Sublime Voices

Sublime Voices - Spring concert with ANU Chamber Choir and Vocal Fry (ANU Community Music Centre)

Conducted by Tobias Cole.

The ANU Chamber Choir is an integral part of the ANU School of Music and includes voice and instrumental students as well as other musicians from the ANU community. For the past nine years, countertenor Tobias Cole has directed the choir with a special focus on togetherness, expression, joy and spontaneity. 

Past performances include singing in Handel’s Messiah (CSO), the Prisoner of War Requiem (The Flowers of War)andpresenting their popular biannual program Sublime Voices. This year they performed Mozart’s Vespers with SCUNA in May and participated in The Flowers of Peace Chorus for the Second World War Memorial in Llewellyn Hall in August. 

Program

Vocal Fry

Ferrari Mountain (Friday Afternoon Songs/All Howl at Once) - Luke Styles

Vocal Fry + ANU Chamber Choir

Adoramus te (We adore thee) - Orlande de Lassus (1532-94)

ANU Chamber Choir

O nata lux de lumine (O light born of light) - Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)

O Radiant Dawn (2005) - James MacMillan (b.1959)

They are at rest (1910) - Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Wiegenlied (Cradle song) - Johannes Brahms (1833-97) arranged by Robin Gritton

How deep is your love (1977) - Brothers Gibb

Vocal Fry + ANU Chamber Choir

Riversong - Andy Beck

Suspicious Minds (1968) - Mark James

Never gonna give you up (1987) - Stock Aitken Waterman 

ANU Chamber Choir:
Sopranos – Lucy Gibson, Isabelle Watts
Altos – Lara Beer, Sylvan Lawrenz, Savina Radisavljevic, Lucy Tobler, Alissa Wilson
Tenors – Elias Elwyn, Ethan Lee, Jackson Low
Basses – Leo Amadeus, Maxwell Etherington

Vocal Fry:

Fyfe Atkins, Maia Billups, Gus Chandran, Jane Jouravlev, Forrest Moyle, Alice Rea, Victoria Thwaites-Brown, Theodore Walsh

Never gonna give you up - singalong in CHORUS

Never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down

Never gonna run around and desert you

Never gonna make you cry

Never gonna say goodbye

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

Image: Sublime Voices, May 2025. Photo by Yun Hu.