Join Melbourne’s premier vocal ensemble the Consort of Melbourne for Elysium, a concert of a cappella music that opens a window on worlds beyond our own. Featuring transcendent choral gems by Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli, Alice Chance, Johann Sebastian Bach, Heinrich Schütz and others, be transported by the beauty of voices in perfect harmony.
Enjoy this concert online or be part of a live studio audience at Melbourne’s Athenaeum 2 upstairs.
Digital Tickets: $24
Live Studio Audience: $44 ($32 concession)
ARTISTS
Katherine Norman – Soprano
Kristy Biber – Soprano
Jennifer George – Alto
Hannah Pietsch – Alto
Robin Parkin – Tenor
Christopher Roache – Tenor
Lucien Fischer – Bass
Thomas Drent – Bass
Steven Hodgson – Artistic Director
PROGRAM
Ēriks Ešenvalds – Stars
William Henry Harris – Faire is the Heaven
Matthew Nielsen – In Paradisum*
Heinrich Schütz – Unser Wandel ist im Himmel and Selig sind die Toten
Nico Muhly – I cannot attain
Edward Bairstow – Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Johann Sebastian Bach – excerpts from Jesu, meine Freude
Sergei Rachmaninov – Cherubic hymn
Alice Chance – Shadow
Missy Mazzoli – Vesper Sparrow*
*Australian premieres
