The most wonderfully curated New Music programme in Sydney, OPUS NOW finally joins us for The People’s Republic with two dear friends and magnificent soloists performing a (typically) compelling, imaginative and unmissable program...

CHRIS PIDCOCK [cello/synthesiser]
and
MONICA BROOKS [piano]

SUNDAY October 19th at 7 p.m. [doors at 6.30]

This OPUS NOW programme features solo piano works by Monica Brooks, who dazzled audiences at Opus Now earlier this year. Her performance will celebrate the release of her forthcoming album, launching soon.

She shares the programme with OPUS NOW supremo Chris Pidcock, who will perform Iannis Xenakis’s epic Nomos Alpha (Νόμος α΄) for solo cello from 1965. This composition has inspired works by many composers, such as Brian Fernyhough's Time and Motion Study ii (1977), which Chris will present at the Red House on December 7th with Ben Carey on electronics. He will close his set with Horatio Radulescu’s Lux Animae and his own solo work Schaum for CS 80 performed on Deckard’s Dream, a Japanese-built synthesiser that pays homage to the legendary Yamaha CS-80.
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Monica Brooks is a minimalist pianist and composer whose deeply evocative work unfolds with poetic elegance, crafting soundscapes that are both fragile and powerful. She has modelled sound works, compositions, and improvisations from piano, computer, field recordings, glasses, radio, and accordion, and collaborated with artists such as Jim Denley, Dale Gorfinkel, Herminone Johnson, Chris Abrahams, Robbie Avenaim, Kraig Grady, Richard Nuns, Eugene Chadbourne and Joe Talia.

Chris Pidcock became a member of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 2012 and has become one of the most distinguished and innovative performers in Australia.  He enjoys performing on both historical and contemporary instruments equally, exploring composer and performer relationships, and fosters the idea that improvisation is part of being a classical musician. Chris’s pursuit of discovery, by his audience and by musicians in the Sydney community, led to the creation of Opus Now, founded in 2016 by Chris with friends Freya Schack-Arnott and Ben Panucci, a concert series that draws together historical performance, world indigenous music, and contemporary music into a single concert. Artists and parallels in the programming are painstakingly researched to create memorable concert experiences.

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