About Australian Rosny Children's Choir
The Australian Rosny Children's Choir has a long a
celebrated history as an internationally recognised performing choir.
It was started by local Rosny music teacher Jennifer Filby in 1967,
after she was asked to put together a chorus for a local musical. The
choir quickly grew in size and notoriety and in in 1971, was the first
from the Southern Hemisphere to take part in the International
Eisteddfod at Llangollen Wales. After receiving international acclaim
for its performances there, it was selected by the Australian
Government to represent it in the first cultural exchange with the
People’s Republic of China in 1975.
The Choir has also performed
in Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, New Zealand and Japan. It is
constantly in demand to perform at conventions, recitals, cruise ship
dockside welcomes and on board performances, church services, charity
concerts and television appearances. Australian music plays an
important role in the repertoire of the Choir, and it has commissioned
and performed several new works including the well know work "There is
an Island" by the eminent Tasmanian composer Don Kay.
The
Australian Rosny Children’s Choir, now over 30 years old, has toured
extensively within Australia, performing in many of it's major concert
venues, and appearing with the Sydney, Melbourne, South Australian and
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, earning high praise from such eminent
conductors as Prof. Henry Krips, Patrick Thomas, Georg Tintner, Gerald
Krug, Vanco Cavdarski, Jose Serebrier, Richard Divall, Thomas Meyer,
George Dreyfus and Leonard Dommett.