Concert Series 2025
After a wonderful start to the year with our SOLD OUT concert of Faure Requiem, with the UK boys choir Schola Cantorum and the Festival Statesmen Chorus, The St Peter’s Cathedral Music Foundation is excited to showcase our Concert Series for the rest of 2025, brimming with choral music, organ music, and our Christmas Messiah!
Our annual free Good Friday Meditation Concert on April 18th features the charming and meditative Requiem by Bob Chilcott; one of Britain’s most widely recognised choral composers, who himself was once a treble soloist at King’s College, Cambridge. With echoes of the requiems of both Fauré and John Rutter, Chilcott’s Requiem features the St Peter’s Cathedral Choir, outstanding soloists Jessica Dean and Kyle Stegall, and a small orchestra.
In June, our annual Patronal Festival Organ Recital returns, with a special mini-festival of three concerts. Celebrated organist Joseph Nolan returns to Adelaide, performing the extraordinary feat of playing all Six Symphonies of Louis Vierne, across three concerts. Come to one or two concerts, or get a package ticket for all three; a rare chance to hear this extraordinary music, grand and gothic, colourful and exciting, played by APRA award-winning Joseph Nolan, described by Limelight Magazine as “indisputably one of the world’s greatest organists.”
In August, The St Peter’s Cathedral Consort and Cathedral Choir are joined by Marko Sever, Organist at St James’ Church King Street, for a special exploration of the influence of chant on both choral and organ music. Surrounded by the beauty and mysticism of sung chant from every corner of our glorious acoustic, you will also enjoy the Cathedral Consort, having thrilled audiences in Messiah and Dixit Dominus, presenting a rarely heard masterpiece of the choral repertoire - Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir.
October sees the return of Opera Meets Organ! Featuring guest star baritone Morgan Pearse, combined with our very own Anthony Hunt on the cathedral organ, the worlds of Opera and Organ collide in spectacular fashion! Grand arias, comic delights, villains, heroes and more will make for a riotous afternoon of music and fun.
Finally, at Christmas, we are thrilled again to partner with Adelaide Baroque for Handel’s Messiah. Featuring four of the finest Messiah soloists in Australia, Jessica Dean, Ashlyn Tymms, Kyle Stegall and David Greco; the passionate and expressive playing of Adelaide Baroque on historical instruments; the exhilarating singing of the St Peter’s Cathedral Consort; all conducted from the harpsichord by Anthony Hunt.
Our last Cathedral Messiah was sold out; don’t miss your tickets to this year’s - Christmas isn’t complete without it!