AUSTRALIAN Presented by Series Singapore Airlines The Power Of One CSO Season 2019 These performances are kindly recorded by the Australian Series Thursday 14 March ANU Music Press — a not-for-profit model of free The Power Of One Gordon Darling Hall, distribution for music projects with a focus on National Portrait innovation, research and accessibility. Recordings We acknowledge and celebrate the First Gallery__6.30pm will be available from the ANU Music Press website. Australians on whose traditional lands we — meet, and pay our respect to the elders of Claire Edwardes Percussion the Ngunnawal people past and present. Matthew Hindson AM Curator — Rhyan Clapham Drum Dreamer (New CSO commission 2019) Michael Smetanin Temple (2018) Benjamin Drury Stained Glass (2018) Claire Edwardes Ether Lines (2018) __They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Following the extraordinary performance by Claire Clare Strong Edwardes, explore the power of a single photograph in Moonlight (2017) the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019 exhibition. Kate Moore Spel (Game) (2016) Claire Edwardes/Paul Mac Dual Attractor (2018) — Program notes written and compiled by Cyrus Meurant, March 2019. OUR GOVERNMENT PARTNERS The CSO is assisted by the Commonwealth Goverment AUSTRALIAN through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body Presented by Series Singapore Airlines OUR SERIES PARTNERS Jack Charles 2011 Rod McNicol (b.1946) by Inkjet print Canberra Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Purchased 2013 Portrait Prize 2012 Winner of the National Photographic The Power Of One NPG — March 2019 including first prizes at both Australian Series Of Drum Dreamer, Clapham the 2000 Tromp Percussion The Power Of One writes: Competition and the 2001 Drum Dreamer is a dream CLAIRE EDWARDES Llangollen International RHYAN CLAPHAM sequence that takes me Instrumentalist. Edwardes back to 2009 as a high school was the 2005 MCA/ student. The dream depicts a Percussionist Freedman Fellow and she is Drum Dreamer (2019) confrontation that I had with a the three-time winner (2007, bully named Dylan, who wanted 2012, 2016) of the APRA Art to take my rhyme book. Drum Music Award for Excellence Dreamer fuses rap and snare Internationally acclaimed by an Individual for her 25-year-old Rhyan Clapham drum into a unifying rhythm percussion soloist, contribution to Australian is a rapper, drummer, of momentum to tell a story chamber musician music. In 2014 she was speaker and workshop of bullying, confidence, and and artistic director granted a prestigious facilitator under the rap perhaps even time travel. It was of Ensemble Offspring, Australia Council Music pseudonym DOBBY. He written for Claire Edwardes and Claire Edwardes has been Fellowship and in 2016 proudly identifies as a commissioned by CSO. described as a ‘sorceress Ensemble Offspring won Filipino and Aboriginal of percussion’ performing the APRA Art Music Award musician, whose family is with ‘spellbinding for Excellence by an from Brewarrina on Ngemba intensity’ and ‘graceful Organisation. land, and is a member of virtuosity’. Her award- Edwardes has the Murrawarri Republic winning performances performed concertos in Weilmoringle, New combine a theatrical energy with all the Australian South Wales. Clapham’s with charismatic and orchestras, as well as accomplishment as a original interpretations of numerous European composer was recognised a wide-range of repertoire orchestras, and has in 2017 when he was Edwardes studied at premiered works by awarded the prestigious the Sydney Conservatorium a veritable roll call of Peter Sculthorpe Fellowship. of Music with Daryl Pratt, composers – globally graduating as Student of – including Harrison the Year (1997) and went Birtwistle, Matthew Hindson, on to win the coveted Elena Kats-Chernin and Symphony Australia Young Matthew Shlomowitz. Performers Award (1999). In her role as Artistic She subsequently relocated Director of Ensemble to the Netherlands to Offspring she programs and undertake a Masters Degree performs some of the most at the Rotterdam and innovative and cutting- Amsterdam Conservatories edge music being presented under Richard Jansen, Peter in the world today. Claire Prommel and Jan Pustjens. Edwardes is endorsed by Whilst resident Mike Balter Mallets and for seven years in the Adams Percussion. She Netherlands, Edwardes teaches percussion at the received numerous Sydney Conservatorium international awards of Music and maintains a busy international concert schedule. Canberra Symphony Orchestra 4 Season 2019 5 NPG — March 2019 the Schoenberg Ensemble Australian Series Stained Glass – in Amsterdam in 2007. The Power Of One featuring vibraphone Smetanin has also accompanied by electronics MICHAEL SMETANIN composed works for ensembles BENJAMIN DRURY – was written shortly after including Crash (Ireland) and Drury returned from a trip Insomnio (Holland) whilst to Europe. Temple (2018) his fourth opera Mayakovsky Stained Glass (2018) Drury writes of his work: premiered in 2014. Most recently, Klang-Tek (2016) Stained Glass explores how was premiered in Holland by new experiences can change Michael Smetanin is one of the Ensemble Klang, whilst pianist Canberra-based Benjamin and colour familiar places – most distinctive figures among Zubin Kanga premiered Four Drury is a composer, like stained glass transforming Australian composers. Born Angels (2018). Michael Smetanin improviser and sound light into new and unexpected in Sydney in 1958 of Russian is an Associate Professor of artist. His work across patterns. The electronics were parents, he completed study Composition at the Sydney experimental, popular created using manipulated at the Sydney Conservatorium Conservatorium of Music, and classical genres is sounds of tapping, bowing and in 1981 and then having been University of Sydney. concerned with acoustics, scraping glass objects found in awarded an International noise and indeterminacy. my mother’s kitchen. This work Of Temple, Smetanin writes: Fellowship by the Music Drury’s work has been was written on the land of the Board of the Australia Council Temple is a short piece for one performed by Eighth Ngunnawal people. and a Netherlands Ministry percussionist playing one set of five Blackbird, Ensemble of Education and Science temple blocks. It was composed in Offspring and Lisa Moore, Stained Glass was scholarship went on to study 2015 for German percussionist Max whilst the site-specific commissioned by Arn with leading Dutch composer Riefer, who premiered the work in installation Pieces for Cars, Sprogis and Margot Woods Louis Andriessen at the Royal Kuala Lumpur. The piece is ideally Tunnel and Hexagonal Vents for performance by Claire Conservatorium in The Hague. performed on traditional style was included as part of the Edwardes at the 2017 Smetanin’s music has been Chinese temple blocks which are You Are Festival (2016). Canberra International extensively performed and bell shaped and in possession of a As performer, Drury Music Festival. recorded internationally with less diatonic and tempered pitch set has appeared at the works appearing on over 30 than the modern factory-made temple Canberra International individually released CD albums. blocks which are rectangular prisms Music Festival, SoundOut The title of his work in shape. Festival, the International The Ladder of Escape was The music is made of materials Conference of Auditory appropriated as the name of mainly based on a non-retrogradable Design, Electrofringe and an entire new music CD series rhythm of time units with the length Art Not Apart. His first released by Attacca records 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3. This rhythmic material album Sentence Fragment: and performances include is predominantly measured in 16th Consider Revising was a Bremer Podium (Portrait) notes and overlaid in canon of varying released in 2017. Drury Konzert at Radio Bremen in numbers of voices at any one time. also appears regularly Germany. Major works include Claire Edwardes has now taken this as a member of the ANU his Piano Concerto: Mysterium work into her repertoire and has Experimental Music Studio Cosmographicum premiered added an improvised cadenza at and New Music Ensemble. by the Sydney Symphony approximately three quarters of the Orchestra with Lisa Moore as way into the piece. soloist in 2005 and Microgrpahia commissioned and premiered by Canberra Symphony Orchestra 6 Season 2019 7 NPG — March 2019 Australian Series In 2015 Strong won The Power Of One the David Henkels Award for Composition and had CLAIRE EDWARDES CLARE STRONG her Gypsy Trio performed at the 3MBS Performer of the Year Awards. Concurrently, Ether Lines (2018) Moonlight (2017) Strong was a selected composer at the Walden School Creative Musicians Retreat in New Hampshire, The waterphone is an Clare Strong (née Johnston) USA. She studied with instrument not many people is an Australian composer, Martin Bresnick and her are familiar with. My work based in Melbourne. Strong work was performed by Ether Lines is a study in holds a Bachelor of Music the Wet Ink Ensemble all the possibilities of (2013) from the University (New York City). this unusual and original of Melbourne where she Other engagements instrument which looks like was awarded the Esther have included the Atlantic a birdcage with its spiky Rofe Award for Composition. Music Festival (Maine), spokes – and sounds like As recipient of the Doris where her works were an eerie movie soundtrack Burnett Ford Scholarship, performed and recorded by mixed. Using implements Strong