Join Cantabile Choir under the direction of Barbara Chalmer at St. Peter’s Eastern Hill, the oldest Anglican church in Melbourne still on its original site, to enjoy a taste of seven centuries of English choral music.  Choral music flourished in England with the patronage, protection, and participation of monarchs as well as in response to religious and popular demand, and our programme reflects that diversity.

Special guests – Soprano Anna Marsh and organist Rhys Arvidson will be on hand to add to the enjoyment.

Full programme – Dunstaple: Kyrie; King Henry VIII: Pastyme with Good Company; Tallis: O Sacrum Convivium; Byrd: Ave Verum Corpus, This Sweet and Merry Month of May;  Gibbons: O Clap Your Hands Together, The Silver Swan; Tomkins: See, See the Shepherds’ Queen; Dowland: Say Love, If Ever Thou Didst Find; Purcell: Music for a While; Handel: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth; Holst: I Love My Love; Stanford: The Blue Bird ; Taverner: The Lamb; McDowall: Now May We Singen

Tickets – $25 full, $20 concession card/student available from www.trybooking.com/CRQTU  or at the door. 

Venue – St Peter’s Eastern Hill, 15 Gisbourne St, East Melbourne. The church is a short walk from Parliament Station on City Loop, with the entrance to the church from the driveway pictured off Albert St. on the map below.

Sunday July 23, 2023 2:30pm

Estonia House, 43 Melville Rd., West Brunswick

Seating will be cabaret-style at tables, so please bring your own snacks and drinks including beer and wine to enjoy along with the music.  Tea and coffee, plates and glasses provided

Tickets $25 full, $20 concession card/student, available to book online at: www.trybooking.com/CIMZY or at the door.

Programme:
Now is the Cool of the Day: Jean Ritchie arr. Kevin Siegfried;
The Monk and his Cat, The Coolin, To be Sung on the Water, Sure on this Shining Night: Samuel Barber; Finlandia setting: Jan Sibelius;
O Salutaris Hostia: Eriks Esenvalds;
Northern Lights, The Rose: Ola Gjeilo;
Huits Chansons Francaises (1, 2, 4): Francis Poulenc.

To contact choir: www.cantabile.net.au

Sunday March 5 2023 at 2:30 pm  

St George’s Anglican Church, 41 Baroda St., Travancore  

The late 19^th century and early 20^th century was a time not only of political and economic upheaval and strife, but also of enormous experimentation and innovation in music, literature, visual and performing arts. While we do not expect A Garden of Earthly Delights to generate the riots that greeted the 1913 premiere of the Stravinsky-Nijinsky collaboration on The Rite of Spring, we guarantee surprises and challenges as well as delights.  Whether you are being stung and poisoned by Britten’s Marsh Flowers, exalted by the neoclassicism of Standford’s Beati Quorum Via, chilled by the hail and ice of Debussy’s Hiver (Winter,) amused by the amorous adventures of folk heroes Mirko and John the broomcutter, or soothed by lullabies, we can guarantee as much variety as you would find in a programme spanning centuries rather than decades, followed by culinary delights served in the airy church hall. 

Programme: 

Beati Quorum Via Charles Stanford  

Trois Chansons Claude Debussy 

Con Amores Mi Madre  Anchieta arr Bob Chilcott 

Maranoa Lullaby  Gungarri arr Arthur Loam   

Gondoliera Clara Schumann   

Handsome Mirko  Yugoslav Folk arr Matyas Seiber 

 Five Flower Songs  Benjamin Britten 

Tickets: $25 full; $20 Student/Concession 

www.trybooking.com/CFOCO or at door 

Pre-booking advised—limited seating

Date Saturday 3 September 2022 at 4:00 pm

Venue St. George’s Anglican Church, 55 Lucknow St. Travancore

Tickets $20 Full; $15 Concession from www.trybooking.com/CBBUR or cash at the door.

COVID As social distancing will not be possible Cantabile encourages the use of masks.

Barbara Chalmer – Director, Guest Pianist – Ioanna Salmanidis
Cantabile is delighted to be returning to one of our favourite concert venues, St. George’s Anglican Church, Travancore, for our first post-lockdown concert.  The concert reflects our spirit of celebration with a selection of short works ranging from the energetic polyphony of Renaissance composers Arcadelt, Palestrina, Viadana, Sweelinck, and Monteverdi through to subtly colourful art songs of Finzi and Britten and the lush romanticism of contemporary Cuban composer Beatriz Corona.  Pianist Ioanna Salmanidis will add an instrumental complement with works by Schubert, Chopin, and Melbourne composer Esther Rofe.  We feel sure that you will find something to make your spirit sing.

17 November 2019

Christ Church Brunswick, 8 Glenlyon Rd, Brunswick

Featuring choral and organ works by Monteverdi, Bach, Fauré, Rachmaninoff, Pärt, Gjeilo and others

St. Georges Anglican Church, 55 Lucknow St. Travancore

75 Reid St., North Fitzroy.

Drawing upon composers from the 16th to the 21st centuries, The Bold and the Beautiful explored choral expressions of religious exaltation, the boldness of romance, and the beauty of nature and the heavens. The ethereal sound of the glass harp accompaniment to Érik Ešenvald’s “Stars” raised goosebumps, and contrasted with the richness of the 5-7 part settings of other works.

Reservoir Public Library, 23 Edwardes St., Reservoir, and

Northcote Public Library 32-38 Separation St, Northcote.

A community service supported by the Darebin City Councils’ Community Support Program

Lullabies, Love Songs and Laments

Works by Gibbons, Hassler, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Rutter, Taverner, Whitacre & more

with Actor Geoffrey Baird with readings and reflections on Rites of Passage

St. Georges Anglican Church, 55 Lucknow St. Travancore