Concert 2 - The Canberra Times Opening Gala - GOLD

When: Friday 14 May, 8.15pm
Venue: St Christopher's Church, Manuka - Map
Duration: 2 hours
Tickets: $39 // $35
Please bring a cushion.
G.F. Handel - Zadok the Priest
The Harp Consort - The Harp of Gold
The Harp Consort - The Harp of Gold
Elena Kats-Chernin - Beaver Blaze**
Miroslav Bukovsky (trumpet), Luke Sweeting (piano), Bill Williams (bass), Ed Rodrigues (drums)
J.S. Bach - Easter Oratorio BWV 249
J.S. Bach - Cantata Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft BWV 50
Song Company: Anna Fraser, Nicole Thomson, Elli Green sopranos, Tobias Cole alto, Lanneke Wallace-Wells mezzo soprano, Paul McMahon tenor, Richard Black tenor, Mark Donnelly baritone, Clive Birch bass, Alexander Knight bass
J.S. Bach - Easter Oratorio BWV 249
J.S. Bach - Cantata Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft BWV 50
Song Company: Anna Fraser, Nicole Thomson, Elli Green sopranos, Tobias Cole alto, Lanneke Wallace-Wells mezzo soprano, Paul McMahon tenor, Richard Black tenor, Mark Donnelly baritone, Clive Birch bass, Alexander Knight bass
Canberra Camerata with T'ang Quartet, Thomas Indermühle (oboe/oboe d'amore), Virginia Taylor (flute), Anna McMichael (violin)
Oriana Chorale, Igitur Nos, The Resonants, Combined Canberra Grammar Schools' Chamber Choir, Radford College Chamber Choir, Burgmann Anglican School Chamber Choir
Directed by Roland Peelman
The Harp Consort (presented in Association with Musica Viva Australia) Ian Harrison (bagpipes and cornetto), Steven Player (baroque guitar and Dublin guitar), Andrew Lawrence-King (Irish baroque Harp and Psaltery)
Handel’s Zadok the Priest performed by the Canberra Camerata and a massed choir of over 100 voices will lead into Irish folk music and dancing by the Harp Consort led by Internationally acclaimed harpist Andrew Lawrence King. A Jazz reworking of the Elena Kats-Chernin’s festival theme will precede Bach’s Easter Oratorio, one of his most joyous and rarely heard works, performed by the golden voices of the Song Company, with International star oboist Thomas Indermühle and the Canberra Camerata under the direction of Roland Peelman.
*Premiere of the Jazz version
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