Pairings and Odd Couples is a bold exploration of musical contrasts, curated by Guest Director Huw Belling. This eclectic program brings together works from different countries and eras, placing composers in fascinating dialogue. Estonian chant meets Irish modernism, while the premiere of Belling’s Pru Vir offers a fresh response to Guerrero’s Prudentes Virgines.

The program also delves into the timeless versatility of J.S. Bach, highlighting his enduring influence. Spanning centuries, Pairings and Odd Couples ranges from early chant to contemporary compositions by living composers such as Finsterer and Pärt, creating a transcontinental conversation through time. These intriguing juxtapositions reveal the unexpected connections between seemingly disparate musical worlds, offering a compelling reflection on how music bridges cultures and eras.

Love’s Four Seasons invites audiences into the intimate landscape of relationships, tracing the emotional highs and lows of love through the changing seasons. Led by Guest Director Eamonn Dougan (The Sixteen, I Fagiolini, Britten Sinfonia Voices), the ensemble explores the dramatic richness of Italian madrigals, alongside contemporary works that echo the timelessness of love.

From the longing and courtship of Spring with Monteverdi's Sfogava con le stelle and Barbara Strozzi’s Pietosissimo amore, to the passion of Summer with Gesualdo’s Deh, coprite il bel seno, the program journeys through Autumn’s doubt and separation, culminating in Winter's loss and mourning. Featuring composers Strozzi, Monteverdi, Gesualdo, and modern voices Dove, Skempton, and Hughes, Love’s Four Seasons explores shared human experiences of intimate connection.

Our second program of the year, ‘The Class of ’85’ celebrates music of the three great composers born in 1685, Bach, Handel and Scarlatti and features soprano Susannah Lawergren in Bach’s secular cantata BWV 209 and mezzo soprano Hannah Fraser in Domenico Scarlatti’s ‘Salve Regina’.

For more information, please visit https://www.bachakademieaustralia.com.au/2025-season-1

Concert Dates:

Friday 30 May, 7.30 pm: St James’ Church Sydney
Saturday 31 May, 2.30 pm: Our Lady of Dolours Chatswood
Sunday 1 June, 2.30 pm: Bowral Memorial Hall

Journeying to Finisterre is an evocative exploration of pilgrimage, not just across landscapes but deep within the self. Curated by Co-Artistic Director and Soprano Amy Moore, this program delves into the 12th Century Codex Calixtinus and 14th Century Libre Vermell de Montserrat—devotional manuscripts that guided pilgrims both physically and spiritually.

For more information, please visit: the.song.company/2025-season/journeying-to-finisterre/

Newcastle Conservatorium of Music Friday 7 Mar, 6pm  

St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Wollongong Saturday 8 Mar, 3pm 

Wesley Music Centre, Canberra Sunday 9 Mar, 3pm

St Philip's Church, Sydney Saturday 15 Mar, 2pm&7pm    

Blackheath Uniting Church Sunday 16 Mar, 2:30pm 

For tickets, please visit: https://www.bachakademieaustralia.com.au/events

Susannah will join an 8-voiced semi-chorus for Opera Australia in Brett Dean’s Hamlet, after first performing it for the Adelaide Festival in 2018.

Tickets: https://opera.org.au/productions/hamlet-sydney/

Poulenc’s GORGEOUS Gloria, with soprano soloist Susannah Lawergren, directed by Amy Moore.

For tickets: https://phoenixchoir.org.au/2022/07/30/our-next-concert-2/

For tickets and more information, please visit: https://www.bachakademieaustralia.com.au/events

Song Company’s first programme, guest directed by Jane Sheldon. For more information, please visit: https://the.song.company/whats-on/

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

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/

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

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

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

Details TBC