Silo String Quartet was founded by Cellist and Composer Caerwen Martin in 1998. Silo has performed regularly at the Melbourne International Jazz Festivals and Melbourne International Women in Jazz Festivals since 1999 working with such artists as Fiona Burnett, Belinda Moody, Antonio Tenace, David Chisholm and Quinsin Nachoff (Canada) and was the resident string quartet for the Federation Music Week International Composers Forum. Silo are currently recording a CD for the Federation of Australian Composers that showcases the best of Australia’s new string quartets. This year Silo have recorded a CD for Melbourne based dance company Ballett Lab entitled Origami, composed by David Chisholm. Silo also feature on the live ABC CD Soaring at Dawn for Jazz trio and String Quartet composed by soprano saxophonist Fiona Burnett. Recent work has included performing at Glen Eira Town Hall, Billilla House, Stonington Manor, Melba Hall, Bennetts Lane and Federation Square as well as many recording and performance projects for composers and popular artists including Dan Brodie, Millionaire Souls, CC Martini, Philip Gelbach and Johanna Selleck. Silo has broadcast live on ABC and Melbourne radio stations and features on Caerwen Martin's new soundtrack to the Australian feature film 'Lost and Found’ by David Blake.
With an all star line up:
Eddie Perfect
Paul Capsis
The Conglomerate
Abbie Cardwell
Sophie Brous
Tommy Spender
Casey Benetto
Video Day
Steve Sedergreen
Jan Skubiszewski
Marc Testart
Xani Kolac
Peter 'The Dog' Burgess
Ben Hendry
Brother Grim
Jelly Tub Rollers
and
Clairy Baby Brown & The Bangin Rackettes
Dancers get your crew together and take part in Australia's exciting hip hop dance crew competition.
LOOZE CONTROL is getting ready to rumble where you are the life of the competition. Visit www. loozecontrol. com for full details and registration. Want to be updated with the latest news on LC register your email at www. loozecontrol. com.
Become part of the team and promote for an event that has a fun and energetic team. Visit www. nojon. com. au/promote. htm and register your details.
Cheers, Love! Was so proud of you and the guys for such a gorgeous performance (and those frocks!). Let me know if you make your way back through to NYC on your travels, but beware the crashing Wall Street buildings... Makes one glad to be a musician! :-)) N xx
Go Home-Girls! and Guy... Sounds fantastic, and Carnegie Hall, no less!!! Making good in the BIG City! Send my love to Andrea..., to my little city of Melbs, and hope to catch you in NY. Noemi :-))
coming by for another listen.. wish I could make it to your Sept. 28th concert, but I have a CD release of my own that night... how long will you be in town?
I added a sample of my STRING QUARTET NO. 2 (THE GATHERING) performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet on the attached flash audio player and I would like to invite you to listen to it. A sample of my STRING QUARTET NO. 1 (THE AWAKENING) is still available on my MySpace audio player. Thank you for the friendship and...
