Aims

Encourage the art and practice of singing with special emphasis on choral singing. To organise, manage, or sponsor entertainment of an educational or cultural character.

Membership

Approximately 130 members

Rehearsals

Tuesday evenings from 7.15-9.45pm at the Cynthia Poulton Hall, St Peters Cathedral, 27 King William Road, North Adelaide. Additional rehearsals may be required prior to performances

Director of Music

Aldis Sils

Accompanist

Alexander Hanysz | website

Biography

The Adelaide Philharmonia Chorus (APC) is the premier large choir in South Australia, singing a range of music from classical to contemporary works. The appointment of Timothy Sexton as Music Director in May 2000, marked a very new and exciting direction for the Chorus, evident in the range of new collaborations, most notably with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and State Opera of South Australia.

In May 2001, the APC performed Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and the Faure Requiem in an Australian premiere of these pieces as staged works with the Australian Ballet. Other performances with the State Opera of South Australia and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) include Verdi's Requiem, Cavalleria Rusticana as the off-stage chorus and with the ASO the 2003 & 2004 Ultimate Symphonic Spectacular at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.

Other significant events in which the APC has been involved include the first performance in SA in more than forty years of Honegger's King David and a collaboration with the Adelaide University Choral Society to present Handel's magnificent oratorio Joshua, conducted by Graham Abbott. On several occasions the Chorus has joined Keith Michell in his highly successful concert All the World's a Stage.

The APC also travels to regional areas and has performed at Music on the Murray in Waikerie, as well as events in Port Pirie and Gawler.

In January 2008 the Chorus will start a new chapter with the appointment of Aldis Sils as its Director of Music.

A selection of music performed by the Adelaide Philharmonia Chorus within the last 5 years:

Bach Wachet auf
Bach Cantata No. 50
Bach Christmas Oratorio
Berlioz Mess solennelle (Australian Premiere)
Edwards Symphony No.4 – Star Chant
Faure Requiem
Handel Messiah
Handel Joshua
Honegger King David
Jenkins Songs of Sanctuary (exerpts), A Mass for Peace (exerpts)
Mozart Mass in C Major
Orff Carmina Burana
Rutter Requiem
Schubert Mass in C Major, D452
Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Antartica
Verdi Requiem