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REIMAGININGS – Sunday 21 June 3-4pm

Join Cantabile Choir on Sunday, 21 June 2026, 3-4pm at St Mark’s Anglican Church, Fitzroy for Reimaginings.

Director Barbara Chalmer; Guest artists Anna March – soprano, Linda Kent – piano & organ.

Composers often take inspiration from sacred, literary, and traditional texts and our June 21 concert invites you to compare different settings of the same text as a way of appreciating how a composer’s particular lens can colour the way we react to words.

There will be five different texts (in addition to the Latin Mass) and fifteen different settings by composers as diverse as Andrea Gabrieli, Gioachino Rossini and Eriks Esenvalds.

Tickets $25 Full, $20 Concession card/Student (children under 12 free) available from Trybooking and at the door.

Note Prebooking is strongly advised due to limited seating. An express queue for prebooked tickets will speed entry on concert day.

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The Well Spring – Sunday 23 November 3-4pm

Be it delight at the lofty shimmering of a rainbow, a deep feeling of connection to new life springing from the land, or a humble recognition of our own small place in creation, Nature has served as inspiration for mankind from earliest times. Cantabile’s concert, The Well Spring, is a garden of songs rooted in this spiritual soil. With pianist Linda Kent and violinist Jack Cross we hope to bring a feeling of freshness and renewal as we move into the holiday season.

Full programme:
Over the Rainbow: Harold Arlen arr. Guy Turner;
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge September 3, 1802: Bob Chilcott;
On the Night Train: Joseph Twist;
Into the Forest: Chris Palamountain;
The Rose: Ola Gjeilo;
Linden Lea: Ralph Vaughan Williams;
Spring Returns: Robert Lucas Pearsall;
Les Fleurs et Les Arbres: Camille Saint Saëns;
When Mary Thro’ the Garden Went: Charles V. Stanford;
A Tender Sboot: Colin Davey;
A Spotless Rose: Trad. Hymn arr. Herbert Howells;
The Shepherd’s Carol: Anon. arr. Bob Chilcott;
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree: Elizabeth Posten;
Now Is The Cool of The Day: Jean Ritchie, arr. Kevin Siegfried

Tickets – $25 full, $20 conc. card & student, children under 12 free
Booking – Trybooking https://www.trybooking.com/DFWSD
General Admission – at the door.

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Visions of Peace – Sun 3 Dec 23

Cantabile Choir presents

 Visions of Peace

Sunday, 3 December 23 from 4:00-5:00 pm 

Christ Church Brunswick, 8 Glenlyon Rd., Brunswick

Tickets: $25 full, $20 concession card/student available from www.trybooking.com/CMCNU


Peace is often hard-won, and Cantabile Choir’s last concert of 2023 presents both the struggle and the ultimate clarity and serenity of the quest for reconciliation.  From Arvo Pärt’s hauntingly beautiful setting of the ancient Knights Templar chant Da Pacem Domine, through to the quiet and not-so-quiet defiance of Negro spirituals, from the apocalyptic darkness of Samuel Barber’s Twelfth Night to the loving acceptance of Dan Forrest’s Good Night, Dear Heart.

Visions of Peace draws on music from the 15th to the 21st centuries to present a truthful look at the road to peace. Come celebrate, meditate, and marvel with Cantabile Choir in the peaceful surrounds of Christ Church, Brunswick.

Full programme: Da Pacem Domine (Arvo Pärt)  Ubi Caritas (Maurice Duruflé) Ave Maria (Josquin des Prez) Ave Verum Corpus (Francis Poulenc) Steal Away (trad arr Bob Chilcott) Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel (trad arr Paul Hart) A Tender Shoot (Colin Davey) Twelfth Night (Samuel Barber) Lully, Lulla, Lullay (Philip Stopford) Bethlehem Down (Peter Warlock) Sir Christèmas (William Matthias) Good Night (Dan Forrest)