Touring Projects 2023 - 2025
Of The Body
Of The Body is a musical dissection of sorts. Drawing inspiration from Renaissance art, music, and science, each movement of Dan Walker’s song cycle is devoted to an anatomical part: the eyes, the hands, the mouth, the feet, the blood, and finally, the heart. Of the Body traverses sex, sensuality, our flesh and blood; to exploring our corporeal form in a distinctly contemporary context.
6 unaccompanied voices; 1 hour no interval
Conducted by Roland Peelman AM
RED
DIRT
HYMNS
A hymnal to the country under our feet.
A living songbook more than four years in the making, Andrew Ford’s hymnal brings together the words of sixteen contemporary Australian writers – poets, essayists, and folksingers. Born in a time of fire and darkness, grief, and loss, and then fragile, tender hope, Red Dirt Hymns are songs of awe and praise, dedicated not to a god, but to the land.
6 amplified singers; electric guitar; amplified cello
projection (optional)
1 hour no interval
associated community workshops available
BLOOM
The first signs of spring are symbols of hope and promise, rebirth, and renewal. Of course, flowers and the motifs of spring are also reminders of life’s cycles. In the still life scenes of the Dutch masters, flowers denoted not only beauty, but decay and fragility; death, and loss. From Renaissance polyphony to contemporary classics, Luminescence Chamber Singers celebrate the happy season of spring, the blossoming flowers, the shifting tides, and reflect on transience, impermanence, the inexorable march of time, and climate crisis.
6 unaccompanied singers; 1 hour no interval
B.A.C.H.
In this concert of musical cyphers, Luminescence Chamber Singers join forces with guest artist Anna Freer (violin/voice) to perform Bach’s monumental Partita no.2 in D Minor, interwoven with some of Bach’s most beloved chorales. The concert culminates in a new arrangement of the Chaconne – a setting for voices and violin that reveals a tapestry of references to Bach chorales buried in bones of the Chaccone.
6 unaccompanied singers; violin
drawing breath
Luminescence Chamber Singers explore first breaths, last breaths, and music as diverse as the vast compass of human life and feeling in between: from Machaut and Gesualdo, to Pink Floyd, and newly commissioned works by Australian composers Brenda Gifford, Jess Green, and Dan Walker.
6 unaccompanied singers; 1 hour no interval
Performing the Betty Beaver Blaze with William Barton, Canberra International Music Festival (2017)
Luminescence Chamber Singers (2020)
Carols in the Court (2016)
with the trial-concert cohort of Luminescence Children's Choir
with conductor Gordon Hamilton, Descent into Madness (2016)
with Olle Palmqvist, Dormi Jesu (2015)
Canberra international Music Festival (2018)
Luminescence Chamber Singers (2016)
With composer Paul Stanhope (2020)
High Court Concert (2016)
Luminescence Children's Choir (2015)
Dan Walker leading a conducting masterclass (2017)
In rehearsal with Olle Palmqvist
With Daniel Brinsmead at Canberra Voices
Harvest of Endurance (CIMF 2017)
Christmas with Luminescence
The Little Match Girl Passion (2021)
Luminescence Chamber Singers (2016)
Singing Swiftly (2016)
Sublime Voices, 2021
Venite, Venite (2020)
Carols in the Court (2017)
Stille Nacht (2017)
Christas with Luminescence (2019)
Tracks and Traces (2019)
In Sydney, Glebe Town Hall (2016)
with Sally Whitwell at the High Court (2016)
Four Seasons (2015)
Waiting for the Barbarians, CIMF (2017)
Christmas with Luminescence (2015)
In rehearsal (2015)
On the cover of Canberra Weekly (2017)
With Gordon Hamitlon on ABC Radio in Port Macquarie
In rehearsal with Roland Peelman and Kim Cunio
In rehearsal with Roland Peelman, Ensemble Offspring, and the Song Company
Diva! City Recital Hall (2017)
Canberra International Music Festival (2022)
Tracks and Traces (2019)
High Court of Australia (2017)
Performing at the National Gallery of Australia (2022)
With PM Anthony Albanese (2023)
Sydney Opera House
Luminescence Chamber Singers (2020)
ANU School of Music
Four Winds Festival (2020)
Vietnam Requiem (2021)
Christmas with Luminescence
Christmas with Luminescence
Sydney Opera House
Luminescence Chamber Singers (2023)
Canberra International Music Festival
National Museum of Australia (2022)
Luminescence Chamber Singers (2022)
Luminescence Chamber Singers (2022)
Luminescence Chamber Singers (2022)
National Museum of Australia (2022)
Luminescence Chamber Singers (2022)
On tour in Parkes
Recording at ABC Studios, Sydney
Recording at Studio 301
Visiting Sing Out Choir in Dubbo, NSW