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…
This weekend, vocal ensemble Halcyon joins austraLYSIS and sound artist Jon Drummond to present From afar… explorations in time, sound and space. Soprano Alison Morgan, co-founder and co-artisitic director of Halcyon is joined by mezzo-soprano Jo Burton, cellist Geoffrey Gartner, Jon Drummond and cound artist and director of austraLYSIS, Roger Dean, to perform works by Morton Feldman, Iannis Xenakis and Kaija…