ACS Season 2023

Program 1. Us (ACS²)

After debut performances at the inaugural A Cappella Academy at UKARIA with Timothy Wayne-Wright (May 2022), and in their own program, Beginnings (October 2022), we welcome back the newest member of the Adelaide Chamber Singers family, ACS².

This ensemble features Adelaide’s leading emerging chamber singers mentored by long-term members of ACS.

Program to include Ben van Tienen’s Across the Dark song cycle, William Byrd’s Gaudeamus Omnes, and Arvo Pärt’s Da Pacem Domine, conducted by Carl Crossin OAM, ACS Founder & Conductor Emeritus.

Program 2. Behold the Wonder

“Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of the earth’s greening. Now think.” (Hildegard von Bingen)

Across three different venues and acoustic spaces, Behold the Wonder is a concert experience based around the works of the 12th century polymath and saint, Hildegard von Bingen. We explore Hildegard’s music, teachings, and the profound influence she still has today. The program uses plainsong, and works that are infl uenced by early music, to create a texture of space, stillness and healing.

Featuring additional works by Anne Cawrse, Anna Meredith, Richard Allain and Ola Gjeilo.

Program 3. Silver and Gold

Celebrate Christmas with music old and new, with a first half of glorious a cappella Christmas music, including Mistletoebird by Rachel Bruerville, commissioned by ACS.

In the second half, we travel back through time to the French Baroque, where Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Christmas Mass, the Messe de minuit pour Noël, celebrates the news of the birth of Christ with joy and elegance, in the setting of a midnight mass. Composed in 1694, Charpentier has rearranged ten traditional French Christmas hymns to create a piece of dance-like energy and grace.

Featuring Baroque chamber ensemble with both Adelaide Chamber Singers and our mentored second ensemble ACS².