World-renowned children’s choir Gondwana Voices celebrates its 20th anniversary with just one Sydney performance of Southern Lights, Northern Lights before embarking on a major tour of Northern Europe and Iceland. Led by its founder Lyn Williams OAM and Principal Guest Conductor Mark O’Leary, the choir performs music close to its heart: new Australian works that…
There is a delicious irony to an orchestral concert that begins with unaccompanied choral items. Indeed the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Mozart Requiem: 100 Voices programme was well on its way before we saw the first instruments on stage. It was a night when voices took centre-stage, and those voices comprised school students culled from some…
The extraordinary events of the 1914 Christmas Truce will be commemorated by Sydney Children’s Choir and Gondwana National Choirs directed by Lyn Williams OAM, in Voices of Angels ‘Miracles’ this December. The centenary of this remarkable event that witnessed the silencing of rifles along the Western Front in exchange for seasonal goodwill will be celebrated in evocative performances…