Future-focused, thoughtfully curated and artist centric.
New Music Days is a burgeoning three-day festival and the latest offering in experiential programming, bursting forth into the collective sphere of the new and exciting.
Each performance at New Music Days presents budding ideas that facilitate broader social and political discussion. In its inaugural year, the festival focuses on the importance of First Nations composers, voices and stories, how musicians compose and respond to the environment, and the work of female composers in Australia.
Featuring five bold events across three days, audiences will have the opportunity to not only bask in the delight of live music, but to go deeper, engaging in public conversations through pre and post-concert talks.
‘Ngarra-Burria’ are Dharug words meaning ‘to listen, to sing’. Initiated in 2016 by Indigenous composer Christopher Sainsbury, the Ngarra-Burria: First Peoples Composers program exists to support and mentor emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander composers.
Ensemble Offspring’s performance in Elisabeth Murdoch Hall as part of New Music Days 2023 presents an ambitious First Nations showcase of new music, featuring an astonishing array of new and established voices.
Focusing on the emergence of First Nations composers in the classical music landscape, the program features notable composers Rhyan Clapham aka DOBBY, Brenda Gifford, James Henry, Aaron Wyatt, Eric Avery, Nardi Simpson and Mark Ross, curated by Chris Sainsbury and Claire Edwardes. A joyous evening of ambitious and ground-breaking music not to be missed.
