Connections

Name: Connections
Start: 2025-09-28T15:00:00+1000
End: 2025-09-28T17:00:00+1000
Location: Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Sun, 28 Sep 2025, 3pm - 5pm AEST

Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music

sydney, australia

Sydney Chamber Choir

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Sydney Chamber Choir
Sam Allchurch | Conductor
Nicholas Routley | Conductor
Paul Stanhope | Conductor

Program includes:

Nigel Butterley The True Samaritan
Aija Draguns Holy Dreaming
Ēriks Ešenvalds The Long Road
Clare Maclean Et misericordia
Gesualdo Tenebrae Responsories (Excerpts)
James MacMillan Tenebrae Responsories (Excerpts)
Victoria Tenebrae Responsories (Excerpts)

Celebrate the rich diversity of human wisdom as we explore the great traditions of sacred music, reflected and refracted through time and place.

This concert embraces the passionate solemnity of the Renaissance, the lush harmonies of the Romantics, the transcendent beauty of the Baltic composers, plus three intensely dramatic Australian works: Alja Draguns brings her Latvian musical heritage to a First Nations prayer of thanksgiving in Holy Dreaming; Clare Maclean captures the infinite grandeur of creation in Et misericordia; and Nigel Butterley proves that there is nothing as joyful as a choir in The True Samaritan.

Travel with us across centuries and continents, guided by the musical directors who have shaped the Choir from its beginning to the present day – and beyond!

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Sydney Chamber Choir

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Sydney Chamber Choir is passionate about choral music and its unique ability to celebrate and reflect upon the stores of our past, present and future.

We love to travel deep inside the music to meet the composers and bring their vision alive in sound. We reach back to explore the masterpieces of the Baroque and the Renaissance, while also championing the music of our own time and place, regularly commissioning works by established and emerging Australian composers. In recent years, the choir has premiered new works by Brenda Gifford, Ella Macens, Harry Sdraulig, Brooke Shelley, Paul Stanhope, Joe Twist and Elizabeth Younan. In both 2022 and 2023, the APRA-AMCOS Award for Choral Work of the Year went to works written for and premiered by us: Paul Stanhope's Requiem, and Heather Percy's Three Night Songs.

Formed in 1975, we have been honoured to work with guest conductors such as Carl Crossin, Roland Peelman, Elizabeth Scott and Brett Weymark, as well as our three previous directors, Nicholas Routley, Paul Stanhope and the late Richard Gill AO. We collaborate with leading Australian ensembles and instrumentalists, including the Australian Haydn Ensemble, the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, Slava Grigoryan, Synergy Percussion, Joseph Tawadros and The Muffat Collective. We also enjoy more unconventional partnerships, including concerts with the Hilltop Hoods, The Idea of North and the Sydney Mardi Gras Community Choir.

The choir appeared at the 2023 Adelaide Chamber Music Festival, the 2022 Canberra International Music Festival and the 2021 Sydney Festival, and we tour regularly in regional NSW, most recently to Goulburn in September 2024. We have sung in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the UK, and in 2009 the choir was a prizewinner in the Tolosa International Choral Competition in Spain. In May 2025, we will return to Europe to give concerts in Berlin, Hannover and Leipzig.

Our performances have been broadcast across the country on ABC Classic and on 2MBS Fine Music Sydney, and our CD recordings are available on the ABC Classic and Tall Poppies labels, and via download and streaming services.

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