Reflections on Gubaidulina - Ronan Apcar + Ellery String Quartet
Fri, 10 Oct
|Wesley Music Centre
Ronan Apcar and Ellery String Quartet present a humble survey of the music by Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-2025); a profound response to Bach's final unfinished work, a playful yet existential musing for violin and piano, and a great work from her early period, the Piano Quintet
Time & Location
10 Oct 2025, 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Wesley Music Centre, 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest ACT 2603, Australia
About the event
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-2025) emerged from the Soviet Union as an innovative composer to keep an eye on. She proved herself to be one of the most foremost composers not just from Russia but internationally.
Gubaidulina was a composer who fully committed herself to music of emotional intensity. To step into her world of music is to hear spirituality and religion intersect with modernity and innovation.
Once described as "irresponsible" and "mistaken" under the unforgiving arts regime of the Soviet Union, Gubaidulina would go on to be recognised as "the grand dame of new music" (Boosey & Hawkes) and "the most important Russian composer of her generation" (Wise Music).
Ronan Apcar and Ellery String Quartet present a humble survey of her music; a profound response to Bach's final unfinished work, a playful yet existential musing for violin and piano, and a great work from her early period, the Piano Quintet.