WAAPA Live at The Rechabite starring Pavan Kumar Hari and the Seven Seas Ensemble
Music Director: Tim White
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WAAPA’s dynamic Seven Seas Ensemble is led by Pavan Kumar Hari in a pioneering livestream concert from the historic Rechabite Hall in Northbridge. Twenty musicians play 48 works in 40 minutes, covering 300 years of music from all around the world in an unbroken 150 metre journey through three floors of The Rechabite Hall. It’s a performance totally without precedent - don’t miss it!
The Seven Seas Ensemble is WAAPA’s dynamic new world music ensemble, featuring musicians from WAAPA's classical, jazz and contemporary courses. It’s led by the award-winning composer/performer Pavan Kumar Hari (winner of the 2020 Performing Arts WA award for Best Composition or Arranging for 'Fully Sikh')).
Three of the ensemble musicians are finalists in WAAPA’s prestigious Warana Music Award: violinists Yasmin Omran (2019) and Adrian Biemmi (2020), and violist Ariel Postmus (2020) - and several are members of the Australian Youth Orchestra.
The program covers music over three centuries, dating from 1717 (J S Bach) through til 2020: the world premiere of Joey Eng and Steven Hartley’s ‘Red Hot Summer’. The works by J S Bach include the Preludes to his Cello Suites No 1 and 4. Other featured composers are Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Saint-Saëns, Mendelssohn, Elgar, Dvorak, Delibes, Hindemith, Richard Strauss, Ernst Bloch and Claude Debussy. There’s also traditional music from Brazil, Africa, India, Japan and Tibet.
The musicians include string players, French horns, flutes, voices, temple bowls, bells, melodica, mandolin, tabla, bottles, saucepans, and a team of percussionists from Defying Gravity.
It’s a concert like no other! The camera takes you on a musical odyssey through the fascinating structure of The Rechabite Hall - from the Grand Staircase to the roof garden, kitchen, restaurant, dressing rooms, bars and main hall. Musical delights abound along the way - and lurk in every corner!
Tune into the live stream on the WAAPA Facebook timeline next Tuesday from 1pm here:
https://www.facebook.com/waapa.ecu/
