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.

‘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’. Join Luminescence Chamber Singers as they take the stage for a joyful celebration of their founding metaphor: how singing illuminates. 

About Luminescence Chamber Singers
Comprised of singers including AJ America, Josephine Brereton, Lucien Fischer, Rachel Mink, Dan Walker, Alasdair Stretch, Luminescence champions our original and most versatile instrument: the human voice.

Rapidly emerging as one of Australia's most adventurous ensembles, Luminescence has built an enviable reputation as a uniquely versatile ensemble, performing amplified and unamplified repertoire that spans renaissance polyphony, folk song, and contemporary art music. Recent highlights include performances Phoenix Central Park, the Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Recital Centre, and debut appearances in Hobart and Adelaide. 2025 marked Luminescence’s 10th anniversary and the beginning of numerous major projects, including a three-year Gesualdo Tenebraeseries and Luminescence and the Machine, a new music project developed in collaboration with GRAMMY-award winning producer and composer William Brittelle (USA), and visionary sound designer Tilman Robinson.

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, Bermagui. In November 2025, Luminescence worked with more than 150 community singers across New South Wales to perform Andrew Ford’s living songbook Red Dirt Hymns, 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.