The Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre in High Street Penrith provides a focal point for performing arts activity in the Western Sydney Region.
The centre fosters the development of performance skills in people of all ages and aims to create and present work of the highest standard for its audiences.
A summary of events held at Penrith in the 2006 Aurora Festival:
- Two concerts, one featuring local performers in the surrounds of the Centre, and the other in the magnificent new Q Theatre.
Programme includes:
Stuart Greenbaum:
Nine Candles for Dark Nights
John Metcalf:
“Dance” from Kafka's Chimp
Michael Finnissey:
Two scenes from Shameful Vice
Elena Kats-Chernin:
Chamber of Horrors
Anne Boyd:
A Feather on the Breath of God
East and west combine in a deliciously sensual smorgasboard of sonic rapture. Three of Australia's most renowned performers join forces in this concert which is sure to entrance every music lover.
Marshall McGuire, Riley Lee and Joseph Tawadros are international artists of the highest calibre, and this concert will feature a variety of contrasting works by composers including Greenbaum, Finnissey, Metcalf and Boyd within the newly opened Q Theatre.
Saturday
6th May 2006
8.00pm
Q Theatre,
Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre,
Penrith
$20 / $12
Presented by Aurora New Music and ABC Classic FM
in partnership with Campbelltown Arts Centre and Riverside Parramatta
with concerts broadcast on ABC Classic FM
Concert 1:
THE AURORA FESTIVAL EAR DAY
featuring
The Aurora Scratch Orchestra
curated by
Warren Summers
Saturday
6th May 2006
6.00pm, with various events happening beforehand
Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre and surrounds,
Penrith
Admission Free
Olson III is a rarely-performed masterpiece by Terry Riley. Originally composed for a high-school in Sweden in 1966, it caused a controversy at its premiere due to the novel use of repeated cells and non-standard musical structures. It is written for "any instruments and voice".
The Aurora Scratch Orchestra is a group of musicians drawn from the local region, curated by innovative local composer, Warren Summers. This is one occasion that is sure to be memorable in a multitude of ways. Its free-form musical processes may well overflow into the surrounding environments.
If you are interested in being involved in the Aurora Scratch Orchestra for this performance of Olson III, please see the following website:
