Nexas Quartet New Currents

  • Classical Music
  • Utzon Room
  • Run time: 60 minutes Subject to change

Five Australian voices. Four saxophones. One world in motion. 

A decade after Nexas Quartet’s acclaimed album Current, New Currents continues the ensemble’s exploration of the expressive possibilities of the saxophone quartet through Australian Music.

Featuring music by some of Australia’s most distinctive composers, including Carl Vine, Gerard Brophy, Anne Cawrse, Natalie Williams and Tim Dargaville, New Currents explores music as a force in motion: currents of technology, identity, environment, communication and change.

From the emotional rupture and renewal of Natalie Williams’ Catharsis, to the jagged energy of Carl Vine’s Sawtooth; from Gerard Brophy’s exploration of language and communication in Mountains of Tongues, to Anne Cawrse’s  soaring Kyrie, these works inhabit contrasting sonic worlds united by a fascination with transformation.

New Currents asks where we are, where we’re going, and what we might become next.

 

Event details

Utterly startling … adrenaline fueled. 4.5 stars.

Limelight Magazine

Artist information

Musicians

Soprano saxophone
Michael Duke
Alto saxophone
Andrew Smith
Tenor saxophone
Nathan Henshaw
Baritone saxophone
Jay Byrnes

Crew

Manager
Carmen Nieves

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Attending this event

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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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