Thursday, January 1, 2015

2015 Concert Season

Mozart Requiem

Saturday 28 March 2015, Knox Church


DAVID BURCHELL, conductor
CITY CHOIR DUNEDIN
SOUTHERN SINFONIA
Soloists: soprano Lois Johnston, mezzo-soprano Claire Barton, tenor Matthew Wilson, bass Robert Tucker

Schubert: Stabat Mater (D.383)
Mozart: Requiem


A Sea Symphony

Saturday 18 April 2015, Dunedin Town Hall


NICHOLAS BRAITHWAITE, conductor
MODI DENG, pianist
ANNA LEESE, soprano
MARCIN BRONIKOWSKI, baritone
SOUTHERN SINFONIA
AUCKLAND CHORAL
CITY CHOIR DUNEDIN

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony.


Sea & Land

Saturday 8 August 2015, Knox Church


DAVID BURCHELL, conductor
CLAIRE BARTON, mezzo-soprano
SAMUEL MADDEN, tenor
CITY CHOIR DUNEDIN
ST KILDA BRASS BAND

City Choir was joined by St Kilda Brass to perform an entertaining programme of diverse and colourful music from around the world. Accompanied by the award-winning St Kilda Brass Band, and featuring pianist Sandra Crawshaw, the Choir was also be joined by mezzo-soprano Claire Barton and tenor Samuel Madden.

Songs of Sea and Land arr. David Hamilton
An Afrikaans Medley arr. David Burchell
The Rio Grande by Constant Lambert
I’m seventeen come Sunday arr. Percy Grainger
Brigg Fair arr. Percy Grainger
My sweetheart’s like Venus arr. Gustav Holst
Molly on the shore arr. Percy Grainger & Howard Snell (St Kilda Brass)
The mermaid’s croon arr. Granville Bantock
Ye banks and braes arr. David Burchell (St Kilda Brass)
Comin’ thro’ the rye arr. Stanford Robinson
A North Country Fantasie by Gordon Langford (St Kilda Brass)
I love my love arr. Gustav Holst
Blow away the morning dew arr. R.O. Morris
Green grow the rushes, O! arr. David Burchell


These Lands Are Ours

Saturday 26 September 2015, Knox Church


DAVID BURCHELL, conductor
CITY CHOIR DUNEDIN
DUNEDIN YOUTH ORCHESTRA

City Choir collaborated with the young musicians of the DYO, giving them the opportunity to accompany a large symphonic choir. These Lands Are Ours is a concert exploring New Zealand's national identity with music by Lilburn, Mendelssohn, Callister, Mackenzie and Elgar. The performance featured Dunedin Youth Orchestra Young Musician’s Award recipient Matthew Scadden on violin and premièred the 2015 work that won the Audrey Reed Composition Prize, A Run in Ross Creek by Merlin Callister.

Douglas Lilburn: Drysdale Overture
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in e, first movement
Merlin Callister: A run in Ross Creek (Audrey Reed Composition Prize winner)
Alexander Mackenzie: First Scottish Rhapsody
Edward Elgar: The Banner of St George


Handel's Messiah

Tuesday 8 December 2015, Dunedin Town Hall


DAVID BURCHELL, conductor
CITY CHOIR DUNEDIN
SOUTHERN SINFONIA
Soloists: soprano Emma Fraser, mezzo-soprano Wendy Dawn Thompson, tenor David Hamilton, bass Martin Snell

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