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For tickets, please visit: https://www.bachakademieaustralia.com.au/events
Soprano soloist with Willoughby City Band and Willoughby Symphony Choir
Chatswood Concourse
For more information and tickets, please visit: https://www.theconcourse.com.au/event/willoughby-symphony-choir-the-armed-man/
Operatic Recital in Australia House with pianist Jehani Gamalathge at the home of my dear friend, Deputy High Commissioner Lalita Kapur — before we take our children on a safari to see elephants and marvellous architecture - very exciting!
Susannah will join an 8-voiced semi-chorus for Opera Australia in Brett Dean’s Hamlet, after first performing it for the Adelaide Festival in 2018.
2024 year marks a significant milestone as The Song Company celebrates their 40th Anniversary. This program promises to be an unforgettable journey through the world of vocal ensemble music.
Curated by Co-Artistic Directors Amy Moore and Jessica O'Donoghue, this season is dedicated to the exceptional singers in our ensemble and explores the profound connection between music and the natural world.
https://the.song.company/2024-season/
I’m looking forward to singing the roles of Gabriel and Eve in Haydn’s extraordinary oratorio, about the beginnings of time (according to the Old Testament). Having just introduced my son to Kronos, Gaia and the Ancient Greek story of the beginning, and the fascinating idea of nothing before the magnitude of the Big Bang, you don’t need to be 9 years old to be fascinated by the beginnings of everything! Just the methods Haydn used for the advent of light under the rules of the Classical Period is worth a ticket.
Poulenc’s GORGEOUS Gloria, with soprano soloist Susannah Lawergren, directed by Amy Moore.
For tickets: https://phoenixchoir.org.au/2022/07/30/our-next-concert-2/
For tickets and more information, please visit: https://www.bachakademieaustralia.com.au/events
Song Company’s first programme, guest directed by Jane Sheldon. For more information, please visit: https://the.song.company/whats-on/
In just a few years, Sydney’s Bach Akademie Australia has established itself as the leading ensemble dedicated to performing the works of JS Bach. Under violinist and founder Madeleine Easton, the ensemble's focus on mastery, authenticity and originality of interpretation makes it the ideal companion for the journey of Bach’s remarkable life, from beginning to end.
Bach’s earliest cantata (his 'Actus Tragicus', circa 1708) is a perfect place to start, an introspective and innovative funeral cantata. In his splendid Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, written a decade later, we hear what is arguably the first ever keyboard concerto ever written. From Bach’s later life in Leipzig, comes his motet 'Lobet den Herrn’, one of his most joyful works, and his cantata 'Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats', a narrative of faith and hope in six captivating movements. Played in intimate, acoustically excellent surroundings, JS Bach: A Life in Music promises spiritual depth, instrumental brilliance and choral splendour.
https://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/bach-akademie-australia
Start the festive season with well-loved carols and heart-melting harmonies.
A Christmas concert for the whole family to enjoy together in Sydney and Wollongong.
Wed 29 Nov, 6:00PM Our Lady of Dolours, Chatswood
Thu 30 Nov, 6:00PM St Francis of Assisi, Paddington
Fri 1 Dec, 6:00PM The Garrison Church, Millers Point
Sat 2 Dec, 2:00PM St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Wollongong
Hark! will also be broadcast via the Australian Digital Concert Hall. Details to follow soon!
Tickets at: https://the.song.company/whats-on/season-2023/hark/
Featuring Susannah Lawergren (soprano), Peter Jenkin (clarinet) and Emily Granger (harp)
Susannah, Peter and Emily will be performing Franz Schubert's glorious Shepherd on the Rock and other works including the tango music of Astor Piazzolla.
For information on the inaugural Oberon Festival, please visit: https://www.oberonchambermusicfestival.com.au/programme/
Tickets at: https://events.humanitix.com/oberon-chamber-music-festival-2023-concert-1
2023 brings us an opportunity to celebrate one of the greatest events in musical history, J.S. Bach’s appointment as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. As a result, a new era in music history began. To celebrate this momentous event, we have chosen 3 of his most celebrated Leipzig cantatas and his jubilant motet ‘Singet dem Herrn’.
For more information, please visit: https://www.bachakademieaustralia.com.au/events/bach-in-the-castle-of-heaven-celebrating-300-years-of-bach-in-leipzig-concert-1
Total Immersion brings you up close with the ACO, sitting amongst the musicians to hear and feel the music like never before. This brand-new festival piece moves between the ACO’s three state-of-the-art performance spaces at ACO Pier 2/3 – The Neilson, The Studio and the Belgiorno Room. Each venue will offer a unique musical experience featuring members of the ACO and singers from our Walsh Bay Arts Precinct friends The Song Company, performing music from across the centuries.
For more information and tickets, pleae visit: https://www.aco.com.au/whats-on/2023/total-immersion
More details and concert dates to follow. For tickets to Art Song Canberra, please visit:
http://www.artsongcanberra.org/wppreload/wordpress/2021-2/#Season1
In the 400th anniversary year of the death of renowned English Renaissance composer William Byrd, The Song Company celebrates Byrd's own music and his legacy that continues to influence contemporary composers such as David Lang, Jeremy Cull, and Pelle Gudmunsen-Holmgreen. Noted early-music specialist Christopher Watson makes his conducting debut with The Song Company in this program of sublime beauty.
Performances in Wollongong, Sydney and Newcastle.
For tickets and more information: https://the.song.company/website/c/0/i/70476538/2023
For more information, please visit: https://www.baroquefest.org.au/festival-program/2023-5
Amongst all of Bach’s wonderful output, his more than 200 cantatas stand out as one of the greatest musical achievements of the human race. The vast majority of these masterworks are dedicated to the glory of God, but what we are perhaps less aware of is that Bach wrote a small but wonderful collection of cantatas for secular occasions. As few as 20 of these works survive, however they provide a wonderful insight into a composer who approached secular music with the same artistic integrity and demand for quality that we find in his sacred music. We present his much loved Wedding Cantata featuring the Australian soprano Susannah Lawergren, as well as his lesser known but stunning Italian cantata 'Non sa che sia dolore' finally ending with his marvellous satirical comedy about life in Leipzig, the Coffee Cantata.
To truly understand a culture, we must explore its relationship to the land, but also to the skies. The land and sky are as one, forever connected. It is with a spirit of connectivity that we present this program of music inspired by the heavenly body that both J.S. Bach and the First Nations peoples of Australia have seen every day for millennia – the Morning Star. Presenting a beautiful program of music by Bach and other important composers inspired by the heavens, alongside a newly commissioned work by Australian Indigenous composer Troy Russell, inspired by the Morning Star, just as J.S. Bach was centuries ago.
Concerts at the Great Hall, Sydney University, Glenbrook and Our Lady of Dolours, Chatswood.
For more information, please visit: https://www.bachakademieaustralia.com.au/2023-season
Susannah performs Bach’s beautiful solo Cantata BWV209, a rare cantata in Italian, with the Bach Akademie Australia in St Mary’s Chapel, Gosford
Venue: KXT Theatre, Broadway. Details TBC
with UNSW Collegium Musicum at John Clancy Auditorium. Details to come….
Our second program Songs of Rosa Mystica, led by Guest Music Director Jack Symonds, is a program of contemporary masterworks for unaccompanied voices. From Elliott Gyger's mighty 1994 work "Ficta", through excepts of Benjamin Britten's "A.M.D.G". and works by Tippett, Saariaho and Symonds himself, The Song Company will challenge your perception of what the human voice is capable.
Shows in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. For tickets, please visit: https://the.song.company/website/c/0/i/70476538/2023
Willoughby Symphony Choir celebrates its 50th birthday this year.
From the serene central hymn of Finlandia to the grandeur of the Coronation Anthems, the often jazzy but also sacred nature of Chichester Psalms, and the highly rhythmic, often bawdy and irreverent Carmina Burana, this will be an exciting and uplifting concert of the sacred and profane. One show only at the Chatswood Concourse.
For more information and tickets, please visit: https://www.willoughby.nsw.gov.au/Events/Willoughby-Symphony-Choir-Sacred-Profane
Not one for your strictly SL diaries, but I’m excited nonetheless to be covering the role of Maria in The Three Marys, a wonderful new opera by Andrée Greenwell and librettist Christine Evans at the Sydney Opera House. “Stripped to the raw elements of exile, the ocean, and survival, the women’s voices echo across the ages as people from all backgrounds still undertake desperate ocean journeys in search of refuge.”
For tickets and more information, please visit: https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/events/whats-on/unwrapped/2023/three-marys.html
Concert 8: Sibling Revelry https://cimf.org.au/shows/c8-sibling-revelry/
Songs by Lili and Nadia Boulanger
Concert 9: Fairies and Fools https://cimf.org.au/shows/c9-of-fairies-and-fools/
Dvorak’s Moravian Duets with soprano Anna Fraser
https://newcastlefoodmonth.com.au/event-2023/the-food-of-love-presented-by-newcastle-music-festival-foghorn-brewery/
Bach Akademie Digital Subscription: https://australiandigitalconcerthall.com/#/item/103448
Song Company Digital Subscription: https://australiandigitalconcerthall.com/#/item/104516
Contact: susannahlawergren@gmail.com
