NSW Department of Education In Concert 2025

18 August 2025

In the Concert Hall

Classical Music

A magnificent concert series featuring a combined choir of hundreds of secondary students incorporating performers from across NSW public and secondary high schools.

In Concert 2025

The 2025 In Concert series is an annual showcase of secondary choral music within our NSW public schools. It features 800 high school students in a combined choir. 

This magnificient concert involves hundreds of schools and students from across NSW. This concert series is one of the core state level arts programs managed by The Arts Unit of the NSW Department of Education. 

The series also provides a unique opportunity for schools to access targeted high-quality repertoire and professional learning opportunities. 

This festival will also feature the NSW Public Schools Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Jazz Orchestra and the NSW Public Schools Singers.

Presented by NSW Department of Education

Program

Katie Noonan
Fiona Campbell
Louis Hurley
Andrew O'Connor
AVE: Guest Artists

Elizabeth Scott
Paul Holley
Conductor: Mass Choir

Plan your visit

Venue information

Our foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.

All Sydney Opera House foyers are pram accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators). Pram parking will be available outside the theatres in the Western Foyer.

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