Chamber Music New Zealand present

The Song Company

The Seasons and Sweet Dreams

Presented as part of the 2010 Otago Festival of the Arts

“I am very much looking forward to creating a new work for the remarkable Song Company. Their daring approach to repertoire is a fabulous challenge and stimulus to all composers who have the privilege of working with them! I can’t wait!”
Jack Body, NZ composer

“… the Song Company again showed themselves not only unembarrassable, but brilliant.”  Peter McCallum, Sydney Morning Herald

“Their rendition was perfect, revealing a structural insight of utmost clarity … bringing back history unexpectedly fresh and alive."
Sachsische Zeitung

Singing together a cappella since 1984, the six members of the Song Company, and their Director Roland Peelman, give around 130 concerts a year around the world. They wholeheartedly embrace music from all continents and eras, and they work with artists of the highest calibre to create a distinctive and dynamic new voice, relevant to audiences of today and tomorrow.

Regular international tours to Europe and Asia have taken The Song Company to some of the most prestigious festivals and venues around the world such as the Dubrovnik Festival, MDR
Sommerfest, Festival of Flanders and the Dresdner Festspiele. Their concerts have prompted great critical acclaim.

Programme Two
Sweet Dreams:  Including works by Wilbye, Weelkes, Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Warlock, Peter Sculthorpe, Jack Body

Sweet Dreams takes us into the world of fantasy in an exploration of the subconscious mind where not only are our deepest desires and phobias hidden, but also our wildest, sweetest dreams. Madrigals and songs from Medieval and Renaissance times lead into modern-day musings, including works by Jack Body, who will be composer-in-residence with the Song Company in early 2010.

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