When Douglas Lawrence founded the Australian Chamber Choir in 2007, his first venture with the new ensemble was a 20-concert tour of Europe. Stefan Wegener, addressing the Berlin audience after the choir’s performance at the iconic Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniss-Kirche said
There are days when something of heaven seems to touch the earth. Thank you for giving us just one of those such days
The choir received accolades in the German and Danish press before returning to Australia for its inaugural recital. Clive O’Connell’s review in The Age, titled “New Choir Delivers Powerfully” enthused “the ACC’s vital reading of Bach’s Singet dem Herrn: choral work of the top rank, as lucidly articulated as you could desire, the bustling interweaving of eight lines coming across in this revealing acoustic with impressive purpose and intonational fidelity”. Read more reviews.
Between 2007 and 2019, the ACC toured Europe every two years, with a total of 116 engagements in eight countries. Return invitations are testament to the choir’s international standing. Venues have included St Martin-in-the-Fields London, Notre Dame Paris, the Augustinerkirche Vienna, Saint Germain Geneva, the Baltic Philharmonic Hall Gdansk, Trinitatis Copenhagen, Ognissanti Florence, Thomaskirche Leipzig and the cathedrals of Berlin, Bonn, Freiberg, Klagenfurt, Konstanz and Lausanne. See the full list of European engagements.
On its last three European tours, Douglas Lawrence and the singers of the ACC have invited a small group of Friends to travel with them. …read about our 2024 Friends tour.