As part of the 2024 Lunar Festival, Jenny will be performing the world premiere of Corrina Bonshek’s The Silences Inside Me at the Chinese Gardens in Sydney with cellist James Larsen and yehu player Nicholas Ng. The program, curated by composer/performer/researcher Nicholas Ng, will feature Corrina's new piece and other small works for voice, erhu, yehu and cello. 

Commissioned by Jenny Duck-Chong and developed by Corrina in collaboration with writer/director Tasnim Hossaim, it uses Jenny’s Chinese heritage as the frame for the work.

Corrina says:
“"The Silences Inside Me (2024), was born from a collaboration with Jenny and Tasnim that sits with the complex relationships with ancestry in the context of 1st and 2nd-generation Australians with migrant roots. Each collaborator has heritage / family in different parts of the world, and it was fascinating to chat and reflect on our shared and different experiences with family stories, cultural rituals, and the absence of these. I love the way that silence in the music is multifaceted - evoking the gaps in memory or absence as well as a space of joyful possibility in reimagining/rebuilding and growth."

The resulting work, a little like the elegant simplicity of a calligraphic gesture, has pared back the text to its essence, taking the listener on an evocative and reflective journey of discovery.  Halcyon is delighted to present this work for the first time in this picturesque setting, in a program of Chinese and Chinese-inspired works.

Sunday 11 February at 12.30pm and 1.30pm
Peace Boat Pavillion
Chinese Garden of Friendship
Pier St Cnr of Harbour St
Darling Harbour

COST
$12 garden entry
The free program will be performed at 12.30pm and 1.30pm. 

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