Year: 2024

Sunday 15 December 2024, 3pm
St Ambrose Catholic Church, Woodend

PROGRAM
Praetorius Resonet in laudibus
arr. John O’Donnell Sussex Carol
arr. John O’Donnell The Lord at first did Adam make
Joubert There is no rose
Away in a manger
arr. Vaughan McAlley Carol of the Drum
arr. John O’Donnell Kommet ihr Hirten
arr. John O’Donnell Il est né le divin enfant
Ding dong! merrily on high
The holly and the Ivy
arr. John O’Donnell O Tannenbaum
Poston Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
arr. John O’Donnell Noël nouvelet
O little town of Bethlehem
Holst Lullay my liking
arr. John O’Donnell Stille Nacht
We wish you a Merry Christmas

Soprano
Victoria Brown*; Sarah Harris*; Claerwen Jones; Katherine Lieschke*; Nina Pereira
Alto
Cailin Howarth*; Hamish Madden; Lesley Salvestrin-Collins; Leonie Tonkin
Tenor
Vaughan McAlley; Abhishek Purty; Michael Stephens
Bass
Thomas Bell; Chetan Anthony Noronha*; Mike Ormerod; Mark Thawley; Nicholas Tolhurst*
*Soloists

Sunday 3 November 2024, 6pm
All Saints’ Anglican Church, St Kilda

Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) Missa pro defunctis

Soprano
Victoria Brown; Sarah Harris; Claerwen Jones; Nina Pereira; Deborah Summerbell
Alto
Claudia Funder; Lesley Salvestrin-Collins; Leonie Tonkin; Emma Warburton
Tenor
Peter Campbell; Vaughan McAlley; Abhishek Purty; Michael Stephens
Bass
Thomas Bell; Chetan Anthony Noronha; Mike Ormerod; Mark Thawley; Nicholas Tolhurst

Saturday 8 June 2024, 2:30pm
Sunday 9 June 2024, 7pm
St Ambrose Church, Woodend

Woodend Winter Arts Festival

PROGRAM
J.S. Bach: St John Passion (1725)
Ensemble Gombert & Accademia Arcadia
Directed by John O’Donnell

SOLOISTS
Christopher Watson, Evangelist
Jerzy Kozlowski, Jesus
Benjamin Fullarton, soprano
Christopher Roache, alto        
Timothy Reynolds, tenor      
Michael Strasser, bass

Soprano
Victoria Brown*; Sarah Harris; Claerwen Jones; Nina Pereira; Kate Strikker; Deborah Summerbell
Alto
Claudia Funder; Cailin Howarth; Lesley Salvestrin-Collins; Leonie Tonkin; Emma Warburton
Tenor
Vaughan McAlley*; Tim van Nooten; Abhishek Purty; Michael Stephens*
Bass
Thomas Bell; Chetan Anthony Noronha; Mike Ormerod; Mark Thawley; Nicholas Tolhurst*

*minor soloists

Sunday 28 April 2024, 2pm
All Saints’ Anglican Church, St Kilda

Jean Richafort (c.1480–c.1547) Christus resurgens
Cristóbal de Morales (c.1500–1553) Christus resurgens
Orlande de Lassus (c.1532–1594) Christus resurgens
Peter Philips (c.1560–1628) Christus resurgens
Heinrich Isaac (c.1450–1517) Missa paschale à 6
Nicolas Gombert (c.1495–c.1560) Regina caeli laetare à 12

SOPRANO
Katherine Lieschke; Deborah Summerbell; Fiona Seers; Claerwen Jones; Victoria Brown; Sarah Harris
ALTO
Lesley Salvestrin-Collins; Leonie Tonkin; Emma Warburton; Gowri Rajendran; Claudia Funder
TENOR
Abhishek Purty, Tim Van Nooten; Vaughan McAlley; Michael Stephens
BASS
Chetan Anthony Noronha; Nicholas Tolhurst; Thomas Bell; Mike Ormerod; Mark Thawley

Saturday 9 March 2024, 3pm
Trinity College Chapel, Parkville

PROGRAM
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) Fest- und Gedenksprüche, Opus 109
1. Unsere Väter
2. Wenn ein starker Gewappneter
3. Wo ist ein so herrlich Volk
Dedication read by Fiona Seers
Peter Campbell (b. 1964) What is the Glory Far Above?
Calvin Bowman (b. 1972) To Daffadills
Vaughan McAlley (b. 1970) To Rosemounde
William H. Harris (1883–1973) Faire is the heaven & Bring us, O Lord God
Gustav Holst (1874–1934) Nunc Dimittis
INTERVAL
Final fundraising announcement read by Victoria Brown
Frank Martin (1890–1974) Mass for Double Choir

Soprano
Victoria Brown; Sarah Harris; Claerwen Jones; Katherine Lieschke; Nina Pereira; Fiona Seers; Deborah Summerbell
Alto
Claudia Funder; Cailin Howarth; Hamish Madden; Lesley Salvestrin-Collins; Leonie Tonkin; Emma Warburton
Tenor
Peter Campbell; Vaughan McAlley; Tim van Nooten; Abhishek Purty; Michael Stephens
Bass
Thomas Bell; Chetan Anthony Noronha; Mike Ormerod; Mark Thawley; Nicholas Tolhurst