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Coro Austral | Iberia

We are thrilled to present a concert showcasing choral pieces we will take on our performance tour to Portugal and Spain in October 2026! Conducted by Margot McLaughlin Romancero Gitano (Gypsy Romances) by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, is an evocative choral setting of powerful lyrics by Federico García Lorca, portraying the everyday lives of common people in a Spain soaked in passion,

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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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Sydney Chamber Choir | In Paradisum

From the stillness of Baltic and Nordic landscapes to the luminous clarity of Australian skies… …this program traces a musical journey through faith, light and love. Sacred works from Estonia, Norway and Sweden — including Arvo Pärt’s Bogoroditse Dyevo, Galina Grigorjeva’s In Paradisum and Edvard Grieg’s Ave Maris Stella — evoke a spirituality that is both intimate and timeless, while

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team@sympley.com.au

Sydney Chamber Choir | In Paradisum

From the stillness of Baltic and Nordic landscapes to the luminous clarity of Australian skies… …this program traces a musical journey through faith, light and love. Sacred works from Estonia, Norway and Sweden — including Arvo Pärt’s Bogoroditse Dyevo, Galina Grigorjeva’s In Paradisum and Edvard Grieg’s Ave Maris Stella — evoke a spirituality that is both intimate and timeless, while

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Richard Wong

Carols at the House – What a show!

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs | Carols at the House 12 December, 2025, Sydney Opera House, NSW What a show! Over two and a half hours of entertainment – closer to three – but the time flew by this marathon because there were so many highlights. I swear that I am going to miss some of them because it was just too

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Pepe Newton

Sydney Philharmonia’s Lost Birds soar inside White Bay Power Station

Sydney Philharmonia Chamber Singers | Lost Birds 16 August 2025, White Bay Power Station, NSW It’s not every day you find yourself sipping coffee inside the belly of a decommissioned coal-fired relic. The towering, echoing and deliciously grungy White Bay Power Station, newly reopened as a cultural venue after decades of dormancy, made a fitting backdrop for Lost Birds, Sydney

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Daniel Kaan

AVÉ concert launches new album of Australian works – immensely enjoyable

AVÉ: Australian Vocal Ensemble | Thought is surrounded by a halo 10 August, 2025, The Neilson, ACO, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW VOICES: Katie Noonan: Soprano and Artistic Director Fiona Campbell: Mezzo-soprano Louis Hurley: Tenor Andrew O’Connor: Bass-baritone PROGRAM: Andrew O’Connor: Thought is Surrounded by a Halo Perry Joyce: My father’s gun Joseph Twist:  Refugee Thomas Luis de Victoria: Heth Misericordiae

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Daniel Kaan

The Song Company’s Journey to Finisterre a profound experience

The Song Company: Journeying to Finisterre 15 March 2025, St Philip’s Church, Sydney, NSW Program: Llibre Vermell de Montserrat – O Virgo Splendens Tomas Luis de Victoria – O quam gloriosum Codex Calixtinus – Congaudeant Catholici Juan del Encina – ¡O Reyes Magos Benditos! Alfonso X El Sabio – Cantigas de Santa Maria: Entre Ave e Eva Francisco Guerrero –

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Daniel Brace

MSO Chorus – fine singing bursting with drama and humour

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus | Song Cycles 26 May, 2024, Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne, VIC Like me, you’ve probably enjoyed the chorus of your symphony orchestra in wonderful works like the Beethoven Ninth, and no year seems complete without a performance of Handel’s Messiah. But hearing the MSO Chorus a cappella and with just piano accompaniment, you could appreciate the full

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Heidi Hereth

Bel a cappella’s most beautiful concert

Bel a cappella | Ancient Lands May 8, 2022, St. Augustine’s, Balmain, NSW On a glorious Autumn afternoon, we were blessed to be able to experience the glorious contemporary sounds of Bel a cappella in St. Augustine’s Catholic Church in Balmain. Although Covid had reduced the size of the choir, they decided to go ahead with the performance anyway, in

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Pepe Newton

Review: Twist’s triumphant Australian Song Cycle

Sydney Chamber Choir | Garden of the Soul November 20, 2021 – Independent Theatre, North  Sydney, It’s not every day you find yourself musically swept into a warm deep ocean looking up through a smack of jellyfish, or launched into a wheeling chattering flock of lorikeets as they careen over a rainforest valley, but from my seat in the Independent

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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

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Lliane Clarke

Sydney Chamber Choir programme joyfully celebrated the power of the voice

Sam Allchurch took his audience to heart and taught them a thing or two about singing in his first subscription concert as Music Director for Sydney Chamber Choir in 2019. Music on Music was billed as a celebration of singing as an artform, and the ‘feeling of joy that only singing can give,’ and it certainly lived up to that promise.

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