Celebrating 20 years of performing, promoting, recording and curating new music, Halcyon’s last program for 2018, Shining Shores, collects pieces inspired by the natural elements of water and moonlight. Taking time to reflect on the world around us, we wander beside the flowing Seine in Rosalind Page’s Apollinairesongs, are transfixed by the life in rockpools…
Halcyon presents This Kind of Life, featuring a new work by longtime colleague, composer Elliott Gyger who will be celebrating his 50th birthday this year. Sharing its title with the concert, This Kind of Life is scored for soprano, mezzo-soprano, clarinet, cello, piano and harp. It is the sixth Gyger premiere and celebrates more than 20 years…
In this program flautist Laura Chislett and pianist Stephanie McCallum will perform music from their 2015 CD Flute Vox as well as Andrew Ford’s 1993 dramatic soliloquy for solo bass flute, Becalmed. Also on the programme, the premiere of a work written especially for the duo by the Australian composer now resident in Paris, Gerald Glynn….