Chamber vocal ensemble Halcyon has a new project underway. Kingfisher, Songs for Halcyon is a seminal commissioning project to celebrate and indeed commemorate 15 years of music making by Australia’s leading ensemble for contemporary vocal chamber music. In the decade and a half since its inception, Halcyon has undertaken performing, commissioning, recording and maintained a strong presence in the Australian new…
For the past 8 years, a project has been quietly whirring away in one of Sydney’s oldest concert venues in Darlinghurst, the Big Schoolroom at Sydney Grammar School. In 2005, the Sydneian Bach Choir embarked on project to perform every single one of J S Bach’s 200 extant cantatas. This month, that project finally comes to an…
Singers and sound artists, Halcyon and austraLYSIS along with freelance interactive sound artist and composer Jon Drummond, bring together the sounds of voice and electroacoustics in From afar… explorations in time, sound and space. Presented by the New Music Network, the conceert features two world premieres and rarely heard works by Morton Feldman, Iannis Xenakis, Jon Drummond, Kaija Saariaho and…