being in the mso chorus
One of the great stabilising factors of life is consistency in something you love.
Our last MSO concert before the Covid lockdown in 2020 was performing Beethoven
Symphony No 9 ‘Choral’. Half the chorus, singing from memory and dressed in civvies, was located on stage with Circa acrobatic dancers interpreting the music between us.
As a tenor, singing continuously in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus (and its predecessor, Melbourne Chorale) for the past 37 years, it has brought me the joys of aisecond family with great camaraderie between us all, the fulfilment felt in singing (to our hearts’ content) and the buzz you get from performing well. Ifjyou could bottle the euphoria you feel, you have a great drug to savour for years to come.
My performances for 2023 :
intro
amalgam
contact
and …
February
Orff Carmina
Burana
Benjamin Northey conductor
Stacey Alleaume soprano
Paul McMahon tenor
Warwick Fyfe baritone
MSO Chorus
Warren Trevelyan-Jones chorusmaster
“A huge success”
Sydney Myer Music Bowl
April
Britten’s
War Requiem
Jaime Martín conductor
Samantha Clarke soprano
Toby Spence tenor
David Greco baritone
Gondwana Voices
Lyn Williams AM Gondwana Voices director
MSO Chorus
Warren Trevelyan-Jones chorusmaster
Friday 14 April @ 7.30 pm
Saturday 15 April @ 7.30 pm
Hamer Hall, Melbourne Arts Centre, St Kilda Road
June
Rachmaninov
Vespers All-
Night Vigil
Warren Trevelyan-Jones conductor
Friday 2 June @ 7.30 pm
St Patrick's Cathedral
August
Wynton
Marsalis All Rise
Benjamin Northey conductor
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis
Consort of Melbourne
MSO Chorus
Warren Trevelyan-Jones chorusmaster
Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Wynton Marsalis composed All Rise in 1999. Representing a series of events, the twelve movements blend the sounds of jazz, blues, classical and indigenous music from around the world to represent humanity’s enduring ascendance over time.
Friday 25 August @ 7.30 pm
Saturday 26 August @ 7.30 pm
Hamer Hall, Melbourne Arts Centre, St Kilda Road
September
Handel
Coronation Anthems
Warren Trevelyan-Jones conductor
Friday 22 September
@ 7.30 pm
St Patrick's Cathedral
December
Handel’s Messiah
Sir James MacMillan conductor
Sara Macliver soprano
Fiona Campbell alto
Andrew Goodwin tenor
Sam Dale Johnson bass
MSO Chorus
Warren Trevelyan-Jones chorusmaster
Saturday 9 December @ 7 pm
Sunday 10 December @ 5 pm
Hamer Hall, Melbourne Arts Centre, St Kilda Road
MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio
Sir James MacMillan conductor
Kathryn Radcliffe soprano
Christopher Tonkin baritone
MSO Chorus
Warren Trevelyan-Jones chorusmaster
Saturday 16 December @ 7.30 pm
Hamer Hall, Melbourne Arts Centre, St Kilda Road
