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CHORISTRY IN CONCERT​
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Choristry Concerts in 2020

3/3/2020

 
 In 2020 Choristry will present 3 programmes under new Musical Director Daniel Brinsmead:

Concert 1: Stories in Song: Folk Music through Space and Time. 3rd May and 9th May. (See Details below) 
Please note that Concert 1 has been postponed until further notice due to the Corona virus emergency
 and will be rescheduled

Concert 2: Choral Winter Warmers. August 16th and 29th

Concert 3: Christmas with Choristry. December 5th

Stories in Song: Folk music through space and time

3/3/2020

 
Performances: 3rd and 9th May 2020
Please note that this concert has been postponed until further notice due to the Corona virus emergency and will be rescheduled
This tuneful and attractive programme presents folk song arrangements from the UK, Ireland, America, Scandinavia, the Balkans and Australia. There will be old favourites (Loch Lomond, Blow the wind southerly, Shenandoah) as well as lesser known pieces (Niska Banja, Suo Gan) and many other interesting arrangements.

Folk music is a wonderful way for a choir to connect and communicate with an audience. Folk songs are timeless. They tell stories of the human condition that remain relevant through the ages. Folk melodies contain beautifully crafted, simple, singable and iconic vocal lines. A testament to the strength of the folk melody is its ability to stand alone as a single vocal line.

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​Two performances:
Sunday 3rd May at Holy Trinity Anglican Church Balaclava and Elwood, 175 – 177 Chapel Street, Balaclava
Saturday 9th May at the Church of all Nations, 180 Palmerston St, Carlton.

TICKETS: Online Presales $30/$20, Door $35/$25
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THE AMERICAS

24/11/2019

 
Choristry’s last concert of 2019 is a wide-ranging exploration of music from the two great American continents.

The music includes works by the well-known composers Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland and Morten Lauridsen, a beautiful piece by the young Canadian Kathleen Allen, music from Central and South America, and some hymns and anthems by past and present composers from the United States.

Join Choristry, director Dr Calvin Bowman and pianist Beth Ylvisaker for an afternoon of exciting, moving and uplifting music.
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WHEN: 2:30 pm Sunday 24 November 2019
WHERE: St Leonard's Uniting Church, 2 Wolseley Grove, Brighton VIC 3186

TICKETS: Online Presales $30/$20, Door $35/$25
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TO EVERY THING THERE IS A SEASON

3/7/2019

 
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​Join Choristry in celebrating the passage of time from morning to dusk and winter through spring, interpreted by the glorious music of Delius, Elgar, Grainger, Byrd, Morley and Australian composers Calvin Bowman and Dan Walker.

What better way to while away a winter afternoon or evening?


WHEN: 2:30 pm Sunday 11 August 2019
WHERE: St Oswald's Anglican Church, 100 High Street, Glen Iris

WHEN: 7:30pm Saturday 17 August 2019
WHERE: St Johns Southgate, 20 City Road, Southbank

TICKETS: Online Presales $30/$20, Door $35/$25

WARUM ? - German choral music of contemplation

4/5/2019

 
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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog   by Caspar David Friedrich c. 1818
Choristry's first two concerts of 2019 are a celebration of German choral music, ranging from simple folk settings and profound sacred masterworks through to the era of early 20th Century cabaret. 

​Programme highlights include Brahms' Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen, J.S. Bach's glorious motet Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, Hugo Distler's beautiful setting of Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, Arvo Pärt's sublime Sieben Magnificat Antiphonen and songs from Kurt Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper (Threepenny Opera).

We look forward to you joining us for a concert of profound, uplifting and occasionally irreverent choral music.


WHEN: 7:30pm Saturday 4 May 2019
WHERE: Collins Street Baptist Church, 174 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

WHEN: 3pm Sunday 12 May 2019
WHERE: St Leonard's Uniting Church, 2 Wolseley Grove, Brighton VIC 3186

TICKETS: Presales $30/$20, Door $35/$25

ASSORTED CLASSICS - 10th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

17/11/2018

 
Image of the artwork for Choristry Choir Melbourne's 10th Anniversary Concert: Assorted Classics
7:30PM SATURDAY 17 NOVEMBER @ ST JOHNS SOUTHGATE

Founded by Trevor Jones in 2008, Choristry was created to perform a diverse range of choral music to the highest standard. Ten years on, the choir is celebrating a decade of fun that has seen them present the best of choral music from the Renaissance to today.


This 10th anniversary concert showcases Choristry’s diversity and versatility in performance, with a programme including Eric Whitacre’s extraordinary Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine, Ēriks Ešenvalds' gorgeous Northern Lights, and Morten Lauridsen’s O Nata Lux, alongside works by past Choristry musical directors Trevor Jones and Dan Walker and current guest director Calvin Bowman. Guest director for August’s highly successful ‘ANÚNA’ concerts, Christine M Storey returns to conduct Michael McGlynn’s rousing ‘Dúlamán’, and Choristry alumni rejoin the choir for a grand finale.

Join us in the gorgeous acoustics of St Johns Southgate for an exciting evening of choral highlights celebrating ten years of music-making in Melbourne.

WHEN: 7:30pm Saturday 17 November 2018
WHERE: St Johns Southgate, 20 City Rd, Southbank VIC 3006
TICKETS: Presales $30/$20, Door $35/$25
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ANÚNA’S CELTIC SPIRIT – The Music of Michael McGlynn

5/8/2018

 
CHURCH OF ALL NATIONS, CARLTON
​and ST LEONARD'S UNITING CHURCH, BRIGHTON

MODERN MASTERPIECES OF EVOCATION, INVOCATION AND ILLUMINATION


“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper”  – WB Yeats

The mesmerising music of Michael McGlynn and ANÚNA, Ireland’s National Choir, is well loved across Europe and the USA. The haunting melodies and texts of depth, along with Michael’s at once lush and ancient harmonic language, cast spells over audiences and singers alike. These amazing compositions weave connections between the ancient vocal traditions and literature of Ireland.

Michael’s compositions have been commissioned and performed by some of the world’s best known ensembles, including Chanticleer, Rajaton, Conspirare, New York Polyphony, Kansas City Chorale and the BBC Singers.

Our Director for this season, Christine M Storey, was fortunate to study with Michael and ANÚNA at the recent ANÚNA International Summer School, and so brings her fresh experience back to share with Australian audiences and Choristry.
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Till I END MY SONG

14/4/2018

 
SACRED HEART CHURCH, CARLTON
​and ST LEONARD'S UNITING CHURCH, BRIGHTON


Choristry’s first concert of 2018 is a celebration of life, rallying against the idea of death, but not necessarily the idea of dying.
Fauré’s divine Requiem is noted for its calm, serene and peaceful outlook, and distills some of the composer’s most beautiful melodies.

Walker’s Last Verses represents the last poems – or intended last poems – from some of English literature’s greatest writers. They are at times resigned, earnest and heartfelt, at others achingly poignant and hauntingly beautiful.

Choristry is delighted to be joined by the Bayside Chamber Orchestra, soprano Gabriella Moxey and baritone Nick Dinopoulos to present these two beautiful works in performances at two stunning venues: Carlton’s Sacred Heart Church and St Leonard’s Uniting Church in Brighton.
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Flight - A Century of Soaring Vocal Music

18/11/2017

 
ST JOHN'S SOUTHGATE

“A man with wings large enough and duly connected, might learn to overcome the resistance of the air” – Leonardo da Vinci
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Join Choristry for our final concert of 2017, a voyage of musical discovery celebrating our fascination with the skies and beyond; from the humblest of insects to the wonder of taking to the air and traveling towards the stars.

Featuring Stanford’s gorgeous The Bluebird, Eric Whitacre’s extraordinary Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine and the heartfelt setting of John Gillespie Magee’s High Flight by Christopher Marshall, as well as music from Norway and Australia.

Let these uplifting and ethereal works transport you skyward.

Image of the poster for Choristry Choir Melbourne's 'Flight' concert

Bach and Beyond

19/8/2017

 
COLLINS ST BAPTIST CHURCH

Bach’s motets are amongst the most mesmerising and perfectly constructed of all his works. Their extraordinary complexity makes colossal demands of anyone who would perform them, and they formed the core repertory Bach expected his pupils to sing and to master.
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Choristry is delighted to present a selection of these choral masterworks, alongside some of the 20th Century’s most exquisite pieces, including Arvo Pärt’s sublime Spiegel Im Spiegel, for cello and piano.

Join us at Collins St Baptist Church for an evening of thrilling and uplifting music, from the composer who set the benchmark to which all who followed would aspire.

Image of the poster for Choristry Choir Melbourne's 'Bach and Beyond' concert
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