Month: December 2024

The Choir Tour to UK and France – 28 Dec – 9 Jan

Posted on by Richard Morgan

The St Paul’s College Chapel Choir will embark on a highly anticipated tour from Saturday, 28 December 2024, to Thursday, 9 January 2025, performing in some of the world’s most renowned churches and cathedrals.

If you are nearby, all Paulines, their families, and friends are invited to attend the public services and concerts during the tour. Please REGISTER here.

The touring choir consists of members of the 2024 Chapel Choir, as well as choir alumni from the past three years now living in the UK and Europe, all under the direction of Jack Stephens, our Director of Music. Their repertoire spans English church service settings, psalms, responses, anthems, motets, and music ranging from Gregorian Chant to contemporary works composed by current students.

The Choir will be accompanied by our Organist and Composer-in-Residence, David Drury, along with Organ Scholar Bailey Yeates. They will also give solo performances on the grand organs of St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral, York Minster, La Madeleine, Saint-Sulpice, and Saint-Eustache.

For a download of the program poster below CLICK HERE

Gift of Recent Portrait of Pauline

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Michael Lodge, at College 1961-62, brought his old friend Prof Garth Nicholson, at College 1961-66, back to College to finalise an agreement for Michael’s portrait of Garth to be given to the College. After studying architecture Michael has been a life-long artist with work as an illustrator for the Canberra Times, The Bulletin and the Australian and more generally in advertising and publishing.

Garth studied MBBS and PhD, is a neurologist who has focused his research on hereditary diseases of nerves, including a number of world-first studies. Garth is currently Professor of Neurogenetics at the University of Sydney.

The College is delighted to receive portraits of its interesting alumni and in this case we have received a double-header because the artist is also a Pauline! An interesting point from a story Michael happily told us is that the Nicholson portrait was one of the 1,005 entries in the 2024 Archibald Prize but it didn’t make it into the 57 selected works.