Barry Conyngham: Ice Carving

Join us for a special performance of Barry Conyngham's Ice Carving, featuring Conservatorium string students and staff member Sophie Rowell.

Composed in Japan in 1970 while studying with Tōru Takemitsu, the work takes its inspiration from the ice sculptures of Tokyo's Imperial Palace gardens, tracing a sculpture's life from raw block to finished form, melting in the heat of the sun. Scored for solo violin and string orchestra, the piece explores the textural language of ice: crystalline, prismatic, jagged, melting.

Ice Carving is a particularly successful and striking product of the growing interest in Asian music and aesthetics among a new generation of Australian composers in the early 1970s. - Classic Australia, ABC

SCHEDULE

Three sessions are available:

Session 1

6:00PM Introduction by Barry Conyngham

6:15PM Performance

Session 2

7:00pm Introduction by Barry Conyngham

7:15pm Performance

Session 3

8:00PM Introduction by Barry Conyngham
8:15PM Performance

CREDITS

Barry Conyngham, composer
Richard Davis, conductor
Sophie Rowell, soloist

Conservatorium String Students

PARKING

The City of Melbourne has recently changed the parking restrictions around the Southbank Campus. Parking control hours are now expanded to 7am–10pm, seven days per week, and are capped at three hours. A $2-per-hour fee after 7pm is also now in place. There is no change to the $4-per-hour peak rate between 7am–7pm. Parking inspectors are regularly in the area fining drivers who overstay their meter, so we encourage everyone to be aware and avoid an expensive fine. 

ACCESSIBILITY

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

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