Australian Chamber Choir, directed by Douglas Lawrence
2025 Program
“These programs are designed to make you feel like you’ve just taken a holiday in heaven and come back to earth”, says the ACC’s Manager, Elizabeth Anderson.
A subscription to just two of the concerts listed below gives you subscribers’ benefits and up to 20% discount.
Baroque Christmas 2024
Saturday 7 December at 3PM, Macedon
Sunday 8 Dec at 3PM, OLOMC, Middle Park
Saturday 14 Dec at 3PM, Sterling Place, Dunkeld*
Throughout history, composers have produced some of their liveliest and most engaging work for the Christmas season: Program includes Byrd, Josquin, Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Sweelinck, Bach, Henry Handel Richardson, Michael Easton and David Willcocks.
Elijah
Sat 15 March 2025 at 3PM, Macedon
Sun 6 April 2025 at 3PM, Scots’ Church, Melbourne
Mendelssohn’s great oratorio Op.70, set in the original English, for soloists, choir and orchestra is rarely performed, although many of its movements are well loved, stand alone classics – Lift thine eyes; He watching over Israel slumbers not; Oh rest in the Lord; Oh for the wings of a dove. One hour and forty minutes.
Palestrina 500
Sunday 25 May at 3PM, OLOMC, Middle Park
Saturday 17 May at 3PM, Sterling Place, Dunkeld*
To celebrate Palestrina’s 500th birthday, his well-loved Missa Aeterna Christi Munera is sung alongside lesser known works, sacred and secular. The program encompasses music by his teachers, du Fay and Josquin and his students. The program includes the Miserere by Palestrina’s most famous student, Allegri.
Renaissance Requiem
Sunday 17 August at 3PM, OLOMC, Middle Park
Saturday 26 July at 3PM, Sterling Place, Dunkeld*
Sat 9 Aug, Church of the Resurrection, Macedon
Sun 10 Aug at 3:30PM, St Mary’s Basilica, Geelong
Gordon Kerry’s newly-commissioned requiem, inspired by Tomàs Luis de Victoria’s stunning unaccompanied requiem, takes the form of interpolations between an exquisite array of Renaissance choral music, sacred and secular.
Baroque Christmas 2025
Sunday 7 Dec at 3PM, OLOMC, Middle Park
Sat 29 Nov, Thomson Memorial Church, Terang
Sat 6 Dec, Church of the Resurrection, Macedon
Saturday 13 Dec at 3PM, Sterling Place, Dunkeld*
*Combine a Dunkeld concert with your choice of Stay and Dine Packages at the award-winning Royal Mail Hotel. More at www.auschoir.org/royal-mail dunkeld-concert-packages
Book at www.auschoir.org/buy-tickets or call 0452 531 750.
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