I am delighted to be returning to Canberra for the Canberra International Music Festival in 2021. I’ve been connected to CIMF since 2014 and has become an important feature of my year and a reminder of past connections. There will be past connections aplenty in this program - which features my old colleagues from Song Company (under Roland Peelman) in a work that was written for our voices by Katy Abbott and developed by that ensemble, Syzygy Ensemble, and with great assistance from the late Irene Hendricks. It will be a pleasure to perform this work in its first live performance in Australia after years of development.

From the CIMF Website:

A number of years in the making, the work is distilled from the answers of over two hundred women to a confidential survey about their private thoughts. Compiled by Abbott with writer and cartoonist Kaz Cooke ‘Do I Matter?’ also incorporates the audience’s private thoughts - in real time…Due to COVID-19 this event will be run twice:

Sunday May 2, 6:30pm & Sunday May 2, 8:30pm - Fitters’ Workshop

ARTISTS

Susannah Lawergren, soprano

Anna Fraser, soprano

Hannah Fraser, mezzo-soprano

Richard Black, tenor

Mark Donnelly, baritone

Andrew O’Connor, bass/baritone

Ensemble Offspring