Cyrus Meurant and Andrew Smith: Live at Church Street Studios

About

Composer Cyrus Meurant presents an evening of his music with saxophonist Andrew Smith of the Nexas Quartet.

The program opens with Four Pieces for soprano saxophone and electric organ, before moving to Sortie and Distant Cities for solo piano. At its centre is the premiere of Three Poems for solo tenor saxophone, followed by Constancies, which brings Meurant and Smith together once more.

Across the evening, the music moves between intimacy and intensity, solitude and connection—shaped by breath, resonance and silence.

Program

Four Pieces for soprano saxophone and electric organ

Sortie for solo piano

Three Poems for solo tenor saxophone [PREMIERE]

Distant Cities (Book I) for solo piano

Constancies for alto saxophone and piano

Andrew Smith: soprano, alto and tenor saxophones

Cyrus Meurant: piano and electric organ

“This is music that tells a story … instinctive and palpable” – Limelight

“Dynamic, dreamlike, plaintive and urgent” – Opera PLUS International

Cyrus Meurant

Cyrus Meurant is a composer and performer whose work spans concert music, opera, dance, theatre and projects involving music and health. His music has been described as “deeply rich” (Canberra CityNews) and “hauntingly beautiful” (The Sydney Morning Herald), and has been performed in Australia and internationally.

In 2018, Meurant’s opera Herakleitos premiered at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg (Germany), while his ballet Le Petit Prince, after Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ran for two years at the Divadlo F.X. Šaldy in the Czech…