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 most recent concert:
CORO AUSTRAL presents EL SABER
Wisdom! Wonder! Discovery! Knowledge! Curiosity!
A cappella choral music from 11th century Italy to 21st century Spain
2.30pm Sunday 6th April at St Augustine’s Church, Balmain
Explore with us the world of learning and invention through a cappella choral music
from 11th century Italy to 21st century Spain, via Belgium, Estonia, Turkey, Argentina and Cuba.
Highly regarded for its performances of Spanish and Latin American music, in this concert Coro Austral will take you on a creative journey of musical discovery.
Artistic Director Margot McLaughlin has devised a program that highlights the ways composers from many cultures and across the centuries have been inspired to craft exquisite music from the simple scale!
The centrepiece is Missa Ut Re Me Fa Sol La (Hexachord Mass) commemorating 500 years since the birth of Italian composer Giovanni Palestrina, one of the towering figures of the Renaissance, who inspired so many other composers. Palestrina ingeniously weaves his superb choral inventions around a scale based entirely on the sequence do re mi fa sol la.
Other creative settings of the scale are provided by Guido d’Arezzo (11th century Italy), Orlando di Lasso (16th Century Flemish), Guiseppe Verdi (19th century Italy) and Arvo Párt (20th century Estonia).
These pieces are complemented with works exploring wisdom and our place in the world by composers Pau Casals and Bernat Vivancos (Catalonia), Fernando Moruja (Argentina) and Silvio Rodriguez (Cuba).
Date
Sunday 6 April 2025 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Location
St Augustine's Catholic Church
Eaton Street, Balmain NSW 2041
Tickets
$40 | $35 | $20 - refreshments included
Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/CZLTA
Enquiries: 0410 505 562
Wisdom! Wonder! Discovery! Knowledge! Curiosity!
A cappella choral music from 11th century Italy to 21st century Spain
2.30pm Sunday 6th April at St Augustine’s Church, Balmain
Explore with us the world of learning and invention through a cappella choral music
from 11th century Italy to 21st century Spain, via Belgium, Estonia, Turkey, Argentina and Cuba.
Highly regarded for its performances of Spanish and Latin American music, in this concert Coro Austral will take you on a creative journey of musical discovery.
Artistic Director Margot McLaughlin has devised a program that highlights the ways composers from many cultures and across the centuries have been inspired to craft exquisite music from the simple scale!
The centrepiece is Missa Ut Re Me Fa Sol La (Hexachord Mass) commemorating 500 years since the birth of Italian composer Giovanni Palestrina, one of the towering figures of the Renaissance, who inspired so many other composers. Palestrina ingeniously weaves his superb choral inventions around a scale based entirely on the sequence do re mi fa sol la.
Other creative settings of the scale are provided by Guido d’Arezzo (11th century Italy), Orlando di Lasso (16th Century Flemish), Guiseppe Verdi (19th century Italy) and Arvo Párt (20th century Estonia).
These pieces are complemented with works exploring wisdom and our place in the world by composers Pau Casals and Bernat Vivancos (Catalonia), Fernando Moruja (Argentina) and Silvio Rodriguez (Cuba).
Date
Sunday 6 April 2025 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Location
St Augustine's Catholic Church
Eaton Street, Balmain NSW 2041
Tickets
$40 | $35 | $20 - refreshments included
Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/CZLTA
Enquiries: 0410 505 562
INNER WEST COUNCIL
through the Creative Town Halls initiative
through the Creative Town Halls initiative
Coro Austral toured Cuba in November/December 2017
Photo: Margot McLaughlin
Photo: Margot McLaughlin
