Join Wattleseed Ensemble for their first tour of South Australia.
Wattleseed Ensemble's music is an invitation to intimacy; to the rawness of strings and eucalypt forest; to connection. We weave together music of the baroque period with folk music and contemporary Australian music in a confluence of styles, finding cohesion in the telling of a story. These stories always take us back to our scrappy, beautiful, astonishing Aussie environment.
Violin ⥭ Meg Cohen (VIC)
Viola ⥭ Katie Yap (TAS)
Cello ⥭ David Moran (SA)
Jakub Jankowski (SA) ⥭ The Orchid and the Wasp*
Hildegard von Bingen (Arr. D Nicolson) ⥭ Ave Generosa
Anne Cawrse (SA) ⥭ Sanctuary
JS Bach ⥭ Goldberg Variations selections
Missy Mazzoli ⥭ Lies You Can Believe In
Plus folk tune favourites from Bulgaria and Scandinavia
*World Premiere
In this program, Wattleseed Ensemble combine a celebration of local South Australian composers, championing the natural environment, and their unique melding of baroque, folk and contemporary styles. A concert not to miss!
Friday 14 February, 6—7.15pm
Crafers Church of the Epiphany ∙ $25/$35
Saturday 15 February, 7.30—8.45pm
Nexus Arts, Adelaide ∙ $25/$35
Sunday 16 February, 2—3.45pm
Newland Memorial Church, Victor Harbor ∙ $25/$30
From Jakub:
"To create a little flower is the labor of ages." - William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)
The orchid and the wasp is an imaginative sonic exploration of symbiosis, in which traditional string playing is combined together with singing and organic sound-objects, to conjure up a musical world of flowers and insects.