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Rāmere (Fri) 25th Aug, 8-10pm

Glen Downie & Friends

Koha

Composer and Saxophonist Glen Downie presents a night of improvised and graphically notated music alongside collaborators Zak Argabrite (reeds and junk electronics), Liam Prince (percussion), Umar Zakaria (bass), Simon Eastwood (bass) and potentially other special guests.

Glen Downie is a Wellington based composer of contemporary classical music and co-director of the SMP Ensemble (a Wellington based composer/performer cooperative). He has been the NZSO National Youth Orchestra composer in residence (2019) and worked with Stroma, the NZSO the Auckland Philharmonia, the Brussels Philharmonic and Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles (Mons). 

Also an improvising saxophonist he has played with Rob Thorne, Simon Eastwood and Dexter Stanley-Tauvao (as Pyramid Lake), Keir GoGwilt, The Arthur Street Loft Orchestra and Jeff Henderson. Increasingly he is focused on bringing together his love of free playing with large ensemble composing. 

Special thanks to Creative New Zealand for supporting Pyramid Club's programming

Glen Downie appears under red light with his alto saxophone
Upcoming Events
Rāmere (Fri) 31st July, 8PM

Riki Pirihi - Master Drummer - Night 1

Riki sits on drum kit
Pyramid Club is excited to present Night 1 of master drummer Riki Pirihi's performance residency over 2 nights and an afternoon participatory Conduction workshop.
Rāhoroi (Sat) August 1, 8pm

Riki Pirihi - Master Drummer - Night 2

Riki Pirihi sits on a yellow drumkit with a blank background
Pyramid Club is excited to present Night 2 of master drummer Riki Pirihi's performance residency over 2 nights and an afternoon participatory Conduction workshop.
RĀHOROI (SAT) AUGUST 1, 2:30pm

Riki Pirihi - Conduction Workshop

A black and white photo of Riki Pirihi mid-conducting
As part of his 2-night performance residency, Pyramid Club is excited to present master drummer Riki Pirihi in an afternoon participatory Conduction workshop. Bring an instrument!
Rāmere (Fri) August 7th, 8pm

Serpent Dream / Marlēné Claudine Radice (AU) / Box of Hammers

An evening intersecting ambient, classical, recorded sound and folk music.
RĀHOROI (SAT) AUG 8, 7:30pm

[OFFSITE] Farewell Spit / Ritual Heaps / Class War On The Dance Floor

Farewell Spit poster with a geometric kaleidoscope-type circle
Aotearoa / New Zealand adventurous music label iiii Records is very excited to release an epic double LP by shape shifting, tectonic plate lifting supergroup Farewell Spit at Meow.
Rāpare (Thurs) August 13, 8pm

Petra Dubach & Mario van Horrik (NL) | David Long & Amy Jean Barnett

A photo of Petra Dubach & Mario van Horrik playing an amplified table
Petra Dubach & Mario van Horrik are over from The Netherlands with their Table Piece for amplified table. Joined by composer and sound artists David Long and Amy Jean Barnett.