Images of snow and bleak midwinters at Christmas time are foreign to most Australians - we tend to swelter in the languid heat and humidity instead!

We Welcome Summer is a choral CD that celebrates an Australian Christmas.  Featuring all the choirs of St John's Cathedral, the CD includes arrangements of well-known carols for choir, organ and brass, through to music of Australian composers.

For only $20, the CD will make a fine gift for your friends and family, and of course for yourselves!  The CD is available from the Cathedral Shop, or by phoning 07 3835 2281.

We are currently finalising our 2012 programme, which is shaping up to be another stellar year of fine choral music.  If you, or anyone you know, would be interested in singing with Brisbane Chamber Choir in 2012, then we would be delighted to hear from you! 

The attached flyer gives a sneak preview into our 2012 programme, and details about our rehearsal schedule.  Please forward this on to anyone known to you who may also be interested.

For further information about the Choir or the audition process, please contact our Director, Graeme Morton, at graeme@graememorton.com.au who will be happy to advise you.

Brisbane Chamber Choir ends 2011 in a somewhat romantic mood!

Please join us for a journey through beautiful choral repertoire exploring romantic places and folk, romantic love and loss, and the power of music.  The concert will be performed in “reverse mode” from the West Door of St John’s Cathedral – arguably Brisbane’s best acoustic for choral music, and perfect for the lush Romantic music on the programme! 

The attached flyer is suitable to be emailed and we would greatly appreciate if you would please forward the flyer to all your family and friends whom you know love choral music too.

The concert programme includes -

- Calme des Nuits – Saint-Säens
- Abendlied – Rheinberger
- Australian Up-Country Song – Grainger
- Le pont Mirabeau – Daunais
- Zigeunerlieder (excerpts) – Brahms
- My spirit sang all day – Finzi
- Lay a garland – Pearsall
- Rest – Vaughan Williams
- Music, when soft voices die – Parry

There is sweet music here
8pm, Saturday October 22, 2011

St John’s Cathedral
Ann Street, Brisbane

Adults $25
Concession $15
Tickets available at the door

The Brisbane Chamber Choir are delighted to be involved in the Brisbane Contemporary Church Music Festival, in its capacity as the St John’s Cathedral Chamber Choir.

This five day festival explores the voices of contemporary composers, and the Chamber Choir will be taking part in two very special events, including a premiere concert.

Festival Evensong

7.00pm Wednesday 17 August

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis by American theatre composer Conrad Susa

Introit: Dum medium silentium by Vytautas Miskinis

Anthem: Surrexit Christus by Tarik O’Regan

Preces and Responses by Kenneth Leighton

Sermon: The Very Rev Dr. John Shepherd, Dean of Perth

Postlude: Psalm Prelude set 2 no. 2 "Yea the darkness is no darkness with Thee" Howells

Talking of Angels

(Music for choir and cello)

A concert performed by the Cathedral Chamber Choir.

6.00pm Saturday 20 August

Will Todd – Angel Song II 

Paul Dean – Lux aeterna

Vytautas Miškinis - Dum medium silentium

Paul Stanhope – Lux aeterna

Tarik O’Regan – Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (with cello)

 

INTERVAL

 

Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei

Michael Knopf – Be silent and know

Pablo Casals – O vos omnes

Andrew Schultz – Magnificat

Eleanor Daley – Ave maris stella

 

This concert will be performed from the West Door of the Cathedral - in "reverse mode".  If you've not been to a concert performed in this manner, then you'll be in for a real treat!  The performance is much more intimate in the vast space that is St John's Cathedral, plus the glorious acoustics at the West Door enhances the Choir's sound - which is perfect for the concert programme!

 

The concert features two premieres of works by Brisbane Composers –  Paul Dean (Choir Patron) and Michael Knopf – and we are delighted that they will be attending the concert.  Other highlights include works by Australian composers Paul Stanhope and Andrew Schultz, and Will Todd’s Among Angels, written for choir and two harps, which is very much in the style of his work Angel Song II, the title track of our last CD.

 

Tickets available at the door

Admission $20, Concession $15

 

We look forward to seeing you at these performances, and others during the Brisbane Contemporary Church Music Festival.

2011 has certainly been the year of Chamber Choir babies! 

We are thrilled to welcome 4 future singers to the world this year -

Elspeth Sutherland (soprano) - baby boy born in March.

Samantha Cook (soprano) - baby boy born in April.

Elodie Geertsema (soprano) - baby girl born in August

Belita (alto) and Ben (tenor) Fletcher - baby boy born this week!

Congratulations to all of these former members of Brisbane Chamber Choir and their families!