MYRIAD: Broken, Ghosts, Building, Grooves

Name: MYRIAD: Broken, Ghosts, Building, Grooves
Start: 2026-06-06T05:00:00+10:00
End: 2026-06-06T06:45:00+10:00
Location: The Ian Potter Southbank Centre

Schedule

Sat Jun 06 2026 at 05:00 am to 06:45 am

UTC+10:00

Location

The Ian Potter Southbank Centre | Melbourne, VI

Join MYRIAD, the Percussion Ensemble of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, for an exciting and haunting array of works, featuring world premieres by staff and student composers, including our own students and staff as soloists, as well as classics in the repertoire by Australian and international composers.
Tickets are free – if sold out online, don’t panic! Please still plan to attend - there is always some drop-off in attendance at free concerts.
Honours student Felix Gilmour will feature as snare drum soloist in Askell Masson's tour de force snare drum concerto with percussion ensemble, Konzertstuck.
Conservatorium composition students Kylie Cheah and Oscar Jenkins-Wing will have their brand-new percussion quartets premiered by MYRAID.
Head of Percussion Brent Miller, along with Conservatorium alumni Aditya Bhat and Honours student Felix Gilmour, will give the premiere of Elliott Gyger's percussion trio, from his monumental set of new pieces written this year with support from the Australia Council, titled The Idea of Perfection, after the novel of the same name by Kate Grenville.

MYRIAD, joined by Head of Voice Stephen Grant as narrator, will perform Mark Pollard's new dramatic work for narrator and percussion, 'The Ghost of Siglufjördur, Episode 3: The Haunting’, drawn from his five-part musical mini-series exploring Icelandic myths, presented alongside his original film, Duplex.
PROGRAM
Michael ASKILL: Loops & Grooves #1 (2020)
Keyboard sextet, arranged for mass percussion ensemble by MYRIAD & Brent Miller
Kato DAIKI: The Last Dance (2018)
Duo for marimba and percussion
Kylie CHEAH: The Scenic Route (2026) *
for percussion quintet
Oscar JENKINS-WING: Tall Buildings (2026) *
for percussion quartet
Askell MASSON: Konzertstuck (1982)
Concerto for Snare Drum and Percussion Ensemble, soloist: Felix Gilmour
~ Interval ~
Maja MAJSTOROVIĆ EATHER: Belly of the Walnut (2023)
for percussion quintet
Mark POLLARD: The Ghost of Siglufjördur, Episode 3: The Haunting (2026) *
for percussion quartet and narrator, performed by MYRIAD and Stephen Grant (narrator)
Elliott GYGER: Broken, faded, worn out, improvised. (Trio III. from The Idea of Perfection) (2026) *
Percussion trio performed by Aditya Bhat (alumni), Felix Gilmour, and Brent Miller
* Denotes World Premiere
CREDITS
Brent Miller - Head of Percussion & Director of MYRIAD
Stephen Grant - Head of Voice
Aditya Bhat - Alumni
MYRIAD is the Percussion Ensemble of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, featuring
Abbey Dempsey
Charlotte Dickinson
Millie Evans
Owen Ferri
Alice Geng
Felix Gilmour
Audrey Holsman
Hannah James
Alicia Jeong
Demi Katheklakis
William Lawrence
Tirion Luff-White
James Owen
Aidan Ritchie
Benjamin Smith
William Smith
David Stockwell
Mikaela Thomsen
Ryan Wang
Sasha Wee
Alice Zhang