The Estuary (Exhale)
Presented by Anna Cordingley & Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, the University of Melbourne
DETAILS
Free, no booking required
Linear Park, Southbank VIC, Australia
DATES
Thu 21 May 8 – 8.30am
For thirty minutes on Thursday 21 May, an ensemble of musicians and participants will gather outdoors, using breath as their instrument and sound as their medium, to rehearse and perform a collective composition.
This work builds on The Estuary, a performance curated and performed by students from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Victorian College of the Arts in response to Buxton Contemporary’s the veil in late 2025. It created a space where the boundaries between performer and exhibition dissolved, inviting audiences to listen, move and breathe within a shared moment of renewal.
One of the compositions that closed the work – a group piece written and led by Gianni Posadas-Sen – will be revived in The Estuary (Exhale).
Participants
Joseph Lallo
Joseph Lallo is a Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Artistic Director of the Melbourne International Saxophone Festival. Passionate about performing new Australian music, he has commissioned and premiered over sixty works for saxophone, and his 2021 recording for ABC Classic was featured on both the ABC Best of Australian Classical Music’ and Swoon’ playlists.Joseph is a member of the Australian Saxophone Quartet with Joshua Hyde, Mary Osborn and Yo-yo Su, recently touring throughout Asia and Australia and recording their debut album, Echo Chamber. He is featured on Nat Bartsch's album, Hope Renewed, a jazz reimagining of her ground-breaking classical release, Hope, and in 2023 toured the United States where he launched his new album, Traces, featuring new works for two saxophones and piano.
Gianni Posadas-Sen
Gianni Posadas-Sen is an emerging performer and composer living and working on the unceded lands of nipaluna/Hobart, lutruwita/Tasmania.He is a classically trained flautist with a keen interest in solo and chamber repertoire, alongside engagement in collaborative music-making. This has led to experimental improvisation, multidisciplinary projects and a commitment to concert curation. Gianni has studied with Mardi McSullea and Douglas Mackie. He holds a Bachelor of Music with Honours (First Class) from The Hedberg School of Music.Gianni’s compositional work is dedicated to lutruwita and themes of diaspora, grief and longing.Gianni has premiered works by Don Kay, Elena Kats-Chernin, Matt Laing and Cat Hope in lutruwita.