Andrea Keller, Ensemble Offspring - Love in Solitude

from The Night With​.​.​. Live Vol. Two by TNW Music

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Love in Solitude is a meditation on the eloquent thoughts presented in Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke. Alongside the live ensemble, the work features a backing track consisting of pre-recorded, highly manipulated sounds made by the performers of Ensemble Offspring on stage, in-studio. Jem Savage was an important collaborator on this soundscape and the voice of Miroslav Bukovsky (a Canberra based trumpet player) recites the text. This substantial work moves through numerous moods as depicted in Rilke’s thoughts, beginning with solitude as an essential state for any artist, sadness and pain and their inevitability, and finally patience, love and optimism, of paramount importance. The work was written for Ensemble Offspring for the 2017 Merlyn Myer Commission.

Andrea Keller (b.1973) has received three ARIA Awards, six Australian Jazz ‘Bell’ Awards, two Art Music Awards, an APRA Professional Development Award, the Melbourne Recital Centre/Merlyn Myer Composing Women’s Commission, and fellowships from the MCA/Freedman Foundation and the Australia Council. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Improvisation (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts (2001) and a Master of Arts (Research) from Queensland University of Technology (2011) and is on staff at the University of Melbourne. www.andreakellerpiano.com.au

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from The Night With​.​.​. Live Vol. Two, released August 27, 2021
Composer - Andrea Keller
Performer - Ensemble Offspring

Producer - Matthew Whiteside
Recording, Mix and Mastering Engineer - Timothy Cooper

Performed at The Night With... 2019

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