Christ Church Anglican, Daylesford
Anglican Parish of Daylesford
2025 SERIES TICKET
2025 SERIES TICKET
5 Concerts $120 Saving $30
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The Mad Lover - Christ Church Concerts
Saturday 8 March 2025
Kate Macfarlane, soprano
Hannah Lane, baroque harp
With the intimate pairing of voice and harp, The Mad Lover combines baroque emotion with timeless folk melodies.
With the intimate pairing of voice and harp, The Mad Lover combines baroque emotion with timeless folk melodies. Featuring the evocative music of Henry Purcell, John Eccles, Benjamin Britten and Kate Moore, this program blends the passionate intensity of 17th-century English mad songs with the soulful beauty of traditional folk music. Two of Australia's leading baroque specialists bring these captivating works to life, traversing centuries to weave a narrative of love, longing, and madness.
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O Sweet Woods - Christ Church Concerts
Saturday 10 May 2025
Dowland songs of Beauty and Creation
Rosemary Hodgson, lute
Kate Macfarlane, soprano
Christopher Roache, alto and tenor
Timothy Reynolds, tenor
Matthew Champion, bass
Inspired by Sir Philip Sidney’s epic poem Arcadia, comes this ravishing new program by Australia’s premier lutenist, Rosemary Hodgson and esteemed vocalists. O Sweet Woods is a concert presentation celebrating love, nature and the beauty of creation through the music of Renaissance lyricist, John Dowland and his contemporaries. Featuring works for four voices such as Come away, Come sweet love, Go cristall tears and the lyrical Robin is to the Greenwood gone, O Sweet Woods is both intricate and captivating in live performance – a program destined to enchant the mind and melt the soul.
W.E. Stanbridge Hall
Unholy Rackett + Ensemble 642 - Christ Church Concerts
Saturday 5 July 2025
Brock Imison, soprano, alto, bass, quint bass curtal
Simon Rickard, soprano, tenor, bass, octave bass curtal
Laura Vaughan, viola da gamba
Hannah Lane, baroque triple harp
Nick Pollock, theorbo
The 17th-century began a fascinating period of musical history. The baroque style of composition was emerging from its renaissance roots, but instruments were yet to keep up with new musical trends. The renaissance bassoon, or curtal, was amongst the favourite woodwind instrument of the earliest baroque composers, due to its surprising expressive capabilities. For this program of early baroque music from Italy, Iberia and Germany, early woodwind ensemble Unholy Rackett are joined by basso continuo specialists Ensemble 642.
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The Tudor Choristers - Christ Church Concerts
Saturday 18 October 2025
Carlos Del Cueto, music director
Founded in 1962, The Tudor Choristers are one of Melbourne’s stalwart and established champions of Rennaisance-era choral music. On this 500th anniversary year for the seminal composer Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, they will lead us through an afternoon of a capella singing of music by Palestrina and English composers of the Tudor period.
W.E. Stanbridge Hall
Genesis Baroque - Christ Church Concerts
Saturday 8 November 2025
Death and the Maiden
Anna McMichael and
Jennifer Kirsner, period violins
Meg Cohen, period viola
Josephine Vains, period cello
The highlight of this concert will be Schubert’s famed quartet, Death and the Maiden, written in 1824 when he was in the throes of severe illness and aware of impending mortality, trawls the depths of despair with unparalleled vibrancy and urgency. Experiencing Schubert’s momentous work on gut strings will introduce our audience in the Church to the vivid colours and expressive sensitivities intended, brining it to new life. Coupled with the wonderfully rich palette of Beethoven’s quartet Opus 18, No.1, the second movement of which depicts the vault scene from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, this program is one not to be missed.
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2024 SERIES TICKET
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9 Concerts $190 Saving $80
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Daylesford Community Brass Band - Christ Church Concerts
Saturday 30 November 2024
Fire - Water - Wood
Presenting Fire-Water-Wood; a musical exploration of ‘community in place’.
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Hepburn Players - Christ Church Concerts
Saturday 26 October 2024
Shane Lestideau, guest director and violin
Tim Drylie, tenor
Andrew Welsh, harpsichord
Splendours of the Baroque
Local chamber orchestra, Hepburn Players, present a program of favourite concertos and arias from the Baroque period. Pieces include the Bach double violin concerto, a passacaglia by Muffat, a Vivaldi concerto for strings and Haydn's harpsichord concerto in F major. Tim Drylie will sing a tenor aria from Bach's St John Passion and a cantata by the 17th century German composer Franz Tunder.
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Consortium - Christ Church Concerts
Saturday 21 September 2024
Consortium
Laura Vaughan, Laura Moore, Reidun Turner, Ruth Wilkinson, Victoria Watts
Highs and Lows
Witness the evolution of the consort, from the timeless beauty of traditional pieces to the bold innovations of the avant-garde. Delving into the 16th and 17th centuries, featuring Orlando Gibbons' mastery of the art of composing for the lower registers.
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The Artamidae Quartet - Christ Church Concerts (CANCELLED)
Saturday 24 August 2024
Donica Tran, violin
Fiona Qiu, violin
Harry Swainston, viola
Nadia Barrow, cello
Bow and Curtsey
The award winning Artamidae String Quartet takes centre stage in a captivating concert experience, inviting you to immerse yourself in an afternoon of classical brilliance. Join them as they weave musical stories of dance, friendship and passion featuring Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 18 No. 2, Tchaikovsky String Quartet no.3 Andante and Purcell's Fantasia no.1.
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Gryphon Baryton Trio - Christ Church Concerts
Saturday 27 July 2024
Laura Vaughan, baryton
Katie Yap, viola
Josie Vains, cello
Divertimento
Joyful music by Joseph Haydn written for the baryton -
King of Instruments, and Instrument of Kings.
The Gryphon Baryton Trio draws on the vivacity and combined chamber music and historical performance practice experience of Laura Vaughan (baryton), Katie Yap (Classical viola) and Josephine Vains (Classical cello). The little-known baryton is a rather magnificent Classical instrument, similar in size to a cello, with 6 gut bowed strings plus a course of 10 wire strings which resonate sympathetically and are also plucked like a harp. Reaching its zenith at the court of Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy in Vienna during the time of composer Joseph Haydn, there exists a significant repertoire of chamber music for baryton which is very rarely performed.
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Lizzy Welsh and Joy Lee - Christ Church Concerts
Saturday 29 June 2024
Lizzy Welsh, baroque violin
Joy Lee, harpsichord
Long-time collaborators and early/contemporary-music specialists, violinist Lizzy Welsh and keyboard player Joy Lee join forces to explore the complex relationships between composers and performers. Featuring works for baroque violin and harpsichord, this captivating programme expertly navigates across several centuries.
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Patrick Savage & Konrad Olszewski - Christ Church Concerts
Saturday 25 May 2024
Lost Gems from the Golden Age of Hollywood
Patrick Savage, violin
Konrad Olszewski, piano
A program of masterpieces linked to the world of classic cinema. Hear incredibly rare concert works by iconic Golden Age Hollywood composers, as well as film music by Saint-Saëns, Shostakovich, Schnittke and Copland, and virtuoso works by John Williams. With Patrick, one of Britain's leading virtuoso violinists and film composers and Konrad brilliant pianist, performer, accompanist, repetiteur and teacher.
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Jakob Lindberg - Christ Church Concerts
Saturday 13 April 2024
Jakob Lindberg
lute and theorbo
Jakob Lindberg is one of the world’s foremost and prolific lutenists. In the hands of the great master lutenist, this rare and unmissable event explores the great works of the French and Italian Baroque on the noble lute and stunning theorbo. Works by John Dowland, Robert Johnson, Alessandro Piccinini, Giovanni Kapsperger, Robert Ballard and Robert de Visee.
W.E. Stanbridge Hall
Duo Zefira - Christ Church Concerts
Saturday 24 February 2024
Roberta Diamond, soprano
Hannah Lane, baroque harp
Traditional melodies from the Sephardic diaspora are intertwined with theatre music from the Spanish Golden Age. A program that explores the music of the Iberian Peninsular and its influence throughout Europe.
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Daylesford Community Brass Band
Between Saturday 24 June 2023 and Saturday 25 November 2023
Daylesford Community Brass Band
Mark Lyall – Musical Director
Sue Morris – Deputy Music Director
Jenny Jordan - Artistic Director
Returning after their triumphant concert last year the band’s program is drawn from a variety of musical genres and styles, from classical to contemporary. The band presents 'Light of Gold', an evocation of music's power to illuminate and inspire. With works including Benedictus from ‘A Mass for Peace’ by Karl Jenkins and ‘Light of Gold’ by Eric Whitacre.
Saturday 25 November 2023 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
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CHRIST CHURCH CONCERTS - MUSIC FESTIVAL
Christ Church Concerts: Music Festival
Beautiful chamber music in the intimate settings of our historic Christ Church and Stanbridge Hall. Four separate concerts over the day. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy in the church gardens between the morning and afternoon concerts. Wine and soft drinks for sale.
Multiple venues
Christ Church Concerts
Christ Church Concerts
A series of five very special concerts on Saturday afternoons from Winter to Spring. Music from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern periods with string ensemble, viol consort, recorders and harpsichord. A Rossini comic opera and a celebration of the power of music with the Daylesford Community Brass Band.
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