C1 Seeds of Life
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Friday, 28 Apr 2023
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National Arboretum
Forest Drive, off Tuggeranong Parkway, Weston Creek, Canberra, ACT 2601
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In Association with
Presented in partnership with Ausdance ACT and Australian Dance Party
Seeds of Life marks the ten-year anniversary of the National Arboretum Canberra, and 20 years since the devastating Canberra bush fires. The Djinama Yilaga choir, rising star clarinettist Oliver Shermacher perform together with local artists for a celebration of life and new growth. The event culminates with a performance of a new work by Australian Dance Party, co-commissioned by Ausdance ACT and Canberra International Music Festival.
Hillscape is the new work choreographed by Australian Dance Party’s Ashlee Bye with new composition by Dan Walker for Seeds of Life. We enter the vastness of the landscape to celebrate the Sisyphean cycle of generation and regeneration. Expanding and connecting into strong networks to negotiate the precariousness of the ecosystem, we reach out of the earth to climb and tumble, to bustle and thrive.
Hillscape is performed by Ashlee Bye, Yolanda Lowatta and Patricia Hayes Cavanagh with the support of Australian Dance Party.
Program
Margaret Whitlam Pavilion
Oliver Shermacher, clarinet
Jürg Wyttenbach, Una chica en Nirvana (2002)
Alice Chance, Stargazer
Nikola Resanovic, alt.music.ballistix (1995)
A Matter of Fax
A Soliloquy
A Balkan Dance
Convolution@uakron.edu
Gallery of Gardens
Terra Australis Garden: Miroslav Bukovsky, trumpet
Celebration Garden: Flora Carbo, saxophone with Theo Carbo, electric guitar
AIDS Garden of Reflexion: John Mackey, saxophone
Discovery Garden: Djinama Yilaga Choir
Amphitheatre
Hillscape , a new work commissioned by Ausdance ACT and Canberra International Music Festival for Australian Dance Week
Choreography: Ashlee Bye for Australian Dance Party
Music: Dan Walker
Dancers: Australian Dance Party
Ashlee Bye, Yolanda Lowatta, and Patricia Hayes-Cavanagh.
Artists
Djinama Yilaga choir
Oliver Shermacher, clarinet
Theo Carbo, electric guitar
Flora Carbo, saxophone
Miroslav Bukovsky, trumpet
John Mackey, saxophone
Ashlee Bye, choreographer
Ashlee Bye, dancer
Yolanda Lowatta, dancer
Patricia Hayes-Cavanagh, dancer
With thanks to Dr Cathy Adamek (Ausdance), Alison Plevey (Australian Dance Party) and A Major Lift for making this new work possible.
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Artist Oliver Shermacher
Australian born clarinettist Oliver Shermacher completed his Bachelors at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Francesco Celata, and his Masters at the Freiburg Hochschule für Musik with Kilian Herold and Anton Hollich. He is currently living between Germany and Australia, performing as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral clarinettist. He was recently awarded the highly prestigious recognition of the 1st Prize and Audience Choice at the 2022 Aeolus Competition in Düsseldorf, one of the world’s most significant competitions for wind instrumentalists. Oliver won the Freedman Fellowship in 2018 and reached the Grand Finals of the 2018 ABC Young Performers Award, also receiving the Audience Choice award. Oliver has performed as soloist with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Apex Ensemble and was the Artist in Residence with the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra for their 2021/2022 Season, having premiered the Alice Chance Clarinet Concerto with the orchestra in 2022. Oliver has played as Principal Clarinet with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia Orchestra, Freiburg Philharmonisches Orchester and with the Australian World Orchestra on Bass Clarinet. Oliver is a passionate composer, theatre maker and new music enthusiast with a focus on the intersection between theatre and solo performance.