The new music director of the Sydney Chamber Choir, Richard Gill, will conduct the choir’s landmark 40th anniversary concert Six Times Three, featuring a unique mix of six Australian a cappella works and early music classics. Richard Gill’s drive is to bring alive the links between a cappella music of the high Renaissance and Impressionists, in tandem with Australian choral…
On the eve of returning to conduct the 40th anniversary concert by the Sydney Chamber Choir, its founding director Nicholas Routley reflects on its growth and distinctive sound: “In July 1975 four students from the Music Department at the University of Sydney asked me if I would like to form a specialist small choir. I…
orchestra seventeen88 presents its second annual Winter Festival, under the artistic direction of violinist Rachael Beesley. The inaugural festival in 2014 featured a chamber music recital and orchestral concert, creating a superb afternoon for lovers of the classical music repertoire. This year, the intimacy and acoustics of the chapels at both venues enhances the sound of the…