CONTENT COURTESY MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL SINGERS FESTIVAL 2018
Melbourne International Singers Festival 2018 welcomes Antony Pitts from The Song Company
In the lead up to its ninth annual Melbourne International Singers Festival, the festival unfortunately has to advise that due to ill health, Richard Gill AO has to withdraw. Richard very much regrets not being able to proceed and wishes all participants a rewarding and enjoyable festival. The festival wishes Richard a speedy recovery.
Renowned Australian conductor Antony Pitts will replace Richard as guest conductor, courtesy of The Song Company, leading our festival choruses, workshops and masterclasses.
Antony Pitts is a composer, conductor, producer, and recipient of the Radio Academy BT Award, the Prix Italia, and a Cannes Classical Award.
A Chapel Royal treble, Academic and Honorary Senior Scholar at New College, Oxford, founder of British ensemble TONUS PEREGRINUS, Senior Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, and Senior Producer at BBC Radio 3, he made his Glastonbury Festival debut in 2014, and in 2016 joined The Song Company as the first new Artistic Director for a quarter of a century.
He’s been commissioned for, among others, Alexander Litvinenko, Cheltenham Festival, King’s College London, New College Oxford, Rundfunkchor Berlin, The Swingles, and Westminster Cathedral, with premières of his music in Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal, and Sydney Opera House, and releases on Challenge Records, Delphian, Hyperion, Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, Novum, Signum, and Unknown Public, including the Missa Unitatis and the oratorio-musical Jerusalem-Yerushalayim.
You can still register if you would like to take part in the festival.
BE CHALLENGED, INSPIRED AND ENTERTAINED AT #MISF18
June 7-11
(Queen’s Birthday Weekend)
Deakin Edge
Tickets are also on sale for our concert program, featuring a wonderful mix of fantastic choirs, ensembles and premieres. We would love to see you there. Our concert program includes
· The internationally acclaimed, award winning The Song Company with Artistic Director, Antony Pitts, in True Love Story on 8 June at 7.30pm.
· The exciting young talents of XL Arts Inc. present a recital of music by Chopin and associated composers in Chopin in Song on 10 June at 2.30pm.
· Two Festival Showcase Concerts on 9 June at 7.30pm and on 10 June at 7pm, respectively feature a wonderful mix of choirs taking part in the festival. These include The Choir of Hard Knocks, MEN ALOUD!, Divine Divas of Sunbury, The Velvetones, Choir of Southern Lights, THECHO!R, Southern Sistars and Southern Brothers.
· Festival Finale Concert featuring the 300 voice Massed Festival Chorus led by Antony Pitts, Women’s Festival Chorus led by Claire Patti, Men’s Festival Chorus led by Dr Jonathon Welch AM, Choir of Hard Knocks plus a selection of festival choirs and artists on 11 June at 2.30pm.
Please go to http://schoolofhardknocks.
“We can’t wait to see you all at the Festival for another extraordinary weekend of workshops, educational experiences and performances that will leave you challenged, inspired and entertained!”
– Dr Jonathon Welch AM, Founding Artistic Director
Proceeds support the School of Hard Knocks in providing arts and cultural programs to the vulnerable and marginalised in our community.
