NEW COMPOSITION
Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellowship
ECSTATIC SCIENCE (AND OTHER ADVENTURES)
Mazzoli/Nicolas/Shaw/Harrison
Four dynamic female voices of contemporary music
Repertoire:
Missy Mazzoli
Ecstatic Science
Natalie Nicolas
The Business of Recovery
Caroline Shaw
Entr’acte string quartet
Holly Harrison
Jabberwock
Artistic Director, Sydney Symphony Fellowship:
Roger Benedict
Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellowship:
Brian Hong, violin; Tim Yu, violin; Dana Lee, viola; Miles Mullin-Chivers, cello; Callum Hogan, oboe; Richard Shaw, clarinet; Jordy Meulenbroeks, bassoon; Emily Newham, horn; Fletcher Cox, trumpet; Dale Vail, trombone.
Saturday April 3rd
LOCATION:
The Sound Shell
Time:
2.30 – 3.15pm
DURATION:
45 minutes
“Missy Mazzoli is Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart.”
Imagine the future of live symphonic music with our next generation of star musicians and composers. Members of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellowship work alongside Sydney Symphony musicians, performing in mainstage concerts, community and education programs and performances in regional Australia. For this special appearance at Four Winds Festival the Fellows have chosen to play compositions from four dynamic female voices of contemporary music, two are from New York, two from Australia.
The New Yorkers are Missy Mazzoli, described by the New York Times as “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” and Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw, the youngest recipient of the award for music, who also works with Kanye West.
The Australians are Natalie Nicolas, winner of the prestigious Flinders Quartet Composition Competition in 2017 and 2019, and Holly Harrison, whose whimsical style is influenced by the nonsense literature of Lewis Carroll, is the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra’s composer in residence in 2021.
“[Caroline Shaw’s] music offers glimpses of Haydn, Bach and Beethoven — but taken apart and examined, the way someone might with a clock, then transformed.”
