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choir concert

In 2025, the Sydney Chamber Choir will celebrate five decades of concerts, commissions and creative collaborations – and with them the art of chamber choral singing.



Contributors

  • Sydney Chamber Choir
  • Sam Allchurch, conductor

An Australian Introduction

Nigel Butterley (Sydney, 1935–2022) Morning Fanfare (1964)
Paul Stanhope (Sydney, 1969) The Land is healed: Ban garay! (2005)


Sacred Music from Germany, Australia, and Canada


  • Felix Mendelssohn (Hamburg, 1809 Leipzig, 1847) Jauchzet dem Herren (1844)
  • J S Bach (Eisenach, 1685 Leipzig, 1750) Singet dem Herren (1727)
  • Brooke Shelley (Sydney, 1974) Praise the Lord (2010)
  • Healy Willan (Balham, 1880 Toronto, 1968) Fair in Face (1925), I Beheld Her (1928), Rise Up, My Love (1930)

Four Seasons in Australia


  • Ross Edwards (Sydney, 1943) Ab estatis foribus (1996)
  • Brooke Shelley (Sydney, 1974) Heavenly Father (2012)
  • Heather Percy (Brisbane, 1965) Pink Swallows Blue (2018)
  • Joseph Twist (Brisbane, 1982) Magpie (2015)

Some Light Music


  • Irving Berlin (Tyumen, 1888 New York, 1989) arr. Vance Cheek to Cheek (1935)
  • John Lennon (Liverpool, 1940 New York, 1980) & Paul McCartney (Liverpool, 1942) arr. Whitwell Yesterday (1965)

Language: German, English
Dates
May 2025
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