Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
Season 2025
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ 2025 Season is full of music that will fill you with joy.
The season opens with the Choirs and Sydney Opera House Grand Organ at full throttle. There are great classics like St Matthew Passion with a Romantic twist by Felix Mendelssohn, Brahms’ consoling ‘human requiem’ and JS Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.
Legendary choir leader Eric Whitacre makes a welcome return, and celebrate new voices like Nardi Simpson, Alice Chance and Joanna Forbes L’Estrange. There’s a place in the choir for everyone in ChorusOz, taking on Ralph Vaughan Williams’ epic A Sea Symphony.
I Was Glad: Cathedral Classics
1 Apr 2025
Find inspiration and pageantry in divine music for choir and organ drawn from the English cathedral tradition.
Bach’s St Matthew Passion
17 Apr 2025
Experience all the drama and colour of Bach’s masterwork in a rare performance of Mendelssohn’s 1841 version performed on Romantic period instruments.
Rossini in Paris
17 May 2025
Sydney Philharmonia’s Festival Chorus sings Rossini’s final masterpiece with dramatic highlights from his grand opera William Tell.
ChorusOz: A Sea Symphony
8 Jun 2025
ChorusOz gathers under the sails of the Sydney Opera House to sing Vaughan Williams’ mighty Sea Symphony.
Eternity in an Hour
27 Jun 2025
Legendary choral leader and composer Eric Whitacre returns to Sydney to conduct his latest choral work, a mystical meditation in sound.
Lost Birds
16 Aug 2025
White Bay Power Station is the new venue for a powerful concert inspired by the natural world.
Brahms: A German Requiem
25 Oct 2025
Overflowing with heartfelt emotion and universal connections, this is a ‘human requiem’ to comfort and console.
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
13 Dec 2025
Follow the star with the three wise men in Bach’s brilliant and festive Christmas Oratorio.
Carols At the House
12 – 14 Dec 2025
A festive program of Christmas favourites and unexpected delights, with plenty of audience participation.
