We are a friendly and sociable community choir located in Dulwich Hill, NSW Australia. We welcome all ages, voices and skill levels.
Jubilate Singers Inc. is a non-profit association incorporated in NSW (INC1900858). We have adopted the Model Constitution as laid out on the website of NSW Fair Trading. Members are welcome to join or assist the Committee, which meets once per term.
Our Objectives
We aim to:
- Encourage accessible community participation, together through song
- Learn diverse and challenging repertoire that builds the skills and confidence of members
- Create opportunities for members to perform locally and at wider community events
- Learn from guest conductors, vocal coaches and targeted workshops
- Establish working relationships with similar organisations and
- Support other groups and charities through performance, fundraising and other activities.
History
The Jubilate Singers have been a pillar of community choral music in Sydney for over 30 years. Jubilate sings a variety of music, particularly major classical choral works such as Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Requiem, as well as rhythmic African songs and Jazz standards.
With no formal auditions and funded by member contributions, this choir is open to anyone with a love of music. The choir has performed at major events, including Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at St Andrew’s Cathedral during the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and the Belvoir Theatre’s production of The Events in 2016. In 2017, the choir brought together its passion for music and social justice, hosting By Our Choirs Combined, a collaborative concert featuring five choirs from across Sydney to raise money for refugees and asylum seekers.
In 2018, Jubilate studied traditional songs and body percussion from Aceh, Indonesia in partnership with Suara Indonesia Dance Group and performed in a line-up of international acts at the ASYIK Arts and Cultural Bazaar. Jubilate toured to Tasmania in August of that year to combine forces with the St Matthew’s Singers in New Norfolk whom we welcomed for a follow-up concert in Sydney in November. Ending the year with a bang, the group performed live for ABC Radio’s Sing Out Sydney. We regularly participate in the Blackheath Choir Festival.
Since 2019, Jubilate has been thrilled to partner with Symphonia Jubilate, a symphony orchestra organisation made up of students mainly from primary and secondary schools in the Strathfield education area. That year we performed a set of musical theatre classics to a packed audience, including patrons Dame Marie Bashir and Lyn Williams AM at a musical showcase.
In recent years, we have learned and performed Renaissance madrigals, Schubert’s Mass in G, movie themes, works by contemporary composer, Ola Gjeilo and new Christmas compositions. In 2025, we are learning Handel’s Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne as the main feature for a concert in October to celebrate our 30th anniversary in 2024.
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