CONTENT COURTESY HALCYON
Join Halcyon celebrating 20 years of exceptional music-making in this midwinter evening of intriguing and eclectic new chamber music.
The program features Australian premieres by mid-career composers Japanese-born Dai Fujikura and Belgian Annelies Van Parys alongside a couple of songs from Halcyon’s Kingfisher project and a brand new work by Elliott Gyger, celebrating his 50th birthday this year.
Halcyon’s long and fruitful relationship with composer Elliott Gyger, spanning more than three decades, has produced a series of outstanding vocal works. Beginning with From the hungry waiting country in 2006 (commissioned for Halcyon by the first Aurora Festival) through giving voice (winner of the 2013 Paul Lowin Song Cycle Award) to Un poilu australien in 2015 (for Halcyon’s War Letters project), these pieces have been some of the most challenging and rewarding works in Halcyon’s repertoire. Each one is a tour-de-force for both performers and composer.
PROGRAM
Elliott Gyger: This Kind of Life WORLD PREMIERE
Dai Fujikura: Being as One AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Annaliese Van Parys: Three Mew Poems AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Ross Edwards: The Tranquil Mind
Rosalind Page: Aquila’s Wing
ARTISTS
Alison Morgan soprano, Jenny Duck-Chong mezzo-soprano, Laura Chislett flute, David Rowden clarinet, Georgina Oakes bass clarinet, Geoffrey Gartner cello, Jo Allan piano, Rowan Phemister harp
TICKETS
Tickets $35/$25 through Classikon
Image supplied: biochemist-photographer Linden Gledhill.
