Halcyon presents In Nature a concert featuring four world premieres by Larry Sitsky, Elena Kats Chernin, Melissa Hui and Madeleine Isaksson, the Australian premiere of Andrew Ford’s new song cycle, Nature and Matthew Hindson’s engaging Insect Songs, (also featured on our latest EP release Waves IV). The works, drawn from three continents and relationships old…
Vocal ensemble Halcyon augmented by additional musicians, Halcyon presents War Letters – Musical Settings of Letters from WW1,featuring four new works written especially for the project. War Letters commemorates through music, the service and sacrifice of Australian servicemen and women in the First World War during the ANZAC centenary. Four Australian composers, representing four generations, have…
Three new funding opportunities were recently launched by APRA AMCOS to provide much-needed support for classical, jazz and experimental composers. The largest of these is the Art Music Fund, a multi-faceted package that will dovetail into existing initiatives as well as create innovative programs to address the decline in local art music content. In the…