Canticum Chamber Choir
Canticum Chamber Choir is an independent semi-professional choir based in Brisbane. Formed in 1995 with Emily Cox as its founding Music Director, its members are skilled amateur musicians, some with formal musical training and others professionals in other fields.
The choir’s repertoire runs from the Renaissance and Baroque through late twentieth-century and contemporary choral music, and it has given many premieres. Besides its own concert series, Canticum has worked with professional companies, including several productions with the Queensland Ballet and many concerts with the QSO and the QYSO.
Other highlights include the Brisbane Festival, the Queensland Biennial Festival of Music and Cathedrals Week. A landmark was its selection from an international field to perform at the 7th World Symposium on Choral Music in Kyoto in 2005. In 2010 it sang Handel’s Messiah with the QSO under Geoffrey Lancaster. It later took part in the world premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin’s Symphonia Eluvium for the Brisbane Festival, with Brisbane Chorale and the QSO. Recordings include In Paradisum, a celebration of Australian choral music, and Luminescence (MCD 558).
Artist's website: www.canticum.org.au
Canticum Chamber Choir is featured on the following titles
Joy to the World
Christmas at the Sydney Town Hall, presented annually by the City of Sydney, began in 1978 when Robert Ampt became the fourth Sydney City Organist. The event has since grown into one of the city’s major Christmas celebrations.
Luminescence
Light is integral to colour, and musical integrity is often described in terms of its colour or luminescence. Celebrating Canticum’s 21st birthday, the programme seeks composers whose music shows a particular sensitivity to the choral instrument and to beautiful text.