Join the Luminescence Chamber Singers as they take to the stage for a joyful celebration of their founding metaphor: how singing illuminates. Particles of Light sees light in the sound of six voices, in radiant vocal music that glimmers, refracts and fractures into colour, from the ‘light tales’ of Elena Kats-Chernin to the dawning of Nardi Simpson’s ‘Yarrager Mayraa’.
It strikes like a particle, but moves like a wave; emanates in straight lines, yet drapes the world in beauty. Light is the ultimate ephemera; it can’t be bottled, only felt, remembered, or experienced blazingly new.
The Luminescence Chamber Singers, conducted by Roland Peelman, AM and AJ America, returns to the Windsong to champion our original and most versatile instrument: the human voice. Fresh from touring the Sydney Opera House and Bundanon, and on residency at Four Winds, join this virtuosic vocal ensemble for Particles of Light in the Windsong Pavillion and experience the human voice at its most entrancing.
“Luminescence, like its namesake in nature, is a phenomenon.”
“I hear a lot of vocal ensembles from around the world, and Luminescence belong with the best of them. They are certainly among the most adventurous.”
Artists
Conducted by Roland Peelman, AM.
AJ America, mezzo soprano/artistic director
Josephine Brereton, soprano
Lucien Fischer, baritone
Rachel Mink, soprano
Alasdair Stretch, bass-baritone
Dan Walker, tenor
Repertoire
Giaches de Wert – Quel rosignol, Il Nono Libro de Madrigali à 5 et 6 (1588)
Dan Walker – Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? (2022)
Frank Nuyts – The Ballade of Mable Clare (2026)
Patrick Baker – Illuminations (2026)
Orlande de Lassus – Paisible Demaine (1571); J’aime la Pierre Précieuse (1584)
Dessus le Marche d’Arras (1584)
David Lang – Evening Morning Day (2007)
Andrew Ford – Hear the Bird of Day (2012)
Colin Bright – Mirror Man (1994)
Gareth Farr – Les Murray Song Cycle (extracts) (2005): Queen butterfly; Willy wagtail; Jelly fish
James Wade – No Sooner (2015)
Andree Greenwell – tbc title (2026) [wp]
Nardi Simpson (arr. Dan Walker) – Yarrager Mayraa (arr. 2024)
Elena Kats-Chernin – Lichtmärchen (2025)
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Meet the Artists
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Luminescence Chamber Singers
In June 2025, Luminescence appeared alongside Elena Kats-Chernin and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, performing Kats-Chernin’s original score for special screenings of Adam Elliot’s Oscar-nominated film, Memoir of A Snail. In July 2025, the group premiered a new work by Kats-Chernin, commissioned in celebration of their milestone birthday, and in August 2025, Luminescence won the APRA AMCOS State Luminary Art Music Award for the ACT. In addition to an increasingly national touring schedule, Luminescence has performed extensively throughout Central West NSW, the Southern Highlands, and the NSW South-Coast, including numerous residencies at Four Winds.
Last year, Luminescence worked with more than 150 community singers to perform Andrew Ford’s living songbook Red Dirt Hymns at the Four Winds Spring Youth Music Festival in November 2025, a performance project premiered by Luminescence at the National Museum of Australia during the 2024 Canberra International Music Festival.
From the ensemble’s earliest days as a student ensemble, Luminescence has nurtured an extensive commissioning and creative development program and a wide array of outreach, music education, and youth arts programs, including Luminescence Children’s Choir, an acclaimed program for singers aged 10 – 17. Since 2015, Luminescence has commissioned more than 60 new works, often in close collaboration with Roland Peelman, a long-time collaborator, conductor, and artistic mentor for the singers.
During 2023-2024, Luminescence recorded and released their first studio recordings, including new music by Australian composers Dan Walker, Jess Green, and Leah Blankendaal. Luminescence’s debut album, Of The Body, was recorded in April 2024, and was released with ABC Classics on 12 December 2025.