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Coro Austral journeyed across cultures for ‘el saber’!

Coro Austral | El Saber 6 April 2025, St Augustine’s, Balmain, NSW In Spanish, el saber literally means “Knowledge”. In philosophical or poetic contexts, el saber often carries a sense of inherited wisdom, or knowing that goes beyond the intellect – the kind of knowing you might gain through music, history or lived experience. Perfect for a choral program tracing

Pepe Newton April 7, 2025

Coro Austral’s “Solamente Tango” lifts ebullient audience to the ecstatic!

Coro Austral and Associate Artists | Solamente Tango (Only Tango) April 28, 2024, Ashfield Town Hall A bustling suburban downtown strip gave way to a portal that, for today, would provide two hours of other worldly delight! An unexpected gem, the Ashfield Town Hall proved an apposite choice of locale for Solamente Tango (Only Tango) — a concert event featuring

Guest Reviewer April 30, 2024

Ambassador thoughts

Coro Austral’s simple melody, harmony and rhythm shines

Coro Austral | O Magnum Mysterium 27 November, 2022, St Joseph’s Church, Rozelle Margot McLaughlin – director There is a great tradition of non-professional choirs in Sydney and it seems to me that over the last 30 years or so there has been a growth in the number of such groups. Maybe, as big cities expand and push suburban and

Alan Holley November 28, 2022

Coro Austral’s MisaTango a triumph

Coro Austral | TANGO April 10, 2022, Mosman Art Gallery The Mosman Art Gallery and Community Centre has hosted many fine concerts. On Sunday 10 April 2022, the impressive stained-glass windows and soaring interior of the Grand Hall, formerly a Methodist Church, spread their finery over such an event. It was the concert that Margot McLaughlin, Artistic Director of Coro

Pepe Newton April 11, 2022

Coro Austral introduces Sydney to some great new music – gloriosa!

Coro Austral | Musica Gloriosa May 15, 2021 Rozelle NSW Coro Austral is Australia’s premier choir for Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American choral music. Now entering its second decade under the artistic and musical direction of Margot McLaughlin, who founded the choir (then named El Coro) in 2010, the choir has introduced audiences to the music of a great many

Clive Lane + Marjory Ellsmore May 16, 2021

Coro Austral presented a program of mainly Spanish music with some French & Australian for good measure

Coro Austral is a group of 13 (mostly) unaccompanied voices under the direction of Margot McLaughlin. In this concert they presented mainly Spanish music with some French and Australian for good measure. The first half of the concert focussed on pieces to do with war. The French Renaissance composer Clément Janequin’s La Guerre (La bataille de Marignan) offered a lot

Daniel Kaan April 16, 2019

Ambassador thoughts

Coro Austral hosted an exhilarating evening

What an exhilarating evening hosted by Coro Austral at St Augustine’s Church in Balmain. Coro is a Sydney based amateur chamber choir which specializes in music of Hispanic origin. Their bubbling director, Margot McLaughlin, kept us fully informed before each piece and clearly is blessed with perfect pitch as she started each segment with an introductory note. Her enthusiasm was clearly infectious as the ten-strong group never

Tony Burke April 17, 2018

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Coro Austral celebrate Love, Loss and Remembrance

On the eve of their Cuban tour, Coro Austral, conducted Artistic Director Margot McLaughlin, presented a concert pillared by the Mass For the Dead by Portuguese composer Manuel Cardoso. The clear acoustics of the Redfern Town Hall and its simple decor created an intimate performing space for this acapella celebration of Love, Loss and Remembrance. Sydney’s Spanish and Latin American

Lliane Clarke November 15, 2017

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