Concert Review: Six Times Three/ Sydney Chamber Choir

Concert Review: Six Times Three/ Sydney Chamber Choir

Six Times Three Sydney Chamber Choir  Great Hall Sydney University September 6, 2015  In its final concert for 2015, celebrating its 40th year, the Sydney Chamber Choir welcomed its newly appointed Music Director Richard Gill OAM, as conductor, in a (mostly) a capella, numerologically themed program of music by six Antipodean composers – three men…

Richard Gill Leads Sydney Chamber Choir In Six Times Three

Richard Gill Leads Sydney Chamber Choir In Six Times Three

The new music director of the Sydney Chamber Choir, Richard Gill, will conduct the choir’s landmark 40th anniversary concert Six Times Three, featuring a unique mix of six Australian a cappella works and early music classics. Richard Gill’s drive is to bring alive the links between a cappella music of the high Renaissance and Impressionists, in tandem with Australian choral…

Nicholas Routley Writes

Nicholas Routley Writes

On the eve of returning to conduct the 40th anniversary concert by the Sydney Chamber Choir, its founding director Nicholas Routley reflects on its growth and distinctive sound:  “In July 1975 four students from the Music Department at the University of Sydney asked me if I would like to form a specialist small choir. I…