Australian Music Centre | Breaking sound barriers

Event Details

Intervarsity Choral Festival comes to Hobart for the first time in ten years! Join us for a gala concert celebrating sixty years of intervarsity choral festivals. A rare opportunity to hear Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Festival Overture with massed voices and wind symphony, as well as Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances and Tippett’s sublime Negro Spirituals from 'A Child of Our Time'. The concert will feature the world premiere of Matthew Orlovich’s setting of Roland Robinson’s poem 'The Blue Gum Forest', commissioned for the 60th Intervarsity Choral Festival. Don Kay’s Northward the Strait, commissioned for the Bicentenary and performed in 1989 as a choral suite of four poems by Gwen Harwood, will be heard for the first time with Harwood’s originally commissioned six poems, re-orchestrated for soprano, baritone, chorus and wind symphony. Two of the Harwood poems are previously unheard and unpublished! Don’t miss this 'once in a decade' concert.

Performers: 60th Intervarsity Festival Choir, Hobart Wind Symphony, conductors Simon Reade & June Tyzack, baritone Christopher Richardson and soprano Amy Richardson.

Featured non-Australian music: Tchaikovsky - '1812 Festival Overture'; Borodin - 'Polovtsian Dances'; Tippett - Negro Spirituals from 'A Child of Our Time'.

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on 0431 711 894 or by email to publicity@60iv.aicsa.org.au

Featured Australian Works

	Northward the Strait (satb choir with band) (1987) by Don Kay — World premiere
	The Blue gum forest (satb choir with solo bass) (2009) by Matthew Orlovich — World premiere — performed by Christopher Richardson and June Tyzack

Featured artists

• Conductor June Tyzack
• Performer Christopher Richardson