Ensemble Musikfabrik

Date: Friday 28 February 2025
Time: 4:30–5:30pm
Venue: Madley Rehearsal Studio, Elder Conservatorium of Music
Tickets: Free, but registration is essential as seats are limited.

Peter Veale (oboe), Christine Chapman (horn), Florentin Ginot (double bass), alongside David Moran (cello), Justin Julian (viola), and students from the Elder Conservatorium of Music.

An exclusive performance by musicians from Ensemble Musikfabrik, one of the world's leading contemporary music ensembles based in Cologne, in residence at the Elder Conservatorium of Music. Their program features a new work by Adelaide-based composer Georgina Bowden alongside trios by Dylan Lardelli, Juliet Palmer, and Gordon Williamson, as well as a quartet by Liza Lim and a side-by side performance of Richard Barrett's Codex IV with Elder Conservatorium students.

This is the Australian premiere of Ensemble Musikfabrik’s commission from Adelaide composer Georgina Bowden. Thinking about permanence and absence, Georgina created ‘Figure - ground’ from drawings of her walks around the mighty elevation of Uluru.

A full program is listed below:

Georgina Bowden: Figure - Ground (2024)

Dylan Lardelli: The Giving Sea (2024)

Juliet Palmer: a blur of lichens (2024)

Gordon Williamson: Odd Throuple (2024)

Liza Lim: Ochred String (2008)

Richard Barrett: Codex IV (2004-06, rev. 2024)