Varsity Voices

The Chamber Choir, Varsity Voices (formerly known as Victoria Voices), is a mixed choir of 20-25 singers, whose repertoire consists of mostly unaccompanied works from the Renaissance period to the present day. Programmes have included Elizabethan madrigals, Victorian parlour songs, Brahms motets, Purcell anthems, Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb, Bach's Magnificat in D, Thomas Luis Victoria’s Motet and Mass O Magnum Mysterium and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms. The Choir’s director is Peter Walls.

In 2004 the choir performed Bach’s cantata Ein Feste Burg for the Lutheran Church in Newtown. More recently the choir performed Palestrina’s Missa Salvum Me Fac at a lunchtime concert at St Andrews on the Terrace. The choir also made up the chorus for Opera Victoria’s 2005 production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and The Enchanted Isle by David Farquhar.

Rehearsals take place on Wednesdays from 6 to 8pm in the Hunter Council Chamber. Auditions are held at the beginning of the first trimester.

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