Chris Matthies Chris Matthies

Naomi Crellin: Taking a choir outside its comfort zone

“Arranging contemporary jazz repertoire for a classical choir is a difficult brief. Too simple and the piece falls flat from predictability. …Too close to the original and it becomes a ‘choirioke’ cover….”

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Joshua Murray Joshua Murray

Reviews: Light and Shade

A journey deep into the heart of hope. Music of radiant beauty by JS Bach, John Rutter and Australian composer Brooke Shelley frames an unforgettable vision of light in the midst of utter darkness from German Baroque genius Heinrich Schütz.

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Joshua Murray Joshua Murray

Reviews: Innocence & Experience

A celebration of Sydney Chamber Choir’s past, present and future. The exquisite beauty of Renaissance masters Josquin, Ockeghem and Dufay, alongside new musical treasures we are proud to have brought into being: passionate and inspiring works written especially for us.

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Joshua Murray Joshua Murray

Reviews: Haydn’s Creation

224 years after its premiere, Sydney Chamber Choir joined the Australian Haydn Ensemble for the first Australian period-instrument performance of Haydn’s magnificent oratorio The Creation.

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Wei Jiang Wei Jiang

Reviews: Garden of the Soul

Sydney Chamber Choir hit the stage this month at the Independent Theatre in North Sydney for the premiere of Joe Twist’s An Australian Song Cycle. Read the reviews here.

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Wei Jiang Wei Jiang

Reviews: Stanhope - A New Requiem

Sydney Chamber Choir returned after a year to City Recital Hall to a long-anticipated, triumphant world premiere of Paul Stanhope’s Requiem. Read the reviews here.

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