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Premiere, filmed live in concert at Palazzo Pisani, Venice, 16 July 2024
Reconstruction by Elizabeth Anderson
Australian Chamber Choir, Kate McBride and Katherine Lieschke – Sopranos
with the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello String Ensemble
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Buy your tickets now for Agatha’s Cantata, Vivaldi’s Gloria
in DUNKELD on 5 September and in MELBOURNE on 12 September
Cameras – Bruce Inglis and Rebecca Lena; Sound – Simone Corelli; Production/editing, Rebecca Lena
Premiere, filmed live in concert at Palazzo Pisani, Venice, 16 July 2024
Reconstruction by Elizabeth Anderson
Australian Chamber Choir, Kate McBride – Soprano
with the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello String Ensemble
directed by Douglas Lawrence
A documentary, entitled Agatha’s Story, coming to SBS TV on 11 August 2026, tells of the discovery and reconstruction of this work – the only surviving composition by an orphan of the Ospedale della Pietà – and the ACC’s premiere performances of it.
Cameras – Bruce Inglis and Rebecca Lena; Sound – Simone Corelli; Production/editing, Rebecca Lena
A C C 8 directed by Douglas Lawrence
Book your seat now to see this live
as part of Great Romantic Voices
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
Sunday 21 June at 3PM
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
See this live as part of the ACC’s Great Romantic Voices in Dunkeld on Saturday 13 June or in Middle Park on Sunday 21 June, or watch on Australian Digital Concert Hall.
In July 2024, the Australian Chamber Choir gave eleven performances in Europe. This performance was presented by the Swiss international festival known as ‘Ceresio Estate’, a series of summer concerts in churches around Lake Lugano. European Audiences were fascinated by this new work by Christine McCombe.
Power in Stillness was commissioned by the ACC, and premiered in 2022. In writing this work, Christine was inspired by the concept of Dadirri. Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann, artist, tribal elder and Principal of St Francis Xavier School, Daly River in Australia’s far north, explains that the word, from the Ngan’gikurunggurr language, describes “deep listening and silent awareness”.
Christine McCombe’s Power in Stillness is structured to focus the audience’s attention on the silences within the music. The work features on the ACC’s 2024 CD release, Gold.
Agnus Dei II (excerpt), from the Missa Aeterna Christi Munera, by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Recorded live in concert by Move Records, 24 November, 2019
This work appears on the ACC’s Keys to Heaven CD
This work features in our forthcoming Baroque Christmas program
This work can also be found on our Baroque Christmas CD
Henry Handel Richardson (1870–1946). Famous for her novel The Getting of Wisdom, Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson was born in Melbourne in 1870. During and after her period of study at the Leipzig Conservatory of Music, she was a prolific composer. This work sets a poem by the Massachusetts-based Louise Imogen Guiney.
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
by Filmoo, Sunday 9 December 2018. Sound by Move Records
This cheeky piece by Praetorius features in our Baroque Christmas program and on the CD of the same name.
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Australian Chamber Choir
Directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert, 9 December 2018
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
by Filmoo. Sound by Move records
Image: Fra Angelico, Nativity (1440-41), fresco, St Mark’s Monastery, Florence
Words and melody attributed to Martin Luther
Harmonised by Adam Gumpelzhaimer
Directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
by Filmoo on Sunday 9 December 2018. Sound by Move records
Australian Chamber Choir
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert
December, 2018
by Filmoo
Directed by Douglas Lawrence
This lively work appears on the ACC’s A Baroque Christmas CD and is featured in the Baroque Christmas 2025 concert, accessible via Australian Digital Concert Hall.
Australian Chamber Choir directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
by Filmoo, 9 December 2018
Sound by Move Records
In dulci jubilo nun singet und seid froh!
In sweet rejoicing now sing and be glad!
Australian Chamber Choir directed by Douglas Lawrence
Anonymous melody,
harmonised by JS Bach (Verses 1 and 4) and Johann Walter (verses 2 and 3)
This work will be performed as the first work on the Baroque Christmas 2025 program, in Dunkeld, Macedon, Middle Park (Melbourne) and Terang