Halcyon launches ‘Kingfisher’

Halcyon launches ‘Kingfisher’

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…

NY Times lauds an Australian composer

NY Times lauds an Australian composer

Australian composer Nicholas Vines has received a ringing endorsement by no less a journal than The New York Times, for his composition for clarinet and piano, Rustling the Deities. Performed by the “superb new-music ensemble counter)induction” (Allan Kozinn in The New York Times), this review happily supports the release last week of the debut recording of Vines’ music Torrid…

‘Torrid Nature Scenes’ from a composer with ‘a cracking style’

‘Torrid Nature Scenes’ from a composer with ‘a cracking style’

TORRID NATURE SCENES, is an album of chamber works from Australian composer Nicholas Vines which presents a series of musical landscapes that instill both anxiety and ebullience in the listener. Through his innovative use of woodwinds, voice, and chamber ensemble, Vines –  lauded for his “crackling style” (NewMusicBox) and called “compellingly original” (Boston Phoenix) and…