Songs of light from around the world, featuring music in Ukranian, Hindi, Tagalog and more…
River City Voices presents a ”Christmas” program like no other. Join us for a celebration of the music, languages and traditions that make the festive season in Parramatta vibrant and unique.
Led and programmed by Lanneke Jones, River City Voices, will perform a varied, lively and beautiful program of music drawn from the cultures, languages and people of River City Voices and Parramatta. This is a celebration of the many festive traditions that all live and thrive in our wonderful city.
River City Christmas: Peace and Light draws on music as varied as Bach to Australian Composer Ruth Mccall, Britten to works in Ukranian, Arabic and Hindi all celebrating what it is to live, celebrate and sing in Parramatta. Performed in the sublime acoustic of St Patrick’s Cathedral join us to celebrate what makes Christmas in Parramatta unlike anywhere else.
Earlybird $10 discounts on tickets available until September 30th!
Come Home Again - Es Devlin
We are thrilled to announce that River City Voices' singers will be performing as part of the Powerhouse Parramatta Opening Festival all through November!
Over 11 nights, acclaimed British artist Es Devlin presents her large-scale installation and choral performance, Come Home Again for the first time in Australia. Developed in collaboration with Australian scientists, composers and community voices, the intimate and monumental installation integrates drawing, sculpture and light.
Come Home Again features 244 hand-drawn depictions of vulnerable, endangered, and critically endangered species from NSW, identified in consultation with the Botanic Gardens of Sydney.
Sydney Chamber Opera will perform two new compositions specially commissioned from local composers: Yuwaalaraay musician Nardi Simpson’s Stamus in Semper: We Stand on the Always responding to Anton Bruckner’s historic ‘Locus Iste’ (1869) and Jack Symonds’ Radiant River, responding to ‘Locus Iste’ and a Cantata originally commissioned for the opening of the Sydney International Exhibition in 1879, held in the Powerhouse Collection.
Western Sydney choir River City Voices, intercultural singer collective Barayagal, and Noqu Vanua Choir, will join Sydney Chamber Opera each night to perform the new musical commissions.