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Sydney’s Ensemble Offspring joins London chamber orchestra Ruthless Jabiru for Black Ice, a music-led reflection on Australia’s devastating Black Summer on Friday 24 April at Peckham Levels.
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The long-awaited collaboration between composer Soosan Lolavar and conductor Kelly Lovelady, Girl, is now available for preorder and will release on Nonclassical on 15 March 2024.
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Girl unveils a unique soundworld derived from Lolavar’s British Iranian heritage and experience. The four pieces interweave her training across both western and Iranian classical musics without restriction or narrowing down by either tradition. In this way, Lolavar’s work is a truly diasporic creation—producing new creative forms from a life experience across multiple cultures. This approach strengthens her collaboration with Lovelady, with themes of dual belonging also central to Ruthless Jabiru: Lovelady’s ensemble of Australasian musicians in the UK, and its combined dedication to New Music and humanitarian stories.
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This month London chamber orchestra Ruthless Jabiru heads to the studio to record its long-awaited album collaboration with British Iranian composer Soosan Lolavar for Nonclassical.
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Declared pre-pandemic to be “long overdue” by the label’s founder Gabriel Prokofiev and now even more so, the wait for the first all-Lolavar album is finally nearing its end.
Continue readingArtistic Director of Decibel (AU), Cat Hope, is working with Kelly Lovelady, the conductor and founding Artistic Director of London chamber orchestra Ruthless Jabiru on a new program, The Holy Presence of as part of Decibel’s tour to the UK underway right now. Here, they discuss the program and the rationale behind it.
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Now the beating heart of the Brunel Museum and with a chamber half the size of Shakespeare’s Globe, the Grand Entrance Hall of the historic Thames Tunnel will host its first ever bass orchestra performance as part of the UK/Australia Season.
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The amassed musicians of London chamber orchestra Ruthless Jabiru and Australia’s Decibel New Music Ensemble will come together on 02 December 2022 for an all-low programme by contemporary composers of Australia, UK, Finland/France, Chile and the US.
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