Tura New Music presents
Scale Variable 05 No. 1
The Song Company
Australia’s finest vocal ensemble
“sheer virtuosity, fascinating and uncannily beautiful.”
- The Australian
8pm, Saturday May 28th, The Art Gallery of WA
Ticketing
Full Price $30.00
Concession/TuraCard $25.00
Bookings BOCS 08 9484 1133 or www.bocsticketing.com.au
Programme
- three o-antiphons raffaele marcellino
- story john cage
- ritual machine ll kar fai samson young (premiere)
- words of wisdom katy abbott
- shoal damien ricketson
- bats’ ultrasound pelle gudmundsen-holmgreen
- les murray song cycle gareth farr
“the song company, over its almost 20-year history, has risen to the highest peaks of vocal achievement and imaginative programming.”
- Sydney Morning Herald
Scale Variable
Scale Variable New Chamber Music Series is a project of Tura New Music bringing the work of Australian and international composers to ears of Perth audiences. Initiated in 2001 Scale Variable has seen performances by the WASO New Music Ensemble, Defying Gravity, The Collective ,Vertigo Ensemble & pi.
The Song Company
Australia’s finest vocal ensemble presents a program of new music featuring the work of five australian composers. Three works in the program celebrate the poetry of australian Les Murray including that of danish composer Holmgreen. And watching over proceedings with a thoughtful eye is Cage’s “story”. This six voice ensemble under the direction of the effervescent Roland Peelman offers Perth audiences a unique opportunity to hear the enchanting world of new vocal music at the highest world standard.

