Sydney Children's Choir - China Tour
The Choir travels frequently throughout the world
performing its Australian choral repertoire to great acclaim from international
audiences. In September 2007 it toured to Finland to participate in the
international Sympatti Festival, to Estonia to collaborate with the Estonian
Television Girls’ Choir and to Denmark to collaborate with the Danish National
Girls’ Choir. In April of 2005 it was the featured artist for Australian
National Day at the World Expo in Aichi Japan and has toured extensively throughout Australia and to Indonesia, Japan,
Singapore, France and the United Kingdom.
In 2009 the Sydney
Children’s Choir commissioned and premiered a new children’s opera Ngailu - Boy of the Stars based on the
songs and stories of the Torres Strait Islands.
For this critically acclaimed performance the Choir collaborated with
children from the Torres Strait and choreographer Sani Townson.
In 2008 the Sydney Children’s Choir presented joint
performances with the Young Voices of Melbourne and the St Louis Children’s
Choir and performed with the Sydney Chamber Choir conducted by Richard Gill. In
July, the Choir gave the world premiere of a new work by
In 2007 the Sydney Children’s Choir collaborated with the Nagoya Children’s
Chorus in March in Sydney, and presented the world premiere of Heritage in Song, a critically acclaimed contemporary
theatrical performance piece based around the stories and events in the lives
of the current members of the Choir, their families and forebears, in May at
the City Recital Hall Angel Place. They also performed at the APEC Leaders Week
Cultural Performance at the Sydney Opera House and in Company B’s production of
Snugglepot & Cuddlepie as part of
the Sydney Festival.
The Sydney Children’s Choir’s performances in 2006
included the world premiere of Ross Edwards’ symphony The Promised Land with
the Sydney Symphony at the Sydney Opera House and a concert with the Danish
National Girls’ Choir at the Verbrugghen Hall. The Choir also performed on the
soundtrack to the Academy Award winning film Happy Feet. In 2005, the Sydney Children’s Choir also performed
with the Sydney Symphony in Symphony of
Angels as well as in Berlioz’s The
Damnation of Faust under conductor Charles Dutoit. During 2004, the Choir
performed Howard Shore’s Lord of the
Rings Symphony and William Walton’s Henry
V, both with the Sydney Symphony and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and gave
performances at the Let’s Sing Festival
in Hobart and at the National Choralfest in Adelaide. Other recent performances
by the Sydney Children's Choir include the Closing Ceremony of the 2003 Rugby
World Cup, Symphony of Angels with
the Sydney Symphony, Carmina Burana
with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, a concert in honour of his Holiness the
Dalai Lama at the Sydney Opera House, the Dawn Ceremony performance on
the sails of the Opera House as part of an international telecast, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony at the Sydney SuperDome
to open the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival and the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney
Olympic Games.
In 2010 the Sydney Children’s Choir will celebrate its 21st birthday with a full schedule of touring, recording and performing including a major performance in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House featuring over 400 choristers. They will also perform Mahler’s Symphonies No. 3 and 8 with the Sydney Symphony under Principal Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy.
China Tour:
29. July 2010 - Yantai Grand Theatre, 19:30
31. July 2010 - Tianjin Concert Hall, 19:30
03. August 2010 - Beijing Forbidden City Concert Hall, 19:30
04.-05. August 2010 - ISME World Conference 2010, Beijing









