Homecomings

There’s a special kind of energy when old friends come together to make music. Formed at ANAM in 2013, Arcadia Winds come back to where it all began.  

Known for their deep commitment to new Australian music, Arcadia Winds have spent the past decade touring nationally and internationally, working with composers including Elliott Gyger, Natalie Williams, Lachlan Skipworth, and Elizabeth Younan. Now celebrating their 13th year, they reunite with ANAM musicians in a program that looks both back and forward, connecting classical form with new ideas. 

This concert features Valerie Coleman’s Tzigane, inspired by the fiery energy of Romani music, and Franz Krommer’s Partita in B-flat Major, op. 78, a Classical-era work showcasing interplay among the winds. The program also includes Mark Holdsworth’s Hellfire, marked by rhythmic drive and harmonic tension, and the world premiere of Lachlan Skipworth’s Sextet for Piano and Winds – written as a contemporary counterpart to Poulenc’s Sextour. 

Valerie COLEMAN Tzigane
Franz KROMMER Partita in B-flat Major, op. 78
Lachlan SKIPWORTH Sextet (new work) (world premiere)
Mark HOLDSWORTH Hellfire
Richard STRAUSS Suite, op. 4 

Arcadia Winds
Kiran Phatak (alum 2014) flute
Rachel Bullen (alum 1997) oboe
Lloyd Van’t Hoff (alum 2014) clarinet
Rachel Shaw (alum 2014) horn
Matthew Kneale (alum 2014) bassoon
ANAM Winds
ANAM Pianists 

Duration: approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)