Tickets are now on sale for Mozart’s Mass in C minor, or as it is also known, The Great Mass, conducted by Nicholas Routley. The Big Sing choir, a massed choir of approximately 120 singers from all around the region, is joining forces with Lismore Symphony Orchestra to perform this towering masterpiece of classical music.
In 2015 Byron Music Society decided to add to their program an annual concert in which anyone who wants to, can come and sing. A concert by the community for the community. There are no auditions for the Big Sing, as this event has become known.
The first concert was a huge success and now it has become a major event in the community music calendar of our region.
The inaugural Big Sing in 2016 was Handel’s Messiah, and it was conducted by Richard Gill, an inspiring galvaniser of musical activity nationwide, who is alas no longer with us.
Messiah was repeated in 2017, and in 2018 they performed Mozart’s Requiem; both of these performances were conducted by Nicholas Routley, a local musician who was the founder of the Sydney Chamber Choir. Then in 2019 Emily Cox, from the Brisbane group Canticum, conducted Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, and last year in 2022 Nicholas conducted A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms (Ein deutsches Requiem).
International soloists Gaynor Morgan and Patrick Donnelly, both now resident on the Gold Coast, will join the choir and orchestra, as well as local stars Geoffrey Webb and Gabby Diaz. Geoff recently relocated to Melbourne, but is returning to participate in the event. Singers are coming from as far afield as Bellingen, and some are even travelling up from Sydney to participate.
Lennox Heads Culural Centre. Ticket: $60, $55 BMS/LSO members, concession, $50 students – trybooking.com/1115237.
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