IMAGE CREDIT: JULIE MILLOWICK 2014
IMAGE CREDIT: JULIE MILLOWICK 2014

castlemaine-created2Birdsong has inspired composers from medieval times to the present day. Led by internationally acclaimed sound artist and composer, Ros Bandt, this concert brings together the sounds of local box ironbark birds together with European birdsongs from Couperin to William Williams, from the troubadour Ventadorn to Monteclair.

Performed by Trio Avium, Birdsong will premiere at the 2015 Castlemaine State Festival with Ros Bandt (recorders, psaltery, soundscapes), Vienna-based baroque violinist Cynthia O’Brien, and Ruth Wilkinson (recorders, viola da gamba, vielle, violone). Some works will be performed using fine baroque and Australian mulga wood descant instruments made locally at the Fred Morgan Workshop.

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