The Bowerbird Collective | Birdsong at UKARIA

The Bowerbird Collective at UKARIA
Two nature-themed concerts presented as part of the Nature Festival SA, 2024

'Passenger Pigeons' with Katie Yap | October 5, 11:00am
'Where Song Began' | October 5, 2:30pm

Don't miss these debut performances by the Bowerbird Collective at the stunning UKARIA Cultural Centre on October 5, as part of the 2024 Nature Festival SA.
Tickets can be purchased for each concert individually, or as a package at a discount. Tickets are sold as general seating.

Optional Light-Lunch
*** UKARIA will be serving a light-lunch before the second concert. As UKARIA does not have a chef on-site and we wish to minimise food wastage, we ask that all light meals are pre-ordered on the Ukaria website by clicking here. Light lunch orders will close at 9am on the Monday before the event (unless sold out prior). ***

'Passenger Pigeons' with Katie Yap | October 5, 11:00am
This moving program for string trio was created as part of Katie Yap's 2022 Freedman Fellowship project, 'Multitudes'. Featuring Simone Slattery, violin, Katie Yap, viola, and Anthony Albrecht, cello, three of Australia's most compelling musicians, 'Passenger Pigeons' explores the connections and tensions between humanity and nature; our hunger for progress when it comes up against the beauty and power of our natural environment around us, and the possibility for living within it rather than treating it as a resource.

"Such a special gift..." - CutCommon

Simone Slattery | violin
Katie Yap | viola
Anthony Albrecht | cello

Program:
Hildegard von Bingen - Processional of Emobird Souls, 12th Century (arr. Sequentia)
Scandinavian Folk Tunes - Vals after Lasse i Lyby & Da Lounge Bar (arr. Katie Yap)
Anne Cawrse - Ulterior Motives, 2003
Anne Cawrse - Sanctuary, 2021
Katie Yap - August & Multitudes, 2023
Missy Mazzoli - Lies You Can Believe In, 2007
Simone Slattery, Katie Yap & Anthony Albrecht - Passenger Pigeons, 2023
Teri Young - Prayer, 2018 (arr. Katie Yap)

One hour without interval.

'Where Song Began' | October 5, 2:30pm
Performed more than 100 times in sold out halls across Australia and internationally, Where Song Began is a celebration of songbirds. Described as "spectacular" by Limelight Magazine in a 5-star review, the 50-minute program includes music spanning 300 years, from Johann Heinrich Schmelzer and J.S. Bach to Arvo Pärt and new commissions, enhanced by a film of evocative visual projections and an immersive soundscape.

"A delicate and beautiful fusion"
"Like being sung to by the country"

Program:
Arvo Pärt - Fratres for solo violin, 1977
Sarah Hopkins - Reclaiming the Spirit, 1993
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending, 1917
Chris Williams - bird, songs, seas, 2017
Ross Edwards - Ecstatic Dance No.2, 1990
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer - Cucu Sonata, 1664
J.S. Bach - Prelude from Cello Suite No.1, c.1720
David Lang - Anthochaera carunculata (Red Wattle Bird), New Commission, 2017
Ngarra Burra Ferra - Traditional Indigenous hymn 

One hour without interval, followed by a Q&A

About the performers:

The Bowerbird Collective makes art for nature. Their work has received international acclaim, and their ARIA-nominated albums of threatened bird, frog and mammal calls, 'Songs of Disappearance', reached the top of the ARIA Album Charts ahead of Adele, ABBA and Ed Sheeran. Violinist Simone Slattery was a 2019 Churchill Fellow, received a PhD in Music Performance from the University of Adelaide and performs regularly with Australia's finest ensembles. Cellist Anthony Albrecht was Australia's first graduate of The Juilliard School's Historical Performance program and enjoys an international performance career. Katie Yap is one of Australia's most in-demand violists, performing with Van Diemen's Band, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Australian World Orchestra. She was the winner of the 2022 Freedman Fellowship, and is a current Musica Viva FutureMaker. Katie is an Associate Artist of the Bowerbird Collective.
For more information visit www.bowerbirdcollective.org

Learn more about the Nature Festival SA:
Click here to see the wonderful 2024 program, celebrating 'Awe'.
"Returning for our 5th year, over 400 nature-inspired events are blooming all across South Australia this Spring School Holidays. We have art, adventure, music, food, wine, wellbeing, and Aboriginal culture, and plenty of free and family-friendly events."