Premiere performance of 'Domestic Alchemy' by Hilary Kleinig written in response to Louise Haselton's exhibition, 'like cures like,' performed amongst her artwork at Samstag Museum, Adelaide, by Zephyr Quartet. 'Domestic Alchemy' is a meditation that explores how repetition and observations from different points of view create greater understanding. The audience were invited to hear the piece upon repeat, changing position and perspective for each iteration. 26 September 2019

Premiere performance of Hilary Kleinig's 'Exquisite Peace' at Paddington Town Hall (Sydney, Australia) as part of Ensemble Offspring's Kontiki Racket Festival June 21 2019. Program Note: 'Exquisite Peace tries to capture in sound the essence of a moment of gratitude and stillness where I feel that everything is ok in my life, so perfect at this particular time: the rare, fragile beauty of this crystalline space, knowing that at any second reality, and all that it demands, might coming crashing back through and the bittersweet knowledge that I never know when it will happen again.' Hilary Kleinig

Premiere performance of 'Down to the wire' by Hilary Kleinig, commissioned by COMA (Creative Original Music Adelaide) for their 2018 Featured Composer concert at The Wheatsheaf Hotel, December 3rd 2018. Hilary Kleinig & friends: Belinda Gehlert - violin Emily Tulloch - violin Jason Thomas - violin Hilary Kleinig - cello Lyndon Gray - double bass Anna Coleman - clarinet Melanie Walters - flute Stephen Neville - drums Josh Van Konkelenberg - piano Andrew Wiering - vibraphone

Elegy for A Seastar (2020) by Hilary Kleinig World premiered at the Women of Noise International Women's Day Concert: 6 March 2020, Ian Hanger Recital Hall, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. Performers Violoncello: Hilary Kleinig Clocked Out Ensemble Percussion: Vanessa Tomlinson Piano: Erik Griswold "A couple of years ago I read an article in 'The Conversation', the journal, and it was called 'Eulogy for a Seastar', and it was about Australia's first marine extinction. I'll just read you the first bit of the article: "We see the surface of the sea: the rock pools, the waves, the horizon. But there is so much more going on underneath, hidden from view. The sea’s surface conceals human impact as well. Today, I am writing a eulogy to the Derwent River Seastar (or starfish), that formerly inhabited the shores near the Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania. It is Australia’s first documented marine animal extinction and one of the few recorded anywhere in the world."* I was really struck by this at the time and thought it would be really great to write a piece about it. At the time I though, 'well, how do you mourn for something that you never knew existed.' And in these changing times, with so much changing all the time it seemed like something really important to think about. It's ended up as an epic love song to the Derwent River Seastar." *Source: https://theconversation.com/eulogy-for-a-seastar-australias-first-recorded-marine-extinction-103225 We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of this country, the Turrbal, Yagera, Jagera, Yugarapul and Quandamooka peoples, and their Elders, past, present and future. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Great White Bird imagines a time in Australia before European settlement. It references “Susie’s Ship Song” sung by Susie, a Wirangu woman from Yardea on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, whose song was recorded on wax cylinder in 1928. It is believed that the song was created by the Wirangu people in response to a tall ship sailing into and anchoring in Denial Bay. It tells the story of a great white bird that came across the seas and which was tethered to the bay so that it couldn’t get away. This piece honours and pays tribute to Australia’s first people, their stories and their land. It premiered as part of Zephyr Quartet’s ‘Arrivals’ concerts in 2016 which told stories of migration to Australia by boat.

Composer: Hilary Kleinig Sibuk appears on Zephyr Quartet's second album, Esque which is available on bandcamp: https://zephyrquartet.bandcamp.com/album/esque