Reflections from Emily on the two French Requiems
11/10/2024
We asked Music Director Emily Cox to share with us what the Fauré and Duruflé Requiems meant to her, on the eve of our performance of them on Oct 13
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Chorale Conversations: Christopher Wrench
04/10/2024
We recently asked organist Christopher Wrench about his up-coming performances in the Fauré and Duruflé Requiems with Brisbane Chorale. You’ll be performing the Fauré Requiem and Duruflé Requiem on the historic Brisbane
Chorale Conversations: Shaun Brown
30/09/2024
We recently asked baritone soloist Shaun Brown about his up-coming performances in the Fauré and Duruflé Requiems with Brisbane Chorale. First of all, take us behind the scenes of your
Chorale Conversations: Sarah Crane
30/09/2024
We recently asked soprano soloist Sarah Crane about her up-coming performances in the Fauré and Duruflé Requiems with Brisbane Chorale. First of all, take us behind the scenes of your
Chorale Conversations: Jason Barry-Smith
11/11/2023
You’re going to be performing Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Tell us a bit about what this piece means to you. The Five Mystical Songs and I have
Chorale Conversations: John Coulton
26/10/2023
What led to you choosing the trumpet as your instrument? When I was at primary school in the 1980s my older sisters were playing Brass instruments in the school band
Chorale Conversations: Paul McMahon, tenor
07/05/2023
What are you most looking forward to about the upcoming performance? I always look forward to performing interesting repertoire with outstanding colleagues; this performance is no different. Most people who
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
07/05/2023
How many male classical music composers can you name? Now how many female classical music composers can you name, particularly from before the 20th century? You’ve probably heard of Felix
Chorale Conversations: Tobias Merz, tenor
20/10/2022
What are you most looking forward to about the upcoming performances of ‘The Creation’? There are so many things I’m looking forward to. Singing this work is a rare pleasure
Chorale Conversations: Jason Barry-Smith, bass
20/10/2022
What are you most looking forward to about the upcoming performances of ‘The Creation’? The greatest joys of making music are the communities with which you work. The community that’s
The Creation Collaboration
10/10/2022
A musical partnership which had humble beginnings in the late 1980s at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music is about to bear tremendous fruit when Brisbane Chorale and Sunshine Coast Oriana
Chorale Conversations: Oliver Macura, bass
10/07/2022
Tell us a bit about your musical background, including how many years you have sung in a choir? I was born in Serbia, learned how to play piano accordion at
Chorale Conversations: Brenda Sullivan, 1st Violin, QSO
06/06/2022
What originally drew you to choose to learn the violin? We grew up in a small town in far North Queensland called Atherton, and our parents wanted us to learn
Chorale Conversations: Rob Partridge, tenor
08/05/2022
Tell us a bit about your musical background, including how many years you have sung in a choir?I played piano as a kid and have always loved music of all
Music Director Emily Cox and the Mendelssohn project
26/03/2022
For Brisbane Chorale’s conductor Emily Cox AM, the choir’s upcoming performance of works by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn on 1st May 2022 is the realisation of a dream
Chorale Conversations: Dilara Ince, alto
25/03/2022
Tell us a bit about your musical background, including how many years you have sung in a choir? I’ve studied music in high school and university and it has become
Chorale Conversations: Chloe Han, Assistant Conductor
26/02/2022
Now that Chloe, one of Chorale’s sopranos, is part of our musical leadership team, we felt it was the perfect time to get to know her a little better. Read
Thoughts from Emily Cox AM – A Joyful Noise 2021
06/11/2021
Like anyone who makes a living as a professional performer or musician, Brisbane Chorale’s music director Emily Cox AM has found the post-COVID era to be very difficult and challenging.