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Aphids Over 14 years Aphids has grown into a dynamic, artist-led organisation specialising in unique cross-artform collaborations with Australian and international dimensions. Aphids is one of Australia’s only arts companies focusing on new music and cross-artform collaborations. Since 1994 Aphids has created over 50 distinctive and critically acclaimed projects, involving artists of all disciplines. In the twelve months of Aphids' 06/07 program, over 100 artists were employed.

Australia Ensemble The Australia Ensemble, resident at The University of New South Wales, was founded in 1980 following a proposal put to the University by Roger Covell and Murray Khouri. The group has long been widely recognised as this country's finest chamber music ensemble. Consisting of seven of Australia's leading instrumentalists, the Ensemble is able to engage other outstanding musicians to ensemble it to present some highly unusual and varied groupings of performers as well as the standard chamber music repertoire. The core activities of the Australia Ensemble are the annual subscription season and free concert and workshop series at UNSW, although it also frequently appears elsewhere for music societies and other organisations.

austraLYSIS Creating, performing and publishing new sound and intermedia arts. " Continue to push the parameters of music and multimedia ... probing the nature of performance art" Sydney Morning Herald, October 2004

Clocked Out Clocked Out is the creative outlet of musicians Erik Griswold and Vanessa Tomlinson. Originally based in Melbourne, they moved to Brisbane in 2002. Since its inception, Clocked Out has developed and produced innovative concert series, interarts performance series, cross-cultural music and dance productions. Through their many and varied collaborations, they have sought to bring together musicians, performers and artists from diverse backgrounds. Their work has often explored the boundaries between musical styles and artistic disciplines.

Continuum Sax Continuum Sax is Sydney's most accomplished saxophone quartet. Their concerts and performances have demonstrated their enthusiasm for the new, the Australian, and the saxophone. Continuum Sax utilise the energy and excitement of the saxophone through a unique repertoire influenced by both classical and popular forms.

David Chesworth Ensemble David Chesworth Ensemble is one of Australia's premier performance groups. It is dedicated to performing Chesworth's own extensive repertoire alongside reinterpretations of music by other exciting contemporary composers. Since its formation in 1993, the ensemble has introduced new audiences to this innovative music through a dynamic and accessible series of recordings and concerts.

Ensemble Offspring Ensemble Offspring is a vibrant collective of musicians dedicated to the performance of new music. Brought together in 1995 by composers Damien Ricketson and Matthew Shlomowitz, this imaginative group has now established itself as one of Sydney's freshest exponents of original and challenging music.

Halcyon Based in Sydney the Australian ensemble Halcyon is emerging as a dynamic force for the promotion of new and recent music for voice. Directors, Alison Morgan (soprano) and Jenny Duck-Chong (mezzo-soprano) are both successful Australian solo artists, with a shared commitment to contemporary classical music. They are joined in performance by some of Australias most esteemed chamber soloists, conductors and singers.

Jazz Groove The Jazzgroove Association is an artist-led and focused non-profit Association committed to presenting and raising the profile of Jazzgroove music - where jazz meets everything else - in Australia through weekly performances at Sydney’s Excelsior Hotel, bi-monthly CD launches at the Basement and watch this space for more to follow. Audiences can expect performances by leading Australian jazz ensembles that often have limited performance outlets for their music. Jazzgroove represents a unique opportunity for the creative development and artistic endeavour of a broad range of Australian jazz composers and performers.

Kammer Ensemble Kammer's unique combination of instruments enables them to perform masterpieces from the classical chamber music repertoire as well as presenting modern contemporary works. Kammer have worked with many of prominent Australian composers including Anne Boyd, Paul Stanhope, Peter Sculthorpe, Daniel Rojas, Alex Pozniak and Tristan Coelho. Kammer’s particular brand of music making is an engaging combination of music past and present and the members of the ensemble introduce the pieces performed in their welcoming and relaxed style. Kammer is presented by Musica Viva Countrywide and is ensemble-in-residence at Wollongong Conservatorium. Click on the icon to hear Kammer perform 'Danzas Amorosas' by Daniel Rojas.

Machine for Making Sense Performers Rik Rue, Amanada Stewart, Jim Denley and Stevie Wishart explore relations between linguistics, poetry, speech, music, notions of sound, science and politics.

Madeleine Flynn and Dr Tim Humphrey Madeleine and Tim are musicians/sound artists who work primarily in the fields of music/sound for dance, theatre, installation and more recently film. Our practice is eclectic: we play and write across forms.

Sydney Improvised Music Association SIMA aims to facilitate the performance and recording of contemporary jazz and improvised music.

Synergy Percussion Australia's premier percussion ensemble is dedicated to the performance of contemporary Australian music. Synergy are Michael Askill, Ian Cleworth, Colin Piper, Alison Eddington, David Hewitt and Philip South.

The Song Company The Song Company is one of the world's leading vocal ensembles presenting musical experiences to audiences throughout Australia and overseas ranging from early music, to cabaret, a fully developed music education program for school children, workshops and a program of specially commissioned contemporary vocal works.

Tura New Music Tura provides vital support to emerging and accomplished new music composers, performers, organisations and audiences through the production, presentation and promotion of new music events, and through extablishing and maintaining a New Music Resource Centre as a focal point for information and advocay.