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Australian Chamber Choir | Encores 2026 – Geelong

Since its beginning in 2007, the ACC has given 125 concerts in Europe and many more in Australia. At the conclusion of the formal part of each concert, the audience often lets us know that they would like to hear more. We might repeat the most loved work on the program, and/or surprise the audience with something fun, light, humorous,

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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 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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Australian Chamber Choir | Great Romantic Voices – Dunkeld

In the hands of Romantics like Bruckner and Brahms, music became increasingly expressive, harmonically inventive, passionate, theatrical. In the twentieth century, composers like Herbert Howells, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Amy Beach and Samuel Barber resisted the atonality and serialism embraced by their contemporaries and continued to explore the rich extremes of lush harmony and sweeping melodies. These composers as a group

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Australian Chamber Choir | Great Romantic Voices – Middle Park

In the hands of Romantics like Bruckner and Brahms, music became increasingly expressive, harmonically inventive, passionate, theatrical. In the twentieth century, composers like Herbert Howells, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Amy Beach and Samuel Barber resisted the atonality and serialism embraced by their contemporaries and continued to explore the rich extremes of lush harmony and sweeping melodies. These composers as a group

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Daniel Brace

The Australian Chamber Choir – beautifully balanced and in top form!

Australian Chamber Choir | Baroque Christmas December 7, 2025, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park, VIC The Australian Chamber Choir were beautifully balanced and in top form for their end of year Christmas concert under the direction of Douglas Lawrence and Elizabeth Anderson. The program of mainly baroque music was stretched to include a few very early baroque works

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Pepe Newton

New light on the Requiem – Gordon Kerry premieres with ACC

Australian Chamber Choir | Renaissance Requiem 17 August 2025, streamed from Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park, VIC In Missa pro defunctis, composer Gordon Kerry gently rewrites the Requiem tradition, not by burning it down, but by opening windows to let more light in. That sense of illumination framed this thoughtful Australian Chamber Choir program, where Kerry’s newly commissioned

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Daniel Brace

ACC celebrated Palestrina with many moments of bliss

Australian Chamber Choir | Palestrina 500 Sunday 25 May, 2025, Middle Park, VIC It’s Palestrina’s 500th birthday this year. Born in 1525, Giovanni Pierluigi (as he was known to his friends) da Palestrina was just as famous in his lifetime as in the 500 years since his birth. His music has long been synonymous with church and worship, and with

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Alan Holley

Move CDs for Christmas  

Alan Holley reviews three new CD’s on the MOVE record label Zoe Knighton, cello +  Amir Farid, piano | Brahms Cello Hamish Strathdee, Guitar | Impulses – A CD of of Guitar Australian Chamber Choir | Keys to Heaven Brahms Cello Zoe Knighton, cello and Amir Farid, piano Catalogue number   MD 3451 Johannes Brahms 1833–1897 Cello Sonata No. 1

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Pepe Newton

Australian Chamber Choir launches 2025 Season

Australian Chamber Choir, directed by Douglas Lawrence 2025 Program “These programs are designed to make you feel like you’ve just taken a holiday in heaven and come back to earth”, says the ACC’s Manager, Elizabeth Anderson. A subscription to just two of the concerts listed below gives you subscribers’ benefits and up to 20% discount. Baroque Christmas 2024 Saturday 7

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Daniel Brace

Long and loud applause for ACC’s Encores

Australian Chamber Choir | Encores November 3, 2024, St Mary of the Angels Basilica, Geelong, VIC It’s marvellous, you know that moment at the end of a concert when the audience goes mad with applause and everyone claps and claps in the hope of one last parting gift: an encore. Usually it’s a party piece, sometimes familiar or new or

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Australian Chamber Choir tours Europe – and you’re invited!

In July, the Australian Chamber Choir takes off on its eighth concert tour of Europe. A group of Friends is invited to travel with the Choir through Belgium, Germany, Austria and Italy. Founding Director, Douglas Lawrence, a veteran of eighteen such tours, explains “There is something powerful about making friends with people when you’re in their country. It’s been a

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Merriment and energy in Australian Chamber Choir’s Baroque Christmas

Australian Chamber Choir | Baroque Christmas 2023 Sunday, 10 December, 2023, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park Directed by Douglas Lawrence Soprano: Katherine Lieschke, Kate McBride Alto: Elizabeth Anderson, Isobel Todd Tenor: Will Carr, Sam Rowe Bass: Thomas Drent, Kieran Macfarlane Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Middle Park, Melbourne, has an outstanding acoustic. The elegant and very wide

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New Carols by Mark Tredinnick and Alan Holley

classikON MD Pepe Newton caught up with Australian composer (and classikON Ambassador) Alan Holley to chat about his upcoming world premieres. Pepe Newton: Alan, over the next few weeks, new vocal compositions by you to texts by Mark Tredinnick will be premiered in Carol Concerts in Victoria. Are Christmas Carols your new thing? Alan Holley: A few years back I

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Australian Chamber Choir’s beautifully balanced texture

Australian Chamber Choir | Buckingham Palace November 4, 2023, Basilica of St Mary of the Angels, Geelong A coronation is a religious ceremony of the highest order, and, over several hundred years, the British monarchy have a storehouse of fine music from such royal occasions. Buckingham Palace (the title says it all) is the latest concert from the Australian Chamber

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A choir in full song, it’s a beautiful thing… ACC Mozart Requiem

Australian Chamber Choir | Mozart Requiem May 27, 2023, Scots’ Church, Melbourne It is so much fun watching a choir in full song. Mouths moving, chests heaving, and heads bobbing in time to the music. Everyone together in perfect unison. It’s a beautiful thing.  So it was at the Australian Chamber Choir’s performance of the Mozart Requiem at Scots’ Church

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Truly magical moments from ACC’s carols

Australian Chamber Choir | A Ceremony of Carols Sunday 11 December, 2022, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park Douglas Lawrence – musical director Melina van Leeuwen – harp soloist  It is Christmas time and carols are everywhere! They seem as ever present as the deafening racket of the cicadas around my suburb or the screeching of the koels as

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