St Michael's Uniting Church

Tudor Choristers Christmas Concert
2016-12-09 19:30 - 21:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | St Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia
This Christmas season, join The Tudor Choristers at St Michael’s for a joyful concert of Carols.
One of Victoria’s preeminent choirs, The Tudor Choristers have performed for most of Australia’s leading concert organisations, including the ABC, Musica Viva, the
Victorian Arts Centre and the Victorian Arts Council.
Some of the Carols you will hear:-
Shaw; How far is it to Bethlehem
Sweelinck; Hodie Christus Natus Est
Joubert; There is no Rose of Such Virtue
Rutter; Quem Pastores Laudavere
Bax; I Sing of a Maiden that is Makeless
Pearsel; In Dulci Jubilo
Walton; All This Time & What Cheer

Join the Choir in singing some favourite Carols.
Directed by Alexandra Cameron
Organist Rhys Boak

Tickets $30, $25 Concession, Family $60, concertbookings@tudorchoristers.org.au

Gymanfa Ganu
2017-02-26 15:00 - 17:00 | St Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne Welch Church’s 2017 St David’s Day Gymanfa Ganu
An afternoon of hymn singing, conducted by an esteemed choir conductor from Wales, with additional performances by five local choirs. Some items will be sung by the winner of last year’s national Eisteddfod of Wales who has been brought out especially for this event.
Featuring special guests from Wales:
EDWARD-RHYS HARRY – guest conductor
KEES HUYSMANS – 2016 National Eisteddfod of Wales Blue Riband winner
And the combined voices of five local choirs:
– Australian Welsh Male Choir
– Melbourne Welsh Male Choir
– Victorian Welsh Male Choir
– Geelong Welsh Ladies Choir
– Excelsis
This is a FREE EVENT

Organ Recital
2017-06-08 13:00 - 13:30, 2017-06-15 13:00 - 13:30, 2017-07-20 13:00, 2017-07-27 13:00 - 13:30, 2017-08-03 13:00 - 13:30, 2017-08-10 13:00 - 13:30, 2017-08-17 13:00 - 13:30, 2017-08-24 13:00 - 13:30 and 1 more date | St Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia
Every Thursday at 1 pm, the St Michael’s Carillon is sounded and the grand organ comes to life for a free 30 minute recital. Now into their tenth year, these recitals are well attended by the public.
Performed by organist Rhys Boak, and visiting artists, brings the joy and beauty of live music to many Melbournians and visitors.
Please check your orders of service or our Facebook page each week to see who will be performing the following Thursday.
Music has an important role to play in the functioning of society and has had for many thousands of years. No human culture appears to be without music. Singing, in particular, seems to be universal. Music is invariably expressed in relation to religion. The music program at St Michael’s each week brings us some of the best musicians and music that Australia has to offer to enrich our experience during our Sunday services at special events during the year.

Organ Recital
2017-06-22 13:00 - 13:30 | St Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia
Every Thursday at 1 pm, the St Michael’s Carillon is sounded and the grand organ comes to life for a free 30 minute recital.
This Thursday Jennifer Chou will be performing:
George Gershwin (1898-1937): 3 Preludes
Prelude 1 – Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
Prelude 2 – Andante con moto e poco rubato
Prelude 3 – Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
Louis Vierne (1870-1937): from Pièces de Fantaisie Suite No. 2:
III. Hymne au Soleil

Feux Follets
Clair de lune
Toccata

Please note that the guest musician for Sunday, 25 June, will be Alexandra Ioan (Soprano)
Next Thursday’s Lunchtime Recital will be performed by Rhys Boak

Music has an important role to play in the functioning of society and has had for many thousands of years. No human culture appears to be without music. Singing, in particular, seems to be universal. Music is invariably expressed in relation to religion. The music program at St Michael’s each week brings us some of the best musicians and music that Australia has to offer to enrich our experience during our Sunday services at special events during the year.

Organ Recital
2017-06-29 13:00 - 14:00, 2017-07-06 13:00 - 14:00, 2017-09-07 13:00 - 14:00, 2017-09-14 13:00 - 14:00, 2017-09-21 13:00 - 14:00, 2017-10-12 13:00 - 13:30, 2017-10-19 13:00 - 13:30, 2017-10-26 13:00 - 13:30 and 1 more date | St Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia
Every Thursday at 1 pm, the St Michael’s Carillon is sounded and the grand organ comes to life for a free 30 minute recital. Now into their ninth year, these recitals are well attended by the public.
Performed by organist Rhys Boak, and visiting artists, brings the joy and beauty of live music to many Melbournians and visitors.
Please check your orders of service or our Facebook page each week to see who will be performing the following Thursday.
Music has an important role to play in the functioning of society and has had for many thousands of years. No human culture appears to be without music. Singing, in particular, seems to be universal. Music is invariably expressed in relation to religion. The music program at St Michael’s each week brings us some of the best musicians and music that Australia has to offer to enrich our experience during our Sunday services at special events during the year.

Organ Recital
2017-07-13 13:00 - 13:30 | St Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia
This Thursday, 13 April, David Agg (Organ) and Georgia Wilkinson (Soprano) will be performing for the Lunchtime Organ Recital Series.
Doors open at 12.30pm and the recital is starts at 1pm
FREE ENTRY

Every Thursday at 1 pm, the St Michael’s Carillon is sounded and the grand organ comes to life for a free 30 minute recital. Now into their tenth year, these recitals are well attended by the public.
Performed by organist Rhys Boak, and visiting artists, brings the joy and beauty of live music to many Melbournians and visitors.
Please check your orders of service or our Facebook page each week to see who will be performing the following Thursday.
Music has an important role to play in the functioning of society and has had for many thousands of years. No human culture appears to be without music. Singing, in particular, seems to be universal. Music is invariably expressed in relation to religion. The music program at St Michael’s each week brings us some of the best musicians and music that Australia has to offer to enrich our experience during our Sunday services at special events during the year.

Amir Farid and Quinton Morris in concert
2017-07-23 13:30 - 15:00 | St Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia
A unique opportunity to hear two of the world’s most sought after musicians performing in the architectural splendour of St Michael’s Uniting Church in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD.
Experience a spiritually enriching performance full of cultural insight and uplifting music with New York-based Iranian-Australian solo Pianist, Amir Farid, and American Concert Violinist Dr Quinton Morris.
We are delighted to welcome Amir back to St Michael’s after his recent performance at Carnegie Hall New York and look anticipate a joyful afternoon of musical entertainment.
Time and Date: 1.30pm, Sunday 23 July
Duration: 90 min, no interval
Location: St Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins St, Melbourne
Admission: $10
Tickets will be available for purchase at the door on the day

Amir Farid
Winner of the prestigious 2006 Australian National Piano Award, Amir Farid is a New York-based Iranian-Australian solo pianist, associate artist and chamber musician. He has been described as “a highly creative musician, a pianist of great intelligence and integrity.”
As one of the most versatile and loved musicians in Australia, Amir has performed concerti with major orchestras, collaborating with conductors such as Christopher Hogwood, Oleg Caetani, Johannes Fritzsch, Alexander Briger, Marko Letonja and Benjamin Northey.
Highlights include Rachmaninoff’s 2nd piano concerto with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Mozart’s concerto No.14 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and “The Mozart Dances” with the Mark Morris Dance Group and West Australian Symphony Orchestra as part of the 2015 Perth Festival.
Dr Quinton Morris
Dr Quinton Morris enjoys a multifaceted career as a concert violinist, chamber musician, educator and entrepreneur. He performs solo concerts, recitals and chamber music and presents lectures all over the world: the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Middle East.
Notable solo concerto performances have been performed with the Seattle, Thalia, Renton, Tacoma Youth and South Suburban Symphonies, Orchestra Seattle and the Everett Philharmonic. Dr Morris presented sold-out recitals in the renowned Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall for the past three consecutive seasons.

Sally-Anne Russell in Concert
2017-09-19 13:00 - 14:00
As part of our St Michael’s Week celebrations, one of Australia’s finest mezzo sopranos, Sally-Anne Russell, will perform a special one-hour recital.
As a principal guest artist she has sung with Opera Australia, all of the State Opera companies and all of the major Australian symphony orchestras. An ARIA Award winner, she has recorded on ABC Classics, Chandos and Decca labels.
She will be accompanied by St Michael’s own Music Manager, Rhys Boak, one of Australia’s finest organists.
“Sally-Anne Russell is one of Australia’s current operatic and oratorio stars.” – Rob Holdsworth (The Australian Book Review 2015)

Time and Date: 1pm, Tuesday 19 September
Duration: 60min, no interval
Location: St Michael’s on Collins,
120 Collins Street, Melbourne
FREE EVENT
Bookings not required

Peter Sheridan and Rhys Boak in Concert
2017-09-21 13:00 - 14:00
Celebrated flautist, Peter Sheridan, will perform an innovative program of music in the spectacular surrounds of St Michael’s.
Accompanied by Rhys Boak on piano and the St Michael’s grand organ, the program will include music written for a collection of ‘Low Flutes’ including the alto flute, bass flute, contrabass flute and the world’s largest flute, the Hyperbass Flute.
Experience the thrill of hearing the world premiere of a flute sonata by Phillip Rawles. Along with music composed by Michael Rosiak and Johannes Brahms.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear the unique resonances created by blending the fascinating extended family of flutes with piano and grand organ.
Time and Date: 1pm, Thursday 21 September
Duration: 60min, no interval
Location: St Michael’s on Collins,
120 Collins Street, Melbourne
FREE EVENT
Bookings not required

Paul Grawbowsky in Concert
2017-09-22 19:00 - 20:00
Experience one of Australia’s most celebrated musicians in the architectural splendour of one of Melbourne’s oldest churches.
Paul Grabowsky presents a solo piano program highlighting the artistry and skill which have resulted in many accolades and awards over his 40 year career, including 5 ARIA Awards.
A pianist, composer, arranger and conductor, Paul has performed with jazz luminaries such as Chet Baker, Art Farmer and Johnny Griffin.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear one of the truly great musicians of our time.

When: 7pm, Friday 22 September (Doors open at 6.30pm)
Duration: 1 hour, no interval
Location: St Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins St, Melbourne
Tickets: $20 full, $60 for a group of 4
Limited seats will be available for purchase on the night

It is difficult to describe Paul Grabowsky’s career easily. He has been a director of some of Australia’s most prominent arts festivals, the composer of nearly thirty feature film scores, and several works of music theatre, the founder and leader for nineteen years of the Australian Art Orchestra, an executive at the ABC, and is currently at Monash University, where he heads up the Academy of Performing Arts.
Whether as composer, teacher, television personality, mentor or advocate for the role of artistic expression as a defining attribute of contemporary life, for him this is all informed by his work as a pianist, and composer, particularly in the field of jazz, where, according to him, ‘the piano never lies’.
His musical journeys have resulted in collaborations with musicians from many countries, not least with the First Nations peoples of Australia, and those journeys continue. Among his many awards are five ARIAs, the Melbourne Prize for Music and an H.C. Coombs Fellowship. In recognition of his achievements he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2014.

10th Anniversary of the Lunchtime Organ Recital
2017-09-28 13:00 - 14:00 | St Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia
Join us as we celebrate the 518th recital in our Lunchtime Recital series. Performed by St Michael’s Organist and Manager of Music, Rhys Boak and the Japanese born organ virtuoso, Ryoko Mori, the two organists that presented the inaugural recital in 2007.
The music presented will range from the late Baroque Era, to the 21st century, and will include music for four hands and four feet (two organists at one organ).
The program will include music by composers such as J.S. Bach, Louis Vierne and more.
Over the 10 years that this program of weekly organ recitals has run, many leading organists from around the world have taken part, a complete list is not practicable to include here, but recitalists from the UK, France, Belgium, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Italy, the Czech Republic, Russia, China, Japan and the USA have taken part.
Ryoko Mori was born in Japan and is an internationally active classical organist and pianist. She studied with Tomoko Miyamoto at Ferris University and Naomu Matsui at Seitoku University’s graduate school. She also studied organ with Naoko Imai at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts. In 2013 Ryoko won third place in the International Goedicke Organ Competition. Ryoko now runs her own private organ studio. During her time in Australia, Ryoko was the organist and director of music at several important churches including Melbourne’s Toorak Uniting Church, Wesley Uniting Church and Malvern Presbyterian Church. She has performed for several international organ festivals including the Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival, and The Scots’ Church International organ festival. In 2005 Ryoko helped perform the first ever series of organ recitals held in mainland China, opening the Gulangyu International Organ Museum, the largest museum of its type in the world.
Rhys Boak is one of Australia’s busiest organists. He is in constant demand locally and internationally as both a recitalist and accompanist. He is currently the organist and manager of music at St. Michael’s Church, Melbourne. Rhys Boak was born in Melbourne. He studied organ with John Mallinson, Douglas Lawrence OAM and Sergio de Pieri at Melbourne University, and harpsichord with Ann Murphy.
He is a veteran of several concert tours including tours to Europe and Asia and his playing can be heard on more than a dozen CD recordings both as a soloist and as an accompanist to many of Australia’s finest choral ensembles.
In 2006 Rhys traveled to China where he gave a series of concerts with fellow Australian musician Geoffrey Tozer featuring the rare combination of Piano and Organ in duet. They ended each concert with a series of improvisations on local folk melodies. In 2011 Rhys again toured Germany, Denmark and France performing on several important historic instruments such as the Silberman organs of Freiberg Cathedral.
Rhys is highly active as an organist, pianist, choral conductor, composer and arranger. He has arranged and transcribed music for artists and institutions such as Greta Bradman, Geoffrey Payne, Sir Richard Bonynge, The English Chamber Orchestra, Move Records, Sony Records and Decca.

Grand Organ Recital
2017-10-05 13:00 - 14:00 | St Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia
St Michael’s Uniting Church is proud to present this inspirational Organ recital as part of the Victorian Seniors Festival.
Thursday 5 October at 1pm the St Michael’s carillon will be sounded, and the grand organ will come to life for a free hour-long recital by special guest organist Hans U. Hielscher.
Experience the joy of hearing the grand organ performed live in the beautiful surrounds of a heritage listed church in the heart of the city.
Date: Thursday 5 October
Time: Doors open at 12.30pm, Recital starts 1pm, concludes at 2pm
Where: St Michael’s Uniting Church, Corner Collins and Russell Street, Melbourne
Mobility Access via St Michael’s Walk
Entry is Free

Hans U. Hielscher
Hans U. Hielscher has been organist at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden (Lutheran Cathedral of Nassau), Germany, since 1979. His studies were at the Detmold State Academy of Music and in Paris/Rouen, France. He also studied carillon at The Nederlandse Beiaardschool in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Hans has presented more than 3,500 organ recitals around the globe, his concert tours have taken him to all European countries, the United States (61 U.S. tours), Bahamas, Israel, Iceland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok. He has been featured on radio and TV broadcasts, 22 CD recordings on the Motette, Wergo, IFO, Lade labels and is the author of the books “Alexandre Guilmant – Life and Work”, “Famous Organs in the U.S.A.”, “The Organ of Wiesbaden Marktkirche”. He is a published composer of some 50 works for organ. Hans has been honoured by the French government in Paris for his worldwide engagement in French organ music and nominated “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” in 1985.

OrganLunchtime Recital
2017-11-02 13:00 - 13:30 | St Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia
