Celebrating the Silver Anniversary of The Sunshine Coast Choral Society and the Noosa Chorale. Performing Verdi’s Requiem as a combined choir, accompanied by the Requiem Orchestra, and supported by 4 Soloists. Adrian King, Conductor brought out the very best in all performers. In Noosa the Choir had a standing ovation from a full house, as well as at Venue 114 Bokarina.

Gregson & Weight Chapel, Buderim was filled to capacity both physically with our faithful supporters as well as the sounds of music from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Handel’s Messiah. Our very talented Natasha Koch accompanied the Choir and our incredible Adrian King conducted the Choir. The audience gave a standing ovation to the Hallelujah Chorus and wanted an encore. The concert set the scene and the tone for our own personal Christmas Celebrations.

The hills of Maleny were alive with the sound of HMS PINAFORE on August 5th 2018. Natasha Koch displayed her amazing keyboard skills, depth of knowledge of the music and her ability to provide the orchestral parts on a keyboard when she accompanied the Choir in this performance.

Nine Lessons and Carols were performed at the Holy Trinity Kawana Anglican Church, 11 Meriden Street Bokarina on Wednesday 26th November, 2018.

Accompanist – Natasha Koch.

2017 started in April with the performance of Mozart’s highly regarded Vespers and Requiem.

Lake Kawana Community Centre was filled to capacity with an audience keen to enjoy the performance presented by the Sunshine Coast Choral Society, the Sunshine Coast Chamber Orchestra, and Soloists from the Brisbane Conservatorium.

In September, Lake Kawana Community Centre hosted a fabulous performance entitled ‘American Treasures’

More information coming soon.

The Q150 Celebration Concert highlighted Queensland’s 150 years of statehood, with a matinee concert in conjunction with Buderim Male Voice Choir and the Sunshine Coast Symphony Orchestra. From well known Australian folk songs such as Click Go The Shears through to classical excerpts, the Choral Society filled the hearts of audience with pride. Especially well appreciated was the performance of Together In Unity, composed by a member of the Choir, Keith Bartholomew.

Vivaldi, being a perennial favourite, proved a good choice of composer by our musical director for the choir’s first major concert of 2009. Vivaldi’s Gloria in D led the program, followed by his rousing Double Trumpet Concerto, and finally the lesser-known Dixit Dominus. The choir and instrumentalist were all in fine form and the concert was a brilliant success.

In October, the Choir presented a rare Handel performance, the oratorio, Samson. This was a definite first for the Sunshine Coast. With a 26 piece orchestra and four professional soloists, this concert exuded pathos and drama and this well known Old Testament story kept the attention of the appreciative audience to the last note.

In 2007 the choir performed ‘The Creation’ by Haydn, with full orchestra and soloists. This was a wonderful performance and a fitting farewell to our musical director Rita Paczian, who contributed so much in her two years with us. We wish her well in her future musical pursuits. We also farewell our accompanist, Lyn Bartholomew, who contributed in so many ways to the success of the choir.

Workshops were hosted again in 2002 and 2003 and featured Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” (with the Napier Choir from New Zealand) conducted by Neil Atkinson and Haydn’s “Creation” conducted by Dr Roy Wales. In August 2004 the International Workshop choir under Dr. Roy Wales performed the Verdi “Requiem”. The accompanists for this performance were Jillianne Stoll and Fay Baker on two pianos and soloists were Louise Kennedy Soprano; Helena Mumford Mezzo Soprano Kenneth Collins Tenor; and Bill Cronk Bass.

In 2002 the Choral Society hosted the Sunshine Coast Choral Festival at the Coolurn Civic Centre. This festival brings together over 200 singers from many Sunshine Coast choirs for an afternoon of choral singing. The festival was not held in 2003 due to problems with insurance. These problems were sorted out by 2004 and the Sunshine Coast Choral Society again hosted the festival at the Baptist Centre, Maroochydore. A great time was had by all and it is hoped to continue with this festival on an annual basis.

Since 2001 the Society has performed Handel’s “Messiah” every year in November/December and this has proved very popular with “Messiah” enthusiasts. Also at this time we introduced the “Scratch Messiah” where we invited other choristers to join us in choruses from Messiah. This also proved to be a very popular event.

The Choral Society has continued to grow in numbers and experience over the years and has performed many major works such as “Elijah” by Felix Mendelssohn (1998 and a workshop performance in 2002), “Requiem” and “Gloria” by John Rutter (1999), Gabriel Faure’s “Requiem” and Vivaldi’s “Gloria” (2001). In 2000 we joined with the Bach Choir from Brisbane to perform Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” with one performance in St. John’s Cathedral, Brisbane and one at the Immanuel Lutheran Church, Buderim. These major work performances have generally been accompanied by an orchestra made up of Sunshine Coast musicians.

Choruses from Opera were also introduced to the Society’s repertoire in 2002 and we have been fortunate in recent years to have international soprano, Louise Kennedy together with Susan Chapman and Geoffrey Ashenden from Opera Queensland, sing with us at a number of our concerts. The Sunshine Coast Choral Society has also been fortunate over the years to draw soloists from within our membership, notably, Carol Coggan, Barbara Groot, Sue Hornum Elizabeth Hood and Andrew Bums.

The Choral Society has performed regularly at community events such as Christmas Carols at various locations on the coast, the Organ Donors Thanksgiving Service in Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast Choral Festival as well as at various charity concerts with the Australian Army Band Brisbane at Caloundra Civic Centre and the Voices for Hospices 2003 at the Nambour Civic Centre.