Australian Boys Choir -
Australia Formed
in 1939, the Australian Boys Choral Institute, which houses the
ABC and the Melbourne Boy Singers is one of Australia's
oldest and finest choral education organisations. The current
director is Noel Ancel. The ABC was invited to attend AmericaFest 2002
in July as a featured International Choir. Unique because of its wide-ranging
repertoire and the rigour of its training program, the Australian Boys
Choir is the principal performing group of the Melbourne-based
Australian Boys Choral Institute, founded in 1939 to provide musical
education to talented boys. Activities in the early days focused on
careful training and extensive touring throughout Australia, but in
recent years the Institute has diversified its activities with the
formation of other performing groups and a touring program which now
regularly takes the choir overseas.
The choir has
contributed to the soundtracks of several movies - most notably in the
Oscar-nominated musical score of Elizabeth, and the Australian box
office hit The Dish.
Internationally, the
achievements of our boys have been recognised - with invitations to
represent Australia on the overseas stage - attending the great Jubilee
Year celebrations in Rome in January 2000, and events leading up to the
Nagano Winter Olympics in 1998. The choir has attended Americafest, an
international singing festival for male choirs, on three occasions (in
1998, 2000 & 2002), and was one of Australia's representatives
in the World Choral Symposium, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2002.
The
Institute's dedicated and highly qualified music staff are led by
Artistic Director Noel Ancell, one of Australia's most experienced and
highly respected choral musicians.
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