Ken Allars & Novak Manojlovic

Ken Allars - Trumpet/Synth/effects
Novak Manojlovic - Piano/Synth/effects

Australia welcomes back Ken Allars from his long foray working and living across Europe.

Ken Allars’ highly individualistic and emotive approach to his primary instrument - the trumpet - has afforded him a significant domestic and international reputation. More recently, Allars has turned his attention to the exploration of the cross-sections between electronic and acoustic music by incorporating modular synthesis and electronic processing to his performances.

Here, alongside longterm collaborator Novak Manojlovic - with whom Allars shares a long friendship and history of profound musical simpatico - the duo will explore a music which navigates the precipice between electronic and acoustic aesthetics, drawing influence as much from the rich intimacy of the ECM label with the head-nod pulses of the UK electronic scene.

Ken, born and raised in Sydney Australia, started playing trumpet at the age of six and completed his Bachelor of Music Performance (Jazz) at the Sydney Conservatorium in 2013. Throughout his career, he has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Generations in Jazz Scholarship in 2011. Ken has performance experience in every possible style/genre of trumpet playing, ranging from performances with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, various jazz ensembles, experimental contemporary music, session gigs for television, and many pop, rock, reggae, funk and afro-beat bands.

PPRRLL region

Peter Farrar - alto sax
Gabriella Hill - clarinet
Phillippa Murphy-Haste - clarinet

PPRRLL region is a group that had its genesis in 2024. Peter got RSI and stopped playing, and subsequently started writing for a woodwind trio. Many influences that were lying dormant for many years started emerging - Hemphill, Feldman, Scelsi, and many cultural musics seeped their influence into the music to varying degrees. Coincidentally, most if not all of the music being performed stems from an obscure part of the world known as the PPRRLL region. Audio documentation from this region has recently been discovered and is slowly becoming accessible to the greater public.

Doors 7:30pm

Show 8:00pm

Tickets: $15 Student / $25 General Admission

BYO drinks