Welcome to the TSO Chorus website...

The TSO Chorus performs four major concerts each year with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in the Federation Concert Hall in Hobart. Established in 1992 to present concert performances of opera, the repertoire of the TSO Chorus now includes sacred, secular and operatic works from the 1700s to the present day.

Highlights include a performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at the historic Port Arthur site (2006), Handel’s Messiah at St David’s Cathedral with Richard Gill conducting (2007), Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms (2008), and the Requiems of Brahms (2003), Faure (2004) and Mozart (2006).

The TSO Chorus gave the world premiere of Richard Mills’ Passion According to St Mark (2009), and Maria Grenfell’s Night Songs (2008). The Chorus has performed in the Ten Days on the Island Festival and recorded for ABC Classics

Links with interstate choruses have created the opportunity for members of the TSO Chorus to sing Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms with Caetani, Haydn’s The Creation with Hickox, and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with Ashkenazy, at the Sydney Opera House.

The 66 voiced chorus is an auditioned chorus and give their time voluntarily to work at the highest level with international conductors and visiting artists. Membership involves attendance at Tuesday night rehearsals and additional rehearsals when scheduled, appropriate private preparation of scores, and a membership fee.

Interested choristers should contact the TSO Chorus administrator, Patricia Robinson, ChorusAdmin@tso.com.au or on 0409 148 382.