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Volare Ensemble’s premiere concert shows a choir we hope to hear more from

Volare Ensemble | Ripples and Reflections 8 June 2026, Glebe Town Hall, NSW In 20 years’ time, I hope I’ll be saying I was at the first concert of Volare […]

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In Paradisum: Sydney Chamber Choir shines in earthly and heavenly light

Sydney Chamber Choir | In Paradisum May 30, 2026, St James’ Church, Sydney, NSW I was intrigued and excited by the prospect of Sydney Chamber Choir’s In Paradisum, on paper […]

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River City Voices: Faure’s Requiem in the Heart of Western Sydney

River City Voices | Faure’s Requiem May 29, 2026, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta, NSW River City Voices Guest Conductor: Dr Philip Eames Assistant Conductor: Oscar Balle-Bowness Organ: Simon Nieminski Baritone […]

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Coro Innominata’s concert The VocaLiszt – a revelation!

Coro Innominata | The VocaLiszt 24 May 2026, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, NSW Conductor & Musical Director: Dr Philip Eames Pianists: Harry Tai & Silvina Wong Baritone: Matt Gaskin Soloists […]

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MUCS’ Bruckner and Dvořák – a marvellous thing

Melbourne University Choral Society + Box Hill Chorale | Te Deum (Bruckner) and Mass in D Major (Dvořák) 23 May 2026, All Saints East St Kilda, VIC Helena Dix, Soprano; […]

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Der Schwanengesang with Song Company’s near perfect intonation – very dramatic!

The Song Company | Der Schwanengesang May 21, 2026, St James’ Church, Sydney, NSW Artists: The Song Company Conductor: Roland Peelman Continuo: Nathan Cox   Schütz wrote this setting of […]

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Mass of Deliverance an uplifting program from the MSO Chorus

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Mass of Deliverance May 17, 2026, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Australian composer Dan Walker’s Mass of Deliverance was composed with the aim of being paired with […]

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Congratulations to Joubert Singers on their Requiems at the lovely St James

Joubert Singers | Requiem 17 May, 2026, St James Church, Sydney, NSW 2 Requiems: Faure, a short pause, then Mozart Conductor: Kurt Ison The program notes for this performance were […]

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Sydney Philharmonia’s Duruflé a huge wall of sound!

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs | Duruflé’s Requiem & Poulenc’s Gloria 16 May, 2026, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, NSW Program: Deborah Cheetham Fraillon and Matthew Doyle: Tarimi Nulay Maurice Duruflé: Requiem […]

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Spooky Men’s gloriously unhinged 25th anniversary concert

Spooky Men’s Chorale | 25 Years of Pointless Grandeur 3 May 2026, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Origins Somewhere in the misty folds of the Blue Mountains around 2001, a tribe […]

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Luminescence and the Machine – unapologetically strange, but strangely beautiful

Canberra International Music Festival | Luminescence and the Machine Sunday May 3, Street Theatre, Canberra, ACT Artists Luminescence Chamber Singers AJ America, Artistic Director Josephine Brereton Lucien Fischer Rachel Mink […]

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ABO’s Choral Splendour sheer brilliance and skill – Bravo!

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Brandenburg Choir | Choral Splendour April 16, 2026, Melbourne Recital Hall, VIC Given that music and the arts often represent the best of humanity, it is […]

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Melbourne Bach Choir continues a wonderful tradition in exemplary fashion

Melbourne Bach Choir and Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | St Matthew Passion Johann Sebastian Bach 3 April 2026, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC with Ripieno Choir from The Yarra Voices Conductor, Rick Prakhoff […]

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St Mary’s Cathedral Scholars at BAMF – a perfectly balanced, impressive musical outcome

Bowral Autumn Music Festival concert 2: Music for Tenebrae March 27, 2026, St Jude’s Church, Bowral, NSW St Mary’s Cathedral Scholars Conductor: Richard Butler Organist: Daniel Justin   Program Vexilla […]

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Wonderful opaqueness of sound from Tudor Choristers

The Tudor Choristers | Lenten Contemplations: Music of Faith, Shadow and Light 25 March 202, St John’s Anglican Church, Camberwell, VIC The first full program of incoming Music Director Christopher […]

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ACC and MBO’s Bach was ‘on an elevated plane’

Australian Chamber Choir & Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Bach’s Mass in B minor 22 March 2026 3pm, The Scots’ Church Melbourne, VIC Directed by Douglas Lawrence J. S. Bach’s B […]

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Carmina Burana – musical perfection from Sydney Chamber Choir

Sydney Chamber Choir | Carmina Burana 22 March 2026, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Sydney Chamber Choir’s Carmina Burana program was cleverly constructed, using the same instrumental forces in the […]

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Sydney Philharmonia’s season opening – Splendid indeed!

Sydney Philharmonia Chamber Singers | Gloria! March 7, 2026, Wharf 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW Conducted by Brett Weymark Soloists Lauren Lodge-Campbell – soprano  Angela Brun – soprano  Hannah […]

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Pepe Newton

Volare Ensemble’s premiere concert shows a choir we hope to hear more from

Volare Ensemble | Ripples and Reflections 8 June 2026, Glebe Town Hall, NSW In 20 years’ time, I hope I’ll be saying I was at the first concert of Volare Ensemble. This was the first outing of a young choir with real musical instincts, strong foundations and a great deal of potential. Their concert, Ripples and Reflections, introduced Volare as

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Pepe Newton

In Paradisum: Sydney Chamber Choir shines in earthly and heavenly light

Sydney Chamber Choir | In Paradisum May 30, 2026, St James’ Church, Sydney, NSW I was intrigued and excited by the prospect of Sydney Chamber Choir’s In Paradisum, on paper we were promised a journey from Baltic and Nordic stillness to Australian warmth, through faith, light and love. All true. But the program only fully revealed itself in performance as,

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Adriel Sukumar

River City Voices: Faure’s Requiem in the Heart of Western Sydney

River City Voices | Faure’s Requiem May 29, 2026, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta, NSW River City Voices Guest Conductor: Dr Philip Eames Assistant Conductor: Oscar Balle-Bowness Organ: Simon Nieminski Baritone Solo: Benjamin Caukwell Soprano Solo: Ayako Ohtake Solo Quartet: Teresa Cheung, Amanda Karen, Richard Heagren-Gibbs, Will Bond Program: Nicole Smede: Padla Alice Chance: Holy Dreaming Joseph Romeo: The Lord’s Prayer

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Coro Innominata’s concert The VocaLiszt – a revelation!

Coro Innominata | The VocaLiszt 24 May 2026, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, NSW Conductor & Musical Director: Dr Philip Eames Pianists: Harry Tai & Silvina Wong Baritone: Matt Gaskin Soloists from choir: James Cox, Lynne Hancock, David Hoffman, Ari Romanenko, Tony Roscioli, Michael van der Kolff.   For most of us, mention of Franz Liszt conjures up his enormous output

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David Hood

MUCS’ Bruckner and Dvořák – a marvellous thing

Melbourne University Choral Society + Box Hill Chorale | Te Deum (Bruckner) and Mass in D Major (Dvořák) 23 May 2026, All Saints East St Kilda, VIC Helena Dix, Soprano; Dimity Shepherd, Mezzo; Michael Petruccelli, Tenor; Christopher Hillier, Baritone; Bruckner Chamber Orchestra; Conductor Andrew Wailes   Bruckner took a long time to get established and recognised in Imperial Vienna for

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Daniel Kaan

Der Schwanengesang with Song Company’s near perfect intonation – very dramatic!

The Song Company | Der Schwanengesang May 21, 2026, St James’ Church, Sydney, NSW Artists: The Song Company Conductor: Roland Peelman Continuo: Nathan Cox   Schütz wrote this setting of Psalm 119 right at the end of his very long life. The title of this large work is Der Schwanengesang (“The Swansong”), was posthumously assigned. He is reputed however to

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Daniel Brace

Mass of Deliverance an uplifting program from the MSO Chorus

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Mass of Deliverance May 17, 2026, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Australian composer Dan Walker’s Mass of Deliverance was composed with the aim of being paired with John Rutter’s 18 minute Gloria, one of his most challenging outputs both for the performers and listeners. Not quite filling out an hour, the program was rounded out by the

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Richard Wong

Congratulations to Joubert Singers on their Requiems at the lovely St James

Joubert Singers | Requiem 17 May, 2026, St James Church, Sydney, NSW 2 Requiems: Faure, a short pause, then Mozart Conductor: Kurt Ison The program notes for this performance were excellent in educating the audience about the 2 requiem settings, and, more importantly, the intentions of the 2 composers. “Mozart’s Requiem in D minor stands as one of the most

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Daniel Kaan

Sydney Philharmonia’s Duruflé a huge wall of sound!

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs | Duruflé’s Requiem & Poulenc’s Gloria 16 May, 2026, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, NSW Program: Deborah Cheetham Fraillon and Matthew Doyle: Tarimi Nulay Maurice Duruflé: Requiem Carl Vine: Time’s Fell Hand Francis Poulenc: Gloria Artists: Elizabeth Scott: conductor Meechot Marrero: soprano Helen Sherman: mezzo-soprano Samuel Dale Johnson: baritone David Drury: organ Festival Chorus Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra

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Warren Wills

Spooky Men’s gloriously unhinged 25th anniversary concert

Spooky Men’s Chorale | 25 Years of Pointless Grandeur 3 May 2026, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Origins Somewhere in the misty folds of the Blue Mountains around 2001, a tribe of blokes assembled under the benevolent mischief of Stephen Taberner. What began as a low-stakes experiment in male vocal bonding (read: controlled chaos) became a roaming choral phenomenon. Sixteen men,

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Pepe Newton

Luminescence and the Machine – unapologetically strange, but strangely beautiful

Canberra International Music Festival | Luminescence and the Machine Sunday May 3, Street Theatre, Canberra, ACT Artists Luminescence Chamber Singers AJ America, Artistic Director Josephine Brereton Lucien Fischer Rachel Mink Alasdair Stretch Dan Walker with Tilman Robinson (sound design, instrument design, compositional collaboration and live sound) Veronique Bennet (Lighting & Set Design) Composers William Brittelle (USA) Olivia Davies Jess Green

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ABO’s Choral Splendour sheer brilliance and skill – Bravo!

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Brandenburg Choir  | Choral Splendour April 16, 2026, Melbourne Recital Hall, VIC Given that music and the arts often represent the best of humanity, it is perhaps unfair to invoke a geo-political analogy with a concert, particularly in the present world circumstances. However, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra is undoubtedly a musical superpower, ably flexing its formidable

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Richard Excell

Melbourne Bach Choir continues a wonderful tradition in exemplary fashion

Melbourne Bach Choir and Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | St Matthew Passion Johann Sebastian Bach 3 April 2026, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC with Ripieno Choir from The Yarra Voices Conductor, Rick Prakhoff  Evangelist, Andrew Goodwin; Jesus, Adrian Tamburini; soprano, Lorina Gore; mezzo-soprano, Sally-Anne Russell; tenor Henry Choo; bass-baritone, Simon Meadows; bass-baritone, Christopher Hillier   J.S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion is literally the

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Daniel Kaan

St Mary’s Cathedral Scholars at BAMF – a perfectly balanced, impressive musical outcome

Bowral Autumn Music Festival concert 2: Music for Tenebrae March 27, 2026, St Jude’s Church, Bowral, NSW St Mary’s Cathedral Scholars Conductor: Richard Butler Organist: Daniel Justin   Program Vexilla regia prodeunt – Gregorian Chant Organ improvisation on Vexilla regis Psalm 4 – Gregorian Chant Victoria: Sepulto domino Bach: Erbarm dich mein, O Herre Gott (BWV 721) Victoria: Tenebrae factae

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Daniel Brace

Wonderful opaqueness of sound from Tudor Choristers

The Tudor Choristers | Lenten Contemplations: Music of Faith, Shadow and Light 25 March 202, St John’s Anglican Church, Camberwell, VIC The first full program of incoming Music Director Christopher Watson for The Tudor Choristers juxtaposed two of the great Catholic Renaissance composers, William Byrd of England and originally from Spain, Tomás Luis de Victoria. Movements of William Byrd’s much

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Richard Excell

ACC and MBO’s Bach was ‘on an elevated plane’

Australian Chamber Choir & Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Bach’s Mass in B minor 22 March 2026 3pm, The Scots’ Church Melbourne, VIC Directed by Douglas Lawrence J. S. Bach’s B minor Mass is one of the wonders of music history. Composed and repurposed for various reasons over many years, it somehow became an organic monument of his choral art. If

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Pepe Newton

Carmina Burana – musical perfection from Sydney Chamber Choir

Sydney Chamber Choir | Carmina Burana 22 March 2026, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Sydney Chamber Choir’s Carmina Burana program was cleverly constructed, using the same instrumental forces in the first half, two pianos and percussion, before unleashing them fully in Orff’s great rhythmic blockbuster after the interval. It made musical and practical sense, and it allowed the audience to

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Pepe Newton

Sydney Philharmonia’s season opening – Splendid indeed!

Sydney Philharmonia Chamber Singers | Gloria! March 7, 2026, Wharf 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW Conducted by Brett Weymark Soloists Lauren Lodge-Campbell – soprano  Angela Brun – soprano  Hannah Fraser – mezzo-soprano  Richard Butler – tenor  Andrew O’Connor – bass-baritone    Sydney Philharmonia Choirs opened their 2026 season with a trio of Baroque masterpieces presented by

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