2022-2023
A Tribute to Our Queen
Saturday Oct 15, 2022 - 7:30 PM
The Tallis Choir pays homage to our recently deceased Sovereign with a programme in two parts:
The first half is a memorial, with music chosen to express the grief and sorrow experienced when suffering a loss, including the Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary by Henry Purcell and the glorious motets for double choir by William Harris: Faire is the Heaven and Bring Us O Lord.
The second half celebrates Her Majesty’s life and singular devotion to serving the people of all her realms with music from her coronation in 1953. Featured works include the Mass in G minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams and O Clap Your Hands by Orlando Gibbons.
A Spanish Renaissance Christmas
Saturday Dec 3, 2022 - 7:30 PM
The Tallis Choir presents: A Spanish Renaissance Christmas, including the music of composers such as Victoria, Guerrero, Morales and Esquivel. Among the featured works will be Victoria’s motet O Magnum Mysterium and the Parody mass based on the motet.
Tickets: $30, $25 and $10*
Music For a Time of Plague
Saturday Mar 4, 2023 - 7:30 PM
The Tallis Choir presents: Music For a Time of Plague
If the Covid Pandemic has taught us anything, it is that we are not that much different than our forebears. Our medicines may be more effective but even they have their limitations. Plagues have been with us throughout human history and little has changed. In Music For a Time of Plague, we look back at how composers reacted to plagues and pandemics and how it affected their music. The featured composition will be John Sheppard’s monumental Media Vita which, it is believed, he wrote to commemorate the death of a close friend who died of influenza when it swept through London in 1557, killing up to one in ten people in the city.
Tickets: $30, $25 and $10*
A Celebration of William Byrd
Saturday May 6, 2023 - 7:30 PM
The Tallis Choir presents: A Celebration of William Byrd
Join us for a musical journey back in time as we celebrate the life and works of one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance era, William Byrd, on this 400th anniversary of his death.
Let yourselves be transported to another era by the sublime harmonies and intricate melodies of Byrd’s works.
Tickets: $30, $25 and $10*