ERIC AVERY Celebrating NAIDOC WEEK with MUSIC

Name: ERIC AVERY Celebrating NAIDOC WEEK with MUSIC
Start: 2024-07-04T11:00:00+10:00
Location: Wollongong Art Gallery

Schedule

Thu Jul 04 2024 at 11:00 am

UTC+10:00

Location

Wollongong Art Gallery | Wollongong, NS

Out July Music and Tea at Wollongong Gallery features Eric Avery, a First Nations artist whose musical journey speaks to the possibilities music has for bringing people together across cultures and generations. We appreciate the funding from CultureBankWolllongong that has enabled us to celebrate NAIDOC WEEK through the music of Eric Avery.
ERIC AVERY, KABI MARRAWUY MUMBULLA, is a violinist, vocalist, dancer and composer from the Ngiyampaa, Yuin and Gumbangirr people of NSW. He works with his family’s custodial songs, and his haunting compositions often feature him singing while playing the violin, predominantly in the Ngiyampaa language. Quickly gaining an international reputation, Eric has appeared alongside and in
association with some of the greatest artists of our time, from Yo-Yo Ma to Tina Arena. He has commissions and performances booked with Camerata Queensland, Ensemble Offspring, the JACK Quartet, Marrugeku and several of Australia’s major orchestras. He
is a 2021 Myer Creative Fellow.
CAN YOU DEFINE THE POWER OF MUSIC?
Erik Avery: Classical music doesn’t have words sometimes, or I might not be able to understand the language, but I can feel something, definitely from a sound; it might differ between different cultures, but we are exchanging feelings that are important to me in music… Interview on ABC Classic with Daniel Browning , Yo-Yo Ma and Erik Avery
THE VIOLIN LIVES INSIDE ME from a young age, I knew I wanted to express myself through the instrument. I had a sense of my musicality and what I was hearing. I was very blessed with a good ear and progressed in my music studies at school.