A decade after Nicholas Routley, the founding director of the Sydney Chamber Choir has left the ensemble he created, there is still a powerful nexus between them. Talking about the choir’s upcoming 40th anniversary concert this weekend, which he will conduct, Nicholas Routley muses “I don’t know whether to say ‘we’ or ‘they’ since I…
Sydney Chamber Choir’s up and coming Alumni concert, Creativity + Loss explores the ambiguous relationship between these two opposing concepts – music written in response to grief. Brahms’ German Requiem will be performed in a version arranged by himself for accompaniment by piano duet. Conducted by Nicholas Routley, the programme includes the motet Ave Regina…
The Sydney Chamber Choir celebrates 40 years of music making with the launch of its 2015 programme. Musical Director Paul Stanhope observes “Despite the number of candles on our cake, we are every bit as adventurous as when we were young upstarts!” adding “The choir continues to renew itself through a strong intake of fresh talent,…