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 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. 🙂
***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:
New fire piece at Mosaïque Wien!
Back for Mosaïque Wien this weekend for a Shakespeare themed Mini-Festival!
Performing violin/fire eating/manipulation alongside one of my partners in crime from The Freestyle Orchestra, violinist/fire artist/acrobat Farid Feyzullayev, for our semi-choreographed version of the solo violin work ‘Fire is in mine ears’ by the seriously talented composer/conductor/pianist Daniel Masmanian (UK/Australia). Our most ambitious fire work to date, we cannot wait to share it with you!!
These things cannot be done without an awesome team; special thanks to Antonio Chorbadzhiyski (safety) and Georgina Oakes (rehearsal support).
Event also features the Vienna Theatre Project, Chanda VanderHart, some brilliant singers and musicians, a distinct possibility of some puppetry and fencing, and catering from the vegetarian chef-duo ‘Food of Love’. Details and tickets here!
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