Concerts
2026 Season
A delightful program featuring works by female composers such as Lili Boulanger, Amy Beach, and Clara Schumann, along with Bowen’s Fragment of Sappho. Join us for this relaxed concert that has become a favourite of choir and audience alike.
- Saturday, 16 May 2026
- 3.00 pm
- Ashfield Boys High, 117 Liverpool Road Ashfield
Zelenka’s Missa dei Patris & Vivaldi’s Gloria.
Heavenly baroque music awaits you in this concert that celebrates the European Baroque, featuring Vivald’s Goria RV 589, his most familiar and poular piece of sacred music, and the extraordinary Missa Dei Patris by Zelenka, often called the Catholic Bach. Zelenka was a Czech composer at the Royal Saxon court in Dresden and a contemporary of JS Bach.
- Sunday, 9 August 2026
- 3.00 pm
- University of Sydney, Great Hall
C.P.E. Bach’s Magnificat & Handel’s Zadok the Priest, plus additional festive works.
Our 2026 Sydney Sings concert features two brilliant German composers who succeeded at the English Court in London, the great G. F. Handel and Johann Christian Bach, known as ‘London Bach’. CPE BAch’s triumphant Magnificat, first performed in Leipzig, shows Bach’s mastery of both the modern galant style and strict counterpoint, concluding the work with a might choral fugue.
- Saturday, 28 November 2026
- 7:00pm
- St Andrew's Anglican Cathedral
2025 Season Flashback
St John Passion
Join us this Lent for Bach’s monumental St John Passion. This profound and dramatic sacred oratorio depicts Jesus’ last days according to the Gospel of St John as a powerful and bold musical fresco with a deeply compassionate story, masterfully translated into extraordinary, expressive music of intense depth. The work’s vivid storytelling, rich harmonies, and intricate counterpoint make it a cornerstone of Bach’s legacy and a deeply moving experience for both performers and listeners.
- Sunday, 5 April 2025
- 7.00 pm
- St Thomas' Anglican Church, North Sydney
Reverberations...
Franz Lachner’s music pays homage to two of Vienna’s greatest composers: Mozart and Schubert. Lachner wrote his brilliant Requiem for the celebrations of Mozart’s 100th birthday in 1856. It was being lauded as “the most perfect of its kind after Mozart’s Requiem”. Lachner also orchestrated Schubert’s dramatic cantata Mirjams Siegesgesang as a “labour of love” to honour his good friend Schubert after his early death. Lachner’s skillful music, while grounded in its own time, feel at times like late reverberations from the Viennese classical era…
- Sunday, 10 August 2025
- 3.00 pm
- University of Sydney, Great Hall
A Christmas Soiree - SYDNEY SINGS®
Join us on the eve of the 1st of Advent to start the festive season with a musical celebration of Christmas and the joy of choral singing. The centrepiece of this varied Christmas concert will be Saint-Saëns’ lyrical, colourful and richly orchestrated Oratorio de Noël, written in large part when he was just 23 years old. This work will be complemented by smaller works and traditional carols by Debussy and others. Relax and listen to good music from many ages…
- Saturday, 29 November 2025
- 7.00 pm
- St. Thomas' Anglican Church, North Sydney
2024 Season Flashback
The Great Ma(y)tinee
We are opening our 2024 concert season with our Great Ma(y)tinee concert. This relaxed and varied concert celebrates the joy of choral singing and has become a favourite of choir and audience alike. This year’s lively program features the popular Misa Criolla by the Argentine composer Ariel Ramírez that combines the Spanish language with Argentine and Latin dance rhythms. The mass is contrasted with Schubert’s triumphant Mirjams Siegesgesang (Song of Victory), a choral ballad on Israel’s Exodus from Egypt, accompanied by other choral works by Brahms and Schumann. Relax, listen and enjoy exquisite music.
- Sunday, 5 May 2024
- 3.00 pm
- Ashfield Boys' High School
Ultimate Baroque
Our 2024 August concert will transport you to the end of the Baroque era at the Royal courts of Dresden in Saxony and London in England. The opulent Missa Ultima in G minor with brilliant, extended trumpet parts is the Opus ultimum of the 84-yearold Johann Adolf Hasse, who for almost three decades dominated musical life at the Saxon Court of Dresden and was regarded as the musical idol of his era. At the same time, Handel who composed his triumphant Dettingen Te Deum for the Victory at the Battle of Dettingen against the French army in 1743, dominated musical life at the English court.
- Sunday, 11 August 2024
- 3.00 pm
- University of Sydney, Great Hall
SYDNEY SINGS®
For the final concert in our 2024 concert series we welcome our Sydney Sings…® guest choristers to join us for Mendelssohn’s Elijah. The powerful and dramatic masterpiece about the Old Testament prophet Elijah, is the perfect finale for our 2024 concert series. Experience the drama between Elijah and Queen Jezebel, the contest between Baal and God and the vivid imagery of Elijah’s ascent to heaven in a fiery chariot. The work was an instant triumph. While strongly influenced by Bach’s and Handel’s oratorios, its lyricism and use of orchestral and choral colours reflect Mendelssohn‘s own great genius.
- Sunday, 3 November 2024
- 3.00 pm
- University of Sydney, Great Hall
SYDNEY SINGS®
The Creation
We conclude our 2023 concert series with Haydn’s The Creation and welcome our Sydney Sings…® guest choristers to sing with us. This masterwork with its monumental choruses and imaginative arias cemented Haydn’s fame around the world and depicts the creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis and Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is a glorious celebration of the wonders of life. The fusion of exuberance, originality, classical elegance and intellectual power was immediately hailed everywhere and will also touch today’s listeners.
- Sunday, 12 November 2023
- 3.00 pm
- Sydney Town Hall
SYDNEY SINGS®
The Creation
We conclude our 2023 concert series with Haydn’s The Creation and welcome our Sydney Sings…® guest choristers to sing with us. This masterwork with its monumental choruses and imaginative arias cemented Haydn’s fame around the world and depicts the creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis and Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is a glorious celebration of the wonders of life. The fusion of exuberance, originality, classical elegance and intellectual power was immediately hailed everywhere and will also touch today’s listeners.
- Sunday, 12 November 2023
- 3.00 pm
- Sydney Town Hall