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SAT 8 JUNE, 2PM SUN 9 JUNE, 5PMSYDNEY OPERA HOUSE CONCERT HALL

SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA CHOIRS 2013 SEASON

OPERA’S TRIPLE THREAT

A BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR VERDI, WAGNER & BRITTEN

A COLE PORTER CELEBRATION CONCERT

ARCHITECTURE OF SOUND

MESSIAH

Who doesn’t love a Cole Porter tune? I Get a Kick Out of You, Night and Day - songs like this have stood the test of time to enter the popular repertoire as standards of the American songbook. They evoke a bygone world of luxury, of Upper East Side apartments, cruise liners and decadent cocktail parties...And they continue to fascinate with their witty lyrics, poignant emotions and wonderful melodies.

When sound fills space it’s a visceral experience. You can hear the architecture... See the music... Feel our voices in motion.

We’re eagerly looking forward to giving our first concerts at Carriageworks, in the vast expanse of Bay 17. We’ll be making full use of the space, so don’t expect the choir to stand still and sing in front of you!

After a gap year away from our traditional Christmas performances of Messiah we return to Handel’s masterpiece.

We are inviting you to join our Messiah Choir. The Messiah Choir is open to anyone (no auditions required) and singers begin rehearsing weekly from November up until the three grand performances at the Sydney Opera House in December.

For more information about singing in this event, visit sydneyphilharmonia.com.au

If you don’t want to sing but do want to see Handel’s Messiah, buy a ticket at sydneyphilharmonia.com.au or call 9251 3115

LUMINOUS NIGHTUPCOMING EVENTS WITH SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA, JULY – SEPTEMBER

A perfect musical celebration of mid-winter with performances of beautiful choral music inspired by night, sleep and dreams by Sydney Philharmonia’s youth choir VOX. Program includes music by Morten Lauridsen, Samuel Barber, Ola Gjeilo, Eric Whitacre and Daniel Brinsmead.

VOX Elizabeth Scott Conductor

SAT 3 AUGUST 7PM ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL CRYPT

SUN 4 AUGUST 3PM JOAN SUTHERLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE, PENRITH

Michael Duke saxophone Sydney Philharmonia Symphony Chorus & instrumental ensemble Brett Weymark Conductor

SAT 24 AUGUST 7PM

SUN 25 AUGUST 2PM

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Sydney Philharmonia Festival Chorus & Orchestra Brett Weymark Conductor

THURS 19 SEPTEMBER 8PM

SAT 21 SEPTEMBER 2PM

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

ACT IBENJAMIN BRITTENPeter Grimes, Op.33

ACT IIGIUSEPPE VERDIOtello

INTERVAL

ACT IIIRICHARD WAGNERLohengrinTannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf WartburgDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg

There will be a short pause between Acts I and II

Cheryl Barker sopranoStuart Skelton tenor

Sydney Philharmonia Festival Chorus and OrchestraConductors Brett Weymark Anthony Pasquill

This performance will be recorded for later broadcast by ABC Classic FM.

Approximate durations (minutes): 35, 5 (short pause), 40, 20 (interval), 40

The concert will conclude at approximately 4:30pm on Saturday and 7:30pm on Sunday.OPERA’S TRIPLE THREAT 3

OPERA’S TRIPLE THREATA Birthday Celebration for Verdi, Wagner & Britten

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OPERA’S TRIPLE THREATACT ONE

EDWARD BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913 – 1976)

Peter Grimes, Op.33 (1945)Libretto by Montagu Slater after George Crabbe’s The Borough

Peter Grimes, a fi sherman Stuart SkeltonEllen Orford, a widow, schoolmistress of the Borough Cheryl Barker

PROLOGUE • Interlude I: DawnACT I SCENE 1 • “Oh, hang at open doors” (chorus) • “What harbours shelters peace” (Peter) • Interlude II: Storm SCENE 2 • “Now the Great Bear and Pleiades” (Peter) • “Old Joe has gone fi shing” (chorus)

ACT II • Interlude III: Sunday Morning

ACT III SCENE 1 • “Embroidery in childhood” (Ellen) SCENE 2 • “Now is gossip put on trial” (chorus) • “Peter, we’ve come to take you home” (Ellen, Peter, chorus) • “To those who pass the Borough” (chorus)

World Premiere6 June 1945Sadler’s Wells, LondonEric Crozier, director / Sadler’s Wells Opera / Reginald Goodall, conductor

These performances of Various Extracts from Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten are given by permission of Hal Leonard Australia Pty. Ltd. exclusive agent Boosey and Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd of London

OPERA’S TRIPLE THREAT 5

ACT TWO

GIUSEPPE FORTUNINO FRANCESCO VERDI (1813 – 1901)

Otello (1887)Libretto by Arrigo Boito after William Shakespeare’s Othello

Otello, the Moor, a general in the Venetian army Stuart SkeltonDesdemona, Otello’s wife Cheryl Barker

ACT I SCENE 1 • “Una vela! Una vela! Un vessillo!” (chorus) • “Fuoco di gioia!” (chorus) SCENE 3 • “Gia nella note densa… Venga la morte?” (Otello, Desdemona)

ACT III SCENE 7 • “Viva! Evviva! Viva il Leon di San Marco!” (Otello, Desdemona, chorus)

ACT IV • “Piangea cantando nell’erma landa” (Desdemona) • “Nium mi Tema” (Otello)

World Premiere5 February 1887Teatro alla Scala MilanFranco Faccio, conductor

Francesco Tamagno as Otello, 1887


ACT THREE

WILHELM RICHARD WAGNER (1813 – 1883)

Lohengrin (1850)

Lohengrin Stuart Skelton

ACT III • Prelude SCENE 1 • “Treulich geführt ziehet dahin, wo euch die Liebe bewahr!” (chorus) SCENE 3 • “In fernem Land, unnahbar euren Schritten” (Lohengrin)

World Premiere28 August 1850Staatskapelle WeimarFranz Liszt, conductor

Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg (1845)

Elisabeth, the Landgrave’s niece Cheryl Barker

ACT II SCENE 4 • “Freudig begrüssen wir die Halle” (chorus) SCENE 1 • “Dich, teure Halle” (Elisabeth)

World Premiere19 October 1845Royal Theater, DresdenRichard Wagner, conductor

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868)

Walther von Stolzing, a young knight from Franconia Stuart SkeltonEva, Pogner’s daughter Cheryl Barker

ACT III SCENE 5 • “Silentium! Silentium!” (chorus) • “Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein” (Walther, Eva) • “Ehrt eure deutschen Meister” (chorus)

World Premiere21 June 1868Königliches Hof- und National-Theater, MunichHans von Bülow, conductor

ANTHONY PASQUILL Assistant Chorus Master

A pianist, clarinettist and singer by training, Anthony began his musical education in the choir of Lichfield Cathedral where he was head chorister under the guidance of Andrew Lumsden and graduated with a BMus from Leeds University, UK. During this time he completed

a year abroad at the University of North Texas, studying composition and contemporary clarinet performance. He has just completed his MMus in conducting under the guidance of Imre Palló at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and currently works in the music departments of The King’s School and Wenona Girls School.

Anthony is currently the Assistant Chorus Master of the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Musical Director of Sydney-based chamber choir Bel a cappella. 2012 saw him preparing performances of Rachmaninov’s Vespers, the Australian premiere of Rautavaara’s Missa, Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades and Britten’s St Nicolas with Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Bach’s Jesu Meine Freude, Mahler’s Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen and the Australian premieres of Dyson’s Hierusalem and Vasks’ Missa with Bel a cappella.

Anthony’s engagements in 2012–13 include preparing Sydney Philharmonia Choirs for performances with Eric Whitacre (Light & Gold), David Robertson (Der fl iegende Holländer) and Vladimir Ashkenazy (War Requiem) as well as other concerts with the Sydney Symphony. Recently he was involved in preparing Sydney Philharmonia Choirs for performances of Handel’s Semele and works by Ligeti as part of the 2013 Sydney Festival, both to critical acclaim.

With Bel a cappella he will also be celebrating Britten’s centenary with performances of his Hymn to St Cecilia and Sacred and Profane as well as Gabriel Jackson’s Edinburgh Mass and both secular and sacred works by 20th century composers from Estonia, Latvia, Sweden and Finland.


BRETT WEYMARK Music Director

Brett Weymark studied singing at the University of Sydney and conducting at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Mats Nilsson, John Hopkins, Henryk Pisarek and Patrick Thomas. He continued his conducting studies in England, Europe and America in the late 1990s. During

that period he also performed with Opera Australia, The Song Company and Musica Viva, amongst others, as well as lecturing in the Theatre Department of the University of Western Sydney. He was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001, for services to choral music.

In 2003, Brett Weymark was appointed Musical Director of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, for whom he has conducted in performances of Bach’s St Matthew and St John Passions and Christmas Oratorio, the Requiems of Mozart, Verdi, Durufl é and Fauré, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah and Jephthe, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, The Tempest, Funeral Music for Queen Mary and Ode to St Cecilia, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time and world premiere performances of works by composers such as Elena Kats-Chernin, Peter Sculthorpe and Andrew Schultz. He has also prepared choruses for such noted international conductors as Sir Charles Mackerras, Zubin Mehta, Edo de Waart, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Charles Dutoit and Sir Simon Rattle.

In 2010 Brett Weymark directed the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs in several world premieres to celebrate the choir’s 90th anniversary, toured with the choir to London to appear in the BBC Proms, conducted the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and the contemporary Indigenous ensemble Black Arm Band. Under his direction, the choir was awarded a 2010 Helpmann Award for its part in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex and Symphony of Psalms directed by Peter Sellars and was nominated for a 2010 Limelight Award for its production of Purcell’s King Arthur.

In 2011 he opened the Sydney Philharmonia season with Bach’s St John Passion and conducted the Sydney Symphony as part of the 2011 Sydney Festival in Midsummer Shakespeare with Australian actor John Bell and conducted Die Fledermaus for WAAPA. In 2012 he conducted – in addition to various concerts with Sydney Philharmonia – Symphony in the Domain for the Sydney Festival, a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni for OzOpera and the Australian premiere of Goetz’s The Taming of the Shrew for WAAPA. This year he has conducted the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs in Remember Me and will perform Handel’s Theodora in Canberra as well as returning to WAAPA to conduct a concert of works by French and English composers.


CHERYL BARKER Soprano

Cheryl Barker is particularly noted internationally for her performances of Madama Butterfl y, singing this role for English National Opera, De Vlaamse Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Netherlands Opera and Houston Grand Opera for whom she has also performed Sarah in the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s

The End of the Affair. Other international appearances include Jenifer (A Midsummer Marriage) for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Tatyana (Eugene Onegin) and Adina (L’Elisir d’amore) for Scottish Opera, Oksana (Christmas Eve), Foreign Princess (Rusalka), Governess/Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw), Musetta (La bohème), Donna Elvira, Tosca, Salome and Emilia Marty (The Makropoulos Case) for ENO, the title role in Maria Stuarda (ReisOper); Violetta (Hamburg Statsoper and Deutsche Oper/Berlin); Suor Angelica, Giorgetta, Mimì, Desdemona (Otello) and Liu (Turandot)/De Vlaamse Opera and Katya Kabanova (Welsh National Opera and Geneva).

She appears regularly with Opera Australia, where her roles have included Nedda/I Pagliacci, Countess/Le nozze di Figaro, Mimì in the award-winning Baz Luhrmann production of La bohème, Violetta/La traviata, Donna Elvira/Don Giovanni, Tatyana, Giorgetta, Suor Angelica and Lauretta (Il Trittico) and the title roles in Madama Butterfl y, Tosca, Jen°ufa, Rusalka and Arabella for which she won Green Room and Helpmann awards.

On the concert platform, Cheryl Barker has appeared at many prestigious international venues including London’s Barbican, Royal Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square and with the Halle Orchestra. She has sung in the Edinburgh, Spoleto and Melbourne festivals as well as touring nationally for Musica Viva in 2005 and 2008.

Television, videos and recordings include Puccini Arias and Pure Diva (Melba Recordings), Seduction & Persuasion and Don John of Austria (ABC Classics), La bohème and Madama Butterfl y/Opera Australia, Madama Butterfl y (Chandos), Madama Butterfl y/De Vlaamse Opera (Belgium/Netherlandse Television) and Dyson’s Quo Vadis, Katya Kabanova, The Makropolous Case, Rusalka and Great Operatic Arias (Chandos).

Recent and forthcoming engagements include Desdemona, Emilia Marty, Madama Butterfl y, Manon Lescaut, Marschallin/Der Rosenkavalier, Countess/Capriccio, Marietta/Die tote stadt and Salome for Opera Australia, Tosca and Otello for Opera Queensland, Madama Butterfl y in Paris, Welsh National Opera and Taipei, Emilia Marty in Amsterdam, Opera du Rhin and Strasbourg and Francesca da Rimini in London. She also performs in concert with the SSO, QSO, WASO and TSO. She holds an honorary Doctor of Music conferred by the Victorian College of the Arts where she studied with Dame Joan Hammond. In London she has studied with David Harper.

STUART SKELTON Tenor

Stuart Skelton, winner of two Helpmann Awards and an Olivier Award nominee, is recognised as one of the fi nest heroic tenors of his generation. His repertoire encompasses some of opera’s most challenging roles, from Wagner’s Lohengrin, Parsifal, Rienzi, Siegmund and Erik to Strauss’s Kaiser and Bacchus, Janácek’s Laca, Saint-Saëns’

Samson, Beethoven’s Florestan and Britten’s Peter Grimes.He has been critically-acclaimed for his performances on the leading concert and operatic stages of the world, including Berlin, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Munich, Paris, Vienna, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Sydney, with Orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, LA Philharmonic, London Symphony, St Louis Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, the Radio Symphonies in Hamburg, Munich and Frankfurt, the symphony orchestras of Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne Tasmania and Western Australia and with world-renowned festivals, the BBC Proms and the Edinburgh Festival.He has sung with renowned conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, James Conlon, James Levine, Fabio Luisi, Sir Simon Rattle, Asher Fisch, Lorin Maazel, Sir Charles Mackerras, David Robertson, Donald Runnicles, Michael Tilson-Thomas and Simone Young.Stuart’s recent operatic highlights include Siegmund in Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera; the title roles in Parsifal (ENO, Zurich Opera) and Lohengrin (Semperoper Dresden, Germany); The Drum Major/Wozzeck (Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera); title role/Peter Grimes (Tokyo, BBC Proms, Oviedo, Opera Australia, ENO); Canio/I Pagliacci (West Australian Opera). His concert engagements include Das Lied von der Erde with Berlin Philharmonic (Sir Simon Rattle), Mozarteum Salzburg (Mark Wigglesworth), San Francisco, Chicago, Netherlands Radio, Adelaide and Sydney symphony orchestras; Oedipus Rex (New Zealand International Arts Festival); The Kingdom with the London Symphony (Mark Elder) and Hermann/Pique Dame with the Sydney Symphony (Vladimir Ashkenazy). 2013 sees Stuart perform Siegmund/Die Walküre in Ring Cycles in Paris, Seattle and Melbourne; Parsifal (Zurich Opera); Peter Grimes (London Philharmonic/Jurowski) and Oedipus Rex on tour throughout Europe with the LSO and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.Stuart can be seen and heard on DVD and CD with his numerous recordings, including King Arthur on the BBC/Opus Arte DVD of the world premiere of Isaac Albeniz’s Merlin, his critically-acclaimed and multi award-winning portrayal of Siegmund with the State Opera of South Australia’s Der Ring des Nibelungen under Asher Fisch with Melba Recordings, the world premiere recording of John Foulds’ A World Requiem, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony under Sir Charles Mackerras and Das Lied von der Erde with Michael Tilson-Thomas, Thomas Hampson and the San Francisco Symphony and with the Sydney Symphony under Vladimir Ashkenazy.For further information, visit www.stuartskelton.com

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SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA CHOIRSMusic Director Brett WeymarkAssistant Chorus Masters Anthony Pasquill, Sarah Penicka-Smith, David TaylorRehearsal Pianists Josephine Allan, Michael Curtain, Estella Roche

SOPRANOSRosemary Atkinson Oon Ja Bae Martha Ban Christine Barnes Marie-Lorraine Beasley Jan Begg Claire Bennett Anne Birt Christine Bishop Judith Blayden Lea Bouganim Sue Bowring Louisa shui-Ching Chan Lindy Chapman Sally Charkos Annette Clark Heather Clemens Louise Coster Patricia Cotter Nathalie Crane Shirley Crawford Michelle Crook Wen Dai Helen Dalton Nathalie Deeson Rebecca Diamant Liz Efi nger Grace Famularo Sonya Fernandes Heidi Fisse Nancy Flitcroft Lisa Fogarty Susan Freeman Susan Gandy Ballina Gee Sue Giorgiutti Kathy Gollan Lyudmyla Goncharova Dawn Grayce

Kathryn Green Dallas Griffi n Rachel Harris Sheila Hayward Emesini Hazelden Berit Hurst Alison Julian Prue Kennard Valerie Kingsley-Strack Shinta Kirpalani Davina Knox Adelaide KooAndra Krumins Margaret Lackenby Susan Landreth Stephanie Lang Hannah Leach Bettina Leate Judy Lee Susan Lee Avril Llewellyn Charlotte Lyons Julianne Madden Jennifer Manning Norma McDonald Jocelyn McFarlane Angela Melick Georgina Melick Jane Mezzina Elizabeth Millar Maggie Miller Elizabeth Moore Suzi Morgan Mary Mortimer Gillian Moynihan Helen Murray Joy Nason Mary O’Byrne Elizabeth O’Connor Robyn O’Keefe

Lynne Parrott Janice Peak Fiona Peare Robyn Phillips Therese Pinson Robin Pollock Laurel Reynolds Evawaty Riley Jeanne Robertson Sylvia Romanik Coralee Rose Patricia Row Monique Rueger Helen Sharp Rayner Soothill Wendy Speight Rosalie Stacey Vivienne Strong Lesley Suggett Margaret Symes Maralyn Tannous Susan Thomas Clare Tilbury Margaret Titterton Tanya Walker Margaret Ward-Harvey Catherine Wargent Kathryn Warren Susie Woodhouse Angeline Zaghloul Lisa Zang

ALTOSLouise Bain Sally-Ann Barbera Susan Barrett Gillian Behrens Britta Berger-Meehan Diane Bertelsmeier Jackie Blackledge

Robyn Blainey Liz Blyth Pam Bray Jane Brodribb Diana Burrell Jacqueline Buswell Sophie Caldwell Anna Cartwright Judy Christian Tina Claridge Ruth Cleary Stefanie Collett Jennifer Cook Kate Crook Fran Cunneen June Cunningham Patricia Curotta Virginia Davies Helen Dignan Elizabeth Donati Catherine Dunn Judy Dunstan Gail Edinborough Marianna Elliott Katelyn Ewart Sue-Ellen Fairall Ilona Ferguson Sharon Finn Margaret FisherAngela Foster Jeanette Freeman Marie Gilbert Robyn Gilbert Susan Gordon Diana Gray Sonja Grgurevic Trudy Grice Andrea Haas Lesley Halamek Cynthia Haskell

SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA FESTIVAL CHORUS


Susan Hatherly Patricia Haynes Anne Heritage Katie Hislop Marijke Hol Alison Horan Adele Hudson Michaela Ikin Louise Imray Elaine Jackson Diana Jefferies Joan Jones Fiona Joneshart Beverley Jordan Julie Kalitis Sally Kennedy Tamsin Khan Ana Kharoufeh Saya Koike Isabella Laing Veronica Lambert Gillian Lamberti Peita Laufer Kate Lawson Penny Le Couteur Penelope Lee Heather Lees-Smith Edda Lewis Sara Lewis Carmel Losew Doreen Macfarlane Rosemary Madden Judith Marquardt

Valerie Marteau Susan McCarthy Gwenneth McLaughlin Ruth Mitchell Saidhbhin Mulchrone Gabriele Munro Anne Nguyen Louise Nicholas Kathleen Oakley Catherine O’Grady Tiffany O’Neill Fiona Ormsby Roisin Pengelly Joanne Perry Susan Ping Kee Mary-Ann Pontifex Marilyn Ramage Penelope Rodger Felicity Saunders Marlyn Sciberras Sandra Scott Sandra Simpson Daphne Sivasubramaniam Deborah Smith Naseema Sparks Ruth Still Carmel Summers Susan Tooker Sheila van Holst Kay Vernon Kylie Watt Jeanette Webb Barbara Weissfl og

Anne Wilcox Christina Wilcox Alyson Wills Polly Wiltshire Theresa Wisniewski Susan Wittenoom Louisa Wright Susan Wright Roswitha Wulff Yoshika Yamanaka Anna Young

TENORSMark Ashdown Andrew Birt James Blomfi eld Stephen Burke Daniel Comarmond Jenny Edwards Kate Foot Cecil Grivas Bronwyn Harvey Alistair Johnston Ayse Kiran John O’Brien Tim O’Reilly Christinne Patton Eric Portenga Ken Ryan Barbara Sinclair Clive Sinclair-Smith Rhonda Stapleton Margaretha Wienekamp

BASSESEli Bailey John Baird Stuart Burrell Myron Byrne Eric Chai Philip Chambers Stefan Couani Donald Denoon Leo Dent Gregory Don Bill Dowsley Jim Gidlow Warren Gough Paul Goyen John Hardy David Hazelden John Hyde Ian Jurd Graham Lee Brian Levitan David McDonald Frank Monagle Robert Osmond Alister Robinson Andrew Rodger David Ross Russell Stapleton Warren Stoyles Justin Thomson Michael Walpole

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Sydney Philharmonia Choirs would like to give special thanks to The Arts Unit, NSW Department of Education and Communities.

Louise Barkl Leader, Arts Unit and Initiatives, The Arts UnitStephen Williams Student Music Programs Offi cer 5 – 12, Conducting Coordinator, The Arts UnitElizabeth Scott Music Performance Programs Offi cer, The Arts UnitScott Ryan Music Supp ort Offi cer (5 – 12), The Arts Unit


SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRAConcertmaster Fiona Ziegler

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VIOLIN 1Fiona Ziegler*Matthew BruceHeather BurnleyMaria LindsayMartyn HentschelNarine MelconianJonathan HendlSkye McIntoshHeloise MeiselJulia Broom

VIOLIN 2Michele O’Young*Myee ClohessyJoanne WaplesDominique GalleryDominique GuerboisEsmeralda TintnerDan RussellDave Curro

VIOLAValmai Coggins*Jacqui CroninGeorgina Price

Stefan DuweMarianne YeomansTara HashambhoyFaith Austin

CELLOJo Costantino*Christopher Lockhart- SmithOliver MillerDaniel MorrisBronwen Whyatt

DOUBLE BASSHelen Cosgrove*Jennifer DrueryMardi ChillingworthOliver Simpson

FLUTEJames Fortune*Sarah BroughtonLamorna Nightingale* Piccolo

OBOEAngus Lindsay*Matthew BubbAlex Fontaine* Cor Anglais

CLARINETRichard Rourke*Craig DriscollJohn Lewis* Bass Clarinet

BASSOONTony Grimm*Ben HoadleyGillian Smith* Contrabassoon

HORNJames McCrow*Julia ZeltzerKaty Grisdale*Nicole Dixon

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Sam Thompson†Holly Luke-Paddon†Victor Rosse†Alfi e Carslake†Panayioti Karamanos†Emma Gibson†

TROMBONENigel Crocker*Roslyn JorgensenBrett Page* Bass Trombone

TUBAMatthew Walmsley*

TIMPANIRichard Gleeson*

PERCUSSIONChiron Meller*Joshua HillKevin Man

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VICE-REGAL PATRONHer Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO Governor of NSWVICE PATRONSLauris Elms AM OBE Hon D. Mus (Syd)Sir David Willcocks CBE MCBOARDSara Watts (Chairman)Jacqui Wilkins (President) | Vesna Hatezic (Vice-President)Andrea Hoole (Treasurer)Simon Boileau, Ruth Edenborough, Laura Keller, Hannah Mason, Shane Perdue, Ruth Wetmore

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SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA CHOIRS – WHO WE AREGeneral Manager Atul JoshiMusic Director Brett WeymarkMusic Director: VOX Elizabeth ScottAssistant Chorus Master Anthony PasquillOperations Manager Jenna MathieChoirs Manager Mark RobinsonDevelopment Manager Lisa ParragiAdministration Assistant Thomas ChiuAccounts Darela Kurtovic

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KEEP US SINGING!Sydney Philharmonia Choirs has championed the exhilarating power of the human voice in Australia for almost 100 years. This makes us Australia’s oldest performing arts organisation and one of the oldest community participation groups. Over that time, we have impacted on and empowered tens of thousands of Australians through the communal activity of singing together and have kept a strong choral tradition alive for new generations.

We are looking towards our 100th anniversary in 2020, and need your support to enable us to really celebrate our centenary through an expanded range of activities, commissions, and performances which are beyond our usual scale and scope. To realise this vision, and to ensure that our traditions exist for the next hundred years, we need your help in assisting young people to be the singers, composers, conductors and audiences of tomorrow.

Don’t hesitate to contact us directly for further information or to discuss your interest in supporting the work that we do now or in the future. Your donation to Sydney Philharmonia Choirs will help guarantee that great choral music remains at the heart of cultural life in Sydney and Australia.

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DONORSSydney Philharmonia Choirs warmly thanks all our generous donors and supporters. Your contributions ensure that we are able to continue developing the choral tradition in Australia. Donations $2 and above to Sydney Philharmonia Limited are tax deductible and donations of $100 and above are listed in our programmes and on our website

For further information about how you can support Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, please contact Lisa Parragi, Development Manager on 9251 2024 or [email protected]


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SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA CHOIRS 2013 SEASON

LUMINOUS NIGHT – AUG 3 & 4Beautiful choral music inspired by night, sleep and dreams with our youth choir VOX ARCHITECTURE OF SOUND – AUG 24 & 25Baroque & new music with saxophonist Michael Duke

A COLE PORTER CELEBRATION CONCERT – SEP 19, 21Just one word: de-lovely!

TRACING TIME – OCT 25, 26, 27Vocal transformations with Paul Capsis, Genevieve Lacey, Kirsty McCahon and Marshall McGuire

MESSIAH – DEC 12, 14, 15The return of Handel’s masterpiece with Miriam Allan, Sally-Anne Russell, Andrew Goodwin and Peter Coleman-Wright

GET MORE INFO AND BOOK AT WWW.SYDNEYPHILHARMONIA.COM.AUSydney Philharmonia Choirs is supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Photo: Lisa Tomasetti

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