CONCERTS IN 2026 

Mozart: REQUIEM

with  Bendigo Chorale

Conductor: Elena Varsharvskya
Soloists: Lisa Robinson – soprano; Chloe James – mezzo; 
Nicholas Sheppard – tenor; Christian Smith – bass
Organ: Hugh Fullarton

Founded in 1946 as the City of Caulfield Philharmonic Choir, this year the Glen Eira City Choir celebrates 80 years of striving for choral excellence. We will celebrate this significant moment in the choir’s history with a performance of Mozart’s Requiem 270 years after the composer’s birth (27 January 1756).

  • ‘Sancta Maria’ from Litaniae Lauretanae K. 195 (1774)
  • ‘Laudate Dominum’ from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore K. 339 (1780)
  • Requiem in D Minor K. 626 (composed by Mozart between October- 5 December 1791, with additions by Franz Xaver Süssmayr and Joseph Eybler).

Saturday 23 May 2026 – 2.30pm
St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral,  BENDIGO

Saturday 30 May 2026  – 2.30pm
St Andrew’s Anglican Church, 228 New Street BRIGHTON

Celebrating Christmas
with Choral Studio Harmony Children’s Choir
Saturday 5 December 2026 – 2.30pm

St Andrew’s Anglican Church
228 New St Brighton 3186 Get directions
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Past Concerts

PROGRAM

  • CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS WITH MUSIC FROM AMERICA with Choral Studio Harmony Children’s Choir

  • Come on a journey with us through the years with music from the American continent – from traditional African American spirituals to Gershwin, Whitacre, Gjeilo, and Gilpin …and of course in the lead-up to Christmas join us in singing some well-known carols!

Read the full program here: 2025-11 FINAL GECC Concert Program

PROGRAM

  • MUSIC FROM THE BRITISH ISLES with Bendigo Chorale
  • Come with us on a journey from the Renaissance until now  –
    Parry, Elgar, Britten, Rutter, Jenkins, and more!

Read the full program here: Music from the British Isles Program Final Jun14 2025

PROGRAM

  • A CEREMONY OF CAROLS – a dramatic concert work with medieval texts and poems set to music which ranges from plainsong to lyrical songs set around the Christmas story.
  • Traditional Christmas songs … The three Kings (Cornelius) , Shepherds’ farewell, (Berlioz).
  • Christmas carols with the audience … Hark, the herald angels sing, Away in a manger and O come all ye faithful.

Read the full program here: Program – A Ceremony of Carols 7 December 2024

PROGRAM

  • Mozart: Laudate Dominum
  • Mozart: Alleluia
  • JENKINS: REQUIEM
‘Karl Jenkins’ Requiem sets the traditional Latin text of the Requiem mass, …interspersed with haiku “death” poems (sung in Japanese) whose delicate, epigrammatic texts provide a peaceful commentary on the liturgical words. The result is a deeply moving expression of spirituality, whose musical tying together of different cultures provides a link that is highly appropriate to the modern world.’  (Boosey & Hawkes)

Listen to the choir in rehearsal here and  here 

Read the full program here: Program Karl Jenkins Requiem 22 June 2024

 

PROGRAM

  • Silent Night
  • Bach: Jesu, joy of man’s desiring
  • Mary Marsh: Baby’s born in Bethlehem
  • Langlais: C’etait a l’heure du minuit
  • Rutter: Candlelight Carol &  Gaelic Blessing
  • Four Australian Carols
  • plus join in singing some well-known carols!

Read the full program here: Program Christmas Concert 9 December 2023

PROGRAM

  • Gershwin: BIRTH OF THE BLUES, I got rhythm, Porgy and Bess medley
  • Traditional: Sweet and Low, Rock-a my soul, Rose of Tralee, Ev’ry time I feel the spirit, Home on the range
  • Schumann Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), nos 1-7

Read the full program here: Program Birth of the Blues 28 October 2023

PROGRAM

  • Joseph Haydn: MISSA BREVIS SANCTI JOANNIS DE DEO
  • Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms, No 2
  • John Rutter: Gaelic Blessing
  • Josef Rheinberger: STABAT MATER

Read full program here: Program – Missa Brevis & Stabat Mater 27 May 2023

PROGRAM

  • America – Bernstein
  • Go down Moses – Hayes
  • Canto alla Communione and C’etait a l’heure deminuit – Langlais  
  • Cantique de Jean Racine  – Fauré
  • Ave Maria – Bach/Gounod
  • Ave Verum – Mozart
  • A red, red rose – Mulholland
  • excerpts from Gloria – Vivaldi
  • favourites from The Sound of Music – Rodgers & Hammerstein 

Read the full program here: Program – A Palette of Sound 22 October 2022

PROGRAM

  • For the beauty of the earth and The Lord bless you and keep you  (Rutter)
  • Pie Jesu (Lloyd Webber)
  • Cantique de Jean Racine (Fauré)
  • GLORIA in D MAJOR (RV 589) – Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Read the full program here: Program Vivaldi’s Gloria 5 June 2022

Glen Eira City Choir 2026