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.
Chorale Conversations: Christopher Wrench
25/10/2021
As a professional musician, what’s it been like for you since COVID-19 began? On the plus side, there has been much more time to practise, which is an amazing gift
An international Chorale Conversation with Josu Elberdin
24/10/2021
Tell us a little about your early life – what made you realise you wanted your future to be in music? Music emerged in me as a spontaneous phenomenon. In
Chorale Conversations: John Coulton
24/09/2021
As a performing artist, what’s it been like for you since COVID-19 began? As a professional musician the post COVID-19 landscape has been bleak to say the least. I’ve been
Chorale Conversations: Rachel Bond, soprano
13/08/2021
Tell us a bit about your musical background, including, how many years you have sung in a choir? I was raised in a family that always listened to classical music.
Gustav Mahler: a short bio
24/07/2021
Gustav Mahler was born in Bohemia in 1860 and died in Vienna in 1911. He was the second of 12 children but only six of them survived to maturity. Whilst
Chorale Conversations: Michael Cooke, bass
24/07/2021
Tell us a bit about your musical background, including, how many years you have sung in a choir? I went to an all-boys school, primary and secondary. My earliest memories
Chorale Conversations: Lionell Pack, bass
22/06/2021
Tell us a bit about your musical background, including how many years you have sung in a choir? I started my musical journey at age 4 on a 1/16-size violin
Chorale Conversations: Simon Hewett, QYO Director of Music
12/05/2021
You studied both clarinet and conducting at UQ. What made you decide you wanted to become a conductor? Through the clarinet I discovered Mozart and Brahms. I started listening to
Reflections from Emily, chorusmaster for The Bells
12/05/2021
What can the audience expect to experience by seeing “The Bells” from a choral perspective? The essence of choral / symphonic music is that blend of orchestral, choral and solo
Chorale Conversations: Eva Coggins, alto
12/05/2021
Tell us a bit about your musical background, including, how many years you have sung in a choir I first joined the primary school choir at seven years old, and
Chorale Conversations: Anne Fulton
14/02/2021
As a professional singer, what’s it been like for you since COVID-19 began? It’s been pretty soul destroying. I have sung with Opera Qld for 25 years so I miss
Would you like to join Chorale?
24/01/2021
Brisbane Chorale is seeking new members in all voice parts (soprano, alto, tenor and bass) for its 2021 season and according to Music Director Emily Cox AM, it promises to
Chorale Conversations: Shaun Brown
11/10/2020
As a professional singer, what’s it been like for you since COVID-19 began? Firstly, it has been the loss of income which has hit hard but the actual creative art
Chorale Conversations: Sarah Crane
11/10/2020
As a professional singer, what’s it been like for you since COVID-19 began? It’s certainly been a year of change, with many disappointments for so many in the Arts community
Brahms: the man and the musician
11/10/2020
He loved to walk in nature He was a great walker and had a passionate love of nature, even in depressingly prolonged periods of rain: “I never found it dull”
Thoughts from Emily about our coming Brahms Requiem
15/09/2020
Beloved…that word springs to mind when I think of the Brahms Requiem …especially now, it feels very much like music for our time. Brisbane Chorale had programmed this work to
Our choice of venue: flexibility and creativity in a challenging situation
15/09/2020
In these uncertain times, creativity and flexibility are critical to navigating a situation none of us have experienced before. When we had to stop rehearsals at the beginning of the
Chorale Conversations: Mary Hartley, alto
15/09/2020
In your work as a nurse, what’s it been like since COVID-19 began? I am a neonatal nurse and work as part of the Clinical Facilitator team in a large
What Chorale means to us
11/08/2020
After what has seemed a long (but very necessary) break from our familiar busy practice and concert schedule, midway through July the Brisbane Chorale began rehearsing again in a completely
Chorale Conversations: Stephanie Johnson, alto
11/08/2020
Dr Stephanie JohnsonPaediatric Endocrinologist, Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, South BrisbaneVisiting fellow, Queensland University of Technology In your work as a medical specialist, what’s it been like since COVID-19 began? I
Choir and COVID-19: Navigating uncharted waters
05/07/2020
Many of you will have read articles in the press about the potential for singing to spread Covid-19. Research suggests that aerosols (miniscule particles of liquid generated by exhalation, which
Chorale Conversations: Stephen Brierley, tenor
05/07/2020
In our inaugural Chorale Conversation, which is a regular monthly series of profiles of particular Chorale members, we’ve invited Stephen Brierley, Emergency Physician, to share some information about himself, the