When Raffaella Aleotti published her Sacred Songs in Venice in 1593, she became the first female composer to publish a collection of sacred music.
Ego flos campi – Australian premiere
Australian Chamber Choir directed by Elizabeth Anderson
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park on Sunday 17 August 2025
Watch the full Renaissance Requiem concert (including Gordon Kerry’s new Requiem) via ACCess or Australian Digital Concert Hall.
This time last year, the Australian Chamber Choir gave eleven performances in Europe. This video was filmed at the Swiss international festival known as ‘Ceresio Estate’, a series of summer concerts in churches around Lake Lugano. European Audiences were fascinated by the Australian works on the program, which included this setting of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet XXXIII, by Gordon Kerry.
On their return to Australia, the ACC performed their 2024 international tour program at the Church of the Resurrection in Macedon. You can watch the full concert on ACCess.
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Alchemy is the first track on the 2025 CD release, Gold.
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A new work by Gordon Kerry can be heard in the ACC’s next program: Renaissance Requiem
Heu me Domine, by Vicente Lusitano (?–c.1561)
The ACC gave this work its first Australian performance on 16 June 2019.
Hear this as part of the ACC’s Agatha in Vivaldi’s Venice
3PM on 5 May, The Scots’ Church MELBOURNE
3PM on 13 April, St Andrew’s HAMILTON*
5PM on 21 April, Basilica of St Mary of the Angels GEELONG
3PM on 25 May, Church of the Resurrection MACEDON
Edward Elgar
‘Nimrod’, from the Enigma Variations Op.36
Premiered in London, 19 June, 1899
Arranged by Elizabeth Anderson for 8-part choir
Premiered in Melbourne, 24 June, 2018
ACC8, directed by Douglas Lawrence
Ode to Joy arranged for 8 voices by Elizabeth Anderson
Live-streamed from Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
on 21 March 2021 Video by 5stream
This work was voted number 5 in the ACC’s Top Dozen, a survey of favourite unaccompanied choral works conducted in 2022.
This work was the encore for LUDWIG VAN WE MISSED YOUR BIRTHDAY
Watch the concert ON DEMAND
Text by Mark Tredinnick
Soprano – Amelia Jones
In 2011, we decided to pay ACC singers to perform. This video was created at this turning point in the ACC’s history. Paid concerts have become an important affirmation in the early careers of the young singers who work with us. Ensemble singing as a career path is almost non-existent in Australia. While opera singers train for the loudest and most beautiful solo sound, ensemble singers train for a high degree of musicianship, the ability to sight-read at a high level, produce a good blending sound, to be able to listen and continually adjust to other singers and to sing with absolute rhythmical accuracy. Douglas Lawrence was recognised with an AM in the 2020 Australia Day honours for his role promoting ensemble singing and encouraging young singers.
Number A4 on the ACC’s Top Ten shortlist
Text by Bill Neidjie OAM, set to music by Tom Henry