Contemporary Music Festival 2023: ELISION

Joshua Hyde (saxophones) Carl Rosman (clarinets) Alex Waite (piano)

Dominik Karski - Streamforms VI (Nocturnal), for solo piano (world premiere)
Golnaz Shariatzadeh - machine euphoria, for solo saxophone (world premiere) (2021)
Evan Johnson - contemptus mundi, for clarinet in C and piano (world premiere) (2020-21)
~ INTERVAL ~
Einar Torfi Einarson - Other proportions: rough path by extinction (virgula ligatura), for saxophone and piano (2023)
Bethan Morgan-Williams - Gêmdisyn, for E flat clarinet (2020)
Anne Cleare - luna (the eye that opens the other eye), for alto saxophone (2013)
Richard Barrett - flechtwerk, for clarinet in A and piano (2004-6)

ELISION is Australia’s premier new music ensemble. The ensemble is informed by an artisanal and intimately gestural approach to music making and a deep commitment to long-term co-creative processes of dialogue and relationship building with composers. The ensemble has delivered rare and authoritative artistic interpretations of the work of Liza Lim, Richard Barrett, Aaron Cassidy, Brian Ferneyhough, Cat Hope, Evan Johnson and many other composers.

ELISION has performed at venues such as the Hebbel Theater Berlin, the Berlin Philharmonie, Saitama Arts Theatre Tokyo, Pompidou Centre, Sydney Opera House, Queensland Art Gallery, and Vienna Konzerthaus; and at festivals such as Wien Modern, Maerzmusik, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Festival Ars Musica of Brussels, Züricher TheaterSpektakel, the 50th Warsaw Autumn Festival, Ultima Oslo, TRANSIT Festival Leuven, Spitalfields London, the Chekov International Theatre Festival of Moscow, BIFEM, the Shanghai New Music Week, the National Concert Hall of Taipei, and Festival d’Automne à Paris.

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