Haydn’s Creation with Willoughby Choir
Jun
2
2:00 PM14:00

Haydn’s Creation with Willoughby Choir

I’m looking forward to singing the roles of Gabriel and Eve in Haydn’s extraordinary oratorio, about the beginnings of time (according to the Old Testament). Having just introduced my son to Kronos, Gaia and the Ancient Greek story of the beginning, and the fascinating idea of nothing before the magnitude of the Big Bang, you don’t need to be 9 years old to be fascinated by the beginnings of everything! Just the methods Haydn used for the advent of light under the rules of the Classical Period is worth a ticket.

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Vespers for Mother Earth: Song Company's 40th Anniversary Season
Jun
25
to Feb 25

Vespers for Mother Earth: Song Company's 40th Anniversary Season

2024 year marks a significant milestone as The Song Company celebrates their 40th Anniversary. This program promises to be an unforgettable journey through the world of vocal ensemble music.

Curated by Co-Artistic Directors Amy Moore and Jessica O'Donoghue, this season is dedicated to the exceptional singers in our ensemble and explores the profound connection between music and the natural world.

https://the.song.company/2024-season/

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Sydney Festival with the Bach Akademie Australia
Jan
23
to Jan 24

Sydney Festival with the Bach Akademie Australia

In just a few years, Sydney’s Bach Akademie Australia has established itself as the leading ensemble dedicated to performing the works of JS Bach. Under violinist and founder Madeleine Easton, the ensemble's focus on mastery, authenticity and originality of interpretation makes it the ideal companion for the journey of Bach’s remarkable life, from beginning to end.

Bach’s earliest cantata (his 'Actus Tragicus', circa 1708) is a perfect place to start, an introspective and innovative funeral cantata. In his splendid Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, written a decade later, we hear what is arguably the first ever keyboard concerto ever written. From Bach’s later life in Leipzig, comes his motet 'Lobet den Herrn’, one of his most joyful works, and his cantata 'Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats', a narrative of faith and hope in six captivating movements. Played in intimate, acoustically excellent surroundings, JS Bach: A Life in Music promises spiritual depth, instrumental brilliance and choral splendour.

https://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/bach-akademie-australia

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Hark!
Nov
29
to Dec 2

Hark!

The Song Company Christmas

Start the festive season with well-loved carols and heart-melting harmonies. 
A Christmas concert for the whole family to enjoy together in Sydney and Wollongong.

Wed 29 Nov, 6:00PM Our Lady of Dolours, Chatswood

Thu 30 Nov, 6:00PM St Francis of Assisi, Paddington

Fri 1 Dec, 6:00PM The Garrison Church, Millers Point

Sat 2 Dec, 2:00PM St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Wollongong

Hark! will also be broadcast via the Australian Digital Concert Hall. Details to follow soon! 

Tickets at: https://the.song.company/whats-on/season-2023/hark/

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Oberon Chamber Music Festival
Nov
25
2:00 PM14:00

Oberon Chamber Music Festival


Featuring Susannah Lawergren (soprano), Peter Jenkin (clarinet) and Emily Granger (harp)

Susannah, Peter and Emily will be performing Franz Schubert's glorious Shepherd on the Rock and other works including the tango music of Astor Piazzolla.

For information on the inaugural Oberon Festival, please visit: https://www.oberonchambermusicfestival.com.au/programme/

Tickets at: https://events.humanitix.com/oberon-chamber-music-festival-2023-concert-1

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Bach in the Castle of Heaven
Nov
17
7:00 PM19:00

Bach in the Castle of Heaven

2023 brings us an opportunity to celebrate one of the greatest events in musical history, J.S. Bach’s appointment as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. As a result, a new era in music history began. To celebrate this momentous event, we have chosen 3 of his most celebrated Leipzig cantatas and his jubilant motet ‘Singet dem Herrn’.

For more information, please visit: https://www.bachakademieaustralia.com.au/events/bach-in-the-castle-of-heaven-celebrating-300-years-of-bach-in-leipzig-concert-1

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ACO Total Immersion
Oct
27
to Oct 28

ACO Total Immersion

Total Immersion brings you up close with the ACO, sitting amongst the musicians to hear and feel the music like never before. This brand-new festival piece moves between the ACO’s three state-of-the-art performance spaces at ACO Pier 2/3 – The Neilson, The Studio and the Belgiorno Room. Each venue will offer a unique musical experience featuring members of the ACO and singers from our Walsh Bay Arts Precinct friends The Song Company, performing music from across the centuries.

For more information and tickets, pleae visit: https://www.aco.com.au/whats-on/2023/total-immersion

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Songs from a Strange Land
Oct
7
to Oct 22

Songs from a Strange Land

In the 400th anniversary year of the death of renowned English Renaissance composer William Byrd, The Song Company celebrates Byrd's own music and his legacy that continues to influence contemporary composers such as David Lang, Jeremy Cull, and Pelle Gudmunsen-Holmgreen. Noted early-music specialist Christopher Watson makes his conducting debut with The Song Company in this program of sublime beauty.

Performances in Wollongong, Sydney and Newcastle.

For tickets and more information: https://the.song.company/website/c/0/i/70476538/2023

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Solo Bach Cantatas@ Canowindra Festival
Oct
1
5:00 PM17:00

Solo Bach Cantatas@ Canowindra Festival

For more information, please visit: https://www.baroquefest.org.au/festival-program/2023-5

Amongst all of Bach’s wonderful output, his more than 200 cantatas stand out as one of the greatest musical achievements of the human race. The vast majority of these masterworks are dedicated to the glory of God, but what we are perhaps less aware of is that Bach wrote a small but wonderful collection of cantatas for secular occasions. As few as 20 of these works survive, however they provide a wonderful insight into a composer who approached secular music with the same artistic integrity and demand for quality that we find in his sacred music. We present his much loved Wedding Cantata featuring the Australian soprano Susannah Lawergren, as well as his lesser known but stunning Italian cantata 'Non sa che sia dolore' finally ending with his marvellous satirical comedy about life in Leipzig, the Coffee Cantata.

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Bach a Child of the Stars with Bach Akademie Australia
Sep
22
to Sep 24

Bach a Child of the Stars with Bach Akademie Australia

To truly understand a culture, we must explore its relationship to the land, but also to the skies. The land and sky are as one, forever connected. It is with a spirit of connectivity that we present this program of music inspired by the heavenly body that both J.S. Bach and the First Nations peoples of Australia have seen every day for millennia – the Morning Star. Presenting a beautiful program of music by Bach and other important composers inspired by the heavens, alongside a newly commissioned work by Australian Indigenous composer Troy Russell, inspired by the Morning Star, just as J.S. Bach was centuries ago.

Concerts at the Great Hall, Sydney University, Glenbrook and Our Lady of Dolours, Chatswood.

For more information, please visit: https://www.bachakademieaustralia.com.au/2023-season

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Songs Rosa Mystica
Jun
9
to Jun 14

Songs Rosa Mystica

Our second program Songs of Rosa Mystica, led by Guest Music Director Jack Symonds, is a program of contemporary masterworks for unaccompanied voices. From Elliott Gyger's mighty 1994 work "Ficta", through excepts of Benjamin Britten's "A.M.D.G". and works by Tippett, Saariaho and Symonds himself, The Song Company will challenge your perception of what the human voice is capable. 

Shows in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. For tickets, please visit: https://the.song.company/website/c/0/i/70476538/2023

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Carmina Burana with Willoughby Choir&Orchestra
May
28
2:00 PM14:00

Carmina Burana with Willoughby Choir&Orchestra

Willoughby Symphony Choir celebrates its 50th birthday this year.

From the serene central hymn of Finlandia to the grandeur of the Coronation Anthems, the often jazzy but also sacred nature of Chichester Psalms, and the highly rhythmic, often bawdy and irreverent Carmina Burana, this will be an exciting and uplifting concert of the sacred and profane. One show only at the Chatswood Concourse.

For more information and tickets, please visit: https://www.willoughby.nsw.gov.au/Events/Willoughby-Symphony-Choir-Sacred-Profane

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The Three Marys (Cover:Maria)
May
11
to May 13

The Three Marys (Cover:Maria)

Not one for your strictly SL diaries, but I’m excited nonetheless to be covering the role of Maria in The Three Marys, a wonderful new opera by Andrée Greenwell and librettist Christine Evans at the Sydney Opera House. “Stripped to the raw elements of exile, the ocean, and survival, the women’s voices echo across the ages as people from all backgrounds still undertake desperate ocean journeys in search of refuge.”

For tickets and more information, please visit: https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/events/whats-on/unwrapped/2023/three-marys.html

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Bach at Easter: Missa Brevis
Mar
24
to Mar 26

Bach at Easter: Missa Brevis

Concerts in Paddington and Chatswood, Sydney. For tickets, please visit: https://www.bachakademieaustralia.com.au/events

Easter is one of the most special times of year, offering us an opportunity to both reflect, celebrate, and come together. In Bach Akademie Australia’s first concert of 2023, we focus on Bach’s music for Easter. This incredibly important time of year provided him with compositional opportunities unequaled except for Christmas. We begin with Bach’s ebullient Easter Cantata BWV 66 ‘Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen’, followed by his intimate and tender funeral Motet ‘Komm, Jesu, komm’. To crown our Easter celebration, we will perform Bach’s brilliant ‘Missa Brevis’ in F major, written in the last decade of his life. Intended for Good Friday, and containing only the Kyrie and Gloria, it is one of his 4 short ‘Lutheran Masses’, nonetheless a fabulously virtuosic and substantial work of genius featuring 2 French horns, oboes and full choir, meriting him with the title of one of the greatest who ever lived.

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Songs under the Southern Cross
Mar
11
to Mar 22

Songs under the Southern Cross

Australia’s national vocal ensemble – The Song Company – begins its 2023 season with a breathtaking program of Australian a cappella works by Ross Edwards and Anne Boyd, paired with J.S. Bach’s monumental motet “Jesu, meine Freude”. Led by Guest Director and soprano Amy Moore.

For tickets, please visit:

https://the.song.company/2023-season/c/0/i/70652299/songs-under-southern-cross

Ross Edwards  Southern Cross Chants (2004)
Anne Boyd Revelations of Divine Love (1993)
J.S. Bach Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227

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Sui Generis
Nov
5
7:30 PM19:30

Sui Generis

A high calibre ensemble of musicians and dancers at the pinnacle of their crafts present Sui Generis.

The production is a sensory buffet; a repertoire of captivating contemporary dance performed live by Danza del Arte, in collaboration with celebrated Australian composers Elena Kats-Chernin, Japanese Taikoz percussionist Ryuji Hamada, and award-winning choreographer Paulina Quinteros (and special guest, Susannah Lawergren!)

Seymour Centre, Darlington

https://www.seymourcentre.com/event/sui-generis/

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