Recorded live at the Sydney Conservatorium 26 July 2014. 'Colossus' was a collaborative concert between Barega Sax Quartet and clarinettists Andrew Kennedy and Annie Larsen, featuring primarily new Australian compositions for combinations of single reeds. 

COLOSSUS

Harmonic Waves

Recorded live at the Sydney Conservatorium 26 July 2014. 'Colossus' was a collaborative concert between Barega Sax Quartet and clarinettists Andrew Kennedy and Annie Larsen, featuring primarily new Australian compositions. 

Lullaby XII. XIX (Michael Bakrnčev)

Rush (Michael Bakrnčev)

Time On The Scale Of A Colossus (Andrew Ball)

The Pinch (Andrew Kennedy)

Stasis, foreboding (Andrew Ball)

This is a live performance from the 3MBS Performer of the Year Awards at the Australian National Academy of Music.

Gypsy Trio is a fiery piece that uses Gypsy scales and syncopated rhythms. It is filled with rhapsodic virtuoso passages which help to build the work to a climactic end. 

Gypsy Trio

Young and Wandering is about a journey that doesn't travel from start to end. It is an aimless wander, enjoying the beauty in resonant sounds. The piece celebrates the timbral differences and similarities amongst the jazz quartet, in ways not often explored with these instruments. 

Alto saxophone - Holly Moore 
Piano - Selene Messinis 
Double bass - Isaac Gunnoo 
Drum kit - Maddison Carter

Young and wandering

The wonderful Flinders Quartet premiered this piece along with my other work "Exhale" in concert in Melbourne, December 2017. Originally written for the Goldner String Quartet, "The Rose that Wept" pays homage to the dark, Hans-Chrisitian-Andersen type films of my childhood.

"The Rose That Wept" - Live By The Flinders Quartet

Rising Tide is a section from my 1 hour suite for Sirens Big Band, entitled [A]part. It expresses my feelings on climate change; its sheer enormity and devastation, my fear that it is unstoppable, and heartache for our beautiful planet. This is a live recording by the ABC, from the 2017 Freedman Jazz Fellowships, in which I was a finalist. Performed by Sirens Big Band, mixed by Matthew Stuart.
The album recording of the full [A]part suite, which Rising Tide is only a small part of, is available here - https://ellenkirkwood.bandcamp.com/releases

Rising Tide

Premiere performance by DR VokalEnsemblet for Pulsar Festival 2019. 

In emptiness we speak
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Time On The Scale Of A Colossus (Andrew Ball)

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