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…
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…