KAMMER ENSEMBLE presents Get Cartered With guest percussionist Claire Edwardes, and composer/conductor Paul Stanhope. Click on the icon to hear Kammer perform Danzas Amorosas by Daniel Rojas Kammer Ensemble presents Elliott Carter, An Intimate Portrait: A selection of chamber works in celebration of the composers’ 100th birthday. Including Elliot Carter’s monumental Triple Duo, Esprit Rude, Esprit Doux, Enchanted Preludes, Charles Ives’s Trio and Paul Stanhope’s Night Prelude. The concert begins with J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite in C major. Read more... Date: 8pm Friday 8 August 2008 Where: RECITAL HALL WEST, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Price: $30 Full / $20 Concession & Under 30 Bookings: (02) 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door Click here to book your tickets online. Continuum Sax meets Electric Violin Click here to see Cécile Broché perform Cry Violin. GUEST ARTIST CECILE BROCHE Continuum Sax meets electric violinist Cécile Broché from Brussels, Belgium, in a concert that profiles her work for Australian audiences. Continuum Sax’s Margery Smith first met Broché at the Music OMI International Musicians Residency in upstate New York USA in 2006. There is a strong artistic collaboration developed, which will be continued here in Australia. one of the works Broché will perform is Margery Smith’s Inferno for electric violin and sax quartet. Read more... Date: 5pm Sunday 24 August 2008 Where: MUSIC WORKSHOP, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Price: $30 Full / $20 Concession & Under 30 Bookings: (02) 8256 2222 or tickets available at the door Click here to book your tickets online. ALEX MASSO ENSEMBLE Click to hear Alex Masso. These five musicians aged 17-25 hail from Bowral, Wollongong, Nowra and the Blue Mountains respectively. Most come from a jazz background but have a fascination with improvised music and exploration of their instruments in a variety of genres, and collectively have performed with The Splinter Orchestra, Wadada Leo Smith, Ubercube, OJCS, Trio Apoplectic and the West Head Project among others. For this particular performance they will work in duos within a single extended structure, exposing different facets of their musical personalities with each combination. Read more... Date: 8pm Wednesday 27 August 2008 Where: SOUND LOUNGE, Seymour Centre Price: $20 Full / $12 Concession & Under 30 Bookings: (02) 9351 7940 or tickets available at the door Click here to book your tickets online

July 2008 Calendar ACT NEW SOUTH WALES QUEENSLAND SOUTH AUSTRALIA TASMANIA VICTORIA WESTERN AUSTRALIA   ABC Radio National is airing Jon Rose’s PGH Address from July 20th on click Artworks to hear the address.   SQUALL: Concert Review by John Clare   2008 Classical Music Awards presented by APRA and the Australian Music Cenre was held on 21 July at the Sydney Opera House.

What is the New Music Network?
The New Music Network is dedicated to the promotion and performance of Australian new music. The Network is a collection of impressive and passionate contemporary music ensembles and organisations. Based in Sydney, but with its eyes and ears to Australia and the world, the network was formed with the idea of informing audiences about the newest music performances by outstanding Australian artists. New music should be constantly performed to as many people as possible. There will always be those who find a whole new world of expression has been opened up to them, music in a language that speaks to them. The outstanding groups that make up the New Music Network are thirteen of Australia's premier ensembles comprising wonderful instrumentalists and composers committed to this cause. The diversity here is extraordinary.

Who runs New Music Network?
The New Music Network is an incorporated association.

President: James Nightingale
Vice-President: David Young
Secretary: Jenny Duck-Chong
Network Manager: Philippa Horn

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PO Box A661
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Australia
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Email :nmn@newmusicnetwork.com.au

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