Experience the beauty of twenty-four of the world’s youngest voices in one of the world’s oldest musical traditions.

The Vienna Boys Choir returns to Australia for a very special national tour, including the premiere of a new work by composer Elena Kats-Chernin.
For more than 500 years the Vienna Boys Choir (or Wiener Sängerknaben) has been an enduring symbol of Europe, having worked with composers such as Fux, Salieri, Haydn and Bruckner and conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Sir George Solti.
The choir is one of the world’s most active musical ensembles and performs over 300 concerts a year. While providing the music for the Sunday Mass in Vienna’s Imperial Chapel – which they have done since 1498! – the choir also tours internationally, performing each year in some of the world’s finest concert halls.
For the first time, the choir will premiere a specially commissioned work by an Australian composer, with Elena Kats-Chernin’s evocative new vocal setting of the much-loved Australian poem, My Country by Dorothea Mackellar.
The tour program also includes an inspiring selection of the choir’s own repertoire, including pieces from Renaissance to Modern and of course the beautiful Viennese favourites of Johann and Josef Strauss. 

Performing Dates:

Brisbane Festival, QLD | Queensland Performing Arts Centre
September 09, 2012

Maryborough , QLD | Brolga Theatre
September 11, 2012

Gold Coast, QLD | Gold Coast Arts Centre
September 12, 2012

Chatswood, NSW | Concourse
September 14, 2012

Canberra, ACT | Llewellyn Hall
September 16, 2012

Sydney, NSW | Sydney Opera House
September 18, 2012

Wollongong, NSW | Wollongong Town Hall
September 19, 2012

Newcastle, NSW | Civic Centre
September 20, 2012

Perth, WA | Perth Concert Hall
September 22, 2012

Mandurah, WA | Boardwalk Theatre
September 23, 2012

Adelaide, SA | Festival Theatre
September 26, 2012

Geelong, VIC | Geelong Performing Arts Centre
September 27, 2012

Melbourne, VIC | Arts Centre
September 28, 2012

Melbourne - Monash Uni, VIC | Robert Blackwood Hall
September 29, 2012

Frankston, VIC | Frankston Arts Centre
September 30, 2012

Launceston, TAS | Albert Hall
October 03, 2012

Hobart, TAS | Federation Concert Hall
October 04, 2012

Auckland, NZ | Auckland Town Hall
October 06, 2012

Hamilton, NZ | Founders Theatre
October 07, 2012

Wellington, NZ | Wellington Town Hall
October 10, 2012

Brisbane, QLD | Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC)
October 12, 2012

Toowoomba, QLD | Empire Theatre
October 13, 2012

Darwin, NT | Darwin Entertainment Centre
October 17, 2012
 

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