• Australian Boys Choir: French Classics

    St Andrew's Anglican Church, Brighton 228 New St, Brighton, VIC, Australia
    Romantic choral masterpieces by famous French composers performed with an ensemble of organ, harp, cello and double bass.
    The Tallis Scholars

    Sydney Opera House: The Tallis Scholars

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Award-winning British vocal ensemble, The Tallis Scholars are renowned for their stunning cappella performances and exquisite recordings of sacred vocal music. The choir first sang at the Sydney Opera House in 1985, 40 years ago, and has returned five times since, most recently in 2010. In their first performance in…
    Garden of Earthly Delights

    Luminescence Chamber Singers: Garden of Earthly Delights

    Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest (Wesley Music Centre) 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, Australia
    A garden teeming with temptation and desire, grotesque creatures and improbable scenes of surrender: the uninhibited world of Hieronymus Bosch’s 500-year-old triptych “De tuin der lusten”. Baffling his Dutch contemporaries and the casual tourists in Madrid’s Prado in equal measure (not to mention generations of art critics) Bosch’s Garden of…
    Celebrate You

    Adelaide Chamber Singers: Celebrate You – Open Rehearsal

    Christ Church, North Adelaide 62-72 Jeffcott St, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Have you ever experienced a rehearsal with 40 distinct parts? How does it come together? Are there white gloves involved? Join us as we share with you how we add the finishing touches to our creative process and refine to the higher level that ACS is synonymous with. Experience these…

    Kew Philharmonic Chamber Choir: Kew Philharmonic Chamber Choir

    Hawthorn Arts Centre Burwood Road, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
    Our concert is devoted to choral music written in celebration – of love, nature, monarchs and religious figures. The choir, led by Stephen Kerr, will be joined by soprano Amanda Hargreaves and a group of invited instrumentalists. Works performed will include: the English round Sumer is icumen in (written around 1260) and a set of…

    Camberwell Chorale: Haydn’s Creation

    Hawthorn Arts Centre Burwood Road, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
    The Camberwell Chorale and Camerata Orchestra proudly present Joseph Haydn’s glorious oratorio, The Creation! Considered by many to be Haydn’s most famous and enduring masterpiece, this work is also regarded as one of the finest examples of classical oratorio ever composed.

    Canberra Theatre Centre: Samara Joy

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    5x Grammy winner and breakout jazz sensation Samara Joy brings her timeless voice to Australia and New Zealand for the first time, joined by her outstanding seven-piece band. Celebrated for her rich tone, refined phrasing, and love and understanding of the Great American Songbook, she’ll perform in cities across the…

    The Concourse: Festival of Children’s Music

    The Concourse, Chatswood 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood, NSW, Australia
    Each year, The Festival of Children's Music brings together public primary schools from across Sydney for a fabulous evening of musical performances. This year, over 300 primary school students from across 10 Sydney Metropolitan schools are represented in the combined schools choir, which is featured throughout the concert. The concert…

    Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival: Samara Joy

    Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre Penrith, NSW, Australia
    Five-time Grammy winner and breakout jazz sensation Samara Joy brings her timeless voice to Sydney for the first time, joined by her outstanding seven-piece band. A Bronx native steeped in gospel and classic R&B, Joy rose to prominence after winning the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition while studying at SUNY…

    Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival: Samara Joy

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Five-time Grammy winner and breakout jazz sensation Samara Joy brings her timeless voice to Sydney for the first time, joined by her outstanding seven-piece band. A Bronx native steeped in gospel and classic R&B, Joy rose to prominence after winning the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition while studying at SUNY…

    Sydney Philharmonia Choirs: A German Requiem

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A serious young man, torn by the death of his mother and the loss of a mentor, not a believer but finding comfort in the spiritual… This is the Brahms who wrote A German Requiem – a magnificent, heartful work for soloists, chorus and orchestra. This isn’t a Latin requiem for the…
    Penelope – a song cycle by Sarah Kirkland Snider

    Abbotsford Convent: Penelope

    Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Melbourne’s Alta Collective will premiere a world-first choral arrangement of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s acclaimed song cycle Penelope this October, bringing new theatricality and emotional depth to the modern reimagining of Homer’s epic. A soldier returns after twenty years away in an unnamed war. But neither he nor his wife are…

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