Number A4 on the ACC’s Top Ten shortlist
Text by Bill Neidjie OAM
Sacred, from ‘Kakadu Man’
by Tom Henry
Australian Chamber Choir
directed by Douglas Lawrence
filmed live in concert
at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
16 July 2019
Video by Wright Medea
Post production by Filmoo
Number 45 on the ACC’s Top Ten shortlist
Text and music by Maurice Ravel
filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel
24 June 2018
Video by Filmoo
Sound courtesy of ABC Classic FM
Text by Mark Tredinnick
Soprano – Amelia Jones
Australian Chamber Choir
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Cantate Domino
by Claudio Monteverdi
filmed live in concert
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park,
November 2014
by Wallace Young
Last month, two of our ACC singers won prizes in the Bovicelli international singing competition. Both are singing with us in this excerpt from a 2014 concert. Erika Tandiono is third from the right in the front row. Jacob Lawrence is fourth from the right in the back row.
Number 14 on the ACC’s Top Ten shortlist
An extract from a live-streamed concert
A C C 8 promotional video
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Sunday 28 June 2020
Sound and Video by 5stream
Number 17 on the ACC’s Top Ten shortlist
Soloists
Elizabeth Lieschke, Hannah Spracklan-Holl, Tanum Shipp, Lucien Fischer
Congratulations to Jacob Lawrence, the winner of the inaugural Schloß Weißenbrunn international singing competition (3 June, 2020), this year focussing on the music of Giovanni Bovicelli. The prize pool of Eu 9,500 was shared between six prize-winners. The competition attracted 96 competitors from 25 countries. Jacob sang with the ACC from 2009 until 2016, when he left to study Early Music at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland. We met up with Jacob in Bruges in July 2019, where he surprised the ACC singers and Friends group with a private recital.
Congratulations to Erika Tandiono on winning the ‘Young Talent Award’, one of six prestigious prizes in the inaugural Schloß Weißenbrunn international singing competition (3 June, 2020). Erika sang in the ACC from 2011 until 2018, when she began a Masters Degree in Early Music at the University of the Arts in Bremen, Germany. Erika sang with us again in July 2019 in a performance at the Michaeliskirche in Hamburg.
Sung by Amelia Jones, Lucas Wilson-Richter and Lucien Fischer
from Three Songs of Charles D’Orléans
by Claude Debussy
Number 17 on the ACC’s Top Ten shortlist
Dieu! Qu’il la fait bon regarder
Filmed live at
at St Martin-in-the-Fields, 16 July, 2019
by Wright Media, UK.
Post-production by Filmoo
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.