| 2.30pm, Sunday 12 May 2024 St George’s Church 30 Cromwell St, Battery Point | 2.30pm, Saturday 11 May 2024 Studio 9B 9 Burnett Street, New Norfolk |
A concert of
new Tasmanian Classical music featuring:
Disappearing – Maria Grenfell
Birdsong – Quin Thomson
Revisiting Greensleeves – Janina Oost
Book tickets now via Humanitix
We’re really excited to give Maria Grenfell’s piece, Disappearing, its first airing. This beautiful, contemplative work, with lyrics from Diane Wood’s eponymous poem, deals with themes around the flooding of Lake Pedder, and was commissioned with support from the Australian Music Centre’s MOMENTUM program.
Also brand new is Janina Oost’s latest piece, Revisiting Greensleeves, which will join a bracket of other works by Janina written specifically for Sequenza.
And last but not least, you get the first opportunity to take in a rounded-out version of our own Quin Thomson’s Birdsong cycle, this time with added violone – coincidentally, Sequenza’s campaign to acquire Tasmania’s first resident contrabass viol (and David’s lute, and the temple bells you’ll see Matt playing in one movement of the cycle) coincided temporally with the original composition of this cycle in 2017. Feels like a long cycle completing – a very satisfying feeling.
Get along if you can – it’s going to be exquisite.