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

There is a Solemn Wind Tonight - 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

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

Awarded the 2016 WSOC/102.5 Fine Music Young Composer Award.  Performed by the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra with clarinet soloist Som Howie. Conducted by Paul Fitzsimon. Audio Engineer - Jayson McBride. Composed by Elizabeth Younan.

Clarinet Concerto

A performance of C. T. Smith's Fantasia for Alto Saxophone and Band by Emma Di Marco and the Queensland Conservatorium Wind Orchestra, May 2011.

Smith - Fantasia for Alto Saxophone and Band

Sam by Moonlight - from MOON by Gordon Hamilton

Spheres - from MOON by Gordon Hamilton

Pearl - from MOON by Gordon Hamilton

Prelude, Fugue and Riffs (for orchestra, 2019). Composed by Elizabeth Younan for the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. Performed by the Curtis Symphony Orchestra on 03/30/2019, Gould Rehearsal Hall, Philadelphia. Conducted by Sarah Ioannides. Recorded by Drew Schlegel.

Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

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.

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

Hourglass Ensemble

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