St Peter’s Cathedral Music Foundation: The Gesualdo Six & Festival Statesmen
27 June @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm AEST

Renowned for its consort singing, The Gesualdo Six begins its Australian tour at MONA’s Elektra – Anselm Kiefer’s colossal concrete amphitheatre. In Sydney, Lux Aeterna spans Tallis, Gesualdo, Tavener and contemporary composers including Joanna Marsh and Richard Rodney Bennett, while Hemispheres is a collaborative program of luminous polyphony with St James’ Choir. The British vocal ensemble then performs alongside the Australian Boys Choir in Melbourne, as well as joining forces with the Festival Statesmen and St Peter’s Cathedral Choir in Adelaide. The tour concludes with two performances of The Wishing Tree at UKARIA and Brisbane’s QPAC, tracing Byrd, Josquin, Stanford, Poulenc and British folk traditions.
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Internationally renowned vocal ensemble The Gesualdo Six, plus the award-winning Festival Statesmen Chorus, and the St Peter’s Cathedral Choir, combine to present an special, one-night-only evening of unforgettable choral music.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear The Gesualdo Six live, in the magnificent acoustic of St Peter’s Cathedral, and be taken on a very special musical journey, spanning centuries of music with surprises along the way.
Please note, this program will be a different program of music to that being performed at Ukaria Cultural Centre on Sunday 28th.
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