User:Zeraph81/The Australian Rosny Children's Choir

Based in Bellerive, Tasmania, Australia, the Australian Rosny Children's Choir (ARCC) is one of Australia's leading choral ensembles for children.

History
The Rosny Children's Choir started when Jennifer Filby, a music teacher in Rosny, had her pupils sing carols at their end-of-year recital. She was asked to provide a chorus for a musical, and the Rosny Children's Choir was born in 1967.

Filby was an inspiring teacher and the choir was extremely successful, the first from the southern hemisphere to perform at the renowned choral eisteddfod at Llangollen in Wales, and in 1975 the first Australian choir to perform in China, as part of the Australian government's first cultural exchange. There were other trips, and many radio and television performances. In its heyday the choir contained 160 children, in the Training Choir, Performing Choir and Touring Choir. After Filby's death, the choir continued as the Australian Rosny Children's Choir.

Levels
The ARCC consists of 3 main groups: Training Choir, Graduate Choir, and the Performing Choir (main choir). Children as young as 5 or 6 can audition for the youngest choir, then begin moving up in the training choir levels until they reach the main choir. In the main choir, there are also several subgroups, including the Cantare and Chamber ensembles. Within Cantare is Apprentice, Senior Apprentice, and main Cantare. Within the Chamber choir (the recording and touring choir) are main Chamber, Acappella, and the Choral Scholars.

Head Choristers

 * 2008 - 2009: Claire Nichol
 * 2007 - 2008:
 * 2006 - 2007:
 * 2005 - 2006:
 * 2004 - 2005:
 * 2003 - 2004:
 * 2002 - 2003:
 * 2001 - 2002:
 * 2000 - 2001:
 * 1999 - 2000:
 * 1998 - 1999:
 * 1997 - 1998:
 * 1996 - 1997:
 * 1995 - 1996:
 * 1994 - 1995:
 * 1993 - 1994:
 * 1992 - 1993:
 * 1991 - 1992:
 * 1990 - 1991:
 * 1989 - 1990:
 * 1988 - 1989:
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Recordings

 * '''There Is An Island

Tours

 * 1982 England & Wales
 * 1984 Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia & Switzerland
 * 1985 Chicago, Illinois
 * 1986 Western Canada
 * 1987 San Antonio, Texas
 * 1988 Australia, New Zealand, California & Hawaii
 * 1990 Finland & USSR
 * 1991 Phoenix, Arizona
 * 1992 England & France
 * 1993 Florida
 * 1995 Washington DC
 * 1995 Italy
 * 1996 New York City
 * 1997 Belgium & The Netherlands
 * 1999 Australia & New Zealand
 * 2000 Western Canada
 * 2002 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * 2002 England
 * 2003 Newfoundland
 * 2004 England
 * 2004 South Africa
 * 2006 Austria, Hungary & Slovakia
 * 2006 New York State
 * 2007 Miami, Florida
 * !!!2008!!! Sydney, Adelaide
 * 2009 State wide tour