The Music of David YOUNG

6:30pm, Friday 13 March 1998
Byron Mapp Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
Attendance by invitation only

ELISION Ensemble presents the music of Australian composer David YOUNG in the first of its new annual series of Composer Podiums. This event is generously supported by the Commonwealth Government's Emerging Artists Initiative through the Australia Council, it arts funding and advisory body.

The programme of music will include:

Otturato (1992)

Carl ROSMAN clarinet solo

Five songs (1998)

Deborah KAYSER soprano and Geoffrey MORRIS guitar

Il Modello dei Modelli (1992)

Deborah KAYSER soprano, Natasha ANDERSON recorder, Geoffrey MORRIS guitar

David writes of Il Modello dei Modelli:

`"the model of models" is a reference to a short story by Italo Calvino. this work explores, in two movements, the "lacerations and contortions and compressions" that the body and mind is forced to undergo. the performers are asked to extend and contort themselves within very specific boundaries, for example in pitch where mean temperament is required, adding microtonal tension throughout. the "transitory, irrelevant accidents" which occur as a result of this tension are very much the substance of this work´

The objectives of the ELISION Composer Podium is to draw attention to the work of an emerging Australian composer, and provide a platform not only for performance, but documentation and critical review. The Podium aims to assist the selected composer through the generation of an industry awareness of their work nationally and internationally. It will draw attention to the breadth and scope of the composer's work.

ELISION Ensemble gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Commonwealth of Australia through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor, The University of Queensland

Invitations produced by Sarah PIRRIE