What’s On

This is music in its most relaxed and real setting. Techno Folk, featuring Ensemble Offspring’s trio of clarinet, percussion and piano, is a mesmerising mix of chamber pieces with jazz and folk influences. Grass roots commissioning fund The Silo Collective generously bring us a brand new work from Melbourne’s Joe Chindamo. Also on the program ...

Echoes and Orbits is an intimate and playful program featuring upbeat and eclectic works for percussion and cello. Mainly spanning the latest decade of American and Australian music – a period where pop culture and classical music have converged more than ever before – the pieces reflect the energetic and vital time in which we ...

A highlight of Ensemble Offspring’s 2023 season, Incredible Floridas is chamber music at its most intense, visceral and radical. Composed over 50 years ago by the great Australian modernist Richard Meale, Incredible Floridas pays tribute to surrealist poet Arthur Rimbaud; a slow and delicate descent into the human psyche. In the rustic surrounds of Carriageworks, ...

Beauty is found in repetition and chaos, movement and stillness, in Missy Mazzoli’s Still Life with Avalanche. Steve Reich’s New York Counterpoint plucks rhythmic patterns from everyday life, with a transfixing impression of New York’s restless heartbeat, while Kaija Saariaho enters a haunting and dreamlike state with Light and Matter. A new work by Samantha ...

Our final Mondays @ The Church evening invites Perth guitarist and 2023 Hatched Associate Artist Abbey Felton to perform alongside Ensemble Offspring. As the culmination of her year-long mentorship with EO, Abbey will present the exciting results of her Associate Artist project. We’re excited to discover more, and we hope you are too. Ensemble Offspring’s ...