Another Chamber Choir year is almost over - but not quite!  In this email you will find information about Cathedral Services next weekend, a CD launch, and auditions for 2012.

This Sunday, we combine with Camerata of St John's to perform JS Bach's Missa Brevis in G as part of the 9:30am Eucharist - what a treat to hear Camerata and Chamber Choir perform such glorious music as part of a special Advent service!

2012 will be another stellar year for Brisbane Chamber Choir.  We will launch our 2012 season in our next newsletter - keep an eye out for it!

Brisbane Chamber Choir thanks you for your support in 2011, and we look forward to your support again in 2012.

Brisbane Chamber Choir has thoroughly enjoyed presenting its 2011 concert series, and trusts you have enjoyed it too.  Our final concert for 2011 is on next Saturday and we would love you to join us!

Thank you for subscribing to the Brisbane Chamber Choir's e-newsletter.  We are very excited about our upcoming performances this month - including a concert performed in "reverse mode" at St John's Cathedral.

This Sunday, Brisbane Chamber Choir performs with our very good friends, The Badinerie Players.  This will be our third collaboration, and will be just as engaging and enjoyable as our previous concerts together!

This year's concert, entitled Baroque to the Modern World, is in many ways, a concert in two halves.

The concert opens with The Badinerie Players, on period instruments, performing 3 Fantasies and a Chaconne, by Henry Purcell.  The main work featured in the concert will be excerpts from La Pellegrina. This lavish spectacle was first performed in Florence in 1589 for the marriage of Ferdinando de' Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany to Christine de Lorraine, and was composed primarily by court composers Christofano Malvezzi and Luca Marenzio.  Four intermedi depicting ancient mythology will be performed, each including a sinfonia and several madrigals.

For the second half, the music of the modern world is performed on modern instruments. Five Hebrew Love Songs by Eric Whitacre, Pater Noster by Peteris Vasks and the glorious sounds of the turn of the century music of Vienna with two songs by Zemlinksy, Geheimnis and Frülingsglaube.

Please join us for an afternoon of simply delightful music that you're sure to enjoy!

Queensland Symphony Orchestra Studios

53 Ferry Road,West End.

Sunday July 24th, 3pm

Adults $30 Concession $20, with tickets available at the door

The first concert of Brisbane Chamber Choir's 2011 programme is this Saturday evening, and is particularly special.  We welcome Dr Richard Marlow, former Director of Music, Trinity College Cambridge who will direct the concert.

The concert will feature choral masterworks, including:

• Howells - Requiem
• Howells - Take Him, Earth for Cherishing
• Victoria - Missa O Magnum Mysterium
• JS Bach - Komm, Jesu, Komm.
• JL Bach - Das ist meine Freude
• and short works by Marlow, O'Regan, Leighton-Jones and Myskinis

Sacred Masterworks

St John's Cathedral, Ann Street, Brisbane

Saturday March 19, 2011, 8pm

Ticket $25, concession $15, available at the door 

We look forward to seeing you there!

Graeme Morton,

Director, Brisbane Chamber Choir