In our 30th anniversary season of groundbreaking new music we’re celebrating our beginnings – imaginative, resourceful and more than a bit audacious – while looking, as always, to the future.

"Stars and Planets"
The NSW Doctors Orchestra is a classical orchestra of doctors and medical students from all areas of NSW who come together at least annually to play in aid of charities in both the arts and medicine.

Drama, danger and devilish percussion will have you screaming for more.

Benjamin Northey Conductor
Claire Edwardes Percussionist
Will Newbery Host

Performing solo works by Australian composers written and championed by Claire over her 30 year career:

Ross Edwards
Martin Wesley Smith
Anne Cawrse
Elena Kats-Chernin
Michael Smetanin
Maria Grenfell
Matthew Hindson.

Performing solo works for marimba, vibraphone and waterphone.
J.S. Bach - O Sacred Head, Sore Wounded
J.S. Bach - Dances from Lute Suite in E minor
Ella Macens - Falling Embers
Ross Edwards - Marimba Dances
Kate Moore - Joyful Melodies
Claire Edwardes - Ether Lines
Elena Kats-Chernin - Violet's Etude
Elena Kats-Chernin - Poppy’s Polka
Matthew Hindson - Flash

Kate Moore - New work (world premiere)*
​Ivan Vukosavljević - Dead in Love

Two world premieres are the focal point of the opening of the Minimal Music Festival - a celebration of the strength and beauty of minimalist music. Kate Moore has written a concerto specifically for the virtuosity of Australian percussionist Claire Edwardes. Kate Moore’s new work is a loud, wild scream in the wilderness and explores the boundaries of rhythm and sound.

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