The National Youth Choir of Australia hosts its major 2010 concert at Adelaide’s Elder Hall on Friday July 9 at 6.30pm.
NYCA is Australia’s premier chamber choir for young adult singers aged 18-26 and features many of the nation’s finest young voices, including several ‘rising stars’ from Adelaide’s own lively music scene.
In Adelaide they they will be joined by special local guests, the Marryatville High School Concert Choir. Entry is by Gold Coin Donation, making it a rare opportunity for the whole family to experience the beauty of choral music, presented by high-calibre artists in one of Adelaide’s best concert venues.
NYCA this year boasts UK-based Guest Conductor Mike Brewer, OBE, leading the choir in a vibrant and varied program including beautiful English sacred and secular works, exciting contemporary Australian choral repertoire and some of Brewer’s own wonderful world music arrangements. The renowned and energetic Honorary Music Director of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, Mike Brewer spends several months each year working with choirs around the world and is also well known for his best-selling book series including ‘Kickstart Your Choir’, and for his set of African songs, Hamba Lulu.
The National Youth Choir of Australia, founded in 1995, brings together many of Australia’s best young adult singers each year in what is still Australia’s only truly national choir for this age group.
NYCA has held annual seasons in every Australian state, and is visiting Adelaide for the first time since 2004. Past seasons have featured some of Australia's finest choral conductors, as well as visiting conductors from the USA and Canada.
Along with guests the Marryatville High School Concert Choir, this year’s Elder Hall concert is sure to be an exuberant celebration of that most beautiful of musical instruments, the human voice.
In addition to the Elder Hall concert on July 9 at 6.30pm, NYCA will perform a preview concert at Newland Memorial Uniting Church, Victor Harbour on Thursday 8 July at 12.30pm.
National Youth Choir of Australia
Artistic Director: Carl Crossin (Director, Elder Conservatorium of Music; Director, Adelaide Chamber Singers)
2010 Guest Conductor: Mike Brewer (Hon. Musical Director, National Youth Choirs of Great Britain)
Singers include: Victoria Anderson (SA), Jody Bell (Qld), Michael Bradshaw (Qld), Alana Brook (SA), Nick Coxhill (SA), Lucien Fischer (WA), Thomas Friberg (WA), Cathy Green (Qld), Kerrin Grosvenor (Tas), Andrew Hislop (WA), Budi Mandagow (Qld), Sam Mitchell (Qld), Andrew O’Connor (WA), Claira Smith (SA), Ariel-Sylvan Thornton (WA)
Marryatville High School Concert Choir
Director: Aldis Sils
Duration: 90 minutes, no interval, 6.30pm Friday July 9, Elder Hall, North Terrace, Adelaide. Entry by Gold Coin Donation