LEAH KARDOS

Ruthless reviews

The concert at Australia House last week was by all measures a great success, and what an honour to have my music played by this fantastic orchestra! Big congratulations must go to Kelly Lovelady for pulling it all together, and to the Government of WA for hosting the event and putting on a lovely reception.

Needless to say I was chuffed with the way Ruthless Jabiru played "Kick" and the feedback from the performance has been great:

The concert opened with a new work, Kick, by Leah Kardos. This is Ruthless Jabiru’s first commission, and it was a great opener. Kardos uses a small palette of string textures, including long vibrato-less pedals, tremolos and portamento slides, and integrates them into a tightly structured and impressively focussed work.


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Gavin Dixon (classical music critic)

The skill and professionalism of this orchestra, and its founder and principal conductor Kelly Lovelady, was clearly evident throughout the performance, not least in their handling of the first piece – a commissioned work from UK-based Australian composer Leah Kardos, Kick. This fantastic piece evoked visions of a sunrise over an outback property, the building melodies of a single viola and violin sounding out like the Australian bush slowly waking and coming to life.


- Australian Times

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Here's a write up about the event that was posted on the Government of Western Australia European Office's news page. It includes details of some of the dignitaries that were in attendance as well as some photos from the night (though it's hard to see, in the last photo I am the one in the blue dress taking a bow with Kelly at the front).

Finally, there is a great article about Kelly and the orchestra by Gavin Dixon, specifically referring to this concert, in this month's
Limelight magazine (available digitally here, with print versions available in Australian outlets).

*edit* - I found the Limelight Magazine feature
online here.