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
Happy Fathers’ Day!
Josquin des Prez was nicknamed “the father of music”
This Ave Maria by Josquin appears on the ACC’s Baroque Christmas CD
Filmed live in concert
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel,
20 August 2023
Thumbnail: Gerard David, ‘Adoration of the Kings’, oil on panel, c.1555, National Gallery, London
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 work was voted number 10 in Top Dozen, the ACC’s survey of favourite unaccompanied choral works in 2022.
ACC 8
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Hear music by Gibbons as part of the ACC’s Renaissance Requiem program. Learn more
Voces 8, directed by Barnaby Smith
Filmed live at the Voces8 Centre, as part of the Live from London 2024 series.
Hear the ACC performing this work as part of our Renaissance Requiem Program
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
Australian Chamber Choir, directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park,
20 August 2022. Camera and production by 5stream
William Byrd’s Ave verum is part of the ACC’s Renaissance Requiem program. Read more
Choir of the Scots’ Church
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live at the Scots‘ Church
on Sunday 14 June 2025
Video courtesy of the Scots’ Church
This work is part of the ACC’s Renaissance Requiem program. Read more
ACC8, directed by Douglas Lawrence
Extracted, with permission, from a Melbourne Digital Concert Hall live-stream, filmed on 24 May, 2020.
This work is the first piece on the ACC’s Renaissance Requiem program. Read more
ACC8, directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert on 24 May 2020. Video courtesy of Australian Digital Concert Hall
Hear another madrigal by John Dowland as part of the ACC’s Renaissance Requiem program. Read more
Marian Consort
Ego flos campi
by Raffaella Aleotti
Born in Ferrara c.1570; died there c.1646.
Ego flos campi, et lilium convallium.
Sicut lilium inter spinas, sic amica mea inter filias.
Sicut malus inter ligna silvarum, sic dilectus meus inter filios.
I am the flower of the field, the lily of the valley.
Like a lily among thorns, so is my beloved among daughters.
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among sons.
The ACC will sing this beautiful motet in its Australian premiere as part of our Renaissance Requiem program (July 26 to November 8) Read more
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 and will be performed as part of a program celebrating Palestrina’s 500th birthday.
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Australian Chamber Choir
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Soloists: Amelia Jones, Elspeth Bawden, Anish Nair, Lucas Wilson-Richter
BOOK NOW to hear another French chanson – Josquin’s Mille regrets – as part of the ACC’s Palestrina 500 program
Australian Chamber Choir
Directed by Douglas Lawrence
Encore from the Pisani Palace Concert, Venice
Filmed live on 16 July 2024
The Motet, Singet dem Herrn BWV 225 (third movement), by Johann Sebastian Bach
This video was filmed at the Swiss international festival known as ‘Ceresio Estate’, a series of summer concerts in churches around Lake Lugano. This is the second movement from the Motet, Singet dem Herrn.
During 2021, the ACC performed all six of Bach’s Motets in one concert:
Watch the full Bach’s Genius – The Motets concert from 2021 on ACCess.
In July 2024, the Australian Chamber Choir gave eleven performances in Europe. This concert 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, commissioned by the ACC, was premiered in 2022 as part of a Melbourne concert entitled Vivaldi’s Gloria, Agatha’s Cantata, which also premiered a newly-discovered work by Agatha della Pietà (1712–69). You can watch the full concert on ACCess.
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Power in Stillness features on the 2025 CD release, Gold.
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