Splendour & Mystery

Sat, 25 Mar 2023, 7:30pm - 9pm AEDT

Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music

sydney, australia

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Sydney Chamber Choir
Sam Allchurch - Conductor
Camerata Antica led by Matthew Manchester

The brilliance of brass and the warmth of the human voice, in a concert of resonances and reflections. From Renaissance masters Gabrieli and Schütz, the original ‘surround sound’, with multiple choirs calling to each other in glorious harmony. From British mystic John Tavener, a tantalising journey into eternity, with voices overlapping like waves on sand. Australian composers Clare Maclean and Brooke Shelley draw on melodies of the past to create new worlds of transcendent beauty. And at the heart of this program, the exquisite Mass for Double Choir of the 20th-century Swiss composer Frank Martin: intensely private music created for the ears of God alone.

Giovanni Gabrieli Jubilate Deo & Magnificat
Clare Maclean Christ the King
Heinrich Schütz Deutsches Magnificat
Brooke Shelley Heavenly Father
John Tavener A Hymn to the Mother of God
Frank Martin Mass for Double 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.