One Equal Music: OEM Foundation – Splendour

Sacred Heart, Rosalie 369 Given Terrace, Paddington, QLD, Australia
OEM Foundation’s second concert celebrates the next generation of choral musicians as they bring fresh energy and passion to some of the most iconic choral works. Featuring timeless pieces beloved around the world, the program includes masterworks such as Biebl’s Ave Maria, Tallis’s If Ye Love Me, and Rachmaninoff’s Cherubic…

Sydney Opera House: Heartfire

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Hourglass Ensemble proudly premieres The Fire Always Says Yes, a powerful new song cycle by composer Anna Hirst Friedman in collaboration with poet Jessica Chapnik Kahn. This bold work explores the story of the human heart, traversing the inevitable process of facing ourselves through birth, love, death, and transformation. Set within a striking musical…

Melbourne International Jazz Festival: Samara Joy

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, 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…
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…

Ensemble Q: Requiem

Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Paddington 369 Given Terrace, Paddington, QLD, Australia
Proudly presented by the exciting collaboration of Ensemble Q and The Australian Voices, this heartfelt performance brings internationally acclaimed composer Paul Stanhope's Requiem to Brisbane audiences for one night only. Also featured is Joe Twist's Lament for cello and choir. Scored for chamber choir, two vocal soloists, harp, clarinet, oboe,…

After Hours Concert

Elder Conservatorium: From little things…

Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Here are the Elder Conservatorium Classical Voice students and Chorale as you may not have heard them before! Artist-in-Residence Timothy Wayne-Wright guides the Elder Conservatorium’s Classical Voice students and Chorale through an exciting and diverse program of small vocal ensemble and choral music. Timothy Wayne-Wright is one of the UK’s…

Sunshine Coast Oriana Choir: 20 Years of Song – Gala Anniversary Concert

Venue 114 114 Sportsmans Parade, Bokarina, QLD, Australia
A Musical Milestone for the Sunshine Coast’s Beloved Choral Ensemble. The Sunshine Coast’s acclaimed vocal ensemble, Oriana Choir, proudly announces its 20th Anniversary Gala Concert, to be held on Sunday, November 2nd at 2:00pm at Venue 114, Bokarina. Marking two decades of musical excellence and community spirit, this special event…

Brisbane Chorale: Beethoven Mass in C and Hagenberg Illuminare

The Old Museum Concert Hall 480 Gregory Terrrace, Bowen Hills, Queensland, Australia
Two delightful works for choir and orchestra and a team of Queensland's finest young soloists. These two compelling works for choir and orchestra, written over 300 years apart - one by a man revered as one of the greatest composers of all time, and one by a woman, a rising…
Renaissance Requiem

Australian Chamber Choir: Renaissance Requiem

Peninsula Community Theatre 91 Wilsons Rd, Mornington, VIC
For modern concert-goers, the term Requiem conjures up works by Mozart, Berlioz, Verdi and Britten, all of whom used considerable orchestral and choral resources to depict heaven, hell and the last judgement. The Missa pro defunctis, composed by Tomás Luis Victoria is a requiem of a very different kind. This work succeeds…
Sing the World

Canticum Chamber Choir: Sing the World

Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Paddington 369 Given Terrace, Paddington, QLD, Australia
Enjoy a feast of uplifting, dramatic, and inspiring choral music from around the globe and through the ages. Canticum performs works by Lauridsen, Poulenc, Gibbons, Elgar and others, and features works by Brisbane-based composers Phillip Gearing, and Joseph Twist, whose recently-commissioned "Let me sing the world” written for us, is…
Sing the World

Canticum Chamber Choir: Sing the World

Sandgate Town Hall Cliff and Seymour St, Sandgate, QLD, Australia
Enjoy a feast of uplifting, dramatic, and inspiring choral music from around the globe and through the ages. Canticum Chamber Choir, with conductor Emily Cox AM, performs works by Lauridsen, Poulenc, Gibbons, Elgar and others, and features works by Brisbane-based composers Phillip Gearing, and Joseph Twist, whose recently-commissioned "Let me…

Co-ordinating Italian Committee: Opera Primavera

Norwood Concert Hall 175 The Parade, Norwood, SA, Australia
Opera is magic! Come and enjoy one of the highlights of the Adelaide Italian Festival – Opera Primavera – with a quartet of magnificent singers presenting an entertaining program of Italian arias, duets and ensembles by great composers such as Puccini, Verdi, Leoncavallo, Donizetti, Rossini and more. Sydney soprano Imogen-Faith…

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