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 this year 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 this year it gave the first Australian performance of Martín Palmeri’s Misa Tango.
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Our next concert:
Coro Austral presents
O Magnum Mysterium
A Choral Celebration
3pm Sunday 27 November at St Joseph’s Church, Rozelle
To celebrate the Advent/Christmas season, Coro Austral will take you on a journey from Spanish and Portuguese Renaissance to contemporary Latin America, stopping at Norway, Iceland, Germany, Italy and Ukraine on the way!
In the resonant acoustic of St Joseph’s Church, Rozelle, Coro Austral presents a concert featuring the soaring beauty of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s mass based on his famous setting of the Christmas-themed motet O Magnum Mysterium (O Great Mystery) written some twenty years earlier. Our concert will also showcase settings of this text by Renaissance Spanish composer Christobal de Morales and contemporary Venezuelan composer César Alejandro Carrillo.
17th century Portuguese composer Diogo Dias Melgás’ rarely heard Salve Regina (Hail Queen) will be complemented with a setting of Psalm 126, Shir hamma ‘alot (A Song of Ascents) by the 16th century Italian/Jewish composer Salamone Rossi.
Coro Austral’s journey of carols and villancicos will take you to Colombia (A Belén Pastores – To Bethlehem, shepherds), Iceland (Bára Grímsdóttir’s Ėg vil lofa eina þá – I will praise her), Norway and Germany (Ola Gjeilo’s setting of Hildegard von Bingen’s Ave Generosa – Hail, nobly born), Spain (Francisco Guerrero’s A un niño llorando al hielo – to a child crying in the snow, and the Catalán traditional Fum, Fum, Fum), and Ukraine (Mykola Leontovich’s famous Carol of the Bells, sung in Spanish).
We have kept ticket prices the same as they were in 2019 - adult $35; concession $30 and students $20. Reservations can be made through TryBooking.
In the resonant acoustic of St Joseph’s Church, Rozelle, Coro Austral presents a concert featuring the soaring beauty of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s mass based on his famous setting of the Christmas-themed motet O Magnum Mysterium (O Great Mystery) written some twenty years earlier. Our concert will also showcase settings of this text by Renaissance Spanish composer Christobal de Morales and contemporary Venezuelan composer César Alejandro Carrillo.
17th century Portuguese composer Diogo Dias Melgás’ rarely heard Salve Regina (Hail Queen) will be complemented with a setting of Psalm 126, Shir hamma ‘alot (A Song of Ascents) by the 16th century Italian/Jewish composer Salamone Rossi.
Coro Austral’s journey of carols and villancicos will take you to Colombia (A Belén Pastores – To Bethlehem, shepherds), Iceland (Bára Grímsdóttir’s Ėg vil lofa eina þá – I will praise her), Norway and Germany (Ola Gjeilo’s setting of Hildegard von Bingen’s Ave Generosa – Hail, nobly born), Spain (Francisco Guerrero’s A un niño llorando al hielo – to a child crying in the snow, and the Catalán traditional Fum, Fum, Fum), and Ukraine (Mykola Leontovich’s famous Carol of the Bells, sung in Spanish).
We have kept ticket prices the same as they were in 2019 - adult $35; concession $30 and students $20. Reservations can be made through TryBooking.
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Coro Austral toured Cuba in November/December 2017
Photo: Margot McLaughlin
Photo: Margot McLaughlin
