
2023 Quotes & Reviews
ASKO|SCHÖNBERG IN CONCERT WITH ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING ★★★★ “This new music programme featured complex, fresh approaches to ensemble music with soundscapes …
ASKO|SCHÖNBERG IN CONCERT WITH ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING ★★★★ “This new music programme featured complex, fresh approaches to ensemble music with soundscapes …
-BARRA 4.5 stars ★★★★½ “From each and every performer, joy radiated from their eyes, their smiles, their hearts.” – Rebecca …
COMPOSING SONGLINES 4 stars ★★★★ “A sense of spirit from the Dreaming washed over my senses as the music carried …
LONE HEMISPHERES: THE SOLO SESSIONS 5 stars ★★★★★ “Simply but beautifully filmed and presented, the solo performances can be appreciated …
LONE HEMISPHERES “Designer Michelle St Anne emphasises isolation with, in turn, each soloist half-shadowed at the base of a high …
“Ensemble Offspring never fails to deliver exciting programs and vibrant performances.” Angus McPherson, Limelight “I could continue listing milestones…but when it …
“It’s a ballsy move to open a concert of such uncompromisingly demanding (albeit beautiful) music with a work which systematically …
“…not afraid to try new things, pushing the boundaries as an ensemble – both individually as performers but also in …
“The result of Broken Consorts was a fresh and stimulating blend of the old and the new.” – Peter Donnelly, …
“The Ensemble Offspring orchestra excelled, especially in the quickfire transition to a demented big band uproar…The interplay..with the acoustic instrumentation …
“While the quartet’s six-part program (in Ligeti Morphed) showed these Sydney musicians to be confident in their fusion of improvisation, …
“the best I ever heard the piece played. Really, I’m serious. It really is. It absolutely is.” – Steve Reich …
“This hour-long promenade performance has its audience free to roam like wide-eyed shoppers. Scenes take place around and among us. …
“World New Music Days’ resident musicians Ensemble Offspring took over with chamber music from Canada, Denmark, France and the Antipodes. …
“This program, conducted by Roland Peelman explored this approach with considerable intellectual and musical subtlety. The last section, in which …
“Considerable intellectual and musical subtlety.” Peter McCallum, Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald’s annual review of classical music, Ensemble Offspring and The Song Company’s production “Cage Uncaged” was listed in …