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Speak Percussion

Artistic Director Eugene Ughetti
Core Member Peter Neville

"...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

Interview ABC Music Show

10 Feb 2009

Listen to an interview between ABC music show's Andrew Ford with Eugene Ughetti before the premiere of the Glass Percussion Project's recent work - En-Trance during the open day of the Melbourne Recital Centre.

ABC Interview Link

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Elliott Carter's NEW percussion sextet!

02 Dec 2008

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.

Concert Info

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IN-REVIEW intermezzo

03 Mar 2008

"Intermezzo is a wonderful work, detailed and nuanced in its orchestration, with moments gentle, introspective, intense and virtuosic, drawing on the full range of percussion artistry. Overall, Intermezzo approaches a gesamkunstwerk with its coherent blend of visual, dramatic, compositional and technical elements, and its production involves a carefully rehearsed and tightly managed team effort." by Chris Reid for Real Time(issue 83). "Off on another challenging acoustic adventure, Melbourne percussionist Eugene Ughetti is currently showing why he is one of this country's most talented artists in the field of advanced contemporary music. The players use a generous, unabashedly contemporary vocabulary to communiate their work in a demonstration that often engrosses, presenting their spectators with an unrelenting inventiveness." by Clive O'Connell for The Age

Real Time article-in full

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