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"...an elegant, highly responsive
group of singers whose interaction with one another is immaculate."
(The Australian 29.12.01)
Cantillation is a chorus of professional singers - an ensemble
of fine voices with the speed, agility and flexibility of
a chamber orchestra. Formed in 2001 by Antony Walker and
Alison Johnston, it has since been busy in the concert hall,
opera theatre and the recording studio.
Performances have included Adams' Harmonium and Transmigration
of Souls, the Australian premiere of Sofia Gubaidalina's
Now Always Snow , Ross Edwards Symphony No. 4 'Star
Chant', Haydn's Nelson Mass and Jonathan Mill's Sandakan
Threnody (all with the Sydney Symphony); Nigel Butterley's
Spell of Creation (Sydney Philharmonia), Mahler Symphony
No. 8 (Melbourne Symphony), concerts with Andrea Bocelli
and most recently concerts with Emma Kirkby and Orchestra
of the Antipodes in Sydney and Melbourne, and regional touring
throughout NSW (both for Musica Viva), and performing in
the Sydney Symphony's Shock of the New program for the second
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Recordings for ABC Classics include
great choral masterpieces of the Renaissance, Fauré's Requiem,
Orff's Carmina burana, a collection of contemplative
20th-century sacred works entitled Prayer for Peace, Handel's
Messiah and a Christmas disc, Silent Night. Future CDs include
folksongs and works by Grainger, and the choral works of Ross
Edwards.
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As well as opera appearances
(Semele, The Fairy Queen, Orfeo and Dardanus), Cantillation
has sung for the Dalai Lama, recorded all the anthems for
the Rugby World Cup (and performed at the opening ceremony)
and recorded soundtracks for several movies, including in
the Emmy nominated soundtrack for Christopher Gordon's Salem's
Lot. Cantillation's performance of Allegri's Miserere
was used by Bangarra Dance in Clan, seen around Australia
in 2004.
In 2006 Cantillation will be singing with the Sydney Symphony
in Rachmaninov's The Bells, recording the Mozart
Requiem and a disc of vocal transcriptions for ABC Classics,
and performing in Pinchgut Opera's 2006 production of Mozart's
Idomeneo.
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