SYDNEY’S SPECIALIST SPANISH AND LATIN AMERICAN CHAMBER CHOIR
Photo: Vanessa Goryl
Under the direction of founding conductor Margot McLaughlin, Coro Austral is an auditioned chamber choir which performs 13th to 21st century music from Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries as well as treasured choral music from around the world.
Formed in 2010, it has introduced much previously little-known choral music to Australian audiences. In 2017 Coro Austral toured Cuba to great acclaim, and in April 2022 it gave the first Australian performance of Martín Palmeri’s Misa Tango.
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Formed in 2010, it has introduced much previously little-known choral music to Australian audiences. In 2017 Coro Austral toured Cuba to great acclaim, and in April 2022 it gave the first Australian performance of Martín Palmeri’s Misa Tango.
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Our next concert:
Coro Austral presents
Across Oceans ... Across Time
Choral music through the centuries and around the world
2.30pm Sunday 4th August at St. Augustine's Church Balmain
Coro Austral presents an international concert of music spanning six centuries, including works from Australia, Europe and the Americas.
Highly regarded for its performances of Spanish and Latin American music, in this concert Coro Austral departs from its usual repertoire, exploring choral works in French, German, English, Latin – and Spanish – from the 16th to 21st centuries.
Artistic Director Margot McLaughlin has devised a program of captivating works that highlight the changes and connections in musical ideas over the centuries and across the oceans, and their relationship to life, love and loss.
Highly regarded for its performances of Spanish and Latin American music, in this concert Coro Austral departs from its usual repertoire, exploring choral works in French, German, English, Latin – and Spanish – from the 16th to 21st centuries.
Artistic Director Margot McLaughlin has devised a program of captivating works that highlight the changes and connections in musical ideas over the centuries and across the oceans, and their relationship to life, love and loss.
- What influence did the German Grand Master of the Baroque, JS Bach, have on Astor Piazzolla, the Argentinian Grand Master of Tango Nuevo and English composer Ethel Smyth, a champion of women’s suffrage?
- How do works by Renaissance composers Alonso Lobo (Spain) and Filipe de Magalhães (Portugal) connect with more recent compositions on time, love and loss by Maurice Ravel (France), Joseph Twist and Clive Lane (Australia), Bernat Vivancos (Catalonia) and Coldplay (England)?
- Do feelings of nostalgia for one’s family’s homeland (El Progreso Honduras) or the bitter-sweet remembrance of a relationship (El ultimo café – the last coffee) bring joy or tears?
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Coro Austral toured Cuba in November/December 2017
Photo: Margot McLaughlin
Photo: Margot McLaughlin
