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Concerts 2024

Karl Jenkins Requiem

Saturday 22 June Brighton*
Saturday 29 June Bendigo

Christmas Concert

Saturday 7 December Brighton*

*St Andrew’s Church Brighton 

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Hear the choir singing with Bendigo Chorale in June 2023 here

Past Concerts

Christmas Concert

Saturday 9 December 2023
St Andrew’s, Brighton

Silent Night, arr. Elena Varsharvskya
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
Rutter: Gaelic Blessing
Four Australian Carols:
   The three drovers
   Carol of the birds
   The silver stars are in the sky
Christmas Day (The North Wind)
plus join in singing some well-known carols!

BIRTH OF THE BLUES

with the
Choral Studio Harmony Children’s Choir
Saturday 28 October 2023
Glen Eira City Auditorium

 

 

 

 

 

PROGRAM
Gershwin            I got rhythm
Trad:                    Sweet and Low
Trad:                    Rock-a my soul
Trad:                    Rose of Tralee                  Soloist: Annie Sweeney
Trad:                    Ev’ry time I feel the spirit Soloist:   John Dunham
Trad:                    Home on the range         Saxophone: Erik Poliak
Gershwin:           Birth  of the Blues            Soloists: Annie Sweeney
                                   Adrian Mill, Sam Bateman, Helen Cliffe, Betty Spencer
Piano Solo:         Berta Brozgul:  Schumann Kinderszenen
                                (Scenes from Childhood), nos 1-7
Choral Studio Harmony Childrens’ Choir:
Pakhmutova      Ding-Dong
Gilpin                     Whisper
Lawrence            Listen to the rain
Combined choir:
Gershwin:           Porgy and Bess. Soloist (Summertime):
                               Annie Sweeney; Soloists: Adrian Mill, Helen Cliffe,
                              Alex Hovey, Barbara Overbury

Conductor: Elena Varshavskaya
Soloist and accompanist: Berta Brozgul

Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo – Joseph Haydn and Stabat Mater – Josef Rheinberger

Glen Eira City Choir with the Bendigo Chorale
Saturday 27 May 2023 – St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Brighton
Saturday 3 June 2023 – St Paul’s Cathedral – Bendigo

Joseph Haydn:       Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms, No 2 
John Rutter:           Gaelic Blessing
Josef Rheinberger:  Stabat Mater

Conductor:     Elena Varsharvskaya
Organist:        Hugh Fullarton
Accompanist: Rosa Hwang
Soloists:         Kate Amos (Brighton), Alison Apostolpu (Bendigo), Erik Poliak

A Palette of Sound

with the Choral Studio Harmony Children’s Choir
Saturday 22 October 2022
Glen Eira City Council Auditorium
 
 
Program included: America – Bernstein   *   Go down Moses – Hayes   *   Canto alla Communione   *   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   *   and more

Vivaldi’s Gloria

Glen Eira City Choir with the Bendigo Chorale
Sunday 5 June 2022 – St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Brighton
Saturday 18 June 2022 – St Paul’s Cathedral – Bendigo
Program included:  For the beauty of the earth  (Rutter),  Pie Jesu (Lloyd Webber), Cantique de Jean Racine  (Fauré), The Ground (Gjeilo),  The Lord bless you and keep you  (Rutter) and Gloria in D major (RV 589) – Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Conductor:     Elena Varsharvskaya
Organist:         Christopher Cook
Soprano:         Lisa Ann Robinson
Mezzo:            Kerrie Bolton
Glen Eira City Choir 2022