Editor's Choice Event Series Adelaide Chamber Choir Festival

Adelaide Chamber Singers: Adelaide Chamber Choir Festival – Program Three

Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Hybrid Hybrid Event
Over three days, the City of Churches plays host to five of the country’s finest choirs: the Adelaide Chamber Singers, Brisbane Chamber Choir, Victoria’s Polyphonic Voices, Sydney Chamber Choir and Perth-based Voyces. Bringing together more than 100 singers, the program features seven world premieres, including Lachlan McDonald’s Wilde Impressions and Elizabeth Younan’s Espoir.…

Perth Concert Hall: WA Massed Choir Festival

Perth Concert Hall 5 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
The WA Massed Choir Festival is a showcase of excellence for our public primary school choirs. This annual sold-out event raises the profile of music in our public primary schools, with 101 primary schools involved in this festival of 9 concerts with over 5000 students involved this year. The festival supports staff…

Perth Concert Hall: WA Massed Choir Festival

Perth Concert Hall 5 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
The WA Massed Choir Festival is a showcase of excellence for our public primary school choirs. This annual sold-out event raises the profile of music in our public primary schools, with 101 primary schools involved in this festival of 9 concerts with over 5000 students involved this year. The festival supports staff…

QPAC: Spinifex Gum featuring Marliya

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Celebrate the passion and talent of our youth with Spinifex Gum. Spinifex Gum combines the beauty of a choir of young Indigenous female singers from Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait with contemporary songwriting that speaks to issues of our time. Disarming and uplifting audiences across Australia, Spinifex Gum brings together the sound…

Boroondara Arts: Ruth Rogers-Wright: The great songs of Nina Simone

Hawthorn Arts Centre Burwood Road, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
Smouldering vocals invoke the soulful music of Nina Simone. New original song writing and poetry by Ruth Rogers-Wright also cast light the legendary musician for one powerful night at Hawthorn Arts Centre. Rogers-Wright pays tribute to Simone’s timeless classics and her power as a civil rights activist. Her voice is…

Luminescence Chamber Singers: As a Flower Unfurls

Braidwood Uniting Church 64 Monkittee St, Braidwood, NSW, Australia
A daffodil emerges from beneath the frost. A bird sings; a flower unfurls. The first signs of spring are symbols of hope and promise, rebirth, renewal, and the passage of time. From Renaissance polyphony to contemporary classics, Luminescence Chamber Singers celebrate spring, the blossoming flowers, the shifting tides, and all…

Perth Concert Hall: WA Massed Choir Festival

Perth Concert Hall 5 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
The WA Massed Choir Festival is a showcase of excellence for our public primary school choirs. This annual sold-out event raises the profile of music in our public primary schools, with 101 primary schools involved in this festival of 9 concerts with over 5000 students involved this year. The festival supports staff…

Graduate Singers: Luminosity

Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
This concert of modern choral music embraces earthly things in Frank Ticheli's There will be Rest, before transporting us beyond the ‘dome of heaven’ with Ēriks Ešenvalds’ Stars. Navigate the dark and the light in the passion of Ola Gjeilo’s Dark Night of the Soul as well as his serene…

The Song Company: Songs from a Strange Land

In the 400th anniversary year of the death of renowned English Renaissance composer William Byrd, The Song Company celebrates Byrd’s own music and his legacy that continues to influence contemporary composers such as David Lang, Jeremy Cull, and Pelle Gudmunsen-Holmgreen. These composers have taken inspiration from Byrd’s unique style and…

Luminescence Chamber Singers: As a Flower Unfurls

All Saints' Anglican Church, Ainslie 9-15 Cowper St, Ainslie, ACT, Australia
A daffodil emerges from beneath the frost. A bird sings; a flower unfurls. The first signs of spring are symbols of hope and promise, rebirth, renewal, and the passage of time. From Renaissance polyphony to contemporary classics, Luminescence Chamber Singers celebrate spring, the blossoming flowers, the shifting tides, and all…

Australian Chamber Choir: Buckingham Palace

Christ Church, Castlemaine 8 Mostyn St, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
The Australian Chamber Choir presents marvellous music from the coronations, the funerals and the weddings of the British royal family. Parry’s I was glad and Vaughan Williams’ Lord thou hast been our refuge are pillars in a program that showcases the best English choral music from the last five centuries, including selections from the…

The Song Company: Songs from a Strange Land

Trinity College Chapel Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC, Australia
In the 400th anniversary year of the death of renowned English Renaissance composer William Byrd, The Song Company celebrates Byrd’s own music and his legacy that continues to influence contemporary composers such as David Lang, Jeremy Cull, and Pelle Gudmunsen-Holmgreen. These composers have taken inspiration from Byrd’s unique style and…

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