Ensemble Offspring: Future Classics 2025

  • Classical Music
  • Utzon Room
  • Run time: 75 minutes, no interval Subject to change

Discover the Future Classics of Australian art music

This showcase at the Sydney Opera House celebrates the best of a new generation of musical creators, nurtured by the virtuosic artists of Ensemble Offspring in the acclaimed Hatched Academy mentorship program.

A talk hosted by Stephen Adams featuring Claire Edwardes and Holly Harrison will take place pre-concert.

The Ensemble Offspring Hatched Academy has been an incubator for the Australian music scene for more than a decade, with ‘fledglings’ having taken flight all over Australia, bringing fresh ideas and creative excellence to the vanguard of contemporary music. 

In this showcase at the Sydney Opera House, our Hatched Composer Intensive and Emerging Performer residencies for 2025 come to fruition, and it’s your chance to discover the Future Classics of new Australian art music.

Hear world premieres from four of our nation’s most innovative young composers, composed especially for Ensemble Offspring under the guidance of 2025 mentor Holly Harrison.

Featured on stage: exciting and versatile young pianist Ronan Apcar, our 2025 Hatched Emerging Performer, alongside our virtuosic Ensemble Offspring instrumentalists.

Presented by Ensemble Offspring

Event details

Ensemble Offspring are both giving to the future and also gaining from the energy and delight that these musicians bring to all they do.

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Artist information

Ronan Apcar Hatched Emerging Performer
Piano

Lamorna Nightingale
Flute

Jason Noble
Clarinet

Benjamin Ward
Double bass

Niki Johnson
Percussion

Program

Klearhos Murphy
Thy Mystical Names* (2025) (Hatched Alumni Commission)

Georgina Bowden 
Magnetic Fields* (2025)

Callum O'Reilly 
Mechanical Buddha with Fluctuations* (2025)

Beth Roche 
Netherlandish Proverbs* (2025)

Louis Wishart 
Children of Aurora* (2025)

Thomas Meadowcroft 
Old Rags* (2025) (Emerging Performer Commission)

*World premiere

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Attending this event

Plan your visit

Address

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Getting to the venue

The Opera House is a 7-10 minute walk from Circular Quay, and is easily accessible by car, train, ferry, lightrail, bus, bike and on foot.

Location and access

Utzon Room

The Utzon Room is located on the Eastern side of the Opera House, in front of the Joan Sutherland Theatre. Best accessed through the Box Office Foyer or the Covered Concourse. All Sydney Opera House foyers are accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators).

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