Sydney Chamber Choir opens its 2017 concert series with a voyage through the deeply moving music of German Romanticism selected by young guest conductor, Sam Allchurch, whom conductor, music educator and Music Director of the Sydney Chamber Choir, Richard Gill chose, to conduct and program its first concert for 2017. The rich beauty of German…
Nelson Mass Sydney Chamber Choir/ Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra/ Richard Gill City Recital Hall, October 1, 2016 From Dreaming to Distress, the Sydney Chamber Choir performed masses themed around these diametrically opposed ideas in their concert last weekend. Conducted by Richard Gill AO, the choir was joined by the newly re-branded Australian Romantic and…
This weekend, the Sydney Chamber Choir directed by Richard Gill will perform Ross Edwards’ Missa Alchera (Mass of the Dreaming). Written in 2009 for 8 part SATB chorus this is a Sydney premiere for the mass. Ross Edwards explains in his own words, his inspiration behind the mass and the creative process by which he composed…