Gisborne Singers Concert featuring Braemar Students
This May, nineteen children aged 8-17 will have the incredible opportunity to perform an Australian premiere with one of Victoria’s best amateur choral ensembles, The Gisborne Singers.
The Children’s Chorus is formed largely from children and grandchildren of Gisborne Singers’ choristers. Between them, the children represent more than six schools from the local area. Braemar students, Hayley Scott, Chloe and Jessica Irwin, Eliza Patterson Lade, Alana Harkin, and Matt and Lauren Barake, are all excited to be a part of this concert.
The Children’s Chorus features in Sir Karl Jenkins’ Cantata Memoria (for the Children). Written in 2016, the work commemorates the 50th anniversary of the mining tragedy in Aberfan, Wales. The work is a deeply moving piece; sensitively and beautifully written.
In January 2017, the piece was performed in New York and it is now almost time for its Australian premiere. The performances will feature orchestra and professional soloists, including Braemar Old Collegian (2012), Rosemary Cocklin, in her debut performance with the choir.
Se below for concert dates:
- 3pm, Sunday 20 May at Church of Christ, Gisborne
- 3pm, Sunday 27 May at Our Lady of the Rosary, Kyneton.
More information about the work, the Children’s Chorus, and The Gisborne Singers can be found on facebook @thegisbornesingers or www.gisbornesingers.org.au
