Season Preview: Your guide to the arts in 2026

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs has announced its 2026 season of choral masterworks and contemporary Australian music. Alongside performances with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Choirs will also make a Perth appearance and embark on its first UK tour in 15 years.

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs performing in A Child of Our Time. Photo © Simon Crossley-Meates

Across July and August 2026, the Choirs will perform at the Royal Albert Hall and Gloucester Cathedral’s Three Choirs Festival. Artistic & Music Director Brett Weymark says that it will showcase “Australian talent and voices… with an inspirational program of works commissioned in recent years.”

“I look forward to collaborating with our incredible choristers and with some of Australia’s finest composers, soloists and musicians, to deliver a year of concert experiences that uplift, inspire and delight, reminding us once again of the incredible power of music and of human voices coming together in unity,” he said.

The selection of choral epics this season starts in full Baroque splendour with Gloria! on 7 March at Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay with...