Concerts 2025
SATURDAY 5 APRIL 2025 7:30PM ELDER HALL
Bookings: www.trybooking.com/CYVAF
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MAGICAL MOZART
Mozart’s powerful Great Mass in C minor reveals Mozart at the height of his brilliance. This large-scale work, a missa solemnis, is scored for four soloists – two sopranos, a tenor and a bass – with a double chorus and orchestra. At Mozart’s death it remained unfinished, but it embodies the pomp and solemnity associated with the Salzburg traditions of the time. It also anticipates the symphonic masses of Joseph Haydn.
Completed a few years earlier, Vesperae solennes de confessore (Solemn Vespers for a Confessor) was composed for liturgical use in the Salzburg Cathedral. The Laudate Dominum is its best-known movement, with a beautifully written solo for soprano accompanied by choir and ensemble.
Veni Sancte Spiritus is a beautiful example of Mozart’s youthful skill, composed when he was just 12!
The concert will; include favourite excerpts from Le Nozze de Figaro and Don Giovanni
Choir and soloists will be accompanied by an ensemble drawn from the Adelaide Concert Orchestra. https://adelaideconcertorchestra.com.au/
Our outstanding soloists include Brooke Window (Soprano) Victoria Coxhill (mezzo soprano), Kim Worley (tenor) BJ Moore (Bass), Robyn Cornish-Hall (soprano) Chaney Hoffman (soprano), Bek Nelson (soprano). Ian Brown (Bass)
SOLOIST BIOGRAPHIES BROOKE WINDOW
VICTORIA COXHILL
KIM WORLEY TENOR
Kim Worley, also a cellist and conductor, is increasingly sought-after as a tenor. Recent highlights include appearing with pianist Yundi Yuan in a solo recital with The Firm, singing alongside soprano Lorina Gore in Anne Cawrse’s ‘Last First Light’ at the 2022 Coriole Music Festival, and performing the role of Acis in Co-Opera’s production of Handel’s Acis and Galatea in 2020.
Kim was an artist in the State Opera of South Australia’s inaugural ‘Opera Academy’ and has appeared regularly with the SOSA chorus, including in productions of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Bizet’s Carmen, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Richard Meale’s Voss, Verdi’s La Traviata and Macbeth, Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury as part of the ‘G&S Fest’ and most recently Bernstein’s Candide. He has also been a member of the chorus for Adelaide Festival productions of Mozart’s Requiem, Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel and Stravinsky’s The Nightingale.
Kim has appeared as vocal soloist with the Adelaide Cantata Band, Kapelle Singers, Adelaide Harmony Choir, Choir Cecilia, Hills Music Circle and Adelaide University Choral Society, as well as for Big Sing McLaren Vale’s Winery Messiah and L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. He has won multiple prizes at the Adelaide Eisteddfod and has been a finalist in both the Arnold Matters Vocal Scholarship and Dawn Wallace Award.
BJ MOORE BASS
BJ’s involvement in singing began in church and school choirs, as well as musicals, leading to a passion for all aspects of theatre and performance, and involvement in an eclectic range of musical genres from folk, blues and jazz to improvisation, aleatory and performance art.
A return to South Australia from NSW in 2000 led to a renewed interest and immersion in the classical tradition of choral part-singing both sacred and secular, a cappella ensembles, lieder and art song. Building on an earlier formal musical foundation in classical piano as a student of Vera Tancibudek and later tuition in classical voice with Michelle Grieg, BJ also credits the advice, encouragement and mentorship he has enjoyed from numerous music directors, teachers and singing associates.
BJ has sung with a range of South Australian ensembles, including the Gilbert & Sullivan Society, the Adelaide Philharmonia Chorus, Elephant in the Room Productions and the Corinthian Singers. He has sung as a guest of Elder Chorale and St Peter’s Consort, and sang Durufle’s Messe cum Jubilo with the gentlemen of St Peter’s Cathedral Choir in the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s recent ‘Harmony’ Concert.
Since early 2022 BJ has been a member of Lumina Vocal Ensemble, a group specialising in rarely performed Medieval and Renaissance masterworks, Australian contemporary compositions and choral treasures from around the globe.
BJ is a frequent performer at Classical Singer Sundays, a regular augmenting singer for various church choirs, and has participated in numerous special purpose choirs, choruses and performances.
ROBYN CORNISH-HALL
Robyn Cornish-Hall is an American and British transplant to Australia and a proud new member of the Adelaide Philharmonia Chorus. Prior to relocating to Adelaide, Robyn sang with the New York City-based Greenwich Village Chamber Singers, where she was a frequent soloist. She is an alumna of Concordia University Irvine, California’s Chamber Choir, with whom she toured the US, Canada, and Italy, culminating in a concert at the Vatican. Robyn is a Marketing Strategist by day, and she thanks the APC for the opportunity to moonlight with "Magical Mozart."
CHANEY HOFFMAN
Chany started singing after joining Mount Lofty Singers in 2018, where she sang solo with the choir in the Ukaria Cultural Centre. Her growing love of classical music has led her to study with legendary mezzo-soprano, Elizabeth Campbell. She is an enthusiastic supporter of Adelaide community theatre, playing roles and singing ensemble in musicals including Miss Saigon, Mamma Mia, Les Misérables, Priscilla the Queen of the desert, Mega musical Nunsence, the Wedding Singer and most recently The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She was awarded the second prize in the Sacred Song division in the Adelaide Eisteddfod in 2024 singing Mozart. She is also a board member of the “Classical Singer Sundays”,
BEK NELSON
IAN BROWN BASS
Ian has sung with Adelaide Philharmonia Chorus for some 40 years. He has sung in the chorus of State Opera of S.A. and as a chorus member in major choral works with the ASO and Adelaide Festival. He has sung leading roles in several musical theatre productions and performs regularly with Panache, Adelaide’s French theatre company.