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Aurora Festival
2008
Programme

Gavin Bryars [UK]: Laudes 17, 29

Ross Edwards [AUS]: Maninya I

Michael Atherton [AUS]:Songs of Stone and Silence [WP]

Chinary Ung [CAM/USA] Aura [AP]

Aura/Aurora
Alison Morgan and Jenny Duck-Chong of Halcyon

Halcyon are one of Sydney's finest contemporary music ensembles, presenting more than 95 new works to Sydney audiences over the past 10 years.

Inspired by the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, Chinary Ung's Aura is a masterpiece of vocal and instrumental composition. Michael Atherton contributes a brand new work to the programme based upon settings of Prisoner of War poems from WWII.

Theme and Variations Piano Services
Ars Musica Australis

Halcyon are the performers in this concert.

Professor Chinary Ung appears courtesy of the University of Western Sydney where he is a Visiting Research Fellow

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