CARL ORFF
Carmina Burana
arranged for chamber orchestra by Paul Leonard Schäffer I. Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi (Fortune, Empress of the World) II. Primo Vere (Springtime) III. Uf Dem Anger (On the Meadow) IV. In Taberna (In the Tavern) V. Cour d’Amours (The Court of Love) VI. Blanziflor et Helena (Blanziflor and Helena) VII. Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi Brett Weymark conductor Prudence Sanders soprano Perry Joyce tenor James Clayton baritone ChorusOz Perth 2026 The OBV Studio Choir Perth Symphony Orchestra
Saturday 26 September 2026 | 5:00 pm Winthrop Hall, University of Western Australia TRUSTS & FOUNDATIONS
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We acknowledge and pay respect to the Whadjuk Nyoongar people, upon whose Country we rehearse and sing this concert, and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. Our voices bring life to the songs of many cultures and countries, from across the ages, in a spirit of sharing, learning and understanding. The ancient customs and cultures of this land inspire us to create harmony – in music and in our society. This performance of Carmina Burana by Carl!Orff is given by arrangement with Schott!Music, Mainz Duration: 70 minutes, without interval The concert will conclude at approx. 6:10 pm
T HE A RTISTS PHOTO: KEITH SAUNDERS
BRETT WEYMARK OAM is one of Australia’s foremost choral conductors. In addition to his role with SPC, he has conducted most of the major Australasian orchestras, film scores, and productions for Opera Australia, State Opera South Australia, WA Opera, WAAPA and the Adelaide Festival. He is a graduate of Sydney University and the Sydney Conservatorium. PRUDENCE SANDERS is a WA Opera principal artist and has also appeared with the WASO and FreezeFrame Opera, most recently this month as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire. A graduate of WAAPA and the Guildhall School of Music, she has sung at the Royal Opera House, Wigmore Hall and other leading London venues, and was previously a member of the Royal Opera Chorus and Opera Australia Chorus.
PHOTO: DAVID PENCO
PERRY JOYCE is a tenor, conductor and composer. His credits include solo appearances with the WASO, a Performing Arts WA Awardnominated portrayal of the Snake in The Little Prince (Freeze Frame Opera), and numerous productions with WA Opera, including Sweeney Todd conducted by Brett Weymark. He was a Principal Artist in the Song Company’s final season and is now the Conducting Scholar at St!Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne. This is his Sydney Philharmonia Choirs debut. JAMES CLAYTON was a French horn player before joining WA Opera as a Young Artist (2006–07). In addition to WAO (singing title roles in The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, Falstaff, Macbeth and The Mikado, and in March Giorgio Germont in La traviata), he has sung principal roles for State Opera South Australia and New Zealand Opera. His concert credits include Mozart’s Mass in C!minor, Beethoven Nine and Verdi’s Requiem (WASO), as well as performances with the Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmanian and New!Zealand symphony orchestras.
C ARMINA B URANA
CARL ORFF
The mostly Latin texts of Carmina Burana (Songs from Beuern) come from a mediæval manuscript unearthed in a Bavarian abbey 220 years ago. Its!authors were wandering scholars, ‘drop-out monks’ if you like, but the lyrics are strictly secular: nature, erotic love, food and drink, satire directed at the church, and plenty of down-to-earth philosophy. Orff organised the music into three sections – In Springtime and On the Meadow; In the Tavern; and The Court of Love – and framed the whole with a thrilling setting of the lyric that first fired his imagination: ‘O Fortuna!’ Fickle fortune, vain and monstrous, now in our favour, now not... Orff’s music captures to perfection the variety of tone and subject matter!– pastoral, earthy, ribald, euphoric. And at the end he returns to his original inspiration. Fortune’s wheel has turned full circle, and while the final line is an invitation to weep, the music will leave you exhilarated. Other highlights: the lament of the roasting swan with both tenor soloist and the first bassoon pushed to the very top of their range; the fabulous drinking song, ‘In taberna’, for the men of the choir (a kind of secular litany in which everyone drinks!); and the ecstatic soprano solo ‘Dulcissime’ (Sweetest one, I give myself to you utterly) leading into the jubilant chorus ‘Blanziflor and Helena’.
arranged for chamber orchestra by Paul Leonard Schäffer
P ERTH S YMPHONY O RCHESTRA
Carmina Burana
I. Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi (Fortune, Empress of the World) II. Primo Vere (Springtime) III. Uf Dem Anger (On the Meadow) IV. In Taberna (In the Tavern) V. Cour d’Amours (The Court of Love) VI. Blanziflor et Helena (Blanziflor and Helena) VII. Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi Brett Weymark conductor Prudence Sanders soprano Perry Joyce tenor James Clayton baritone ChorusOz Perth 2026 The OBV Studio Choir Perth Symphony Orchestra
Fiona Campbell OAM Creative Director FIRST VIOLINS Pascale Whiting Concertmaster Madeleine Antoine Sara Duhig Iana Iukhmanova Yasmin Omran Monica Rallabhandi Jasmin Robertson Julia Watson SECOND VIOLINS Susannah Williams Anastasyia Dudar Zoë van Drunen Hannah Herriman Ruth Klein-Cook Julia Nicholls Sarah Papadopoulos Gretel Smith
VIOLAS Sally Boud Grace Ah-quee Siobhan Finn Noah Furtado Mirjana Kojic Christian Read
CLARINET Catherine Cahill
CELLOS Noeleen Wright Melinda Forsythe Krista Low Emma Vanderwal
TRUMPET Jenny Coleman
DOUBLE BASSES Libby Browning Sarah Clare Jacqueline Dosser
TIMPANI Amanda Dean
FLUTE Diane Riddell OBOE Stephanie Nicholls
BASSOON Kate Pitcher HORN Nicole Dixon
TROMBONE Kieran Hurley
PERCUSSION Paul Tanner PIANO Tim Cunniffe Bold = Principal
We acknowledge and pay respect to the Whadjuk Nyoongar people, upon whose Country we rehearse and sing this concert, and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. Our voices bring life to the songs of many cultures and countries, from across the ages, in a spirit of sharing, learning and understanding. The ancient customs and cultures of this land inspire us to create harmony – in music and in our society. This performance of Carmina Burana by Carl!Orff is given by arrangement with Schott!Music, Mainz Duration: 70 minutes, without interval The concert will conclude at approx. 6:10 pm
C HORUS O Z P ERTH 2026 Brett Weymark Artistic and Music Director | Elizabeth Scott Associate Music Director Tim Cunniffe Assistant Chorus Master and Principal Rehearsal Pianist Benjamin Crowe and Naomi Hnat Conducting Fellows Joshua Haines and Adrian Soares Rehearsal Pianists SOPRANOS Cecile Atkins Imogen Bale Jeanette Berman Anne Birt Julie Campbell Emma Cannon Dee Carlin Deise Carvalho Nita Collins Cynthia Cowling Helen Dean Debbie Dixon Child Megan Edwards Daniela Egas Megan Ellis Sarah Evamy Natalie Fulcher Rosalind Glazov Narelle Harvey Bronwyn Ife Colette James Ranka Joyce Jocelyn Kuan Susan Lake Merle Lamb Angela Loftus-Hills Logann McNamara Gaynor Manfield Marie Martin Jennifer Mazurek Elizabeth Moore Emily O’Rourke Maria Passalacqua Chloe Piper Pam Piper Heather Quayle Melida Rodriguez Danielle RosenfeldLovell Jane Royle Ashleigh Scalise Mardi Shaw Jane Sinclair
Geraldine Smith Bettina Söderbaum Valerie Sollis Willow Springate Mary-Anne Stokes Beryl Stone Karen Sundar Therese Sundblad Ruth Sutton Colette Taylor Linda Thompson Bev Thornton Megah Trisno Nicole Trudgeon Alison Walton-Blane Judith Wardhaugh Kathleen Wijgers Fiona Wingett Kay Wood Judith Woodland Larraine Wroth Margaret Wymarra ALTOS Tine Adams Jennylynne Andrews Katherine Anson Marcelline Assendelft Julie Bartholomew Wilma Basson Jayne Beresford Martine Van Den Berg Caroline Bessemer Imelda Bhalsod Robyn Blainey Majella Burns Pamela Buselich Bronwen Channon Josephine Clarke Emma Clinton Fiona Crisp Gillian Croston Katrina Darnbrough Collette Davies
Vicki Derwort Michele Dreyfus Jennifer Dunlop Derry Finkeldey Eloise Ford Christine Forster Christine Gascoyne Julie Ginbey Candida Gordon Jane Greaves Alison Haeusler Bronwyn Hartwig Anna Hicks Mary Hill Charis Hobson Diane Hollett Lekkie Hopkins Sally Jaeger Christine James Anne Johnston Shannon Johnston Linda Jones Naomi Jones Caroline Jumpertz Susan Kay Wendy Kehoe Tamsin Khan Lisa Kirby Lou Kirkby Ziggy Kohl Doreen Laforest Suzanne Leclair Catherine Loftus-Hills Jane McCallum Isabelle Macey Laurel McGowan Pam McGowan Monica McTaggart Emma Maiden Rachel Maiden Naomi Mamolis Susan Margaret Fran Meeking Briar Mogan
Gabriele Munro Beverley Newbold Suzanne Nikoletti Julie Parish Jessica Phillips Reece Plunkett Jane Porter Kathryn Ramsay Rosemary Rayfuse Erin Rice Deb Rimmer Justine Scalise Helen Sewell Sue Sillitoe Cathy Spitteler Adelheid Stelter Lisa Stelter Debra ThornboroughOwen Linda Vowles Olga Vujovic Brigitte Wallefeld Olga Ward Rosemary Wells Anke Woodland Heather Woollen Ann Zubrick TENORS Andrew Birt Phillipa Dougherty Kate Foot Mary Garland Greg Glazov Paul Johnson Ayse Kiran Allan Morse
Heather Nichols Brian Parker Dave Parry Michael Paul Michael Payet Kelvin Reeves Jenny Richardson Jill Rowbottom Robert Thomson Leonie Thorogood Peter Vowles Jo Watkins BASSES Sigurd Anderson Kurt Barben Bruno Cassal Greg Cresp Ian Davies Jim Friedhofer Roger Guinery Malcolm Hare Brad Hilton Geoffrey Kerr Stephen Macdonald Danny May Sean Monahan Chris Moore Kristian Muller Colin Pyman Peter Quartero Kieran Rayney Greg Rimmer Peter Sinclair John Smith Chris Tinney Hans Wijgers James Wood Don Woollen
CHILDREN’S CHOIR The OBV Studio Choir Bronwen Jones Choir Leader