Happy birthday Younghi!

Shrishti/सृष्टि and Ensemble Mania present TBC @ Cross St Music Hall, Friday 28th November 2025.

Shrishti is to the promotion of diverse experimental music, embracing improvised, notated, and electronic approaches to music-making. Ensemble Mania brings a focus on platforming music that might otherwise remain unheard, including works by living, local, and otherwise underrepresented artists. This concert brings our two groups together for the first time! 

In this concert, we celebrate the 80th birthday of the trailblazing Korean composer, Younghi Pagh-Paan. Alongside four pieces from across her career, we present work from her student, Palestinian composer Samir Odeh-Tamimi, plus other East Asian music by Pagh-Paan's contemporaries and the younger generation.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation on whose lands we live, make, and share music. Sovereignty was never ceded; these lands, waters and skies always were and always will be Aboriginal Country. 

We will take a short break of 15-20 minutes in the middle of the show, according to the following schedule:

DOORS | 7.30pm
come and enjoy a drink, snack, and a chat!

SET 1 | 8pm
Samir ODEH-TAMIMI Eine Erinnerung für das Vergessen (2006)
Akemi NAITO Secret Song (1979)
Tona SCHERCHEN-HSIAO Yun-Yu (1972)
Juro Kim FELIZ Pagkukumahog (2023)
Tsz Kiu PANG JKF (2015)

SET 2 | 9pm
Younghi PAGH-PAAN TA-RYONG IV (1991)
Younghi PAGH-PAAN Dreisam-Nore (1975)
Younghi PAGH-PAAN I Thirst (2008)
Younghi PAGH-PAAN Hang-Sang I (1993)

Aditya Ryan Bhat | percussion
Dominic Flynn | Ensemble Mania artistic direction
Sophie Marcheff | guitar
Ansel Luk | piano
Gianni Posadas-Sen | flute
Yona Su | viola

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Cross St Music Hall is located at 16-22 Cross St, Brunswick East just behind the Brunswick Bowls Club and next to Fleming Park. It's a short walk from the number 1 and 6 trams at Lygon and Albert Streets; and there is plenty of on-site parking for both cars and bicycles.