Kyrie Classics
Sunday 26 March 2023
ChoirWorks (as Brisbane Concert Choir) performed the Kyrie movement from John Rutter’s Mass of the Children and Earth Teach Me Quiet by Eriks Esenvalds.
Esk Community Choir together with other local groups presented their own selections.
We then joined all of the other choristers to present a final massed choir item to conclude the 45th anniversary celebrations.
Sing Hallelujah
Saturday 27 May 2023
ChoirWorks (as Brisbane Concert Choir) presented this unique narrated musical journey through the origins and evolution of classic choruses across the centuries.
Songs of the Earth
Saturday 9 September 2023
This one-of-a-kind event took us on a musical journey through the rich traditions of gardening and cultivation in Australia and Europe to the global environmental awakening of the 20th century.
Jerry Coleby-Williams (from ABC-TV’s Gardening Australia) provided expert commentary in his own inimitable style as we went on this journey through the natural world.
Christmas in Blue
Sunday 3 December 2023
A sellout audience sipped something festive, relaxed and listened to Christmas carols set in the jazz idiom by UK composers Will Todd and Pete Churchill, and locals Kelsey Giarola and Ian Maurer. This was a twilight concert starting at 5.00pm.
Director of music Dr. Debra Shearer-Dirié conducted ChoirWorks, accompanied by a jazz ensemble featuring vocalist Kelsey Giarola.