Month: March 2022

2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of England’s finest composers. In a long and productive life, hardly a music genre has been left untouched or failed to be enriched by Vaughan Williams’s work. We will mark this significant milestone with a selection of his finest choral music.

Amelia Wawrzon, soprano
Syrah Torii, mezzo soprano
Ben Glover, tenor
James Emerson, baritone
Ken George, organ
Kristine Mellens, piano
The Geelong Chorale
Allister Cox, conductor

Sunday 15th May at 2:30pm
All Saints Church
Cnr Noble & Talbot Streets, Newtown, Geelong

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The Geelong Chorale are pleased to announce that we are in rehearsal again and will present a feast of singing in three major concerts this year.

Our first concert will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the quintessential English composer of the 20th century. For this concert we will be joined by four soloists to present a selection of some of his finest choral music: grand anthems, partsongs, folksongs, and movements from the Mass in G minor. Sunday 15th May at 2:30pm in All Saints Church, Noble Street.

Having been delayed in making any overseas journey for the past two years, we are delighted that we can finally present “Around the World in Eighty Minutes”: a veritable whistle-stop tour of many countries via the world’s treasury of folksongs. Sunday 10th July at 2:30pm in All Saints Church, Noble Street.

In October we will combine with Music at the Basilica’s Windfire Choir to present the monumental ‘St John Passion” by J.S. Bach. This moving work has rarely, if ever, been performed in Geelong. First-class soloists and orchestra will accompany the combined choir, all conducted by Joseph Hie.