CHARISMA (ROS DUNLOP AND DAVID MILLER) + KEYNA WILKINS

Please join us in this delightful intimate Leichhardt venue The Flute Tree on Sunday 15th September for an afternoon concert of exciting new Australian instrumental!

Doors: 4pm
Keyna Wilkins: 4.30pm
Charisma: 5pm 

CHARISMA
Charisma was founded in 1995 to explore and develop music for clarinet and cello. Charisma enjoys an international reputation for lively and virtuosic music-making. Programmes include works spanning four Four centuries, world premiers and many composers have written works for Charisma. Charisam has conducted composer workshops, and are particularly keen to encourage emerging composers. Charisma moves easily across all kinds of musical boundaries – from classical to blues, avant-garde to tangos, and minimalist to multi-media works. The marriage of styles has led to performances in unconventional venues such as jazz clubs, art galleries, bars and open spaces as well as traditional concert halls. They frequently collaborate with other musicians to expand on the trio repertoire. They have recordings on CD and record for the ABC.

Ros Dunlop has been a strong advocate of new music the clarinet & bass clarinet all her professional life. She has commissioned many Australian Composers and  premiered many new compositions by composers worldwide. Ros has performed throughout Australia, New Zealand ,Canada, the UK, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, East Timor and the USA,  Her CDs have received International acclaim. Collaboration over many years with composer Martin Wesley-Smith resulted in a number of new works and a long association with East Timor over two decades, researching the traditional music and subsequently producing a bilingual book now used as source material in the Timor Leste department of Education. The music of East TImor became the source of her PHD thesis.  She has been involved with Timorese performers and concert projects there ever since. Ros taught clarinet and chamber music at Sydney Conservatorium of Music for 25 years. 

David Miller is one of Australia's leading chamber musicians and vocal accompanists. The Sydney Morning Herald described him as "the role model of Australian accompanists. He has been awarded an AM for his services to Music.  His distinguished career has included partnerships with many internationally renowned artists,  Joan Carden, Marilyn Richardson John Pringle, to name but a few. He has performed with The HuntingtonTrio, Flederrman, The Song Company, The Australia Ensemble. He is a founding member of the Grevillea Ensemble.  He has performed in the U.K, New Zealand, Indonesia, Japan, China, Saudi Arabia, New Caledonia, Korea, Vanuatu and Vietnam. He has recorded for Walsingham Classics, Tall Poppies, Vox Australis, 2MBS-FM and ABC Classics. David Miller was on the staff of Sydney Conservatorium of Music as Chair of Chair Ensemble Studies and Accompaniment for more than four decades. 

Programme:

Sadie Harrison - (Australian/English)  Owls Of The Hazels - (bass clarinet & piano)  7’30"1. Anksta rota Celia (I woke up early)  2. Prapuoliau, motel (I am lost, mother)
Nigel Westlake (Australian)  Rare Sugar  (Bb clarinet & Piano) 14’
Keyna Wilkins (Australian)  Tears of Stone (Bb clarinet & Piano, narration) ?’

KEYNA WILKINS 

"A powerhouse player" JAZZ JOURNAL UK

"Particularly fine nuanced playing throughout" LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE

"Creating soundtracks for the biggest issues of our time" JAZZ IN EUROPE

Keyna Wilkins is a pioneering Australian/British composer-musician. She was one of three finalists for the Australian Art Music Awards for Individual Excellence in 2021 and 2018 (APRA/AMCOS). As an innovative soloist her solo show explores stream-of-consciousness improvisations alongside her composed pieces, often using loop pedal and visual projections and inspired by contemporary human rights issues, astronomical phenomena and thoughts. She has collaborated with six detained refugees from their prison cells via zoom, victims of Australia's brutal mandatory refugee detention laws for nine years, on various music, poetry and art collaborations. She has performed her solo show around Australia and USA including Phoenix Central Park, MONA, Sydney Women's International Jazz Festival, Melbourne Digital Concert Hall, Australian Flute Festival, Churches Des Artistes New York, Downtown Music New York and many other venues. She has released 4 solo albums on piano and flute and 5 ensemble albums. Her works are published by Wirripang and performed internationally. While classically trained in UK, Germany and Sydney Conservatorium, she has branched into jazz, flamenco, live theatre and has studied intuitive conceptual improvisation with Tibetan Buddhist musician Tenzin Cheogyal.