18-422: Crossin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Carl Crossin (born 1953), Australian choral conductor, educator, and composer Chink Crossin (1923–1981), American basketball player Frank Crossin (1891–1965), American baseball player Trish Crossin (born 1956), Australian politician [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
36-809: Is Australia’s largest choral organisation. It presents its own annual concert series in the Sydney Opera House , Sydney Town Hall , City Recital Hall , and other venues in New South Wales , as well as serving as chorus for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra . Formed in 1920, it currently comprises the following choirs: The choir formed in 1920 as the Hurlstone Park Choral Society and gave its first "Glee Performance", conducted by Tom Downer, on 9 September 1920 in hut 13, Randwick Hospital. The program
54-509: Is Brett Weymark OAM . Sydney Philharmonia’s singing commitments have grown to the point where a typical year (2018) sees it perform 12 performances in its own concerts and 20 performances with the Sydney Symphony. Other commitments such as corporate events, commercial concerts and the like mean that the organisation mounts around 50 performances a year. Sydney Philharmonia has taken part in many civic and community events such as
72-730: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Carl Crossin Carl Crossin OAM (born 1953) is an Australian choral conductor, educator and composer. He is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the University of Adelaide . He was a director of the Elder Conservatorium of Music in the University of Adelaide in 2010–2014. Crossin's initial tertiary education
90-410: The surname Crossin . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crossin&oldid=982649211 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
108-593: The 1988 bicentennial celebrations and the opening ceremony of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano as part of an international video link. Two years later, in 2000, it performed in both the opening concert Symphony at the Superdome and the live, globally telecast opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics , singing the Australian national anthem and an excerpt from Hector Berlioz 's Te Deum that accompanied
126-528: The Adelaide Chamber Singers have embarked on a program of commissioning and presenting new choral music. Crossin's work with the Adelaide Chamber Singers is specifically mentioned in the citation for his Medal of the Order of Australia. In 2008, the recording of Symphony No. 4 "Star Chant" by Ross Edwards and Fred Watson with the Adelaide Chamber Singers under Crossin's direction won
144-775: The Flinders Street School of Music merged with the Elder Conservatorium, he joined the staff of the University of Adelaide, where he has served as Head of Choral Music, Head of Academic Studies, Deputy and acting director, and, during 2010–14, Director. Within the conservatorium, Crossin is the founder and director of the Elder Conservatorium Chorale and the university's chamber choir Adelaide Voices . He conducted Claudio Monteverdi 's opera L'Orfeo and Mozart 's Le Nozze di Figaro in 2002 and 2003 respectively. Outside
162-642: The King . The earliest performances to have been noticed in the press were at the Masonic Hall, Dulwich Hill, in 1922 and at St Clement's School Hall, Marrickville, in 1923. In 1922 the choir gave its first performance of a major choral work, 'Assisting Marrickville Choral Society' in Handel 's Messiah . The next performance of Messiah was in 1927, and then annually in a sequence interrupted only in 1933 and 1943, until 2010. Also in 1927, and continuing to 1939,
180-658: The Melbourne Chorale and Gondwana Chorale . He is the artistic director of the National Youth Choir of Australia. Crossin founded the Adelaide Chamber Singers in 1985, and as director he has toured with them to Britain, Europe, North America and South-East Asia, won several awards for performance and CD recordings, and represented Australia in international choral and music education symposia and festivals. As well, Crossin and
198-676: The Special Music Centre at Brighton High School , as it was then known, where he stayed for fourteen years. In the early 1980s he became a conductor of the Flinders University Choral Society and Graduate Singers and founded the small vocal ensemble Canticle. From Brighton High School he moved to the Flinders Street School of Music, at the time a technical and further education college in Adelaide, and taught there for nine years. In 2002, when
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#1732787456444216-624: The conservatorium, he has worked as a choral conductor and clinician and over the past 30 years has conducted numerous choirs in Adelaide, including the Flinders University Choral Society, the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of South Australia, Adelaide University Choral Society, Voiceworks and the Adelaide Symphony Chorus. He has conducted the Intervarsity Choral Festival , Sydney Philharmonia Choirs ,
234-868: The lighting and ascension of the Olympic flame . Sydney Philharmonia took part in the 2001 centenary of federation celebrations in Sydney and Melbourne and the state memorial for former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam . It performed with the Australian World Orchestra concerts in 2011 and the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular in 2012. While Sydney Philharmonia has a long history of traditional classical-style choral concert presentation, it has in recent years gone considerably beyond this style in some of its concerts, with some notable success. In 2002, Sydney Philharmonia
252-581: The prize for Vocal or Choral Work of the Year in the APRA Music Awards of 2008 . In recent years, Crossin has turned to composition, mostly for voices, and his choral works have been performed not only by a number of Adelaide-based ensembles (Syntony, Adelaide Voices, Elder Conservatorium Chorale, Graduate Singers and Adelaide Chamber Singers) but by interstate and overseas choirs as well. Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
270-1411: The society entered Eisteddfods in various NSW locations, winning places on nine occasions. The prize money often had a significant bearing on the organisation's financial situation, which was always precarious. Despite its financial situation, in 1961 the Hurlstone Choral Society felt able to make an unsolicited gift of £ 50 to its 'major rival', the Sydney Royal Philharmonic Society, which was 'broke and in danger of extinction'. The choir changed its name to Hurlstone Choral Society in 1937, Sydney Philharmonia Society in 1969 and Sydney Philharmonia Limited in 1974. It employed its first professional manager in 1974. During this time, Sydney Philharmonia has worked with many conductors, including Eugene Ormandy , Otto Klemperer , Sir Eugene Goosens , Sir David Willcocks , Sir Charles Mackerras , Sir Malcolm Sargent , Sir Granville Bantock , Sir Bernard Heinze , Sir Thomas Beecham , Georg Schnéevoigt , Hans Vonk , Ward Swingle , Zubin Mehta , Christopher Hogwood , Edo de Waart , Charles Dutoit , Mark Elder , John Nelson , Vladimir Ashkenazy , Richard Hickox , and Sir Simon Rattle . The current musical director and chorusmaster
288-585: Was at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music , where he was awarded a Diploma in Music Education specialising in guitar. While in Sydney , he taught at Whalan High School and developed his conducting skills with the University of NSW Choral Society and the Lachrymae Singers, which he founded. In 1978 he moved to Adelaide to study at the University of Adelaide and became a music teacher at
306-528: Was listed as Come where my love lies dreaming , Great God of wonders , There is music by the river and Sleep, baby, sleep . The first public performance, also conducted by Tom Downer, was on 3 November 1920 at the Masonic Hall , Dulwich Hill and the program was listed as Come where my love lies dreaming , Great God of wonders , There is music by the river , Sleep, baby, sleep , Oh hush thee my baby , Moonlight , The bells of St Marys and God save
324-794: Was the first Australian choir to sing at the BBC Promenade Concert Series , performing Mahler's 8th Symphony under Sir Simon Rattle. In 2010 Sydney Philharmonia celebrated its 90th anniversary with a return to London and a return appearance at the opening night of the Proms, again performing Mahler's 8th Symphony , this time with the BBC Symphony Chorus , Crouch End Festival Chorus and the BBC Symphony Orchestra , conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek . Sydney Philharmonia has also toured to other parts of
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