Paul Stanhope: A New Requiem

Award-winning composer and former Sydney Chamber Choir Music Director Paul Stanhope returns to lead the choir in the world premiere performance of his Requiem, the centrepiece of a program exploring themes of mortality, hope, ritual and commemoration.

It's a conversation between old and new: the sumptuous Spanish Renaissance polyphony of Tomás Luis de Victoria, with the contemporary Australian voices of Mary Finsterer and Indigenous composer Brenda Gifford. James MacMillan's Miserere is a choral tour de force, taking up dual notions of solemnity and virtuosity. Paul Stanhope’s Requiem is a major new work of transcendent beauty and healing that brings together settings of the Latin Mass for the Dead with poetry by Emily Dickinson, Mary Elizabeth Frye and Oodgeroo Noonuccal.

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• Program

  Brenda Gifford

  Mother Earth Minga Bagan

  Tomás Luis de Victoria 

  Versa est in luctum

  Mary Finsterer

  When soft voices die

  James MacMillan

  Miserere

  Paul Stanhope

  Requiem (World premiere)

• Artists

  Paul Stanhope

  Conductor

  Sydney Chamber Choir

  Chloe Lankshear

  Soprano

  Richard Butler

  Tenor

  Emily Granger

  Harp

  Jess Ciampa 

  Percussion

  Sydney Symphony Fellows

  Callum Hogan 

  Oboe

  Richard Shaw

  Clarinet

  Jordy Meulenbroeks 

  Bassoon

  Sydney Symphony Orchestra

  Euan Harvey

  Horn