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Penrith City Choir
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24.01.2022 Thank you Macarthur Singers for lending these lovely singers to our A Joyful Noise concert.
23.01.2022 Come on and hear us!
22.01.2022 Today is the day! See you at 3pm St Stephens Church, High Street, Penrith. Tickets available at the door.
22.01.2022 Our concert is this Sunday. See you there.
21.01.2022 Due to the current health and welfare advice, the choir has decided to cancel rehearsals until further notice. Hopefully when this crisis is over we will come back together. Take care and stay healthy.
20.01.2022 A worldwide Self-isolation choir is advertised on Choraline to sing Handels Messiah on 31st May. The cost is about $32 AUD if you want to check it out
19.01.2022 Just a reminder we are still rehearsing every Wednesday night. Rehearsals are via Zoom. Please contact us if you want more details.
19.01.2022 Thank you Macarthur Singers!
18.01.2022 Session one is this Sunday. If you have kids or grandkids who are interested, please contact us.
17.01.2022 As you may know Penrith City Choir also runs a childrens choir. Penrith City Childrens Choir (PCCC) is for children between the ages of 7 - 13. In 2020 we have 4 projects. If you know any children who could be interested please read more. Project 1 is a "Singing Day" on Sunday 29 March. Project 2 is "A Festival of Choirs", this will involve a workshop and a public performance. Penrith City Choir as well as several other choirs will be involved in the performance. This will ...be on Sundays 17 and 24 May. Project 3 is titled "Saturday Afternoon" - this is a 4 minute football musical, to be held on Sundays August 9 and 23, with a performance after the second workshop. Project 4 will be for the St Finbars "Music and Readings for Christmas". This will involve 2 workshops Sunday 22 November and Sunday 13 December with a public performance on Sunday 20 December. Please feel free to contact Suzanne, our PCCC Co-ordinator (email: [email protected]) if you require any further information. We will create events for all of these projects.
16.01.2022 Thank you Megan Brown!
16.01.2022 The Hallelujah Chorus. A couple of members from our choir joined more than 44 choirs and orchestras across Sydney.
16.01.2022 A reminder there is no choir tonight. Our first rehearsal for 2020 is Wednesday 5th February. We are holding an open night on Wednesday 19th February for anyone interested in joining the choir. Please note the details on the poster below. See you then.
15.01.2022 Our next musicians for A Joyful Noise concert on Sunday 27 October. A recent graduate from Excelsia College, flautist Mikaela Wu has been performing in ensembles since 2012, most recently in Penrith Youth Orchestra and the South Pacific Concert Band. She studied under Svetlana Yaroslavskaya, principal flautist at The Metropolitan Orchestra and the Royal Australian Navy Band. Though majoring in flute performance for her studies, she has also sung famous choral works with th...e Excelsia College Choir such as Beethoven Symphony No 9 and Handel Messiah. Accompanying Mikaela is pianist Matthew Ardern who started lessons aged six. He now studies under Ludmila Beliavskaia at Excelsia College. Highlights of his musical career so far include singing in the Childrens Chorus with Opera Australia in their 2013-2014 production of Carmen and with St Andrews Cathedral Choir as they performed for Prince William and Kate on their royal tour in 2014. See more
15.01.2022 Some photos from A Joyful Noise. Thank you all our soloists.
13.01.2022 Meet the composers... A Joyful Noise concert is this Sunday. Mendelssohn was a child prodigy, writing string symphonies from the age of 12. His first publis...hed work, a piano quartet was written when he was 13 years old. In later years Mendelssohn played an important role in reviving the music of J S Bach in Europe. In 1829 he organised and conducted a highly acclaimed performance of the St Matthew Passion which had not been played since Bachs death in 1750. We will be singing three works by Mendelssohn including Lift Thine Eyes from his most famous oratorio Elijah. See more
13.01.2022 Thank you Academy Singers.
11.01.2022 Meet the choir... Anita, a solicitor from Richmond, loves the challenge of the fabulous repertoire such as Bizets Carmen, Verdis and Mozarts Requiem and Handels Messiah; especially accompanied by the Penrith Symphony Orchestra.
10.01.2022 Talented dancers from Glenbrook Ballet Theatre will delight the audience as they dance to selections from The Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky. The perfect way to start The Family Christmas Concert. If you love ballet, tutus and pointe shoes, dont miss this!
09.01.2022 Our friends concert.
08.01.2022 Only 12 days until the concert. Get your tickets before the event. Tickets are only $20 per person. Remember afternoon tea is included in the ticket.
08.01.2022 Another fun zoom rehearsal tonight. Remember to join in if you are a current member. Contact us if you want to join in. We probably wont have any face to face rehearsals until Spring, so this is a great way to keep singing until we are able to perform again.
08.01.2022 Our next musician for A Joyful Noise concert on Sunday, October 27 is Maeghan. Cellist Maeghan Eggert has been studying with Fran Firth for five years and will shortly be sitting her Grade 8 for the Australian Music Examinations Board. Maeghan recently completed high school and plans to pursue a degree in history and music at university in USA next year. She enjoys playing chamber music as well as orchestral repertoire and is a member of Penrith Youth Orchestra. For the concert A Joyful Noise Maeghan will be performing the romantic Elgie by French composer Gabriel Faur.
07.01.2022 We are still being told that singing is a high risk activity for COVID-19. So for term 3 we will be continuing via zoom. Our term 3 rehearsals start on Wednesday via zoom. Please contact us for the details if you want to join in. Hope to see you on Wednesday.
06.01.2022 Only one more day to wait! See you tomorrow.
04.01.2022 Our concert A Joyful Noise on Sunday, October 27, we are featuring some young musicians. Please meet Ethan. Violinist Ethan Powell studies with Goetz Richter, Associate Professor and Chair of Strings at the University of Sydneys Conservatorium of Music. Currently studying diploma level repertoire Ethan is 17 years old and will be sitting his HSC next year. In recent years he has been involved in various Youth Orchestra programs and independent workshops. In April he toured the UK with Sydney Youth Orchestra visiting Cardiff, Manchester, London, Cambridge and Oxford. For the concert A Joyful Noise Ethan will be performing Winter from the famous Four Seasons by Vivaldi
03.01.2022 We are starting 2020 rehearsals on Wednesday February 5th. See you soon.
01.01.2022 Here is the booking site for our next concert. Tickets only $20.
01.01.2022 Meet the choir... Hi we are Megan and Bruce and we are newer members of Penrith City Choir. We have had a lovely warm welcome to this wonderful group. Choral singing is an exhilarating joyful experience and we enjoy the challenge of learning. Lucy is a wonderful leader who challenges and encourages us all. Singing in a choir is a lot of fun and the learning experiences are wonderful! We are looking forward to the next performance at St Stephens church on 27th October at 3pm.
01.01.2022 Meet the composers... For A Joyful Noise one of the composers is Antonio Vivaldi. Dont be deceived by the white wig Vivaldi had curly red hair like many members of his family. A violinist like his father, Vivaldi went into the priesthood (like all good eldest sons) and was ordained at 25. His nickname was The Red Priest. J S Bach was a great fan of Vivaldis music.
