Join Ensemble Offspring and special guests for their 30th birthday celebration as an international cast of the hottest composers working today!

Come see Ensemble Offspring this July for their Divine Darkness program, where they are joined by guests including soprano Jane Sheldon to create a divinely dark experience. A turbulent sonic dreamworld frames the works of David T. Little and Lisa Illean, while video by Peachey & Mosig creates an all encompassing musical experience for eyes and ears.

Ensemble Offspring transcends the rituals of the concert hall in a drama-infused program that’s as much for the eyes as it is for the ears. 

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At the heart of their concert, David T. Little’s Ghostlight plays on the superstitions and mysteries of the theatre in a spellbinding musical journey – equal parts introspection and turbulent drama. A transcendent new work for voice and quartet by Jane Sheldon takes the Buddhist concept of vihava tanha (the desire for non-existence) as its starting point. Transformation underpins Entropic Arrows by Icelandic powerhouse Anna Thorvaldsdottir, as fragile and delicate musical ideas are passed from one musician to another – no turning back. And Daniela Terranova’s Rainbow Dust in the Sky offers ghostly echoes and fragments from “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” in an elusive lullaby. Jane Sheldon returns to the stage for Lisa Illean’s ethereal and romantic Cantor (after Willa Cather) haunting the boundaries between day and night. Wrapping the music in visions of light, an immersive video by Peachey & Mosig will make this divinely dark sonic dreamworld all encompassing.

Who: The Ensemble Offspring

Where: The Neilson ACO on the Pier, Sydney

When: 6:30 PM on Thursday July 3rd, 2025

Where: The Street Theatre, Canberra

When: 6:30 PM on Friday July 4th, 2025

To find out more and book online, click here!