Australian Chamber Choir
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert
at St Martin-in-the-Fields
Merulo’s Mass Cara la vita mia is on the program for the forthcoming Agatha in Vivaldi’s Venice concerts
Hamilton (Sat 13 April), Geelong (Sun 21 April), Melbourne (Sun 5 May), Macedon (Sat 25 May)
directed by Douglas Lawrence
filmed live
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
June 2018
Film by Filmoo
Sound courtesy of ABC Classic FM
Hear this as part of the ACC’s Transports of Delight
3PM on 2 March Thomson Memorial Church, TERANG
3PM on 3 March Our Lady of Mount Carmel, MIDDLE PARK (MELBOURNE)
Felix Mendelssohn Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen
Filmed live in concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, 16 July, 2019 by Wright Media.
Hear this as part of the ACC’s Transports of Delight 24 February to 3 March
The Australian Chamber Choir received a standing ovation in July 2019 when they performed this in Bonn’s Remigiuskirche. This is the church where Beethoven’s parents were married, where he was baptized, and where he had his first job as an organist at the age of twelve.
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
Original English text by American poet, Richard Henry Stoddard (1856)
Translated into Russian by Aleksey Plescheyev (1877)
Set (originally in Russian) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1878)
Singers are, from left to right:
Front row, Altos: Elizabeth Anderson, Myfanwy McIndoe, Helen Seymour, Zoe Wong, Sopranos: Biddy Healey, Ailsa Webb, Cailin Howarth, Erika Tandiono, Bronwyn Ryrie-Jones, Felicity Young
Back row, Tenors: Robin Czuchnowski, Jacob Lawrence, Andrew Collyer, Thomas Dalton, Basses: Andrew Moffat, Tom Healey, Tom Drent, Simon Gannon. Seated Rhys Boak – organ.
ACC8, directed by Douglas Lawrence AM
Elspeth Bawden – Soprano, Elizabeth Anderson – Organ
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
Sunday 9 December 2018, by Filmoo. Sound by Move Records
This performance is available on the CD
A Baroque Christmas
Hear Elspeth live, singing Allegri’s Miserere
as part of the ACC Sistine Chapel program
12–20 August 2023
directed by Douglas Lawrence
This is available on the CD A Baroque Christmas auschoir.org/cds
a cappella arrangement for eight voices by E Anderson
This work was voted number 3 in Top Dozen, the ACC’s survey of favourite unaccompanied choral works in 2022.
live-stream from
Mandeville Hall Toorak
on 28 June 2020
Film and sound by 5stream
Video courtesy of the Australian Digital Concert Hall
Elizabeth Anderson improvises a blues
on the organ of the Spitalkirche in Nördlingen, Germany
Filmed in rehearsal by Douglas Lawrence
First Melbourne performance, Sunday 21 March, 2021
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
with the ACC’s Elizabeth Anderson and Douglas Lawrence, in conversation about the discovery and reconstruction of a Cantata by Agatha, Vivaldi’s orphan protégée. The newly-reconstructed work was premiered by the ACC in five concerts during 2022.
Singers of the ACC are Kieran Macfarlane, Matthew Bennet, Elizabeth Anderson and Amelia Jones,
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed at the Scots’ Church on 15 September, 2021
Produced by Guruh Sukowati
Filmed for the online service at the Scots’ Church, Melbourne
on 2 September 2021, by Guruh Sukowati.
The singers are Kieran Macfarlane, Elizabeth Anderson and Amelia Jones, directed by Douglas Lawrence
filmed live in concert at
St Martin-in-the-Fields
16 July 2019, by Wright Media