The Freestyle Orchestra at Esterhazy Winery
In collaboration with The Hot Box Girls International and Opera Moderne, looking forward to presenting “L’Opera Burlesque” with members of The Freestyle Orchestra at the Weingut Esterhazy tonight!
Featuring aerial, acrobatic and fire performance as well as wine tasting – will surely be a fun night! Join us 6 December, 19:30 in the Kalandahaus at Esterhazy Wein!
A concert at 1900m on top of a mountain? Why not?
It’s happening! The Freestyle Orchestra venture into the Austrian Alps this weekend for ‘ORCHESTER am Berg’ – performing a concert on top of the Riesneralm in Donnersbachwald (1900m high)! Cable cars and instruments and equipment oh my! More information about our mountain mission here.
The Freestyle Orchestra back at Mosaïque
Honoured to be playing with The Freestyle Orchestra at the last Mosaïque for a while.. so join us tomorrow night at Turnhalle im brick-5 for everything from Stravinsky to modern composers – we will be premiering excerpts of Chloé Charody’s ‘Tale of the Firebird’ as well as accompanying the incredible Sonia Anfiloff- Soprano in some Stravinsky children’s songs.
In addition, young dancers from the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien choreographed by The Forsythe Company member, Esther Balfe, offer a visual homage to Stravinksy’s groundbreaking work with ballet!
This concert brings to a close our mini-marathon of events with The Freestyle Orchestra – 6 different shows in 6 different venues in 6 weeks! So lucky to work with such an amazing and flexible group of awesome musicians!
‘The Freestyle Orchestra’ at the International Storytelling Festival
Beyond excited to take the stage with The Freestyle Orchestra tonight for the first of our music/aerial/fire shows for the International Storytelling Festival Austria at the Schauspielhaus Graz! Over the next 2 days we present an all-Australian program of staged works by Ross Edwards (excerpts from ‘Maninyas’) Chloé Charody (‘Dance of the Firebird’ and ‘Phoenix’ caprice) and Daniel Masmanian (‘fire is mine ears’). So grateful to these amazing composers for all their beautiful support (so important when creating something new!) and for trusting us with their incredible music. Working with living composers rocks!
Our next festival dates:
26 May – Brucknerhaus, Linz
1 June – Museumsquartier, Vienna (open air)
2 June – Passionsspielhaus, Bad Schönau
“Bohème Sauvage Vienne” with The Freestyle Orchestra
Cannot wait to take the stage with the Vienna crew of The Freestyle Orchestra at Bohème Sauvage Vienne Nº10 – 5. Mai 2018 – Palais Palffy this Saturday night – putting a Freestyle spin on some 1920’s classics, it is gonna be one hot night (and my first time performing with fire in a Palace)!!
The event also features the amazing Rebecca Greenstein, Anne E Wie and plenty of surprises. Get into your best 20’s style and come on down!
More info and tickets here.
‘The Freestyle Orchestra’ at Mosaïque Vienna!!!
Cannot wait to perform with The Freestyle Orchestra for our Vienna debut at Mosaïque!!! Going carnival with “Phat Tuesday” on February 13th at Brick-5, this varieté-style program celebrates excess in all its forms in a final hurrah before Lent rears its dreary head.
Musically, Chanda VanderHart is throwing together a little bit of everything, from the silky tones of soprano Sarah Marie Kramer and seductive sounds of bass Malte Roesner all the way to numbers including dancers, acrobatics, fire, burlesque, magic, costumes and aerial artists from The Freestyle Orchestra and L’Opera Moderne.
The show is moderated by Mama Burlesque herself, Rebecca Greenstein, so expect the unexpected and a whole lot of fun surprise! Musical numbers about gold, gambling, and love-gone-wrong span classical song from Mozart contemporary Vicente Marin y Soler all the way to modern, electroswing creations and DJ Paul Stadler keeping it hot after hours. It’s going to be a weird, wild party!
I will be performing violin and fire as well as an aerial routine and playing/dancing Roxanne with the amazing Roberto Martinelli. See you there!
‘The Sculptor’s Studio’ premieres at the Australian Circus Festival
“The Sculptor’s Studio” premieres this week at the Australian Circus Festival!!! Shot over a week-long residency in Carrara, Italy in July in collaboration with Candy Stripe Circus, Studio Alnassar and members of The Freestyle Orchestra, together as The Marble Circus.
“A 20 minute black and white short film that takes you on a beautiful whimsical journey through the mind of an Artiste using circus, music, art and love”.
Showing at both the Premiere and Gold shows on 13 and 16 November!
More info and trailer here.
The Freestyle Orchestra in Switzerland
Looking forward to our sold-out show at Les Jardins Musicaux classical festival tonight!!
We will be playing in the beautiful ‘Grange Aux Concerts’ hall, this time including fire and aerial performance as well as our usual fusion of classical music with modern circus. 🙂
With a cool range of music and styles and a good dose of Australian repertoire (including the official premiere of ‘The Muthafukaz’ by Chloé Charody) …will be a fun one!
“The Freestyle Orchestra” at the Venice Biennale!
The Freestyle Orchestra take the stage for the Venice Biennale tonight!! Super proud that 5 of the 8 pieces we will present are by Australian composers, including the brilliant Nigel Westlake, Chloé Charody and Daniel Masmanian. If you don’t know their music already, check it out – seriously amazing. 🙂
‘The Freestyle Orchestra’ – Audience Choice award, Tarisio Young Artist Grants 2016!!!
To everyone who supported us by sharing and voting – we did it!!!
The Freestyle Orchestra are the recipients of the Audience Choice award for the 2016 Tarisio Young Artist Grants!!!
Cannot wait to share the results of our training with you very soon. For now, a small video from us with a huge thank you!! 🙂
***Please Vote*** The Freestyle Orchestra shortlisted for Tarisio Young Artist Grant!
Thrilled that one of my projects, The Freestyle Orchestra, has been selected for the audience voting round for the Tarisio Auctions Young Artists Grants 2016!!!
That means we need your assistance – please help us by clicking the link and voting for us (bottom of page, under Sonja Schebeck). Will take max 5 seconds and we’d really appreciate it! 🙂
http://tarisio.com/news/young-artists-grants-2016-winners/
A little introductory video:
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