Premiered at the Sydney Opera House in 2016, "Voices of a Northern Year" describes the feelings and scenes of the seasons in the Scottish highlands, as dreamt by Brisbane composer Margaret Tesch-Muller and recorded by the Hourglass Ensemble directed by Andrew Kennedy with Jenny Duck-Chong guest mezzo soprano

Flutes - Ewa Kowalski
Clarinetes - Andrew Kennedy
Violin - Ewan Foster
Cello - Geoff Gartner
Piano - Jo Allan

Autumn Song - Hourglass; Tesch-Muller

Voices of the Air - Hourglass; Tesch-Muller

"Voices of a Northern Year" by Brisbane composer Margaret Tesch-Muller describes the feelings and scenes of the seasons in the Scottish highlands . Premiered at the Sydney Opera House in 2016 and recorded by the Hourglass Ensemble directed by Andrew Kennedy with Jenny Duck-Chong guest mezzo soprano

Flutes - Ewa Kowalski
Clarinetes - Andrew Kennedy
Violin - Ewan Foster
Cello - Geoff Gartner
Piano - Jo Allan

A Fine Day - Hourglass; Tesch-Muller

Winter Song - Hourglass; Tesch-Muller

Richard Grantham's powerful 2018 song cycle premiered by Hourglass is painfully dug from his own experience of grief - how to somehow manage everything required of you, how to even go on, how to have a relationship with the person that once was...

Soprano - Susannah Lawergren
Flutes - Ewa Kowalski
Clarinets - Andrew Kennedy
Viola - Michelle Urquhart
Piano - Anna Rutkowska
Percussion - Tim Brigden

Having Already Said Too Much - Grantham; Hourglass

Richard Grantham's powerful 2018 song cycle on lyrics by Eleanor Jackson and premiered by Hourglass is painfully dug from his own experience of grief - how to somehow manage everything required of you, how to even go on, how to have a relationship with the person that once was...

Soprano - Susannah Lawergren
Flutes - Ewa Kowalski
Clarinets - Andrew Kennedy
Viola - Michelle Urquhart
Piano - Anna Rutkowska
Percussion - Tim Brigden

Depending on How Well You Listen - Grantham; Hourglass

Even as I Have Come to Tell You Things - Grantham; Hourglass

It Must Be the Very Best/Worst Honour - Grantham; Hourglass

Andrew Ball's world premiere commission EXOPLANET recorded live at Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House

Soloist - Nicholas Russoniello, soprano and tenor saxophones
Conductor - Joanna Drimatis
Concertmaster - Alexandra Osborne
Artistic Director - Andrew Kennedy
Hourglass Ensemble Chamber Orchestra

Exoplanet - Live Audio 10 Mins Showreel - Hourglass - Andrew Ball, Nicholas Russoniello

Exoplanet - Hourglass Ensemble - Live Audio - Andrew Ball, Nicholas Russoniello

Have you ever been in a situation where you just want out?!

'Fly Away' is all about that feeling of bashing one's head against a brick wall, looking for an escape or solution. Fragments collide, frenetic energy, notes smash-out; they are squished and stretched every which way.

Fly Away for flute, clarinet and sax quartet - by Margery Smith

Since 2015 Hourglass has lead the way in commissioning and touring new Australian chamber music. The core group of founders Andrew Kennedy and Ewa Kowalski were joined in 2018 by Anna Rutkowska, and the trio of flute clarinet and piano is always joined by the best collaborators from every corner of Australia and every section of the orchestra, creating original and exciting programs that make it easy to love contemporary genres.

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