In 2024 we invite you to sing with us, to listen with us and to share the unique joy that choral music brings with us.
From the consoling intimacy of our opening concert Fauré’s Requiem at Easter, to the uplifting season finale of Handel’s Messiah, there is something for every musical taste. There are rich, familiar voices – and amazing new voices to discover. And ChorusOz in June, bringing voices together from across Australia and the globe to sing for peace.
Join us as we share the VOICE, JOY and ENERGY of 2024.
Experience the energy and the healing power of the human voice with a concert that puts the rest into ‘requiem’. VOX and Chamber Singers, conducted by Elizabeth Scott, pair Fauré’s consoling and uplifting Requiem (a ‘lullaby of death’) with the energy and stylistic flair of John Peterson’s Shadows and Light. And Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings provides a cathartic interlude in this profoundly moving and intimate concert.
Thursday 28 March | 7pm
Sydney Town Hall
Sydney Philharmonia’s 400-voice Festival Chorus fills the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall when Brett Weymark conducts Mendelssohn’s exhilarating choral masterpiece Elijah – a grand oratorio in the tradition of Handel. Starring baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes as the mighty Old Testament prophet.
Saturday 18 May | 7pm
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs virtuosic Chamber Singers present inspiring music by Renaissance composer Orlando di Lasso together with French composer Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem – a work that blends Gregorian plainchant with the sensual melodies of a Modern. Truly heavenly.
Friday 24 May | 7pm
St Philip’s Church, York Street
ChorusOz is your chance to sing at the Sydney Opera House! For 2024 Brett Weymark has chosen one of the most popular choral works of our time: The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. From the mediæval earworm that provides its starting point to its uplifting, cinematic climaxes, this will be our most emotionally charged ChorusOz to date. In a world of conflict, find harmony and inspiration in the company of hundreds of voices singing for peace.
Sunday 9 June | 5pm
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall
Join us for a mesmerising and and transcendent choral experience as the talented young singers of VOX, conducted by Elizabeth Scott, perform evocative and otherworldly music by Rautavaara, Arvo Pärt and other leading leading lights of the contemporary choral scene. A luminous concert featuring the leading lights of contemporary choral music.
Meet the performers at a public reception in our Wharf 4/5 Studio following the concert.
Sunday 7 July | 3pm
Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay Arts Precinct
Lie back and immerse yourself in the sumptuous and captivating beauty of Rachmaninoff’s favourite creation, his All-Night Vigil, with the soaring voices of Symphony Chorus performing a cappella.
Seating options include yoga mats on the main floor of the Sydney Town Hall. Regular seats in the galleries and on the stage.
Saturday 20 July | 7pm
Sydney Town Hall
Our virtuoso Chamber Singers shine in a glorious program of Baroque choral music, with liturgical works by Monteverdi, Domenico Scarlatti, Giovanni Gabrieli and more. Experience the intricate textures and expressive power of these Italian masters in the resonant acoustic and visually uplifting space of St James’, King St.
Friday 16 August | 7pm
St James’, King Street, Sydney
The critic George Bernard Shaw told Ethel Smyth that her ‘magnificent’ Mass would ‘stand up in the biggest company!’ and we wholeheartedly agree. We’ve paired this jubilant creation for choir and orchestra with Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ – bringing together two impressively defiant personalities who, each in their own way, pursued grand visions and broke new ground with music that speaks powerfully of struggle and triumph..
Saturday 26 October | 2pm
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall
Our Symphony Chorus showtune concerts are always a highlight of the season and in 2024 we’re back with a program of musical showstoppers from the legendary Rodgers and Hammerstein partnership. We’ve got this beautiful feelin’ that Brett Weymark has something wonderful in store, with another irresistible program of toe-tapping rhythms, witty lyrics and soaring melodies that will have you singing along and cheering for encores!
Saturday 16 November | 7pm
Sunday 17 November | 2pm
Sydney Town Hall
It’s our biennial Messiah, with a difference: for 2024 we’ve invited guest conductor Graham Abbott to bring his insights born of a lifetime conducting this great Handel oratorio. This is a ‘big’ Messiah, with all the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs joining our annual Christmas Choir in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, but you’re guaranteed a performance that’s as stylish and fine-tuned as it is rousing. Hallelujah!
Want to sing with us in the Christmas Choir? Registrations open in July 2024. Info & register at www.sydneyphilharmonia.com.au/choirs/community-choirs/
Friday 13 December | 8pm
Saturday 14 December | 1pm and 8pm
Sunday 15 December | 1pm
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall