Fresh from their successful tour of Asia, Sydney Chamber Choir starts the year with their Easter concert of which the centrepiece is Fauré’s Requiem, with The Metropolitan Orchestra and soloists Belinda Montgomery and Alexander Knight. Conducting this concert will be Richard Gill OAM, the incoming music director of the Sydney Chamber Choir. Fauré’s Requiem is more a lullaby of…
Chamber/cello – There are two outstanding chamber music events in April with the Sitkovetsky Trio presented by Music Viva performing the music of Smetana, Beethoven (the Archduke Trio) and the world premiere of a new work by Carl Vine, commissioned for Music Viva by Julian Burnside AO QC to commemorate the composer’s 60th birthday. April…
Australia’s most admired conductor and respected musical educator, Richard Gill, has been announced as the incoming Musical Director of the Sydney Chamber Choir. Richard will take over from Paul Stanhope who was recently appointed as Artistic Chair of the Australia Ensemble. Richard Gill has been the Patron of the choir since 2009 and is guest conductor for the first…