CD Review: From The Hungry Waiting Country / Halcyon / Elliot Gyger

CD Review: From The Hungry Waiting Country / Halcyon / Elliot Gyger

From the Hungry Waiting Country is a new release by Halcyon, performing the music of contemporary Australian composer, Elliot Gyger. Released on the Tall Poppies label, it contains three works by Gyger, Giving Voice (2012), Petit Testament (2008) and the cycle from which the disc takes its title, From the Hungry Waiting Country (2006). Halcyon’s…

Haunting travels with Halcyon on ‘The Journeys’

Haunting travels with Halcyon on ‘The Journeys’

After a brief hiatus during the early part of 2013, new music vocal ensemble Halcyon is back in collaboration with the New Music Network to present The Journeys. The concert features two major works,  performed by female voices, harp, narrator and percussion with projected images and silhouettes by visual media artist Michael Bates.  The two hauntingly beautiful…

The Bach stops here

The Bach stops here

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…