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Sydney Philharmonia Choirs

Season 2025

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs' 2025 Season is full of music that will fill you with joy.

The season opens with the Choirs and Sydney Opera House Grand Organ at full throttle. There are great classics like St Matthew Passion with a Romantic twist by Felix Mendelssohn, Brahms’ consoling ‘human requiem’ and JS Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. 

Legendary choir leader Eric Whitacre makes a welcome return, and celebrate new voices like Nardi Simpson, Alice Chance and Joanna Forbes L’Estrange. There’s a place in the choir for everyone in ChorusOz, taking on Ralph Vaughan Williams’ epic A Sea Symphony.

I Was Glad: Cathedral Classics

1 Apr 2025

Find inspiration and pageantry in divine music for choir and organ drawn from the English cathedral tradition.

  • Classical Music
  • Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
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Bach’s St Matthew Passion

17 Apr 2025

Experience all the drama and colour of Bach’s masterwork in a rare performance of Mendelssohn’s 1841 version performed on Romantic period instruments.

  • Classical Music
  • Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
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Rossini in Paris

17 May 2025

Sydney Philharmonia’s Festival Chorus sings Rossini’s final masterpiece with dramatic highlights from his grand opera William Tell.

  • Classical Music
  • Sydney Philharmonia Choirs

ChorusOz: A Sea Symphony

8 Jun 2025

ChorusOz gathers under the sails of the Sydney Opera House to sing Vaughan Williams’ mighty Sea Symphony.

  • Classical Music
  • Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
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Eternity in an Hour

27 Jun 2025

Legendary choral leader and composer Eric Whitacre returns to Sydney to conduct his latest choral work, a mystical meditation in sound.

  • Classical Music
  • Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
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Lost Birds

16 Aug 2025

White Bay Power Station is the new venue for a powerful concert inspired by the natural world.

  • Classical Music
  • Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
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A Child of Our Time

13 Sep 2025

The rapturous power of Michael Tippett’s modern classic speaks to our own time.

  • Classical Music
  • Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
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Brahms: A German Requiem

25 Oct 2025

Overflowing with heartfelt emotion and universal connections, this is a ‘human requiem’ to comfort and console.

  • Classical Music
  • Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
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Bach’s Christmas Oratorio

13 Dec 2025

Follow the star with the three wise men in Bach’s brilliant and festive Christmas Oratorio.

  • Classical Music
  • Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
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Carols At the House

12 – 14 Dec 2025

A festive program of Christmas favourites and unexpected delights, with plenty of audience participation.

  • Classical Music
  • Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
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