Jumping Fences - Stories

Foco Nuevo: Celebrating 12 years

Foco Nuevo turns 12 Cachicamo Latin Harp / Duo Serenata / Jumping Fences When we started Foco Nuevo in 2008, we had no idea that we would still be going strong 12 years later.

Composing for Choirs

Our choral works have been performed locally and internationally, with our piece The Shore being performed in Europe, the United States, Canada and Latin America. We were very pleased to be ...

Jumping Fences in Cuba 2018

In June 2018 Jumping Fences returned to Cuba as invited guests of the 'Ella y Yo' Festival.

Our tour of Cuba has come to an end after twenty-four days of travelling, performing, attending concerts, and sight-seeing as well as catching up with musician friends and others who have made Cuba ...

Cuba 2008

We travelled to Mexico in December 2007 and went on to Cuba celebrating New Year’s Eve in Havana and spending most of January there.

I Never Sing

Our song 'I Never Sing' is based on the moving courtroom testimony of a young woman

Exilio

Exilio is the second work we wrote for Canto Coro. It was composed over February — May 1999.

Cuba 2001

Again we had a very rewarding trip, studying, performing, renewing friendships and learning more about daily life in Cuba. Here are a few of the highlights. Sketches from Cuba I. Soon after arriving ...

The Shore

Between January and March 2000 we wrote The Shore, a new choral work for unaccompanied mixed choir, commissioned by The Australian Voices. It premiered at the Australian Voices Festival in May 2000, ...