Events - 2011
Adam Page Solo
Multi-award winning Adam Page presents a feel good hour of improvised and composed music with the use of looping pedal technology. Including the audience in his spontaneous creations, Page's solo shows are always a laugh, always strangely musical and never the same on any given night. Since winning the prestigious _x001C_ BEST MUSIC BY AN EMERGING ARTIST_x001D_ award at the 2007 Adelaide Fringe Festival, Page has been going strong producing his first solo CD _x001C_ ADAM PAGE SOLO _x0013_ no relation to han_x001D_ , touring Australia 9 times, performing a 24 night season at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning _x001C_ BEST MUSIC_x001D_ and _x001C_ BEST SOLO SHOW_x001D_ at the 2009 NEW ZEALAND Fringe festival, collaborating with multi award winning New Zealand percussion group STRIKE, performing with The Transatlantics at the 2009 Adelaide BIG DAY OUT, producing a full length concert DVD _x0013_ _x001C_ DIVA DVD_x001D_ and touring Australia with _x001C_ Webb Page_x001D_ , Adam Page and Mal Webb (composer/performer _x001C_ Lano and Woodley_x001D_ ). Recently Page played in New Zealand with The Adelaide Sax Pack, featuring the vocalist Lisa Tomlins (Trinity Roots, Fat Freddy's Drop, Shapeshifter, Fly my Pretties) and featured with the same group playing with Katie Noonan and The Captains at a recent show in Adelaide. Also with The Adelaide Sax Pack, he premiered in Australia the Saxophone quartet (with Trombone) piece 'Transformation' written by Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina. 2010 has been a great collaborative year for Page, premiering a piece specially written for himself and Ronnie Ferella by NZ composer John Psathas (Composer of the Athens Olympics opening/closing ceremony music, and composer/arranger for Evelyn Glennie, Michael Brecker and Serj Tankian (System of a down), rewriting and performing music with Katie Noonan, touring and recording with NZ drummer/producer Riki Gooch (Fat Freddy_x0019_ s Drop, Crowded House, Trinity Roots, Hollie Smith and Eru Dangerspiel), performing with pianist and singer Gerard Masters (Missy Higgins, Lisa Mitchell and Wes Carr), performing with world renowned sitarist Dr. Chandrakant Sardeshmukh, touring and performing with other Australian looping pedal musicians Mal Webb and Mr. Percival and recording and performing with German hiphop icon Nico Suave.
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