3:00pm, 4 August 2002
Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane

Soloists of ELISION Ensemble

Iannis XENAKIS embellie (1981)

viola solo

Gerard BROPHY Nymph Echo Morphologique (1982)

Paula RAE alto flute solo

Pascal DUSAPIN Inside (1986)

Erkki VELTHEIM viola soloe

Chaya CZERNOWIN Six Miniatures and a Simultaneous Song (1999)

soprano, flutes, clarinet, saxophone, guitar, viola, violoncello

Brian FERNEYHOUGH Unity Capsule (1975-6)

Paula RAE flute solo

Heinz HOLLIGER trema (1981)

Erkki VELTHEIM viola solo

Chaya CZERNOWIN Six Miniatures and a Simultaneous Song (1999)

soprano, flutes, clarinet, saxophone, guitar, viola, violoncello

ELISION Ensemble focusses on virtuoso works for solo flute and solo viola by composers as diverse as Iannis XENAKIS, Gerard BROPHY, Pascal DUSAPIN and Brian FERNEYHOUGH. The composer Chaya CZERNOWIN returns to Australia to attend performances of Six Miniatures and a simultaneous song written for the ELISION ensemble and first performed by ELISION in 1999. The work will be performed twice within the same concert. Each performance will offer to the audience a different acoustic relationship and spatialisation of the ensemble.

Czernowin, in her programme note says, "For years I have been investigating what I would call `changing lenses´: going from pieces for solo instruments  . . .  looking into the different grains of a singular voice  . . .  to taking different, often contrasting instruments, and molding them into one composite instrument. Upon completion of these miniatures, it occured to me that this paradigm can be further stretched, as two contrasting pices written in relationship to each other `alchemize" into a new being--a third piece".