Jess Hitchcock & Penny Quartet

Jess Hitchcock & Penny Quartet description

Jess Hitchcock is a musical polymath: an opera singer, a jazz singer, a singer songwriter, a composer, a storyteller. Her endlessly versatile voice can make itself at home in a studio, on a stage or in a football stadium.

Penny Quartet is a multifaceted, award-winning Australian string quartet with a boundless appetite for the new. Together, Hitchcock and Penny Quartet present an evening of music through the looking-glass of 11 Australian composers, each commissioned to take one of Hitchcock’s songs and arrange it for voice and string quartet.

It’s no small challenge and there is perhaps nothing more difficult than honouring in arrangement the directness and simplicity of deeply personal songs. The result here though is sublime; an exquisite song-cycle for the here and now, showcasing a generation of creative voices. Will you be able to recognise the unique sound of each composer? Will you discover a new favourite?

And will you fall in love with Hitchcock’s voice? Yes.