The Sydney Chamber Choir is proud to announce that its 2007 season includes two new pieces commissioned from Australian composers.
Nigel Butterley is one of this country’s most respected composers and finest writers for the human voice. His profound spiritual engagement with the human experience has produced music of intense emotional power and great beauty…
Sydney Chamber Choir participated in a rare collaboration with the Tallis Scholars in a concert on February 10th 2007, in City Recital Hall, Angel Place. The two choirs combined to perform Thomas Tallis’ magnificent 40 part motet Spem in Alium. Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, Peter McCallum remarked that: “The tour de force of the visit was Thomas Tallis’s magnificent motet for 40 separate parts, Spem in Alium, for which the 10 singers of the Tallis Scholars were joined by 35 from the Sydney Chamber Choir…
