Soprano Alison Morgan is one of Australia's foremost interpreters of contemporary vocal music. As well as co-directing and performing with Halcyon, she has performed as a soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, The Australian Ballet, Pinchgut Opera, The Song Company, Ensemble Offspring and Cantillation, with whom she has featured in numerous recording projects for ABC Classics.

As co-artistic director of Halcyon, Alison has been instrumental in commissioning and performing a wealth of new Australian chamber music, most recently premiering the works of Australian composers Rosalind Page, Katy Abbott, Kevin March, Nigel Butterley, Graham Hair and Dan Walker. She gave the first performance of the song cycle Sonetos del amor oscuro by Sydney composer Rosalind Page in 2004, which went on to win the Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize and features on Halcyon’s CD, Cool Black.

Solo performances of new music in 2008 included George Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children for Halcyon’s 10th Birthday concert in 2008, Gavin Bryars’ Adnan Songbook and Damien Ricketson's A Line has Two with Ensemble Offspring at the Canberra International Chamber Music Festival.

This year Alison makes appearances with Halcyon at the Melbourne Recital Centre in Steve Reich’s Tehillim, at the Canberra Chamber Music Festival and in concert in Sydney with new commissions by Nick Vines, Raf Marcellino and Andrew Ford.

Mezzo soprano Jenny Duck-Chong has established herself as a versatile and intelligent musician and is sought after by Sydney's finest vocal ensembles and has performed extensively with Opera Australia, Pinchgut Opera, The Song Company and Cantillation. Renowned for her dramatic portrayals of tragic heroines, such as Purcell’s Dido, Monteverdi’s Arianna and Britten’s Phaedra, as well as her formidable performances of contemporary works such as Ligeti’s Sippal, Dobbal, Náhigedüvel, Macmillan’s Raising Sparks, Benjamin’s Upon Silence and Berio’s Folksongs, she has been a featured soloist with ensembles as varied as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Sydney Baroque, Ensemble Offspring, the Renaissance Players and the Kevin Hunt Jazz Trio.

Performance highlights include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Jane Glover and the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Orchestra, Gubaidulina’s Now Always Snow with Reinbert de Leeuw, the Sydney Symphony and Cantillation and Berio’s Sinfonia with Kevin Field, the Song Company and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in Malaysia.

Active in the field of new music, Jenny is the secretary of the New Music Network and the co-founder of acclaimed new music ensemble Halcyon, premiering numerous Australian and international works by both acclaimed and emerging composers including Anne Boyd, Nigel Butterley, Ross Edwards, Graham Hair, Elliott Gyger, Rosalind Page, Gillian Whitehead, Kaija Saariaho, Michael Berkeley, Michael Finnissy, Gabriel Erkoreka, Sally Beamish, Melissa Hui and Kerry Andrew.

She has featured as a soloist for ABC Classics and Walsingham as well as in several film and TV scores and numerous other recordings with Cantillation, The Song Company and Halcyon’s own recordings.