New South Wales Choirs
About the Cantorion & Sydney Welsh Choirs

Cantorion Sydney Male Voice Choir
Cantorion Sydney Male Voice Choir

Cantorion Sydney confines its repertoire to classical, folk and sacred music. It sings works from many ethnic sources that have a male voice choral tradition. The Choir brings to Sydney expressions of the rich choral traditions of European music.

The Choir has sung at numerous music festivals including Welsh gymanfas and German singfests .It has sung at weddings, dinners and conferences. The Cantorion Sydney has given concerts along with the Waverley Brass Ensemble, with the Sydney Male Voice Choir and with the Harp Divas.

The Choir has raised thousands of dollars for charitable purposes.

There are, in the Choir, singers from many countries including, America, Australia, Croatia, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Scotland, Serbia and Wales.

The men in the Choir are proud of their ethnicity and enjoy sharing their country's music and language.

The Choir is not associated with any religious following but practises each Wednesday evening in the Welsh Church of Sydney, St Peters Presbyterian Church, at the top of Blues Point Road, close to the North Sydney Railway Station.

Here there are fine instruments for accompanying and the acoustics are kind.

Music direction is in the hands of Dr Sion Llwyd MMus and Rachel Harding MMus.

Dr Sion Llywd (John Lloyd)
Music Director
Contact John at sion@cia.com.au Tel. 02 9979 5584 or 0414 225 512

Sydney Welsh Choir (Male and Female)
The Sydney Welsh Choir began in 1978 as an extension of the late Sydney Welsh Rugby Club. Over the years it has grown into a substantial independent choir of more than fifty men and women, drawn from all parts of the Sydney area. Not all choir members were born in Wales; some have Welsh family links while others simply like being part of a group, which sings with such evident enjoyment and enthusiasm. Their concert schedule is demanding with performances most weekends.

Late last year the Sydney Welsh choir enjoyed an action packed fifth tour back to Wales since 1990, with concerts in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and England en route. There were many spectacular tourist highlights for the 89 members of the party and many wonderful performance venues. These included Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi, St Kastor's Basilica in Koblenz, York Minster and Winchester Cathedral in England, and St Davids Cathedral and Brecon Cathedral in Wales.

While in Wales, the choir gave concerts with the Haverfordwest Male Voice Choir and the Cardiff Arms Park Male Voice Choir, and short recitals at the new National Assembly building and the Wales Millennium Centre next door.

Click here for events and here for our website www.swc.org.au
For information on concerts or membership, please email me on clivewoosnam@yahoo.com.au or phone me on 02 9997 2019.

Clive Woosnam
Choir President

Photos from the Sydney Welsh choir tour to Europe in 2006

Sharing the Stage with Haverfordwest singers in Blue and Hartlepool in Green

Below the members sing at St Davids Cathedral