SPARK, BLOOM!
Thu, 26 Mar
|National Museum of Australia
Premiere performance of new collaborative composition by Sunny Kim & Hilary Kleinig, joining together with percussionist Claire Edwardes and members of Canberra Symphony Orchestra's percussion section in a program of exhilarating Australian music.
Time & Location
26 Mar 2026, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
National Museum of Australia, Lawson Cres, Acton ACT 2601, Australia
About the event
Percussion meets K-pop
After her exhilarating performances of Dances with Devils in 2023, star percussionist Claire Edwardes returns to the CSO for a new collaboration.
Inspired by the National Museum of Australia’s K-pop exhibition Hallyu! The Korean Wave, Claire will be joined by charismatic South Korean jazz vocalist Sunny Kim for a program to spark your imagination—filling the Gandel Atrium with brilliant colours and electrifying rhythms.
Holly Harrison’s Creature Feature was a highlight of the 2024 Canberra International Music Festival—a showstopping musical carnival with a ‘fiendishly difficult’ marimba part. Claire has matched this epic, virtuoso piece with some of her favourite percussion miniatures.
From the meditative mood of Ella Macens’ Falling Embers and Bree van Reyk’s witty fanfare for three tambourines, to the excitement of hi-hats and chimes in Katy Abbott’s Taking Chances and a world premiere by Sunny Kim and Hilary Kleinig, this electrifying concert promises to be one…