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The Song Company | Der Schwanengesang – Wollongong

20–24 May Newcastle | Sydney | Canberra | Wollongong After 25 years shaping The Song Company into one of Australia’s most admired ensembles, Roland Peelman returns to direct a landmark project. At its centre is Heinrich Schütz’s Der Schwanengesang – a monumental setting of Psalm 119, completed in 1671 as a lasting statement of moral and musical values. Written for

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The Song Company | Der Schwanengesang – Manuka

20–24 May Newcastle | Sydney | Canberra | Wollongong After 25 years shaping The Song Company into one of Australia’s most admired ensembles, Roland Peelman returns to direct a landmark project. At its centre is Heinrich Schütz’s Der Schwanengesang – a monumental setting of Psalm 119, completed in 1671 as a lasting statement of moral and musical values. Written for

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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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Pepe Newton

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio a truly festive, world-class afternoon of music making

Sydney Philharmonia Chamber Singers | Bach’s Christmas Oratorio 13 December 2025, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, NSW Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ presentation of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Parts IV–VI)  – a six-part sequence of cantatas that unfolds the Christmas story through reflection rather than drama – thoughtfully interwoven with two new Australian works commissioned through SPC’s inaugural Emerging Composer Awards, was a

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The Class of ’85 showcases BAA’s baroque brilliance

Bach Akademie Australia | Class of ’85 30 May 2025, St James’ Church, Sydney, NSW They say greatness is born, not made, but 1685 might have been an exception. Three of the greatest composers of the Baroque era, Domenico Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel, and Johann Sebastian Bach, were all born that year. Whether by fate or coincidence, this serendipitous trifecta

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Bach Akademie Australia | 2025 Season

Madeleine Easton, Artistic Director of Bach Akademie Australia launches 2025! Here’s what she had to say… This year marks eight years since I imagined bringing together Australia’s finest instrumentalists and singers to share with all Australians the profound joy and inspiration found in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. We have four programs rich and diverse in repertoire for you,

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Daniel Kaan

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio ecstatic. Pure delight

Bach Akademie Australia | Bach’s Christmas Oratorio 8 November 2024, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW ARTISTS Director – Madeleine Easton Evangelist – Andrew Goodwin Soprano – Susannah Lawergren (soloist), Bonnie de la Hunty (soloist), Brianna Louwen, Amy Moore Alto – Hannah Fraser (soloist), Olivia Payne, Elizabeth Cooper Tenor – Timothy Reynolds (soloist), Andrei Laptev, Jack Jordan Bass – David Greco

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Lliane Clarke

Composers present dynamic new music from red dirt country at Moorambilla Voices Gala Concert

Moorambilla Voices | Riversong 2024: Spirit of Water   28-29 September 2024, Dubbo Regional Theatre No less than five new Australian premiere works, nine composers and a new digital film score came alive at the Moorambilla Voices Gala Concert, Riversong 2024: Spirit of Water, which I travelled to watch in Dubbo last weekend.  The powerful performance was a thematic multi-arts expression

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Pepe Newton

Celebrating 40 years of The Song Company in style

The Song Company | Vespers for Mother Earth June 23, City Recital Hall, Sydney THE SONG COMPANY Susannah Lawergren, Annika Hinrichs, Anna Fraser – Sopranos Jessica O’Donoghue & Hannah Fraser – Mezzo Sopranos Timothy Reynolds & Louis Hurley – Tenors Hayden Barrington & Andrew O’Connor – Baritone & Bass Guest Director: Roland Peelman Ensemble Offspring & Guest Instrumentalists Lamorna Nightingale, Flute

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Alan Holley

Bach Akademie concert – exquisite musicality, so perfect

Bach Akademie Australia | Bach The Benefactor Sunday 14th April 2024,  Our Lady of Dolours Church, Chatswood Madeleine Easton – Artistic Director and conductor Susannah Lawergren – soprano Hannah Fraser – alto Richard Butler – tenor Andrew O’Connor – bass PROGRAM J.S. Bach Cantata ‘Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot’ BWV 39 J.S. Bach Harpsichord Concerto in E arranged for Violin

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Bach Akademie Australia at SYD FEST 24, a truly impeccable lineup

Bach Akademie Australia | JS Bach: A Life in Music 23 January, 2024, ACO Pier2/3 Sydney Bach Akademie Australia Director Madeleine Easton Susannah Lawergren – soprano Hannah Fraser – alto Richard Butler – tenor Christopher Richardson – bass PROGRAM JS Bach Cantata BWV 106 ‘Actus Tragicus’ Brandenburg Concerto no.5 in D major BWV 1050 Motet ‘Lobet den Herrn’ BWV 230

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Heidi Hereth

A wonderful celebration of superb singing by The Song Company

The Song Company | Hark! November 30, 2023, St Francis of Assisi Church, Paddington, NSW HARK! HEAR! Listen…….enjoy……sing……. This we did in the beautiful setting of St. Francis of Assisi in Paddington. “Hark!’ was a wonderful celebration of superb singing by The Song Company with recitation of some quirky poetry, plus the opportunity to join in with the singing of

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Alan Holley

Pinchgut: Antics, intrigue and excellent playing and singing

Pinchgut Opera | Pleasures of Versailles & Love Conquers All Two mini operas by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) Saturday 9th September, 2023, City Recital Hall, Sydney Soloisits – Cathy-Di Zhang, Lauren Lodge-Campbell, Hannah Fraser, Michael Petruccelli and David Greco Orchestra of the Antipodes Erin Helyard – conductor Presenting two short unknown works written for Louis XIV around 350 years ago requires

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Alan Holley

Grazie Bach Akademie Australia! Just perfect

Bach Akademie Australia | Grazie in Grazia Sunday 13 November, 2022, Our Lady of Dolours, Chatswood Madeleine Easton – director Susannah Lawergren – Soprano Brianna Louwen – Soprano Hannah Fraser – Alto Stephanie Dillon – Alto Richard Butler – Tenor Koen Van Stade – Tenor Andrew O’Connor – Bass Jack Stephens – Bass In a 100 year old church in

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Jane Downer

Easter Oratorio: Bach’s imagination magnificently vitalised

Bach Akademie Australia – Bach’s Easter Oratorio Friday 8th April 2022 – Australian Digital Concert Hall As we approach the Crucifixion of Passion season, the Bach Akademie Australia gave us a prospective sighting of the Resurrection and hope of salvation with J S Bach’s Easter Oratorio and two Easter Cantatas, all composed for Leipzig in 1725, in a delayed streaming

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Jane Downer

Christ Church St Laurence’s Passion shows superlative artistry

The Muffat Collective & Choir of Christ Church St Laurence |  St John Passion Wednesday 6th April 2022 – Australian Digital Concert Hall Conductor – Sam Allchurch It is a rare treat in Australia to hear Bach’s St John Passion on period instruments, available to watch via delayed broadcast from the Australian Digital Concert Hall  in a performance by the

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Review: Heavenly Music of Bach’s Magnificat

Bach Akademie Australia Madeleine Easton – musical director Friday November 26, 2021 Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney A large and devoted audience greeted the Bach Akademie Australia in its concert of festive works by Johan Sebastian Bach in the delightful Christ Church St Laurence. Due to Covid restrictions on the arts over the last 18 months or so Sydney has

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Jane Downer

Bach Akademie Australia superbly captures Bach’s imaginative brilliance

Bach Akademie Australia – Alleluja Friday 26th March 2021 – Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Bach Akademie Australia’s celebratory programme for Easter was held in St Francis of Assisi’s Church in Sydney’s Paddington, the musicians performing from a semicircular marble dais, amid an attractively symmetrical setting of warmly lit column surrounds, with some befitting splashes of red and purple colouring. I

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