Kupka’s Piano
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This interview first appeared on the blog of my ensemble Kupka’s Piano, ahead of our performance of five brand new works by young Australian composers in ‘ELEMENTAL’ on Friday 31 August, 2018. My fellow KP flutist Jodie Rottle chatted to me about my piece Mantis for 2 flutes + trio. We covered a lot of ground, from performer-composer-ing
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I spent most of August at summer festival-academies for new music. First up was the one and only Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik – the 47th such festival, and so it’s particularly impressive how even with a great tradition behind it, it still manages to be at the cutting edge of music today. What
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While in Europe on an ArtStart, studying with musikFabrik’s Helen Bledsoe and Kaija Saariaho’s flute muse Dr Camilla Hoitenga, I’ve fallen on my feet a bit and managed to land a gig playing with Ensemble Fractales from Brussels playing Grisey’s Talea and Murail’s Treize Couleurs in early June. This will be my second time performing the Grisey,
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