Vibraphone II
Melbourne Recital Centre - Salon
NEWS
- Speak Emerging Artists Program
We are delighted to announce our first Education Program.
... more - Feast Review
After having been involved in 4 performances across this
... more - 10 Year Anniersary
In 2010 Speak Percussion turns 10!! Stay tuned for a series
... more - Commissions 10th Birthday.
Anthony Pateras, Thomas Meadowcroft, Luke Paulding, Warren
... more - Interview ABC Music Show - Speak & Unspoken
Listen to an interview between ABC music show's Andrew
... more - Speak Board
Speak Percussion's board: Owen McKern Elizabeth
... more - Podcasts on ABC
4 new percussion works, premiered by Speak Percussion have
... more - Elliott Carter's NEW percussion sextet!
Speak Percussion is delighted to be giving the 2nd ever
... more
CALENDAR
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29
Jul
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22
Aug
Driftwood
Footscray Community Arts Centre
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28
Aug
10th Anniversary Tour: Australian Percussion Gathering
Conservatorium Theatre, Griffith University
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18
Sep
10th Anniversary Tour
Melbourne Recital Centre - Salon
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19
Sep
10th Anniversary Tour
Frankston Arts Centre
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22
Sep
10th Anniversary Tour
ANU Canberra: School of Music - Band Room
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25
Sep
10th Anniversary Tour
Recital Hall East - Sydney Conservatorium
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12
Dec
Thomas Meadowcroft: Percussion Portrait
about
Speak Percussion
Artistic Director Eugene Ughetti
Core Members Peter Neville and Matthias Schack Arnott
"...sent the audience once again into a frenzy. It was power playing at its best."
The Age
"At the end, the roar from the floor lifted the roof off the primitive performance space where four young men and one woman dazzled in a display that said all things positive about contemporary entertainment for the now generation."
The Australian
Speak Percussion is Melbourne's most diverse percussion arts enterprise, it's activities span a wide variety of contexts and genres ranging from regular music festival concerts to experimental hybrid-arts events. Speak Percussion presents a cross-section of percussive arts activity engaging percussion soloists through to large ensembles.
Speak Percussion has collaborated with installation artists, choreographers, dancers, instrument builders, visual artists, lighting designers, sound designers and architects.
Speak has been responsible for commissioning and premiering many Australian percussion works by composers Chris Dench, David Young, Anthony Pateras, Dal Babare, Kate Neal, Warren Burt, Peter Head, Stuart Greenbaum, Mark Pollard, Taran Carter, Brendan Colbert, Eugene Ughetti, Andrew Ford, Wally Gunn, Simon Charles, Jesmond Grixti, Kristian Ireland, Andrian Pertout, Eve Duncan, Kate Tempany, Alan Lee and Brett Anthony Jones.
Speak Percussion toured many capital cities in Australia and the European continent. Such activities included the performance of Australian music, various collaborations, presentations of masterclasses and workshop's.
Speak Percussion promotes Australian artists and pushes percussive activities into extraordinary territories.
News in Detail
Speak Emerging Artists Program
16 Jul 2010
We are delighted to announce our first Education Program. This program will place the most talented Australian young percussionists and composers into an intense program that focuses on developing new and innovative chamber music for percussion. Guest composition lecturer Thomas Meadowcroft will come out from Berlin especially for the program and will work closely with the participants. Special gifts and opportunities will be provided by Optimum Percussion and Rhythmscape publishing. ALL travel, food, accommodation and course expenses will be covered by Speak Percussion for the lucky 10 emerging artists. For more information visit the COLLABORATIONS section of this website and download the application for now!!
Link to SPEAK EMERGING ARTISTS PROGRAM info
13 Jul 2010Feast Review
After having been involved in 4 performances across this years Melbourne Chamber Music Fest, here's a taste of what Clive O'Connell had to say, published in The Age - Tue 13 July.
TEMPTING COURSES IN A MUSICAL FEAST "......But the outstanding work in the two concerts I heard was the Freshwater Trio/Speak Percussion performance of the Shostakovitch Symphony No. 15. This engrossing arrangement demonstrated the powerful responsiveness of Eidit Golder's piano/celesta and the precision of Eugene Ughetti's well-exercised percussion trio."
10 Year Anniersary
13 Jan 2010
In 2010 Speak Percussion turns 10!! Stay tuned for a series of exciting performances which celebrate our achievements and pave the way for our future...
Commissions 10th Birthday.
12 Jan 2010
Anthony Pateras, Thomas Meadowcroft, Luke Paulding, Warren Burt, Mark Pollard and Andrew Byrne are all composing new works for us to be premiered in our Anniversary year. Stay tuned for performances of these works, we will be taking the Warren Burt "Vibraphone and Tuning Forks" on tour across Australia and the new Anthony Pateras percussion 12tet will be featured in our Birthday Concerts which will be part of opening night at the Mona Foma Festival 2011 in Hobart.
Interview ABC Music Show - Speak & Unspoken
27 Sep 2009
Listen to an interview between ABC music show's Andrew Ford with Speak Percussion, Fritz Hauser and Donna Coleman a few days before the premiere of their recent collaboration "Speak & Unspoken".
ABC Interview Link
12 Sep 2009Speak Board
Speak Percussion's board:
Owen McKern
Elizabeth Tupper
Colin Simpson
Hugh Basset
Gary France
John Arcaro
We welcoming incoming members:
Peter McCoy
Andrew Owen Hillier
And farewell to Martin Paten & Alexia Higgs.
Podcasts on ABC
02 Sep 2009
4 new percussion works, premiered by Speak Percussion have been recorded by the ABC over the last year.
SPEAK04: Anthony Pateras - Hypnogogics
Jul 22, 12:00 AM
SPEAK03: Mark Viggiani - Aus den Schlotender Munitionsfabriken
Jul 15, 12:00 AM
SPEAK02: Scott McIntyre - Sunspots
Jul 8, 12:00 AM
SPEAK01: James Rushford - you imagined every encounter was real
Jul 1, 12:00 AM
Listen and download free at the link below.
ABC podcasts
02 Dec 2008Elliott Carter's NEW percussion sextet!
Speak Percussion is delighted to be giving the 2nd ever performance of Carter's new work for percussion ensemble this Sunday the 7th of December. This Melbourne performance happens only 5 days before his 100th Birthday, such an amazing life achievement and still writing highly refined and elegantly modern work. See Performances for more info.