Date: 19 April 2009
Venue: Government House, Sydney
Halcyon has been delighting audiences for a decade with exciting and sophisticated performances of contemporary vocal chamber music. Artistic directors Alison Morgan and Jenny Duck-Chong join with three of Australia’s most esteemed artists in an intimate program of rarely heard musical gems from around the globe, inspired by poets Anna Akhmatova, Christina Rossetti and Aguedo Pizarro.
PROGRAM
Claire Jordan - Memory (2001)
John Corigliano - Three Irish Folksongs Settings (1988)
Libby Larsen - Liebeslied & Do you know? from Beloved, thou hast brought me flowers (1994)
John Tavener Akhmatova Songs (1993)
Ross Edwards - Maninya I (1981, rev.1985)
Oliver Knussen - When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer from Whitman Settings (1991)
Joseph Schwantner - Black Anemones from Two Songs of Agueda Pizarro (1980)
Anne Boyd - Cycle of Love (1981)
ARTISTS
Alison Morgan soprano, Jenny Duck-Chong mezzo soprano Laura Chislett Jones flutes
Patrick Murphy cello Sally Whitwell piano