Spring House Concert of 2 x Duos: Elsen Price + Josh Shipton and Kate Bartlett + Keyna Wilkins and Pavle Cajic in Hearts for Gaza Fundraiser Concert

2 x Duo: Elsen Price + Josh Shipton and Kate Bartlett + Keyna Wilkins and Pavle Cajic perform a set of original and improvised music raising funds for Hearts For Gaza Charity Project at Woodlands Studio. TIckets $20 online or at the door. B.Y.O. Doors open 6.30pm, Concert starts 7pm. More about Hearts for Gaza here: https://www.chuffed.org/project/109308-hearts-for-gaza

7pm: Kate Bartlett and Keyna Wilkins Duo

Classically trained opera singer Kate Bartlett and composer-musician Keyna Wilkins formed a duo this year exploring improvisational interpretations of JS Bach classics alongside Keyna Wilkins' compositions.

Kate Bartlett is a classically trained singer who sang a number of principal roles with Opera Australia earlier in her career, including Flora in Benjamin Britten's 'The Turn of the Screw', The Architect's Daughter in Alan John's 'The Eighth Wonder', and The Shepherd Boy in Puccini's 'Tosca'. She has also performed in many musical theatre and choral performances including Maria in 'West Side Story', Polly in 'The Beggar's Opera', as well as all of Bach's Passions, Mozart's Requiem, Monteverdi Vespers and other major choral works. Whilst her primary profession these days is a town planner, she currently sings with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, including Mahler's 8th Symphony, 'Carmina Burana', First Nations' composer Deborah Cheetham-Fraillon's 'Eumeralla Requiem', and Sir Michael Tippett's 'A Child of Our Time'. She trains with classical mezzo-soprano Jenny Duck-Chong, and has a passion for contemporary classical music.

Keyna Wilkins is a pioneering Australian/British composer-musician, radio presenter and human rights advocate. She was one of three finalists for the Australian Art Music Awards for Individual Excellence in 2021 and 2018 (APRA/AMCOS). Her music has been described by The Sydney Morning Herald as "arresting, genre-blurring...disquieting music with massive breadth and high drama", by Limelight Magazine as "Debussy, Miles Davis and flamenco in equal parts...an irresistible mix" and Jazz in Europe as "creating soundtracks for the biggest issues in our time". She has written over 60 art music works that are performed internationally and published by Wirripang and six tunes in the Australian Jazz Realbook, has been featured on ABC, and writes music for film and theatre. Having released 13 albums of original music, she performs regularly as an innovative soloist, improviser and leader of cutting edge ensembles around the world. Described by Jazz Journal UK as "a powerhouse player", Wilkins has full representation with the Australian Music Centre and has six tunes in the Australian Jazz Realbook. Stylistically broad, her music embarks on a journey of impressionistic dream-like sequences alongside astronomical landscape depictions, existential spiritual quests, and whimsical gestures alongside driving rhythms, often with a strong improvisational aspect.

7:30pm: Pavle Cajic
Pavle Cajic is a composer, pianist, improvisor and human rights advocate. He will perform his solo piano compositions. His musical language draws eclectic and evolving influences from late Romanticism, Baroque forms, jazz, and music from the Asia Pacific region. Pavle holds a performance degree in piano performance from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He has studied composition with Daniel Rojas, the late Richard Gill, and Brad Gill. Pavle has frequently performed with groups including Dreambox Collective, Voces Caelestium, Norwegian violinist Ole Bohn, and flutist Chloe Chung, with whom he’s just recorded a debut album, ‘Sidere’, of new music and improvisations.

7.45pm: Elsen Price and Josh Shipton Duo

Josh Shipton is one of Sydney's iconic performers. Starting in the 1990's, Josh has been a center piece of the Inner West experimental music community, with a myriad of collaborations, residencies and performances/recordings that are pivotal to the Sydney scene. As a performer, Josh's experimental voice performance is legendary and completely unimitatable, audiences will often be inspired, challenged and educated between his guttural screams, masterful use of loops, high pitched melodic divergences and overall vocal-sonic landscape that envelopes the audience, whether it's 5 people, or 500 people.
On top of this, Josh is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, booking agent/curator, modern conductor and mentor for many emerging local Sydney artists.

Elsen Price is a Sydney based double bassist, who as an experimental performer, has toured Australia, New Zealand, Czech Republic, the UK, Taiwan, Japan and India. With many recording releases, performances and collaborations, Elsen maintains a regular performance schedule with some of Australia and the world's unique musicians. Starting experimental performance in 2012, Elsen's early performances consisted of 5 hour solo improvised cafe improvisations, to later 8 hour street performances at the Rocks, to then performing at various festivals and events both locally and internationally. Elsen's musical palette is broad as a double bassist, with a career as a professional classical, jazz and folk/commercial musician, Elsen uses the double bass in it's full breadth to create a versatile and dynamic performance. Elsen has also been invited to collaborate with some of the world's leading Persian, Arabic, Iraqi and Mongolian musicians.