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
Heavenly Baroque
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
Christmas Concert -
Sydney Sings®
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
2024 Season Flashback
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