
and a spacious sense of time. In Crippled Symmetry, Feldman explores patterns
influenced by ancient middle-eastern rugs, repetitious but disproportionate and
symmetrically staggered. Also featuring The King of Denmark, Feldman’s famous percussion solo.
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9 September
3:30pm |
New Music Network Mini Series presents Claire Edwardes and Geoffrey
Morris "Bad Dog Yoda" Percussion
and Guitar Duos,
Eastside Arts, Paddington Uniting Church
bookings@eastsidearts.org.au www.newmusicnetwork.com.au
www.geoffreymorris.com
The Edwardes/
Morris duo is an exciting collaboration by two of this country’s
leading interpreters of contemporary music exploring a shared belief in
diversity of programming and innovation and energy in performance style.
For their premiere Sydney show, Edwardes and Morris will perform unique
works by an impressive line up of Australian and international composers delving
into the miniature and the extravagant. George Crumb’s Mundis Canis, a charming
musical homage to his dogs Fritzi, Heidel, Emma-Jean and Yoda is pitted against
the iconic Keith Humble’s classic, Arcade IV. Other featured composers include
Mary Finsterer, Peter Sculthorpe, Mark Pollard, Maurizio Pisati, Urus Rojko and
Lou Harrison.
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September |
Ensemble Offspring Concert 5 & The Song Company "Cage … Uncaged"
Carriageworks,
245 Wilson St,
Redfern - 3
concerts in one day! To the Sea, To the Earth and To the Air
Ensemble Offspring
and The Song Company explore the legacy of John Cage in a series of
unconventional presentations at the new Carriageworks.
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23 September 2 pm |
Esso BHP Billiton Wellington Entertainment Centre, Sale presents
Claire Edwardes, Solo
Percussion (Musica Viva Countrywide touring)
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25 September 8 pm |
Ozasia Festival,
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide with Gabriella Smart (piano), Vanessa Tomlinson (percussion),
James Cudderford & Natsuko Yoshimoto (violins) Incl. works by Takemitsu,
Dun, Wenjing & Cho
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28 September
8pm |
Melbourne
Symphony Orchestra Soundscapes
composed and conducted by Richard Mills, Melbourne Town Hall,
Melbourne
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6 October
7:30 pm |
Halcyon Lily on a Black Wave, Music
Workshop,
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
www.newmusicnetwork.com.au
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13/14 October |
Featured Soloist Flametree Festival,
Arthur Boyd property, Bundanon - Concertos by Bach, Sarcich & Ensemble
Offspring presents a Junk Percussion program
www.flametreeproductions.com.au
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27 October |
Kontakte with Ralph van Raat (piano),
Grote Kerk, Veere, Middelburg, The Netherlands
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29-31 October |
Teaching and Concert Detmold Conservatorium, Germany
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4 November |
Trio La Berge, Kanno, Edwardes (flute, violin, percussion),
Bimhuis, Amsterdam
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11 November 11 am |
Duo Vertigo
Classical Music and Lunch, Restaurant 15, Amsterdam
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11 November
8 pm |
Trio La Berge, Kanno, Edwardes (flute, violin, percussion),
Stichting Prime,
Groningen
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17 November
1 pm |
Trio La Berge, Kanno, Edwardes (flute, violin, percussion),
Huddersfield Contemporary Music
Festival, UK www.hcmf.co.uk
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18 November
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Duo Vertigo This is Percussion? Cutting Edge Tour, Wiltshire
Music Centre, UK www.bmic.co.uk
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22 November
8 pm |
Trio La Berge, Kanno, Edwardes (flute, violin, percussion),
The Cutting Edge Series, The Warehouse London
www.bmic.co.uk
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28 November
8 pm |
Trio La Berge, Kanno,
Edwardes
Durham University, UK
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photos Bridget Elliot
Performances 2006
13
March
Adelaide Festival, soloist "Black Wind" & Andriessen with Amsterdam Sinfonietta,
16
March
Adelaide Festival, MacMillan with Amsterdam Sinfonietta
www.adelaidefestival.com
7 April
Duo Vertigo, Theater Kikker, Utrecht
www.theaterkikker.nl
23 April
Duo Vertigo, Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen
www.marzee.nl
27 April
Claire Edwardes solo percussion, St Andrews Sydney
www.aim.edu.au
30 April
Claire Edwardes solo percussion, Art Gallery NSW
www.aim.edu.au
11,12,13 May
Sydney Symphony Orchestra "Great Classics"
www.sydneysymphony.com
3 June Halcyon with percussionist Claire Edwardes
www.newmusicnetwork.com.au/halcyon
24 June
Ensemble Offspring concert incl. solo percussion work by Tonkin
10 July Claire Edwardes solo concert, Lichfield Festival UK
www.lichfieldfestival.org
12 July Claire Edwardes solo concert, Cheltenham Festival UK
www.cheltenhamfestivals.co.uk
7 August
Ensemble Offspring concert incl. new work by Shlomowitz
www.ensembleoffspring.org.au
8-31 August
"The Duyfken Project" Duo Vertigo tour of Australia
www.nederland-australie2006.nl
12/8: PERTH - DUO
VERTIGO “Scale Variable”
The Art
Gallery of Western Australia @ 8 pm
presented by TURA new music www.tura.com.au
Full
Price $30.00/ Concession/TuraCard $25.00
Students $15 Bookings/ BOCS 08 9484 1133 or
www.bocsticketing.com.au
Defying Gravity,
Perth
13/8: PERTH - DUO VERTIGO &
Defying Gravity present “Worker’s Union”
WAAPA
Music Auditiorium, @ 5:00pm,
Edith Cowan University, Mt Lawley.
Info: (08) 9370 6895.
19/8:
BRISBANE Marathon - DUO VERTIGO & Ba Da Boom
Ian
Hanger Recital Hall , South Bank @ 6 pm
Tickets $10
24/8: MELBOURNE – DUO VERTIGO
VCA
Federation Hall @ 8 pm
$16.50/$11.00 Bookings: 03 9685 9423
25/8: MELBOURNE - Duo Vertigo & students
Victorian
College of the Arts, Room 113 @ 8 pm
28/8: CANBERRA - Duo Vertigo & students
ANU Big Band
Room @ 7:30 pm
Adult $15, Concessions $12, Children $8, Friends and
ArtSound FM members $10, Tertiary Students* $2
http://www.anu.edu/music
1/9: SYDNEY
– DUO VERTIGO
Recital
Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music @ 6pm
recorded by ABC Classic FM
15 September SDH,
"Hildegard" by James Wood, Maastricht
www.slagwerkgroepdenhaag.nl
18 September SDH,
"Hildegard" by James Wood, Rotterdam
www.slagwerkgroepdenhaag.nl
24 September
Multifoon Gamelan Ensemble, Boskoop
www.multifoon.nl
28 September "Kontakte" by
Stockhausen with Ralph van Raat, piano, Zeeland
29 September
Multifoon Gamelan Ensemble, KIT Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
www.multifoon.nl
15 October
Duo Vertigo and Blaak Piano Duo concert, Assen
www.pianoduoblaak.nl
23 November Duo
Vertigo and Blaak Piano Duo concert, Almelo
Selected past performances
2005
14
Aug
MCA/FREEDMAN FELLOWSHIP solo percussion concert, Recital Hall
Syd Con 6 pm
August Private
Corporate Concerts for Worley Parson in Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth
September Dance project with Ensemble Offspring - not
open to the public
16
Oct Duo
Vertigo, Ollie Gaat op Zoek, Vredenburg Utrecht
20
Oct
Slagwerk Groep Den Haag, Hildegard, Antwerp
22
Oct The
Axe Manuel with Nicolas Hodges, Birtwistle Festival, Groningen
23
Oct
Duo Vertigo, Ollie Gaat op Zoek, Haarlem
29
Oct
Zephyr String Qt and Claire Edwardes, Utrecht
30
Oct
Duo Vertigo, Ollie Gaat op Zoek, Rotterdam
30
Oct Zephyr String Qt and Claire Edwardes, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
31
Oct Duo Vertigo "Striking Visions", Cheltenham
5/6
Nov Insomnio,
Utrecht
12
Nov Amsterdam
Sinfonietta with Claire Edwardes, Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam
13
Nov Duo
Vertigo, Ollie Gaat op Zoek, Enschede
16
Nov Amsterdam
Sinfonietta with Claire Edwardes, Oosterport, Groningen
18
Nov Amsterdam
Sinfonietta with Claire Edwardes, November Music Gent
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Nov Amsterdam
Sinfonietta with Claire Edwardes, November Music Den Bosch
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Nov Duo
Vertigo and Zephyr String Qt, Lantaren Rotterdam
25
Nov Claire
Edwardes percussion solo, Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music
26
Nov Zephyr
String Qt and Claire Edwardes, The Korzo Den Haag
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Claire Edwardes
Percussion 