Sydney University Graduate Choir presents the premiere performance in Australia of the remarkable Requiem Mass by François Joseph Gossec (1734-1825). The performance will be conducted by the distinguished music director, Christopher Bowen OAM. The choir will be joined by an outstanding line-up of soloists: Anita Kyle (soprano), Keara Donohoe (Alto), Matthew Reardon (Tenor), and Christopher Richardson…
The Sydney University Graduate Choir’s August concert is dedicated to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, featuring his Mass in C major and the Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II. The Mass reveals an intensely personal and vividly dramatic response to the traditional Mass text. His Cantata clearly breathes the spirit of enlightenment…
The Sydney University Graduate Choir presents Mendelssohn’s first oratorio, the rarely performed St. Paul – or Paulus, sung in the original German. A musical masterpiece, this work was one of the composer’s most often performed during his lifetime. It revived the oratorio as a musical form, and subsequently led to a commission of Mendelssohn’s other great oratorio, Elijah. Telling…