Join us on May 6th for a very special concert …
This Aurora Festival event is a real treat for music and poetry lovers as we present Song Company’s growing oeuvre of work based on Les Murray, our most prominent and internationally celebrated poet.
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April 20, 2010
Join us in Canberra
We will be performing extensively at The 16th Canberra International Music Festival next month:
“Imagine hearing Song Company perform Bach at the opening gala concert as well as Song Company’s rendition of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers on 23 May. In between there are concerts with music by Arvo Part and John Tavener (yes, his massive Veil of the Temple – something you have to hear in order to believe…) We also look forward to the world premiere of a magnificent new vocal work by Ross Edwards: Sacred Kingfisher Psalms on May 22. Wish us strength and good luck!” Roland Peelman
April 15, 2010
Song Company fundraiser: Aboriginal Art Sale
The Song Company is joining with Ars Musica Australis to present an exciting new collection of Aboriginal art works for sale from the Central Desert of the Northern Territory.
The works range in size and are priced from as little as $30 through to $20,000.
Many of the works would make a great addition to an existing collection or a firm foundation for those just starting out.
April 8, 2010
Sydney Morning Herald review
Ethereal sounds of an Indian Easter
Gethsemane, The Song Company and Synergy Percussion, City Recital Hall, March 31
Reviewed by Peter McCallum, SMH April 2nd, 2010
Each year at this time for several years, the Song Company has presented a music, theatre and dance project exploring the great wealth of Easter music in new and reflective contexts.
Gethsemane, devised and written by the composer Gerard Brophy, alternated musical settings of biblical texts with his evocative prose narratives describing life in Calcutta; one hesitates to call them cameos since the decorative implications of the word scarcely encompass the poverty they captured.
Ranging over a day, and with the same alertness to small detail one finds in Brophy’s scores, they tell of children picking over rubbish, of …
April 1, 2010
Gethsemane -what did you think?
Sydney City Recital Hall performance – 31st March, 2010:
Salutations on a magnificent performance tonight! I LOVED the work- it was mysterious, uniquely haunting and rivetting throughout.
Christina! I loved the sensitivity you brought to your role from the melismatic dialogue with the voices to the intense peaks of rapture and rupture AND you didn’t tell me you also played conch shell – you ARE a remarkable woman!
Clive – wow! – loved his enactment of the story, dramatic rhythm was perfection and Martin’s work is SO idiosyncratic in the way he takes particular phrases and weaves his body into an entire evolution of gesture and meaning. His solo was mesmeric and transcendental – my consciousness melted into the sublime horizon.
Thank you, thank …
March 24, 2010
ABC News
Did you catch the story on ABC National News last night? If not, watch it here:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/03/23/2854214.htm
February 12, 2010
Welcome to the 2010 season of collaboration, creation and discovery!
See the rehearsals for our upcoming March Production – Gethsemane and forward to your friends.
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Book Tickets now
Touring – Sydney, Bathurst, Bowral, Canberra, Newcastle and Wollongong
February 12, 2010
Latest reviews
“Barking mad and brilliant” said Harriet Cunningham in the Sydney Morning Herald
“Roland Peelman – the innovator”, Sydney magazine’s 100 most influential people edition, Dec 2009
One of “The year’s … best moments were the superb dance collaboration by the Song Company to music by Gesualdo under Roland Peelman” said Peter McCallum in the Sydney Morning Herald
February 12, 2010
Announcing the inaugural Song Company Young Artists Program
We are delighted to announce a new program to support and mentor emerging Australian talent. In its inaugural year, please welcome the following young artists to the Song Company family:
Elli Green (Soprano)
Alexander Knight (Baritone)
Jehan Kanga (Assistant to the Artistic Director)
Stay tuned for more details.
