Chorale showcases delicacy and precision

 

 

Conductor Dan Walker. Photo by Peter Hislop. https://citynews.com.au/2026/chorale-showcases-delicacy-and-precision/

Music / Uprisings, The Oriana Chorale. At Anzac Memorial Chapel Duntroon, April 12. Reviewed by MICHAEL WILSON. 

The excitement in this brilliantly-executed concert by the Oriana…

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Chorale presents Christmas-free musical triumph

The Oriana Chorale performs Colours of Earth. Photo: Peter Hislop

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Music / Colours of Earth, The Oriana Chorale. At Wesley Uniting Church, December 6. Reviewed by GRAHAM McDONALD.

It is wonderfully refreshing to…

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Unusual diary of a covid day put to music

Sally Whitwell tells the audience a story. Photo: Matthew Teh

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Music / Musica Domestica, Oriana Chorale. At The Street Theatre 3, June 28. Reviewed by HELEN MUSA.

Subtitled A…

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Festival finale opts for a concert of reflection

Instead of a spectacular, artistic director Eugene Ughetti programmed a collection of mostly short works showcasing very contemporary Finnish and Australian music. Photo: Peter Hislop

Canberra International Music Festival / Finlandia, ​​festival…

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Intense concert of loss, grief and healing

Olivia Swift conducts The Oriana Chorale. Photo: Peter Hislop

Music / We Were Not Ready, Music of Loss, of Grief and of Healing, The Oriana Chorale. At Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest, March 21.…

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Daunting wall of sound any Baltic choir could have been proud of Oriana Chorale director  Dan Walker. Photo: Peter Hislop

Music / Rachmaninoff Vespers: All-Night Vigil, Oriana Chorale, directed by Dan Walker.  At Anzac Memorial Chapel Duntroon, November 24. Reviewed…

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Chorale takes off in concert devoted to flight The Oriana Chorale’s Dan Walker and Sally Whitwell.  Photo: Peter Hislop

Music / Flight, the Oriana Chorale. At Wesley Uniting Church,  July 27. Reviewed by GRAHAM McDONALD.

For this concert, themed…

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Chorale sings religious music with a sense of enjoyment

The Oriana Chorale. Photo Matthew Teh

Music / Prayers and Lamentations, The Oriana Chorale. At All Saints, Ainslie, April 13. Reviewed by GRAHAM McDONALD.

It has been a year or two…

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