Season 2010
25th Anniversary
2010 is a very special year for Adelaide Chamber Singers – it’s our 25th birthday!
For a quarter of a century, Adelaide Chamber Singers has enjoyed presenting innovative and passionate performances to Adelaide audiences. Over the past 25 years we have developed, a rich repertoire of inspired choral music and have been privileged and proud to represent Adelaide to the world: through six international concert tours; seven CD recordings (including two award–winning CDs); the “2006 Choir of the World at Kathaumixw” award; major performances at several international festivals and choral symposia; long–standing and highly successful partnerships with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and the Adelaide Festival; and several world premières of new music.
It is with great pleasure and pride that we invite you to join us for our 25th anniversary concert season. In 2010, we will explore new sounds, new composers and we will also enjoy the company of old friends. From the grandeur of Monteverdi’s famous Vespers of 1610 to the intimacy of Arvo Pärt’s most crystalline miniatures, we know you will be moved, inspired and entertained by some of the greatest music ever composed for chamber choir. Come and share our passion.
Carl Crossin OAM
Artistic Director and Conductor
ADELAIDE CHAMBER SINGERS
Subscription Series Program 1
Monteverdi Vespers
Saturday 27 February, 10pm
Sunday 28 February, 10pm
St. Peter’s Cathedral
North Adelaide
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610)
Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 is one of the great
musical creations of the Baroque. With its virtuosic
solos, declamatory choruses and bright instrumental
colours the work reveals Monteverdi as a
consummate master of both old and new.
In 2010, we celebrate the 400th anniversary of this magnificent music with two performances as part of the Adelaide Festival. Join Adelaide Chamber Singers, Lucinda Moon (Baroque violin), Andrew Byrne (Chitarrone), Australian Baroque Brass, and an ensemble of ‘period instrument’ specialists as we celebrate our own 25th anniversary season amid the resonant arches of St Peter’s Cathedral.
Subscription Information
Subscribe to all 4 subscription concerts for $125/$99 concession, or 3 concerts for $99/$75 concession (Booking fees apply)
Phone Bass Subscriptions on (08) 8400 2258 or download the booking form in pdf format.
Single Tickets
from $45/$35 concession
(Booking fees apply)
Book through BASS 131 246 or online at www.bass.net.au
Subscription Series Program 2
Fire Songs
Friday 18 June, 6:30pm
Saturday 19 June, 6:30pm
St. John’s Church
Halifax Street
- Clare Maclean
- Et Misericordia
- Francisco Guerrero
- Missa Surge Propera
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Il Pastor Fido (Madrigals from Books IV & V)
- Morten Lauridsen
- Six ‘Fire Songs’ on Italian Renaissance Poems
…and more new music of passion, grace and fire!
Let Adelaide Chamber Singers set your emotions ablaze with a feast of secular and sacred music from six centuries of western heritage.
Monteverdi’s nine magnificent books of madrigals are as much a musical landmark as his Vespers of 1610 and we have chosen the very best from just two of them. Inspired by Monteverdi, Lauridsen’s lush Madrigali are a vivid re–invention of some of the most popular madrigal poetry of the Renaissance.
From the sacred realm, the swirling polyphony of Guerrero’s Missa Surge Propera glows with inner devotion, and is every bit as powerful as the passionate love of the madrigals.
Subscription Information
Subscribe to all 4 subscription concerts for $125/$99 concession, or 3 concerts for $99/$75 concession (Booking fees apply)
Phone Bass Subscriptions on (08) 8400 2258 or download the booking form in pdf format.
Single Tickets
$35/$28 concession
(Booking fees apply)
Book through BASS 131 246 or online at www.bass.net.au
Subscription Series Program 3
25th Anniversary Concert
Saturday 30 October 8pm
St. Peter’s Cathedral
North Adelaide
- Thomas Tallis
- Spem in alium (40–part motet)
- Graeme Koehne
- New Work (World Première)
Text by Peter Goldsworthy
…and music by Eric Whitacre, Arvo Pärt, Frank Ferko, Clare McLean and others
Thomas Tallis bore no malice, but gladden’d hearts in forty parts!
Over the past 25 years we’ve been fortunate to sing a lot of wonderful, ‘heart–gladdening’ (and heartwrenching!) music. We’d like to share the best of it with you as we celebrate our 25th anniversary. New and old music by some of our favourite composers will blend seamlessly with a new commissioned work by two of Adelaide’s leading artistic figures – composer Graeme Koehne and poet/novelist Peter Goldsworthy. Join us in one of our favourite venues as the past, present and future all meet in joyous celebration.
Subscription Information
Subscribe to all 4 subscription concerts for $125/$99 concession, or 3 concerts for $99/$75 concession (Booking fees apply)
Phone Bass Subscriptions on (08) 8400 2258 or download the booking form in pdf format.
Single Tickets
$35/$28 concession
(Booking fees apply)
Book through BASS 131 246 or online at www.bass.net.au
Subscription Series Program 4
Messiah
Friday 10 December, 8pm
Saturday 11 December, 8pm
St. Peter’s Cathedral
North Adelaide
- G.F.Handel
- Messiah
- Graham Abbott
- Guest Conductor
We are very excited to have guest conductor Graham Abbott for our Messiah performances in 2010.
Graham Abbott is widely acknowledged as a leading authority on the music of Handel – especially Messiah – so please join us in sharing the drama, power and intimacy of this most popular of oratorios.
Subscription Information
Subscribe to all 4 subscription concerts for $125/$99 concession, or 3 concerts for $99/$75 concession (Booking fees apply)
Phone Bass Subscriptions on (08) 8400 2258 or download the booking form in pdf format.
Single Tickets
$35/$28 concession
(Booking fees apply)
Book through BASS 131 246 or online at www.bass.net.au
Adelaide Chamber Singers reserves the right to vary the content of concert programs without notice.
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