The Joan Events No. 1

Elizabeth Drake, piano
Jessica Aszodi, voice
Chloë Sobek, violone
Iran Sanadzadeh, pressure-sensitive floors

This concert launches the JOAN EVENTS, a multi-year project of new impulses in performance and composition, supported by the Joan Pollock Creative Fund. The fund is a gift from prominent Melbourne musician and teacher Joan Pollock, and continues her decades of contributions to Astra, as solo pianist, guest conductor, and founder/director of the Astra Improvising Choir.

Creative exchanges, improvisations
with Ruth Crawford, STUDY IN MIXED ACCENTS (1930)

Helen Gifford, OBSESSION for Joan Pollock (2005)

Twisted Runways - sound in motion through improvisation, radical compositions, and creative exchanges

supported by the Joan Pollock Creative Fund and Creative Australia