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Established in 1993, we enjoy a well-earned reputation for the excellence, diversity & warmth of our concerts. Rehearsals at St.

We are proud to be led by our inspiring & innovative conductor, Dr Mario Dobernig who brings his flair & creativity to every performance. Columbs Church Hall,
5 St Columbs Street, Hawthorn
Parking at rear of church entry from Paterson Street.

19/05/2026

🎶✨Fantastic photos from a fantastic concert✨🎶 Wish we could do it all over again!
📸Kosta from Living Imagery

17/05/2026

🎶✨WHAT A FABULOUS CONCERT✨🎶
🎼A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone involved in our wonderful concert at St Paul’s Cathedral yesterday evening. A FULL HOUSE enjoyed an uplifting program of beautiful music, featuring the incredible “Great” Mass in C Minor by W A Mozart-what a very special work to experience ✨
🎵Thanks to our amazing soloists, Molly Ryan, Phoebe Paine, Jiacheng Ding and Michael Lampard who thrilled us all as they brought the complex and demanding solo sections of the Mass to life.
You are all stars 🌟
A special mention to Phoebe, who stepped into the soloists’ lineup with only a few days’ notice.
🎻The wonderful Art of Sound Orchestra who brilliantly opened the concert with the sparkling Symphony No 37 in C Major by Haydn and provided beautiful accompaniment for the Motets and a fabulous orchestral force for the Mass-thanks to you all!🎺
🎼Enormous thanks, as always, to William Schmidt, our amazing rehearsal accompanist…. And to our marvelous Maestro, MARIO DOBERNIG, for his spirited leadership in bringing the concert program together and giving us the opportunity to perform such a brilliant work.
🎵Thanks and very well done to every member of our very large choir -we definitely climbed a choral mountain!
🎶Performances like this don’t simply happen. An army of volunteers has contributed to yet another successful concert. Huge thanks to the Victoria Chorale Committee Members and for the untiring work of everyone involved in: the preparation of the Concert Program, setting up and packing down of rehearsal and Concert venues, Concert promotions and ticket sales, Front of House on Concert Day, Section Leaders and the complex logistics of producing a Concert with so many moving parts. We couldn’t do it without you!
🎶✨We would also like to thank our magnificent audience. Your enthusiastic support is a wonderful reward for us all and very much appreciated. We look forward to seeing you all at our next concert on Saturday 29 August 2026✨🎶

15/05/2026

🎶✨ JOIN US ….. for a wonderful performance of the “Great” Mass in C Minor by W A Mozart✨🎶
🎼The “Great” Mass in C Minor is a work of breathtaking scope, scored for large forces and employing an exciting fusion of Baroque contrapuntal techniques with contemporary Classical style and operatic flair.
🎶The work utilizes full chorus and double SATB chorus, smaller vocal ensembles and solo arias giving the “Great” Mass wonderful textural variety. Mozart uses every resource at his disposal, from trombone and timpani with full orchestra and powerful chorus to a few wood winds accompanying the intimacy of a single voice.
🎼The parts of the Mass written for solo voices are extremely demanding, featuring florid coloratura passages akin to operatic, virtuosic showpieces.
🎼Despite being incomplete, Mozart’s “Great” Mass in C Minor stands as a rival to J S Bach’s “B Minor Mass” and Handel’s “Messiah”-a reflection of Mozart’s immersive study of, and engagement with, the Baroque Masters.
✨🌈This is Mozart at his most daring and innovative; a work that soars beyond the conventions of his time and reveals his extraordinary creative genius🌈✨

🎵Conducted by our inspiring maestro MARIO DOBERNIG, accompanied by the Art of Sound Orchestra, with 4 outstanding soloists and the 110 strong Victoria Chorale.

CONCERT DETAILS
Saturday 16 May at 5pm
St Paul’s Cathedral
Cnr Flinders & Swanston Sts Melbourne

🎫TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW AT:
www.trybooking.com/DJDIF
Concessions apply
*we advise that TICKETS SHOULD ONLY BE PURCHASED THROUGH THE LINK PROVIDED and not through third parties*

14/05/2026

🩵CONCERT DAY IS NEARLY HERE💚
~Time to get your tickets~

🎶The excitement is building as we enter the finals days of rehearsal.
🎼JOIN VICTORIA CHORALE as we present the magnificent “Great” Mass in C Minor by W A Mozart.

💚One of Mozart’s greatest works
🩵Outstanding soloists
💛The brilliant Art of Sound Orchestra
🩷A beautiful setting
💚Fabulous maestro, MARIO DOBERNIG

CONCERT DETAILS
Saturday 16 May at 5pm
St Paul’s Cathedral
Cnr Flinders & Swanston Sts Melbourne

🎫TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW AT:
www.trybooking.com/DJDIF
Concessions apply
*we advise that TICKETS SHOULD ONLY BE PURCHASED THROUGH THE LINK PROVIDED and not through third parties*

07/05/2026

🎶MEET OUR WONDERFUL CONDUCTOR…MARIO DOBERNIG🎶

🎼Our fabulous maestro, Mario Dobernig (Mario Dobernig) has been the Artistic Director and Conductor of Victoria Chorale for the past 15 years and combines innovation, energy, a high sense of fun and a deep understanding of the music as we explore the wonderful choral repertoire together.
In addition to his role with Victoria Chorale, Mario utilises his skills, talent and flair as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Art of Sound Orchestra, Co-Artistic Director of the magnificent Albury Chamber Music Festival and Director of Music at St Andrew’s Brighton.
Mario has worked and performed extensively in Europe, the Middle East, China and Australia and has shared his experience as a guest lecturer and adjudicator.
Mario organises unique exchange tours for cultural groups between Australia and Western Europe, including an exciting upcoming tour for the choristers of Victoria Chorale in mid 2026!
A speaker of multiple languages, Mario has a keen interest in geopolitics.

🎶JOIN US on Saturday 16 May at 5pm in St Paul’s Cathedral-under the baton of MARIO DOBERNIG- as Victoria Chorale, the Art of Sound Orchestra and our 4 outstanding soloists:
MOLLY RYAN, Soprano, SALLY-ANNE RUSSELL, Mezzo-Soprano, JIACHENG DING, Tenor and MICHAEL LAMPARD, Baritone perform W A Mozart’s thrilling “Great” Mass in C Minor.

🎼 CONCERT DETAILS
Saturday 16 May at 5pm
St Paul’s Cathedral
Cnr Flinders & Swanston Sts Melbourne

🎫TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW AT:
www.trybooking.com/DJDIF
Concessions apply
*we advise that TICKETS SHOULD ONLY BE PURCHASED THROUGH THE LINK PROVIDED and not through third parties*

📸Living Imagery

02/05/2026

🕯️🎶A CONCERT
TO REMEMBER 🎶🕯️

🎫TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW AT:
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*Concessions apply

🎵This is a RARE OPPORTUNITY to experience Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor.
🎼A work of rich textures, virtuosic acrobatics for our stunning soloists, complex choral fugues and bold orchestral statements, the Great Mass in C Minor is not often performed, possibly due to its “unfinished “ nature-thus depriving audiences of Mozart at his most daring and creative✨
🕯️DON’T MISS YOUR CHANCE to hear this outstanding work in the magnificent surrounds of St Paul’s Cathedral.
🕊️Our concert will also feature an early Haydn Symphony-the sprightly No 37 in C Major- as well as five beautiful, contemplative choral works which showcase simple and sublime melodies and the evolution of composition from the 16th to the 21st Centuries
🎶Victoria Chorale will be joined by the wonderful ART OF SOUND ORCHESTRA, four outstanding soloists : MOLLY RYAN, Soprano, SALLY-ANNE RUSSELL, Mezzo-Soprano, JIACHENG DING, Tenor and MICHAEL LAMPARD, Baritone and conducted by the always fabulous MARIO DOBERNIG.

🎼We look forward to seeing you for an evening of divine music🕯️

CONCERT DETAILS
Saturday 16 May at 5pm
St Paul’s Cathedral
Cnr Flinders & Swanston Sts Melbourne
* we advise that TICKETS SHOULD ONLY BE PURCHASED THROUGH THE LINK PROVIDED and not through third parties*

28/04/2026

🎶🕊️THE PROGRAM FOR OUR 16 MAY CONCERT🕊️🎶

🎵We hope you have your tickets for what will be a wonderful program of stunning music from across the centuries.
🎶As a Prelude to Mozart’s magnificent Great Mass in C Minor, you will be treated to Symphony No. 37 in C Major by Joseph Haydn, performed by the fabulous Art of Sound Orchestra, as well as five, lyrical choral works.
🕊️These contemplative pieces will span the choral music landscape from 16th Century Thomas Tallis and 17th Century Orlando Gibbons to 19th Century Gabriel Faure and Anton Bruckner and 21st Century Australian composer Jodie O’Regan.
🎶✨An evening of melodious simplicity and genius, and sublime harmonies you don’t want to miss ✨🎶
🎼Join Victoria Chorale, the Art of Sound Orchestra, our four outstanding soloists, MOLLY RYAN, Soprano, SALLY-ANNE RUSSELL, Mezzo-Soprano, JIACHENG DING, Tenor and MICHAEL LAMPARD, Baritone and our amazing maestro, MARIO DOBERNIG for an uplifting program of exquisite music 🎼

CONCERT DETAILS
Saturday 16 May at 5pm
St Paul’s Cathedral
Cnr Flinders & Swanston Sts Melbourne

🎫TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW AT:
www.trybooking.com/DJDIF
Concessions apply
*we advise that TICKETS SHOULD ONLY BE PURCHASED THROUGH THE LINK PROVIDED and not through third parties*

20/04/2026

✨🎶 THE MYSTERY OF
THE UNFINISHED MASS🎶✨

🎼Join VICTORIA CHORALE for a performance of the spectacular Great Mass in C Minor by W A Mozart; a work of dramatic contrasts and spiritual depth.

🎶For a composition of such sublime complexity, that demonstrates the genius of its composer, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor remained unfinished.
✨Originally conceived to be performed in Salzburg during a visit by Mozart, not all parts of the C Minor Mass were fully composed by the time of its premiere in October 1783. The completed sections were performed only once during Mozart’s lifetime, as part of a church service in St Peter’s Abbey Church in Salzburg, during which Mozart is thought to have played the organ continuo and Constanze Mozart- for whom they were written-sang the demanding first Soprano solos.
🎶It is believed the missing sections were substituted with Plainchant or parts of Mozart’s earlier composed Masses to fulfill the liturgical sequence.
✨Mozart returned to Vienna immediately after the premiere of his “unfinished “ Mass and never revisited the work to complete the missing sections-the reasons for this are still debated today……..
🧐Mozart clearly held his unfinished composition in high enough regard as he revived sections of it in a new work, based on Italian poetry, in 1785.
🧐Perhaps Mozart considered his vow -that motivated the composition- fulfilled and felt little urgency to complete the work.
🧐Mozart’s focus began to shift to other genres; piano concertos and operas.
🧐There was little interest in elaborate Mass settings, particularly in light of the restraints on church music imposed by Emperor Joseph II.
🧐Mozart lived under continual financial and time constraints. As a freelance composer he needed to prioritize works that were paid or in demand.

🎼Even in its unfinished form this work is one of epic grandeur and musical delights, challenging all performers with its artistry and broad scope.
✨🎶EXPERIENCE MOZART’S GREAT MASS IN C MINOR in the gorgeous setting of ST PAUL’s CATHEDRAL, Melbourne.

🎶 Conducted by our inspiring maestro MARIO DOBERNIG, accompanied by the Art of Sound Orchestra, with outstanding soloists : MOLLY RYAN, Soprano, SALLY-ANNE RUSSELL, Mezzo-Soprano, JIACHENG DING, Tenor and MICHAEL LAMPARD, Baritone.
✨🎶We hope to see you there🎶✨
CONCERT DETAILS
Saturday 16 May at 5pm
St Paul’s Cathedral
Cnr Flinders & Swanston Sts Melbourne

🎫TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW AT:
www.trybooking.com/DJDIF
Concessions apply
*we advise that TICKETS SHOULD ONLY BE PURCHASED THROUGH THE LINK PROVIDED and not through third parties*

14/04/2026

🎼Our performance of Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor is only four and a half weeks away!
HAVE YOU BOUGHT YOUR TICKETS YET?
A composition on a grand scale, showcasing profound artistry and fusion of musical styles, DON’T MISS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE ONE OF MOZART’S GREATEST WORKS🎼
🎶The wonderful Great Mass in C Minor was composed as a labour of love and faith. It was begun in 1782 at a crossroad in Mozart’s life. He had moved to Vienna to work as a freelance composer and was planning to marry; neither of which his father, Leopold, approved.
🎶Mozart wrote to his father of a promise in his heart-a vow- to compose a Mass and have it performed in Salzburg should he succeed in bringing Constanze there as his wife. This followed a period of illness for Constanze and implied the composition of this work was in gratitude for her recovery, a gesture of thanksgiving for their marriage and an offering to his family-deeply personal and sacred.
🎶Although unfinished, the result is magnificent!

🎵 Conducted by our inspiring maestro MARIO DOBERNIG, accompanied by the Art of Sound Orchestra, with outstanding soloists : MOLLY RYAN, Soprano, SALLY-ANNE RUSSELL, Mezzo-Soprano, JIACHENG DING, Tenor and MICHAEL LAMPARD, Baritone.

CONCERT DETAILS
Saturday 16 May at 5pm
St Paul’s Cathedral
Cnr Flinders & Swanston Sts Melbourne

🎫TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW AT:
www.trybooking.com/DJDIF
Concessions apply
*we advise that TICKETS SHOULD ONLY BE PURCHASED THROUGH THE LINK PROVIDED and not through third parties*

12/04/2026

🎼INTRODUCING OUR SOLOISTS…..
MICHAEL LAMPARD ~ Baritone
It is fabulous to welcome Michael Lampard as our Baritone soloist for Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, in what will be his first appearance with Victoria Chorale. We are excited to be joined by 4 wonderful soloists for this performance.

🎶 Michael has been a finalist in Placido Domingo's international Operalia competition subsequently appearing as Guglielmo in Cosi Fan Tutte for the Rome Opera Festival.

Appearances for Opera Australia include Schaunard in La Boheme, Dancairo and Morales in Carmen and Bartolo in The Barber Of Seville and roles in this year’s season of the Handa Opera On Sydney Harbour production of The Phantom Of The Opera.

Roles for Victorian Opera include Alidoro in La Cenerentola while for Melbourne Opera his performances include Schaunard in La Boheme, the Marquis in La Traviata, Biterolf in Tannhäuser, Di Luna in Il Trovatore, Fiorello and Ambrogio in The Barber Of Seville, Morales in Carmen, Zurga in The Pearlfishers, Killian in Der Freischütz and Kurwenal in Tristan & Isolde and roles for Gertrude Opera, Australian Contemporary Opera and Lyster Opera.

His concert appearances include being soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, at the 2023 Albury Chamber Music Festival, in the dramatised-song cycle, The Weight Of Light for the Canberra Street Theatre and in The Creation for the Sydney Philharmonia Choir in 2026.

Representation by Jeff Weaver | www.weaverartistmanagement.com. au

Address

5 Saint Columb's Street
Hawthorn, VIC
3122

Website

http://victoriachorale.org.au/

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