I am delighted to be a percussionist in the 2022 Four Winds festival! I will perform at two concerts:

PART ONE: DRUMMING | 2:45pm Saturday April 16th

Steve Reich’s Drumming Part One features four players on tuned bongo drums. This is the first of four parts that make up his mesmerising, focussed and heart-pumping early work, Drumming. Composed in 1971 on Reich’s return to New York from Ghana, where he was inspired by that country’s tight music ensembles. With no changes in melody or rhythm, slight shifts in timing and pitch create the work’s momentum.

I am delighted to join Nathan Gatenby, Anna Camara and Jackson Vickery.

FOUR WINDS FINALE | 2:45pm Sunday April 17th

The Finale’s conclusion embraces the whole site and audience in an immersive Australian Premiere performance of Tan Dun’s Prayer and Blessing featuring twelve percussionists playing tam-tams, string quartet, soprano Chloe Lankshear, and conducted by Four Winds Artistic Director Matthew Hoy. Created in response to Covid-19 this global work shares a timely message of community, in a text by Chinese philosopher Laozi.