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Dancing In The Moonlight

2 October 2023

In the Utzon Room

HOURGLASS bring you fresh, sparkling, moving works by female composers from Australia, USA, France, and Poland to will whisk you away dancing in cool spring evening air.

Best women composers’ contemporary flute and piano music

Australia’s contemporary music champions HOURGLASS again bring you fresh, lively, and brilliant chamber works by twentieth century women composers from around the globe, as far as the USA, France, and Poland, and new work from home.

Internationally celebrated pianist Anna Rutkowska and elite Sydney flautist Ewa Kowalski play luscious staples of the ouvre by Chaminade and Harberg, with works by Australian Sally Greenaway and Pole Ewa Fabianska-Jelinska with the ink barely dry. In these two dazzling and intimate performances you will be absorbed by every close nuanced detail of these beautiful artists.

Program

CECILE CHAMINADE               Concertino for flute and piano
SALLY GREENAWAY                 Of Moths and Moonlight
AMANDA HARBERG                 Court Dances suite
FERNANDE DECRUCK             Cantilene for clarinet and piano
MEL BONIS                                 Sonata for flute and piano
FABIANSKA-JELINSKA            Arabeska
GERMAINE TAILLEFERRE       Pastorale for piano solo

Artists

Flute                             Ewa Kowalski
Piano                            Anna Rutkowska-Schock
Clarinet/Director      Andrew Kennedy

Presented by The Hourglass Ensemble

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