Some of our earlier performances and activities …

CHRISTMAS CONCERT 2014

With Blackheath Public School Choir
A selection of Christmas songs and carols
Uniting Church BLACKHEATH

AUGUST 2014

BLACKHEATH CHOIR FESTIVAL
Vaggvisa (Lullaby)  –  Hugo Alfvén
Uti vår hage där växa blå bär – Hugo Alfvén
Aftonen (Evening) – Hugo Alfvén
In Haven (Capri) (from Sea Pictures) – Edward Elgar arr. for SATB Rowen Fox
Where Corals Lie (from Sea Pictures) – Edward Elgar arr. for SATB Rowen Fox
As torrents in summer – Edward Elgar

Festival Combined Choir: selections from Rossini’s Stabat Mater, conducted by Rowen Fox

Phillips Hall, Blackheath Community Centre, BLACKHEATH

MAY 2014

CHAMBER AND CHORAL MUSIC

with Three Piece Suite

Purcell – Gluck – Fauré – Elgar

In this program of pastoral music, the choir performed with a string quartet featuring the members of the acclaimed Three Piece Suite.

The program included madrigals by Morley and Gibbons, and selections from the operas Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) and Orpheo ed Euridice (Gluck). The audience were also treated to two premier performances by of works by Musical Director Rowen Fox: choral arrangements of two of Edward Elgar’s Sea Pictures, and a suite from his opera Chang’E and the Moon, which opera draws on the Chinese legend of Chang’E, Goddess of the Moon, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Presbyterian Church BLACKHEATH

APRIL 2014

ANZAC DAY DUSK SERVICE

Advance Australia Fair

Eternal Father

Blackheath Golf Club

DECEMBER 2013

CAROLS AT THE SHOPS

Our annual street carols to raise money for the RFS

Blackheath shopping centre,
Govetts Leap Road, Blackheath

CHRISTMAS CONCERT 2013

With Blackheath Public School Choir

A selection of Christmas songs and carols

Uniting Church BLACKHEATH

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2013

Alexander’s Feast – George Frederick Handel

Handel’s oratorio was first performed at Covent Garden in 1736.

The text is based on the poem by John Dryden, the first English Poet Laureate – Alexander’s Feast or The Power of Music, an Ode in Honour of St Cecilia’s Day: 1697. The story tells of the feast celebrating the victory by Alexander the Great over Darius, Emperor of Persia.

Phoenix Choir were joined by the Leura Singers, and accompanied by the Orpheus Strings orchestra.

St Finbar’s Catholic Church GLENBROOK
Hoskins Memorial Uniting Church LITHGOW
Katoomba Public School

AUGUST 2013
CHAMPAGNE SOIRÉE
Music Scholarships Fundraiser
With 6 choral ensembles, string ensemble, solos, duets
and featuring the 2013 scholarship winners – Georgia Evans and Emma Lindeman.

APRIL 2013
FASHION PARADE FUNDRAISER
Women’s and men’s fashions from Ravir Boutique, champagne & canape supper, musical items from Phoenix, raffle.

MARCH 2013
EASTER CONCERT
Bach Cantata BWV 4 (Christ lag in Todesbanden)
Choruses from Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Handel’s Messiah
Motets by Palestrina and Praetorius

DECEMBER 2012
CAROLS AT THE SHOPS
Blackheath shopping centre

CHRISTMAS CONCERT 2012
A selection of Christmas songs and carols
Uniting Church BLACKHEATH

NOVEMBER 2012
CONCERT WITH ORPHEUS STRINGS
Directed by Julie Cooney
Repertoire included Vivaldi’s Gloria, conducted by Rowen Fox
Katoomba Public School

AUGUST 2012
BLACKHEATH CHOIR FESTIVAL
Phoenix solo set: In Windsor Forest – R. Vaughan Williams
Festival Combined Choir, conducted by William Moxey:
        Kyrie in D minor – Mozart
        Serenade to Music – R. Vaughan Williams
        Polovtsian Dances – Borodin

MAY 2012
AUTUMN CONCERT – MADRIGALS AND PARTSONGS
Sacred and secular madrigals and partsongs from Renaissance to Modern
Uniting Church BLACKHEATH

DECEMBER 2011
SUMMER CONCERT with Leura Singers
To celebrate the end of the year and to farewell retiring MD, Walter Sutcliffe
Peasant Cantata – J.S. Bach
and seasonal short works

NOVEMBER 2011
CONCERT with Orpheus Strings and Leura Singers
Pergolesi’s Magnificat and three orchestral works

AUGUST 2011
BLACKHEATH CHOIR FESTIVAL
Phoenix solo set, with Leura Singers: Magnificat – Pergolesi
Festival Combined Choir, conducted by Walter Sutcliffe:
Coronation Mass in C major – Mozart

MAY 2011
HANDEL’S MESSIAH
Hoskins Memorial Uniting Church LITHGOW
Uniting Church LEURA

DECEMBER 2010
Christmas Carols. Blackheath shops.

OCTOBER 2010
With Orpheus Strings, Leura Singers and featuring David Scheel – piano soloist.

AUGUST 2010
Choir Festival. With Leura Singers.
Closing set of the Blackheath Choir Festival, with the Festival Combined Choir
Conducted by Walter Sutcliffe, accompanied by Julie Adam

MARCH 2010
Fundraising concert for Blue Mountains Performing Arts Association.
With Leura Singers, Pacopezants and the Sydney Male Choir.
Fundraiser for Ibulanku Health Centre, Uganda.
Easter Cantata for Good Friday: Olivet to Calvary – J H Maunder.