About Laura Chislett

Australian flute player Laura Chislett is active as a performer, educator and recording artist across a wide range of musical styles. Her recorded repertoire ranges from JS Bach and Lili Boulanger, to Brian Ferneyhough, Reza Vali, improvisation and beyond.

​Laura studied at the Sydney Conservatorium, with Margaret Crawford, Michael Scott and Richard Toop. She played in the Sydney Youth Orchestra and the Australian Youth Orchestra. Much of the '80s were spent in Europe studying and performing. Collaborations have resulted in the release of ten CDs so far.

Laura's most recent CD, on the UK label 'Métier Divine Art', of improvisations with the polymath musician Edward Cowie, was described recently in Music Web International as "sensuous, inventive and often fantastic".

About Satsuki Odamura

Satsuki Odamura is a pioneer of the traditional Japanese instrument, the koto, performing and teaching in Australia for over 30 years. She originally trained at the Sawai Koto School in Tokyo with the legendary koto players Tadao and Kazue Sawai. Since moving to Australia, she has inspired several Australian composers to write for the koto, and she has collaborated with notable musicians from other genres, including jazz, classical and other styles.  Satsuki believes that artists with no previous knowledge of the koto can create exciting new directions and dimensions for the instrument.

Satsuki has released four of her own albums in collaboration with Australian musicians and, in the process, has found new and exciting contexts for this traditional Japanese instrument. Her most recent album Pearl of May was released in 2023.

About Brad Gill

Brad Gill is a co-artistic director and Sideband percussionist. He began serious musical studies with a focus on xylophone and percussion, later developing an interest in composition, which he explored while a student at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (from which he has an Honours degree and Ph.D.) and University of Western Australia. During this time he developed an interest in non-Western music, undertaking study in Javanese Gamelan and Tabla, as well as studying jazz vibraphone in addition to composition studies, resulting in a broad and highly individual compositional style.

• This performance will consist of structured improvisations:

  • Kaze

  • Flung Ink

  • Crossways

  • Murmuration