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…
A decade after Nicholas Routley, the founding director of the Sydney Chamber Choir has left the ensemble he created, there is still a powerful nexus between them. Talking about the choir’s upcoming 40th anniversary concert this weekend, which he will conduct, Nicholas Routley muses “I don’t know whether to say ‘we’ or ‘they’ since I…
Sydney Chamber Choir’s up and coming Alumni concert, Creativity + Loss explores the ambiguous relationship between these two opposing concepts – music written in response to grief. Brahms’ German Requiem will be performed in a version arranged by himself for accompaniment by piano duet. Conducted by Nicholas Routley, the programme includes the motet Ave Regina…