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Gondwana Choirs
  • About
    • Latest News
    • Gondwana Choirs
    • Artistic Director
    • Artists
    • Board
    • Careers
    • Contact
    • Annual Reports & Policies
  • Performance Choirs
    • The Sydney Children’s Choir
    • Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir
    • Gondwana Chorale
    • Gondwana Voices
    • Marliya
  • Programs
    • Our Choral Programs
    • Sydney Children’s Choir
    • Gondwana National Choirs 2022
    • Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir
  • Gondwana Online
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Gondwana Choirs

 
  • About
  • Vision
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  • Impact

About

Gondwana Choirs comprises the most accomplished choral groups of young people in Australia. Led by Artistic Director & Founder, Lyn Williams AM, the organisation is synonymous with performance excellence and has a reputation for the highest standards of young people’s choral music in Australia and internationally.

In 2019, the Sydney Children’s Choir celebrated its 30th anniversary with the spectacular Gondwana World Choral Festival, which brought the world’s finest children’s choirs to Sydney for a week of 21 performances. Broadcast on ABC Classic, the festival included the world premieres of Only I by Nico Muhly and I am Martuwarra by Paul Stanhope. In 2020, SCC has been invited to perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

Gondwana’s national choirs represent Australia on the world stage. In 2019, Gondwana Voices travelled to Berlin to perform Brett Dean’s Vexations and Devotions with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Philharmonie under the baton of Vladmimir Jurowksi. In 2020, Gondwana was honoured to be the only Australian choir invited to perform at the World Symposium on Choral Music hosted by the International Federation for Choral Music.

Based in Cairns, Queensland, Gondwana Indigenous Choir and their ‘big sisters’ Marliya are the most powerful and well-recognised group of young Indigenous performers in the country. The rich, vibrant sound of the choir warms the hearts of audiences whenever it performs. GIC regularly collaborates with the Australian Chamber Orchestra Collective and with leading Indigenous artists and has a commitment to commissioning new choral music incorporating Indigenous language and story, in collaboration with cultural custodians.

Marliya was first formed to appear in Felix Riebl’s Spinifex Gum. With Spinifex Gum, Marliya has appeared at the Adelaide and Sydney Festivals, at Dreamtime at the G, and the closing ceremony of the Invictus Games. In 2019 Spinifex Gum was nominated for Best New Australian Work in the Helpmann Awards and performed at the Garma Festival and across Western Australia, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory. In 2020, Marliya performed at the Perth International Arts Festival and WOMAD, and was invited to perform at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney and the WOW Festival in Brisbane.

Vision

To be Australia’s choir, which creates and presents excellent choral work, gives voice to modern Australia in all its diversity and is celebrated by audiences.

Values

We strive for excellence, every time
We have an uncompromising commitment to the highest standards in the creation of choral art. We offer young people skills and opportunities to perform in a professional environment with Australia’s finest musicians.

Innovation is essential
We are committed to innovation and creativity in all aspects of our work. In this way, we can lead the future of choral music as an art form.

Everyone is welcome
We endeavour to give any committed and talented young person the opportunity to participate in our programs, irrespective of financial, social, physical or distance barriers.

Diversity is essential to Australia’s story
We seek out Australia’s best young talent, representative of all backgrounds. We need them to truly tell modern Australia’s story through song.

Audiences deserve to be inspired
We want every seat at every performance filled by delighted and uplifted audience members.

Impact

• Our impact extends from individual choristers, composers and musicians to audiences, the community and to the music and education sectors.
• We have a transformative impact on children’s lives, developing a passion for music, building their self esteem and creative expression.
• We extend choral work as an artform.
• We set a standard of excellence for others to follow.
• We celebrate underrepresented voices and bring them to the fore.
• We share our skills and expertise with choirs around Australia.
• We change the perception of what a choir can be and what choirs are capable of.
• We strive to make choral singing an integral part of Australia’s everyday life.

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Dawes Point NSW 2000
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Indigenous Children’s Choir
Gondwana Choirs is supported by the
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