Information current as at JANUARY 2016

Belinda Wong, President

Choir's Email Address: information@ensemblegombert.com.au

Choir's Website: www.ensemblegombert.com.au

Vision statement / Artistic goals: To bring rarely performed music of the High Renaissance to Melbourne, and to showcase the excellence of Australian choral singing to national and international audiences

Voice type: SATB

Choir performs: Unaccompanied, and occasionally with a Baroque Ensemble

Year Choir formed: 1990

No. of Singing Members - Currently: 18 Desired: 18 (but choir expands for larger works)

Musical Repertoire: Early music, Renaissance polyphony, Baroque and Classical, unaccompanied Romantic and Australian contemporary choral works

Musical Director: John O'Donnell

No. of years in current post: since 1990 (Founder)

Previous musical experience: John O'Donnell is an internationally renowned keyboard artist, choral conductor and musicologist; he has held senior appointments at the Victorian College of the Arts and the University of Melbourne; John is Monash University Organist, and was director of the Choir of the Canterbury Fellowship in Melbourne for more than thirty years; he is currently Director of Music at All Saint's Anglican Church, East St Kilda

Choir's past collaborations with other musical groups: Accademia Arcadia, Ironwood Chamber Orchestra, La Compañia, Consort Eclectus, Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival, Woodend Winter Arts Festival, Consort of Melbourne

Audition: Yes - vocal and sight-reading audition with the Director, and a trial period

Minimum Attendance policy - Rehearsals: Yes Concerts: No

Membership Fees: $2 p.a.

Ability to read music: Essential

Sight-reading ability: Essential

Av. No. of rehearsals/week: 1

Usual rehearsal night(s): Tuesday

Suburb: Parkville

Rehearsal venue: Trinity College Chapel

Off-street parking: No

Performance Apparel: Dinner suit for men/long black attire for women

Av. No. of Concert Programs/year: 7

Av. No. of Performances/year: 8

Sample of the Choir's past Concert Venues: Xavier College Chapel (Kew), Melbourne Recital Centre, St Patrick's Cathedral (Ballarat), Newman College Chapel, Thomaskirche (Leipzig), Frauenkirche (Dresden), Westminster Abbey (London), Grace Cathedral (San Francisco)

Examples of musical pieces performed: Mass in B-minor and motets (Bach); Weihnachtshistorie (Schütz); Sieben Magnificat Antiphonen (Arvo Pärt); Spem im alium (Tallis); Drei motetten Op. 110 (Brahms); motets by Gombert, Josquin, Byrd, Praetorius, Calvin Bowman

Touring: Yes - Regional Victoria/Interstate/Overseas

Administration / Governance arrangements for the Choir: Incorporated Association

Types of Committees: Management, Tours

Own collection of music scores: Yes

Available for hire to other groups: Yes

Hiring fees apply: Yes