HAMMERINGS Records

The ‘new music’ concert at Creative Space Gallery in Nth Curl Curl on Sunday November 19, 2017 was that delightful rarity – a standing room only event!

Richard Rourke – clarinet, Huy-Nguyen Bui – violin, Paul Ghica – cello and Kevin Man – percussion were brilliant performing new works Interpolatus by Andrian Pertout, SIGIS by Ergis Spahiu, (for Richard) by Alan Holley as well as Tambourin and Snow by Felicity Wilcox and ….A…. by the leading Albanian composer Dorian Çene. As well, Richard performed the sublime Abime des oiseaux from Quartet for the End of Time by Oliver Messiaen and Paul was stunning in the Sonata for solo cello by Gyorgy Ligeti.

Music and the Natural World
Now onto our next concert in the same venue with works by Melbourne composers Eve Duncan and Haydn Reeder, as well as Richard Meale, Christopher Perrin and Alan Holley. Performers are Lucy Warren (violin), Eleanor Betts (cello), Melissa Coleman (flute) and Harriet Channon (trumpet) on Saturday December 9, 2017 at 5.30pm 105 Abbott Rd, Nth Curl Curl.

Tickets available at the door:  $30/$20.  Bookings 0428 143 646

Andrian Pertout, Harriet Channon and Alan Holley

Hammerings Records present a concert of stars of the Opera Australia Orchestra performing music for 1, 2 and 3 players on

Sunday November 19th, 2017 at 5.30pm.

• Richard Rourke – clarinet
• Huy-Nguyen Bui – violin
• Paul Ghica – cello
• Kevin Man – vibraphone

With compositions by Olivier Messiaen and Gyorgy Ligeti,

Albanian composers Dorian Cene and Ergis Spahiu,

and Australian composers Andrian Pertout, Felicity Wilcox and Alan Holley.

Creative Space – 105 Abbott Road, North Curl Curl, Sydney

during an exhibition by Warringah Printmakers – plenty of free parking

Tickets $30 / $20 concession at the door.

Contact 0428 143 646

Alan Holley and Richard Rourke at Creative Space

Hammerings Records presents

A recital of virtuosic solos from Europe and Australia to be held at Watters Gallery, 109 Riley Street, East Sydney during an exhibition of paintings by Archibald prize winner, Euan Macleod.

Saturday September 16, 2017 at 5.30pm
Tickets $30/$20 at the door on the night.
Watters Gallery 109 Riley Street, East Sydney

Compositions by Iannis Xenakis, Vjekoslav Njezic and Alan Holley, with
Greg van der Struik – trombone
Ian Sykes – clarinet
Melissa Coleman – flute

I came across the mesmerising and beautiful music of Vjekoslav Njezic when I was in Croatia in 2016 and it is great to be able to have his early flute solo Monodie in the concert. Keren by Xenakis is considered one of the most virtuosic solos for trombone and Greg is an awesome interpreter of this mini masterpiece.

Our new CD with Paul Goodchild performing my trumpet concerto Doppler’s Web with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will be available for purchase ($25) at the concert.     Alan Holley

contact 0428 143 646
hammeringsrecords@gmail.com

will have two new works premiered by Sirius Chamber Ensemble at the beautiful and historic Christ Church, cnr Lavender St and Walker St Lavender Bay on Friday, June 23 at 6pm – Opal Wings II for clarinet, violin, cello and piano and a new song cycle setting the texts of the award winning Australian poet Mark Tredinnick. Alan loves setting Mark’s poems and says he finds the lyricism and rhythm in Mark’s poems to be music in its own way – ‘wordmusic’.

Martyn Hentschel, Alan Holley, Melissa Coleman, Ian Sykes

Also on the program is the Australian premiere of Frano Parac’s thrilling and colourful Quartet for clarinet, violin, cello and piano. Parac is one of Croatia’s leading composers with a major European reputation. And to round out the concert, the perennial favourite, Chants d’Auvergne by Canteloube.
There is a great relationship now with Alan and Sirius Chamber Ensemble as they presented four works in a concert for his 60^th birthday and have performed his trio Edward Harvey Portrait and his clarinet solo the birds will sing them off numerous times.

Performers: Taryn Srhoj (soprano), Ian Sykes (clarinet), Vanessa Tammetta (violin), Clare Kahn (cello), Claire Howard Race (piano).

Annie Turner

Information and tickets from Classikon→

see Sirius Chamber Ensemble website for more information→

Hammerings Records presents two of Croatia’s most celebrated chamber musicians in a concert of baroque, classical and romantic music for brass and piano.

Hrvoje Pintaric, horn and Tamara Jurkic Sviben, piano

with Sydney musicians Daniel Henderson, Harriet Channon, trumpets and Gregory van der Struik, trombone.
 

Christ Church, Lavender Bay

cnr Lavender and Walker Street, Lavender Bay

Friday 14th October, 2016  at 6:30pm

 
Program includes works by Alan Holley – Still Road and Auric from our Solos CD, and music by Mozart, Giovanni Gabrieli and Croatian composers Sipus, Rota, Pejacevic and Prohaska.

Tickets $30 / $20 conc available from Classikon

with Shefali Pryor – solo oboe

perform a shaft of light by Alan Holley

Pictures at an Exhibition
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House 

Alan & Shefali discuss ~ A Shaft of Light →

Dates: Wednesday 11th November 2015 @ 6:30pm
Thursday 12th November @ 1:30pm
Monday 16th November @ 7:00pm

Venue:  Sydney Opera House

Program:
DUKAS      La Péri: Fanfare
SAINT-SAËNS     Piano Concerto No.2
HOLLEY    ‘a shaft of light’, Oboe Concerto – Premiere
MUSSORGSKY orch. Ravel   Pictures at an Exhibition

Miguel Harth-Bedoya – conductor
Vadym Kholodenko – piano
Shefali Pryor – oboe

Shefali Pryor rehearsing A Shaft of Light with Alan Holley

The Australian National Academy of Music present a concert of works by Australian composer Alan Holley in partnership with the Melbourne Recital Centre.

David Elton

Date: Thursday 5th November 2015
Time: 6pm
Venue: The Salon
Melbourne Recital Centre
Cnr Southbank Blvd and Sturt Street
Southbank Victoria

Holley – Canzona for Ligeti
Holley – Ornithologia
Holley – Loaded with Dream
Holley – The Estuaries of Time
Holley – The Winged Viola

David Elton curator/trumpet
ANAM Musicians

ANAM concert 5th Nov Melbourne

‘Where are the Sounds of Joy?’

Melbourne Composers League present a concert at the Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank Centre, 120 Southbank Boulevarde, Melbourne. (behind the Victorian Arts Centre)

Date:  Saturday 26 Sept 2015

Time: 8 pm – This is a free concert

Program:

Peter Graham – Prelude for Trumpet, piano and contrabass

Helen Gifford – Undertones of War (solo piano)

Paul Moulatlet – Desolé  (trumpet, vibes & contrabass)

Alan Holley – Dome Music  (contrabass)

Howard Dillon – Möbius (solo piano)

Eve Duncan – Europa (contrabass & piano)

Colin McKellar – Neon Sky (trumpet, perc, piano & contrabass)

Haydn Reeder – The past is in the present as we look to the future

Bruce Crossman – Where Are the Sounds of Joy? (trumpet, perc & piano)

Alan Holley and Eve Duncan

Melbourne Composers League concert

A Portrait of Alan Holley

In celebration of Alan Holley’s recent 60th birthday, Sirius Chamber Ensemble are delighted to be performing a retrospective of Holley’s chamber works as well as notable compositions that have inspired his work, including Messiaen and Lutoslawski.

Date: 13 September 2015,  starting at 3pm.

Venue: Glebe Justice Centre (formerly Glebe Cafe Church), Glebe NSW.

Tickets: classikON