This program provides our international audience with a glimpse of what’s happening on Australia’s lively choral scene. From June to August, these works will be part of one-hour-long programs presented in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland.
Broadly standardising responses from Australia’s 2021 census, Australians identify their origins as 57.2% European, 33.7% Australian (including 3.8% Aboriginal) and 17.4% Asian*.
The program could be seen as reflecting Australian society, in that it demonstrates a melting pot of cultural influences – European, Asian and Indigenous. Click here to see a list of European engagements.
PROGRAM
TWO RENAISSANCE MOTETS
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA (1566–1613)
Tu es Petrus
GIOVANNI GABRIELI (1554–1612)
Jubilate Deo
THREE WORKS OF OUR TIME
CHRISTINE MCCOMBE (born in Melbourne 1967)
Power in Stillness
ROBIN C ESTRADA (born in Manila, 1970)
Aire de Nocturno
GORDON KERRY (born in Melbourne, 1961)
Alchemy Text: Shakespeare Sonnet XXXIII
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD (1852–1924)
Magnificat for Double Chorus, Op.164
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
Elegische Gesang
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)
Singet dem Herrn BWV 225