Perspectives
10 and 11 May 2024
Adelaide Town Hall
In the setting of Adelaide’s beautiful Town Hall, Chamber Music Adelaide presents Perspectives: four brand new chamber works by South Australian composers written especially for South Australian musicians. Created as part of a Cultural Strategic Partnership with the City of Adelaide, these compositions are framed in concert with works spanning chamber music’s rich history.
Remarkably, all four composers place text and song at the heart of their composition. Yet the four works present strikingly varied themes and compositional approaches. Each allows the audience to experience the unique musical and cultural perspective of its composer.
The four Perspectives premieres will be presented across two evening concerts on 10th and 11th May in the Adelaide Town Hall. Audience members are warmly invited to attend pre-concert talks each evening.
“The joy of setting text to music is that you’re never beginning in silence. The sounds of the words, the meaning of the text, the poetic form, the juxtaposition of contrasting poems within a song cycle – all of these things help inform the music I write. For me, there must be a connection between music and lyrics. With the right text, the job of the composer is to listen hard to the words and simply find the music within.”
-Anne Cawrse, Perspectives composer
