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…
The Leichhardt Espresso Chorus conducted by Michelle Leonard presents their concert Eternity and Grace this weekend, performing two world premieres of music by polymath Sally Whitwell and composer, arranger and singer Dan Walker. Sally Whitwell’s Breath of Kindness is a suite of three songs, commissioned by the friends of the LEC to celebrate the pleasures of life-long friendships. The three songs are Twisting…
When the voices of Halcyon get together with the voices of Vox, you can expect a vision of the future. This weekend they collaborate in a programme called Dreams and Dances in which the focus is very definitely on the ‘here and now’ as well as on ‘what’s next’. Halcyon is Australia’s premiere new music vocal ensemble, created…