Performance Dates

  • Bathurst
    All Saints' Cathedral
    26 April, 6:30pm
  • Blue Mountains
    Blackheath Uniting Church
    4 May, 2:30pm
  • Campbelltown
    Campbelltown Arts Centre
    19 April, 7:30pm
  • Canberra
    National Gallery of Australia
    9 May, 7:30pm
  • Newcastle
    Newcastle Conservatorium
    1 May, 7:30pm
  • Orange
    Kinross School Chapel
    6 May, 7:30pm
  • Southern Highlands
    Frensham School - School Hall
    Mittagong
    3 May, 7:30pm
  • Sydney
    Verbruggen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
    20 April, 3:00pm
    23 April, 7:30pm
  • Wollongong
    Wollongong City Gallery
    16 April, 7:30pm

Utopia

Paradise seen and unseen

Pange Lingua
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Cantiga 60
Alfonso X el Sabio (1221-1284)

Aus den Visionen der Hildegard von Bingen
Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931)

O Ignis Spiritus
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

Sanctus from Missa Pange Lingua
Josquin Desprez (ca 1450-1521)

Cantiga 330
Alfonso X el Sabio (1221-1284)

Agnus Dei from Missa Pange Lingua
Josquin Desprez (ca 1450-1521)

O Virtus Sapientiae
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

Paradise Unseen
Nigel Butterley (b. 1935)

Interval

Ricercare a 6
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

in C
Terry Riley (b. 1935)

Imagine
John Lennon (1940-1980)

Utopia

"Becoming immersed in the harmonic ecstasy of Butterley and the trance-inducing 'In C' by Riley will shake us away from our earthly coil into the heady fantasies of idealism. Old music and new music are twin sisters in this sound-world!"

Ruth Kilpatrick