Vocal - research and creative activity
Conservatorium Chamber Choir
The Chamber Choir is a choral ensemble of students who are auditioned each year. The Chamber Choir is well - known for its singing of renaissance/ baroque and twentieth century works, including Australian compositions. In 2002 it received prizes at the Bartok Choral competition in Hungary and on the same tour it won first prize and special prize from the city of Vienna for its singing.
More recently the Chamber Choir has performed Cantatas of J.S.and CPE Bach as well the St. John Passion of J.S.Bach with baroque orchestra. In 2004 it performed works by Avo Pärt, John Tavener and Australian composers, Matthew Orlovich, Laura Bishop and Sean van Doornum.
Most of the Chamber Choir's concerts are broadcast on ABC Classic Fm.
This year on 31st May it will perform Israel in Egypt by Handel with baroque orchestra. The Chamber Choir has been invited in August to join the Auckland University Chamber Choir to sing the Requiem of Fauré with the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Conservatorium Choir
The Conservatorium Choir is the large ensemble which gives most of its performances with the Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra. In recent years it has performed The Creation of Haydn, Elijah by Mendelssohn, Les Noces of Stravinsky, Chichester Psalms by Bernstein and the Requiems of both Mozart and Brahms.
This year, on the 2nd and 4th of June it will perform the Te Deum of Dvorak and the Mass in c minor (The Great) by Mozart with the Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra.
Most of the Conservatorium Choir's concerts are broadcast on ABC Classic FM.
Vocal Studies and Opera
Visiting Artists
Cheryl Barker
Peter Coleman-Wright
Emma Matthews
Teddy Tahu- Rhodes
Bruce Martin
John Bolton-Wood
Tony Legge
Philip Langridge
Emma Kirkby
Anke Hoeppmer
David Wakeham
Mark Gaal
Matthew Barclay
Cathy Dadd
Dr Rowena Cowley
Research and creative work profile
DMA Research Manhattan School of Music, May 1999 Concept and Terminology in Vocal Pedagogy and Voice Science: Respiration and Phonation in the work of Cornelius L. Reid and Richard Miller.