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Anna Dowsley and Andrew Goodwin Star at Coriole Music Festival
Two of the Grads’ favourite soloists, Anna Dowsley (mezzo) and Andrew Goodwin (tenor) recently played starring roles at the annual Coriole Music Festival in McLaren Vale, South Australia. Anthony Steel, who has directed a number of Adelaide Festivals, reprised his … Continue reading
Concert report – Die Schöpfung 4th December
For the final performance of its 2016 subscription series, the Sydney University Graduate Choir and orchestra, conducted by Music Director, Christopher Bowen, gave a Great Hall performance of Joseph Haydn’s Die Schöpfung (The Creation). Three outstanding soloists were engaged: Penelope … Continue reading
Grads to perform The Creation by Joseph Haydn
After the high of singing Messiah with a massed choir in the Sydney Town Hall on 13 November, the Choir will be returning to its usual performance space, the Great Hall of the University of Sydney, to perform The Creation … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Tamburini, Andrew Goodwin, Creation, John Bowan, Joseph Haydn, Penelope Mills
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SYDNEY SINGS MESSIAH 2016
On 13 November, the Choir organised its seventh Sydney Sings concert, a massed choir performance of Handel’s Messiah in the Sydney Town Hall, under the title, ‘Sydney Sings Messiah’ with support from the City of Sydney This was the fourth … Continue reading
Handel’s Messiah – An Interview with Christopher Bowen
It’s easy to imagine performing Handel’s Messiah as a routine venture. After all, nearly all of the 450 choristers will have sung it before, most of them many times. The orchestral players are professional musicians with impeccable credentials – SSO, … Continue reading
Ten Years of Grads’ Recordings
This year marks ten years since SUGC began to record its concerts. As the then President, clearly a very wise person, said in reporting to the 2005 AGM: These recordings will serve as important documents for the Choir as an … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Knight, Andrew Finden, Andrew Goodwin, AWR, Belinda Montgomery, Bernadette Fisher, Celeste Lazarenko, Corkery, Elijah, Greg Ghavalas, Henry Choo, Jenny Duck-Chong, John Bowan, Morgan Pearse, recording, Richard Butler, Simon Lobelson, Stuart Haycock, Verdi
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An Australian War Requiem – meditating on conflict and loss
August 2014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1—the ‘war to end all wars’—a conflict which saw Australia first fight under its own flag, lose 60,000 to death and more than a hundred thousand to injury, and … Continue reading
Grads Soloists Star in Pinchgut Production
Pinchgut Opera’s December production of Cavalli’s Giasone, a Venetian opera dating from 1649, loosely based on the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts, stars three young soloists, who have in recent years sung with the Choir: – Celeste Lazarenko … Continue reading
News from Andrew Goodwin
No soloist has excited the Choir more in recent years than Andrew Goodwin, who sang the tenor roles in our performances of Mendelssohn’s Die Erste Walpurgisnacht in May 2011 and Paulus in May 2012. Members may be interested in Andrew’s … Continue reading
Grads Celebrate Sixtieth Birthday in Style with Mendelssohn’s Paulus
2011 was a great year for the Choir, with three outstanding major concerts. On Sunday, 6 May, we began our 2012 season on a brilliant note with a rousing performance of Mendelssohn’s rarely performed masterpiece, Paulus. With this concert, we … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Knight, Andrew Goodwin, Celeste Lazarenko, Choir history, Christopher Bowen, John Bowan, Marie Bashir
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