Make 2025 your year of singing - with Aria Cappella!

What a wonderful adventure 2024 turned out to be!

With our quartet rebuilt, Aria Cappella worked on mastering our considerable repertoire again, with the new mix of voices, taking to the stage in October in an intimate performance in Montmorency.

For 2025, our goal is to expand our numbers to a double-quartet, so that we can always have all four parts covered in rehearsals and performance opportunities, even when other performance commitments, family commitments, and illnesses pop up.

So, if you were looking for an opportunity to dust off the classical pipes and tackle the challenge of a cappella singing in close, four-part harmony, this is your chance!

We rehearse fortnightly in Montmorency on Sunday nights, and our primary focus is to enjoy singing together in such a unique way.

Please get in touch if you’d like to come for a sing - auditions are casual and will happen throughout January, in Montmorency.

Come sing with us!

After a long hiatus (something something pandemic something), Aria Cappella is finally ready to dust off our pipes and get back into the rehearsal room!

Only one problem though - we're short of singers! 

For 2024, our goal is to rebuild the choir, a double-quartet, and enjoy singing our complex, a cappella arrangements of operatic favourites.

Every second Sunday evening, we'll gather together at Jessica's house in Montmorency, and sing and socialise for a couple of hours. When we master each piece, maybe we'll record it! When we have a refined repertoire, we'll organise a concert! Down the track, hopefully there will be gigs again, though there's room in the double-quartet for singers who just want the pleasure of singing together in rehearsal. 

If you have classical vocal skills and a keen ear for harmony, please reach out for further audition information. Our first audition session will be at 5pm on Sunday, February 4th. 

Here's to making beautiful music! 

2020: A thrilling three months

Given the way 2020 turned out, it seems a bit surreal that it got off to such a cracking start for Aria Cappella. We gave two huge concerts in February and March before all performing (and rehearsals) ground to a halt.

In February, we performed to a packed audience at the Melba Room at Buckley’s of Dunolly, hosted by the delightful Rachel Buckley. While it is always thrilling to perform to a full house, we ended up with more than we bargained for as enthusiastic hopefuls who had not booked ahead had to listen from outside or pull up a chaise longue in the foyer. Fortunately, they could still comfortably enjoy what reviewer Susan Anderson described as “a feast for the senses” as our voices certainly carry!

With only a quick pause for breath, in March we gave the inaugural concert at a brand new performance venue: Gallery 127 in Avoca. Once again, Rachel was our charismatic MC. In a display of performance stamina, we performed our entire repertoire while the audience enjoyed canapés and local wines. (We might have had a sample or two of these tasty treats ourselves – after the concert, of course). Many thanks to Hugh Forster at the gallery for organising the event and hosting us. We very much look forward to visiting again.

Unfortunately, our run of concerts was cut short as COVID and lockdown descended. While it was, of course, disappointing to cancel our performances for the remainder of the year, including what we had hoped would be the first of many appearances at the Festival of Voices in Tasmania, this time of rest has given us the opportunity to arrange some new material and consolidate our plans going forward. With many exciting projects in the works for 2021, we managed to squeeze in a couple of COVID-safe rehearsals before Christmas. It has been a joy to dust off the rust and sing together again.

Without a doubt, 2020 has been a year of challenges for everyone. Music has provided solace for many, in its many forms. We aim to meet 2021 with out hearts and voices open, and can’t wait to sing for you again.

We wish you peace and happiness in the new year and look forward to seeing you there – with a newly arranged drinking song!

Aria Cappella xx

Aria Cappella with MC and host, Rachel Buckley, in the Melba Room, at the end of a two-act performance to a rapturous audience and a couple of Rachel’s dogs who stopped by to listen!

About to perform at Gallery 127 in Avoca – our last concert before lockdown

Enjoying a variety of artworks and a cheeky drop at Gallery 127 after the concert

We're online!

We’re online! Our site is still in rehearsal in many ways, but we look forward to it fully taking the stage very soon. With radio broadcast, video recording, and public performances coming up in the next few weeks, we will soon have lots of exciting, new content to share!