Sydney Chamber Choir premieres Yezerski’s Kaddish Avelim

Sydney Chamber Choir premieres Yezerski’s Kaddish Avelim

  Over the years, the Sydney Chamber Choir has garnered a reputation for its sophisticated performances of the best in both established and emerging choral music. Musical Director Paul Stanhope has also extended the concept of ‘classical’ choral performances and pioneered programmes of music that crosses faiths and underscores similarities rather than differences in beliefs. The ultimate question of this aesthetic is  whether religion and music can…

St John Passion – Sydney Chamber Choir and the Adelaide Chamber Singers collaborate

St John Passion – Sydney Chamber Choir and the Adelaide Chamber Singers collaborate

The St John Passion BWV 245 was Johann Sebastian Bach’s first and is his most oft performed passion. It’s a repository of the best of Baroque writing, replete with choruses and da capo arias, recitatives, tutti and small group (concertino) sections. It contains writing and orchestration that makes Baroque music able to fulfil the twin…

JS Bach in the 21st century – the sydney chamber choir

JS Bach in the 21st century – the sydney chamber choir

“An opportunity to shake hands across the centuries”. So says conductor Jonathan Grieves-Smith, who will be travelling from Melbourne to conduct the Sydney Chamber Choir in their concert “Bach to the Future” this weekend.  Anchored by three of JS Bach’s immortal motets (“Komm, Jesu, komm”, “ Singet dem herrn ein neues lied” , and “Lobet…