Halcyon celebrates 15 years with ‘Kingfisher – Songs for Halcyon’

Halcyon celebrates 15 years with ‘Kingfisher – Songs for Halcyon’

Vocal chamber music ensemble Halcyon celebrates 15 years at the vanguard of wonderful music making with two landmark events. They invite you to an evening of music at the new Sculpture Terrace of the Museum of Contemporary Art. Here, they will perform a selection of music from their project Kingfisher – Songs for Halcyon, which commemorates this anniversary and for…

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…

prepared soundscapes, ‘granulation’, and montages – the artistry of sound in Halcyon’s ‘From Afar’

prepared soundscapes, ‘granulation’, and montages – the artistry of sound in Halcyon’s ‘From Afar’

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…