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…
Australian composer Nicholas Vines has received a ringing endorsement by no less a journal than The New York Times, for his composition for clarinet and piano, Rustling the Deities. Performed by the “superb new-music ensemble counter)induction” (Allan Kozinn in The New York Times), this review happily supports the release last week of the debut recording of Vines’ music Torrid…