Astra Music
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Genre:
Contemporary/choral
Hometown:
Melbourne
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Discography

5 of 7 albumsSee All

2008
12 Tracks (95:43)
2000
5 Tracks (60:43)
1995
(61:12)
3 Tracks (39:54)
 
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Astra Music Haydn, String Quartet op.20 no.2 (1722)
Ligeti, Six Bagatelles for wind quintet (1953)
Hölderlin Fantasies (1982)
Haydn, Ligeti and Ligeti arr Julian Yu; choral songs, bagatelles and canons

Musicians from the Academy
The Astra Choir with Kim Bastin (piano) conducted by John McCaughey

Bookings through Ticketmaster... or in person at the box-office ANAM, South Melbourne Town Hall, on the evening of the performance

Guest concert in association with ANAM
Time:8:00PM Thursday, October 29th
Location:ANAM, South Melbourne Town Hall
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Astra Music pianos, organs

CELESTIAL AND EARTHLY:
Bach, George Crumb, Faenza Codex, Donald Martino, Martinu, Messiaen, Frederic Rzewski

The second of two concerts offering the opportunity to hear performers of a new generation, each presented over two days in the intimate environment of Eleventh Hour Theatre in Fitzroy. Two pairs of ...pianists/keyboardists engage in a dialogue of repertoire and new material, reinterpreting the culture of their instruments.

Joy Lee / Sonya Lifschitz
Time:6:00PM Sunday, September 20th
Location:Eleventh Hour Theatre
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Astra Music pianos, organs

CELESTIAL AND EARTHLY:
Bach, George Crumb, Faenza Codex, Donald Martino, Martinu, Messiaen, Frederic Rzewski

The second of two concerts offering the opportunity to hear performers of a new generation, each presented over two days in the intimate environment of Eleventh Hour Theatre in Fitzroy. Two pairs of ...pianists/keyboardists engage in a dialogue of repertoire and new material, reinterpreting the culture of their instruments.

Joy Lee / Sonya Lifschitz
Time:6:00PM Saturday, September 19th
Location:Eleventh Hour Theatre
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Astra Music Two of Australia’s leading performers, Miwako Abe and Michael Kieran Harvey give an unusual violin and piano recital with the addition of outstanding clarinettist Craig Hill. The music explores varied terrain, from an early Sonata by Keith Humble (published as a score in conjunction with the concert) to premiere perfor...mances of works by Martin Friedel and Allan Walker – set against a background of Alban Berg and American composers.

violin and piano recital
Time:5:00PM Sunday, August 30th
Location:Lithuanian House
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Astra Music The first of two concerts offering the opportunity to hear performers of a new generation, each presented over two days in the intimate environment of Eleventh Hour Theatre in Fitzroy. Two pairs of pianists/keyboardists engage in a dialogue of repertoire and new material, reinterpreting the culture of their instruments....

ACTIONS AND REPERCUSSIONS:
Louis Andriessen, Andrew Byrne first performance, Bach arr. Reger, De Jager first performance,
Frescobaldi, Planet X arr. Dumsday first performance, Prokoviev, Bach, Radiohead arr. O'Riley

Peter de Jager / Peter Dumsday
Time:6:00PM Saturday, May 30th
Location:Eleventh Hour Theatre
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Astra Music The first of two concerts offering the opportunity to hear performers of a new generation, each presented over two days in the intimate environment of Eleventh Hour Theatre in Fitzroy. Two pairs of pianists/keyboardists engage in a dialogue of repertoire and new material, reinterpreting the culture of their instruments....


ACTIONS AND REPERCUSSIONS:
Louis Andriessen, Andrew Byrne first performance, Bach arr. Reger, De Jager first performance,
Frescobaldi, Planet X arr. Dumsday first performance, Prokoviev, Bach, Radiohead arr. O'Riley

Please note the concert will be repeated on Sunday 31 May

Peter de Jager / Peter Dumsday
Time:6:00PM Saturday, May 30th
Location:Eleventh Hour Theatre
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Astra Music the concert on Sunday week is really starting to come together now. The Richard Strauss motet will be magnificent in that spectacular church.

May 7 at 1:03am
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Astra Music Astra's 2009 season opens on Sunday 17th May at the restored Carmelite Church in Middle Park, where recent and older settings of William Blake and Friedrich Rückert provide a visionary context for a 15th-century Ockeghem Mass and its contemporary re-working. Full details at www.astramusic.org.au/concerts.html

R. Strauss, Mahler, Schumann, Bo Holten, Ockeghem, Hufschmidt, Cindy John
Time:5:00PM Sunday, May 17th
Location:Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church
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Astra Music News Flash - Astra CD 'Sticky Melodies' has just made it into the top 5 best CDs for 2008 according to the New York Time Out mag - details here http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/opera-classical/69919/classical-the-best-and-worst-of-2008

Go Astra!!

December 17, 2008 at 5:48pm · Report
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Astra Music Astra is recruiting fans! - so share this with your friends who might be interested, and let the fanbase rise. We need your support! cheers, Anna

November 18, 2008 at 1:57pm · Report
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Astra Music Tristram Williams, Mark Skillington (trumpets), Geoff Lierse (horn), Robert Collins, Charles MacInnes (trombones), Speak Percussion (director Eugene Ughetti), Kim Bastin & Peter Dumsday (keyboards), Jerzy Kozlowski (bass voice)
The Astra Choir conducted by John McCaughey

Giovanni Gabrieli, IN ECCLESIIS (1605)
soloists, 2 ...choirs, brass ensemble & continuo

Elliott Carter, MUSICIANS WRESTLE EVERYWHERE (Emily Dickinson) (1945) choir
– BRASS QUINTET (1974) 2 trumpets, horn & 2 trombones
– PERCUSSION WORKS (1950/2008)

Carl Vine, AFTER CAMPION (Thomas Campion) (1989)
3 solo voices, choir & 2 pianos

Claudio Monteverdi, MADRIGALS FROM THE FOURTH BOOK (1603)

with further music by Heinrich Schütz, Giovanni Gabrieli, Thomas Campion, Allan Walker & Carl Ruggles.

The 100th birthday on December 11, 2008 of Elliott Carter - still alive and composing in his centenary year – is celebrated on the preceding weekend in this second of two concerts. One of the composer’s most brilliant and challenging ensemble works, the Brass Quintet, provides a focal point among the vast context of music and poetry, in American and other traditions, from which Carter developed his compositional language.

brass ensemble, choir, percussion
Time:7:00PM Sunday, December 7th
Location:Central Hall
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Astra Music Jerzy Kozlowsi (solo bass), Jane Nolan and David Tredinnick (actors), Anne Thompson and William Henderson (directors), Kim Bastin (piano), The Astra Choir and soloists conducted by John McCaughey

Dimitry Shostakovich, FOUR VERSES OF CAPTAIN LEBYADKIN, op. 146 (1974)
poems from The Possessed by Dostoyevsky, for bass & pi...ano

Helen Gifford, SIX SETTINGS FROM SHAKESPEARE(1974-2006)
Songs and Dramatic Declamation for 6 solo singers - first performance

with CHORAL SETTINGS by Igor Stravinsky and Martin Wesley Smith,
ENACTMENTS AND READINGS by William Shakespeare and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

The final work of Shostakovich, a cycle for bass and piano after Dostoyevsky’s The Possessed has been described as a micro-opera of a unique parodistic character. It follows Jerzy Kozlowski’s sell-out Astra performance of the same composer’s Michelangelo cycle in 2006. In this concert it is woven into a larger fabric of theatre and music, with Helen Gifford’s new set of ‘declamations’ after Shakespeare and the collaboration of actors and directors from Melbourne’s adventurous theatrical voice, Eleventh Hour Theatre

a collaboration with Eleventh Hour Theatre
Time:6:00PM Sunday, November 16th
Location:Eleventh Hour Theatre
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RECENT ACTIVITY
Astra Music updated their discography.