WELCOME Welcome to Adelaide Chamber Singers’ 2018 Season. ACS loves performing creatively and, following the With three stimulating ‘multiple performance’ success of our innovative Monteverdi’s Fire program programs, plus our Late Night in the Cathedral Festival in 2014, we are delighted to work with Andy Packer program, 2018 promises many highlights. Each program again in presenting our Re-Imagine program in a very heralds new music by some of ’s exciting different and inventive way. young emerging composers, and we will again We look forward to your company. premiere new music by one of Australia’s favourite composers, Paul Stanhope. Carl Crossin OAM We continue our collaborations with excellent Founder, Artistic Director & Conductor chamber choirs from around Australia as we welcome the fabulous Choir of St. James Church, King Street in . FRIDAY 9 MARCH 10PM ADELAIDE FESTIVAL SUNDAY 11 MARCH 10PM PROGRAM St. Peter’s Cathedral, North Adelaide Conductor Carl Crossin

If, as they say, the past is ‘a foreign country’ then we are its emigrés and our cultural heritage is at the heart of our diaspora! Music of the past has LATE NIGHT inspired Panufnik, Pärt, Williams and Shelley and their point of departure is glorious polyphony from the cradle of choral music – the Renaissance. And for IN THE Whitacre and Leonardo da Vinci? Theirs is an altogether different flight CATHEDRAL of the imagination! PROGRAM INCLUDES: Magnificat Arvo Pärt Kyrie (from Mass for 5 Voices) William Byrd Kyrie After Byrd (after Byrd – Kyrie: Mass for 5 Voices) Roxanna Panufnik Mille Regretz Josquin des Prez Messe Sans Regretz Brooke Shelley Leonardo Dreams Of His Flying Machine Eric Whitacre Ave Verum Corpus William Byrd Ave Verum Corpus Re-Imagined Roderick Williams SATURDAY 5 MAY 6.30PM UKARIA Cultural Centre, Mt Barker Summit PROGRAM SUNDAY 6 MAY 2.30PM ONE St. Peter’s Cathedral, North Adelaide Conductors Carl Crossin & Warren Trevelyan-Jones Guest Choir The Choir of St. James Church, King Street, Sydney Pianists Jamie Cock and Kristian Chong BRAHMS’ From the turbulence of 17th and 18th century Germany, through the ears of Bach and Schütz, to the humanistic, and affirming realm of Brahms’ REQUIEM Requiem, Adelaide Chamber Singers and the Choir of St. James’ Church, King Street combine in perfect harmony. Pianists Jamie Cock and Kristian Chong join us for Brahms’ own piano duet version of his beloved Requiem. And, we welcome the first ACS commission from emerging Adelaide Warren composer and member of ACS Rachel Bruerville. Trevelyan- Jones PROGRAM INCLUDES: Komm, Jesu komm JS Bach New Work (ACS Commission) Rachel Bruerville Requiem (1871 version for choir and piano duet) Johannes Brahms …and selected motets Heinrich Schütz FRIDAY 10 AUGUST 7.30PM Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide

PROGRAM SATURDAY 11 AUGUST 6.30PM TWO Pilgrim Church, Adelaide

SUNDAY 12 AUGUST 2.30PM UKARIA Cultural Centre, Mt Barker Summit ONLY Conductor Christie Anderson Only The Fire Can Say considers inheritance - of memory, people, places, THE FIRE objects and ideas we grow with - that become part of our personal living history. It’s through this inheritance that we travel through our own seasons CAN SAY in this world, knowing what makes us whole and connected. We choose what remains for generations to come.

Christie Featuring music for voices and strings by Vasks, Gjeilo, Lauridsen, Ešenvalds Anderson and newly commissioned music from Sydney-based composer Luke Byrne.

PROGRAM INCLUDES: Sacred Heart Ola Gjeilo Plainscapes I, II & III Pēteris Vasks Sure on this shining night Morten Lauridsen Desert Sea and New Work (ACS commission) Luke Byrne Only in sleep Ēriks Ešenvelds FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER 7.30PM Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide

SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER 6.30PM PROGRAM Pilgrim Church, Adelaide THREE SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER 2.30PM Christ Church North Adelaide

Conductor Carl Crossin Creative Director Andy Packer RE-IMAGINE Monteverdi, Whitacre, Maclean, Stanhope – these are well-known names in our choral world but in this program we explore the beauty and the melancholy of love, death and transfiguration in a very different way. Following our creative presentation of Monteverdi’s Fire in 2014, we invite you to experience this music with fresh ears and eyes as we re-discover Andy Packer and re-imagine some of our favourite music.

PROGRAM INCLUDES: New Work (ACS commission) Paul Stanhope Sestina Christ the King Clare Maclean A Boy and a Girl Eric Whitacre And music by Anne Cawrse, Carl Crossin and Robert White performing to critical acclaim at festivals and competitions around the world including: the Polyfollia Festival in Normandy, France (2014); the Musica Sacra a Roma in Italy (2013); the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in Wales (2013); the European Choir Games in Austria (2013); the 2006 International Choral Kathaumixw in Canada; the 2006 International Choral Festival in the USA; the 2006 Cambridge Summer Music Festival in England; the 2004 Tokyo International Festival; the 6th World Symposium on Choral Music in the USA in 2002; the Asia Pacific Symposium on Choral Music in Singapore in 2001; the 1999 Norfolk and Norwich Festival; and the 1996 National Convention of the Association of British Choral Directors in Oxford.

The ensemble’s competition successes include: the Vincitore della Gran Premio (Grand Prize) in Rome (2013) and two “Choir of the World” awards - at Llangollen in Wales in 2013 and at Kathaumixw in Canada in 2006.

Adelaide Chamber Singers has also performed at the Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth International Festivals and at a range of regional festivals around Australia including: the Bundaleer, Coonawarra, Barossa and Coriole Festivals, the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, the Festival of Contemporary Sacred Music, and the Musica Viva Huntington Estate Festival in NSW, and Choralfest in both Melbourne and Adelaide for the Australian National Choral Association.

ACS frequently performs with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and has also shared the stage with The Adelaide Chamber Singers has been a passionate and Rolling Stones, Hilltop Hoods, Greta Bradman, Kronos innovative contributor to music making in Adelaide for Quartet and The Tallis Scholars. ACS has also developed over thirty years. Formed in 1985 by its Artistic Director very successful collaborations in recent years with the and Conductor Carl Crossin, ACS is widely respected Sydney Chamber Choir, Brisbane Chamber Choir and as one of Australia’s finest chamber choirs. In 2011, ACS Melbourne’s Polyphonic Voices. was awarded one of SA’s premier Arts awards, the Ruby Award for “sustained contribution by an organisation”, ACS has also received awards and accolades for its and in 2017 won the State Award for “Performance of recordings, most notably from the Australian Music the Year 2016” at the 2017 National Art Music Awards. Centre (2008) and from both Limelight magazine (2015) and Gramophone magazine (2007). Under Carl Crossin’s leadership, Adelaide Chamber Singers has undertaken eight international tours CARL CROSSIN CHRISTIE ANDERSON Carl Crossin OAM - conductor, educator and composer Christie has been a core member of Adelaide Chamber - is respected throughout Australia and internationally Singers for many years and was appointed ACS for his choral work. He is currently Associate Professor of Associate Conductor in 2012. She is Artistic Director of Music and Head of Vocal, Choral & Conducting Studies Young Adelaide Voices and the WATU Adelaide Youth at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, where he also Choir Festival. served as Director from 2009 until 2014. Christie is a founding member of the award-winning EVE He has enjoyed over forty years’ experience working with vocal trio and has performed in many festivals nationally choirs in professional, educational, community settings and internationally. Christie spent four years in Norwich, throughout Australia and regularly conducts workshops UK directing the early music festival “Early Music in Late and masterclasses in choral leadership and conducting May”. both within Australia and internationally. Christie has won many international awards with YAV, Carl’s guest conducting engagements have included including First Prize in all three Youth Choir categories at Sydney Philharmonia, Melbourne Chorale, Sydney the 9th International Golden Gate Youth Choir Festival Chamber Choir, Brisbane Chamber Choir, Melbourne’s in San Francisco (2012) and three Gold Medals from the Polyphonic Voices, Perth’s Giovanni Consort, Canberra’s Bratislava International Youth Music Festival in Slovakia Luminescence Chamber Singers, and seven Seasons (2016) where Christie was also awarded the Special Prize and an international tour with the National Youth Choir for Best Conductor of the Festival. of Australia. Since 2010, Carl has been Co-Conductor In 2017 Christie was guest presenter at the Vox Mundi of the nationally auditioned youth choir Gondwana Festival in Timi oara, Romania, discussing children’s Chorale, with whom he has toured the UK, France and ş and youth choirs, and focussing on Young Adelaide the USA. Voices and contemporary Australian music. Christie is Over the years, Carl has conducted his choirs in all preparing for both her third season as a guest conductor Australian states and territories as well as in Britain, at the Gondwana National Choral School and the WATU France, Norway, Germany, Italy, Austria, Japan, Festival 2018. Singapore, New Zealand, Canada and the USA. STUDENT RUSH TICKET Full time students can purchase tickets for $15 each from the venue door 30 minutes before the concert PURCHASE starts, subject to availability. CONCERT PACKAGES CONCESSIONS When requesting concession please Pay less for your concert tickets by purchasing enclose your concession number. Pensioners, a concert package. Healthcare card holders, Seniors and full-time You can purchase a concert package by students are eligible for concession. If you have booking online or downloading a booking form previously provided your concession details there at www.adelaidechambersingers.com is no need to resubmit them.

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SINGLE TICKETS Late Night in the Cathedral - Adelaide Festival $59 / Concession $49 (including Seniors)

ACS Programs 1/2/3 Adult $45 / Concession $37 (including Seniors) www.adelaidechambersingers.com/shop ADELAIDE CHAMBER SINGERS VENUE IS PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY INFORMATION Venue Partner ANNE & GORDON SAMSTAG MUSEUM OF ART Hawke Building, City West campus STAFF & BOARD University of South Australia Artistic Director & Conductor - Carl Crossin OAM 55 North Terrace, Adelaide Associate Conductor - Christie Anderson (cnr Fenn Place and North Terrace) Manager - Dani Raymond Development Coordinator - Brooke Window CHRIST CHURCH NORTH ADELAIDE Chair of Board - Bruce Linn 62–72 Jeffcott Street, North Adelaide Copywriting - Carl Crossin & Christie Anderson PILGRIM CHURCH Design - Simone Linehan 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide Photography - Jacqui Way Venue - UKARIA Cultural Centre ST. PETER’S CATHEDRAL 27 King William Road, North Adelaide

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