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Halcyon, the Sydney-based ensemble regarded as a leading exponent of new vocal music, presents\u00a0The Poet\u2019s Voice, <\/em>an anthology of\u00a0<\/em>songs and cycles by\u00a0contemporary Australian composers, inspired by Australian poets and writers, who explore their shared understanding of our world, our environment and our everyday life.<\/p>\n The works span a period of almost 50 years and capture moments of simple lives endowed with a surprising depth when words and music combine: love letters and clotheslines, birds and birth, gazing in rockpools or at mountain ranges.\u00a0 Alongside songs by\u00a0Margaret Sutherland, Brett Dean, Elliott Gyger and Katy Abbott are the words of Judith Wright, Michael Leunig, the fictional Ern Malley and Christopher Wallace-Crabbe. Andrew Schultz is both poet and composer in his recent song cycle Paradise,<\/em> setting his own words to music.<\/p>\n Roger Smalley’s Piano Trio<\/em> (1991), commissioned for the 1st Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition is inspired not by words, but by the music of another composer. This\u00a0tour-de-force<\/em> piece is one of several that Smalley wrote based on Chopin’s Mazurkas<\/em>.<\/p>\n Gordon Kerry is renowned for both his words and music. The Poet’s Voice <\/em>will feature the world premiere of his new work Three Malouf Songs (2015) <\/em>which\u00a0celebrates Glasshouse Mountains.\u00a0 Kerry’s own love of the Australian bush and the beach drew him to three poems by David Malouf –\u00a0 Stars, Rockpools <\/em>and Glasshouse Mountains<\/em>.\u00a0 With his sensitivity to text and ear for delicate sonorities, Kerry has created a substantial through-composed chamber work for mezzo-soprano, violin, cello and piano.<\/p>\n Halcyon presents performances of vocal chamber music from around the world, with a special emphasis on Australian content. A protean ensemble of varying size and instrumentation, the line up is drawn together for each project by artistic director, mezzo-soprano Jenny Duck-Chong.<\/p>\n Artists: Jenny Duck-Chong,\u00a0mezzo-soprano\/\u00a0Alison Morgan, soprano\/ Ewan Foster, violin\/ Geoffrey Gartner, cello\/ Daniel Herscovitch, piano.<\/p>\n Tickets $35\/$25\/\u00a0Bookings<\/a>\/\u00a0Enquiries<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Halcyon, the Sydney-based ensemble regarded as a leading exponent of new vocal music, presents\u00a0The Poet\u2019s Voice, an anthology of\u00a0songs and cycles by\u00a0contemporary…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"sls_format":[],"class_list":["post-21556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shows"],"acf":{"deck":"","is_featured":false,"media_type":"standard","audio_embed":"","video_url":""},"yoast_head":"\n