VOX

VOX is at the forefront of contemporary choral music in Australia. With singers aged 18–30, VOX brings together Sydney’s most talented young singers to perform in the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ concert season.  VOX are led by acclaimed choral conductor and VOX Music Director, Elizabeth Scott. VOX regularly perform in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s season in programs such as Last Night of the Proms, Britten’s Peter Grimes and Fauré’s Requiem.  They starred in their own performances of Wonder in the Utzon Room at the Sydney Opera House. VOX regularly appears at corporate events and in major cultural festivals such as VIVID Sydney, the Greek Music Festival and Four Winds.

In 2019 they performed with the Sydney Symphony in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis at the Sydney Opera House.  They have sung on recordings for composers Sally Whitwell and Dan Walker, and Bangarra Dance Theatre’s production Bennelong. In 2020 VOX performed Craig Hella Johnson’s searing Considering Matthew Shepard in collaboration with the City Recital Hall.

In 2021 they performed on the Sydney Opera House Forecourt for the Australia Day celebrations, and Berliner Messe at St Andrew’s Cathedral, featuring the works of Arvo Pärt, Matthew Orlovich and Aija Draguns. In 2022, they featured in The Pulse as part of the Sydney Festival, in Bach’s Mass in B minor, and with legendary choral leader Eric Whitacre in the Sydney premiere of his latest composition, The Scared Veil at the Sydney Opera House. In 2023, VOX performed David Lang’s Pulitzer prize-winning The Little Match Girl Passion along with other works by Luke Byrne and Naomi Crellin and in Carols at the House at the Sydney Opera House.

In 2024, VOX sings John Peterson’s Shadows and Light, Fauré’s Requiem, works by Ešenvalds, Rautavaara, Whitacre, Byrne, Pärt and more in Aurora and in Handel’s Messiah with the Christmas Choir.

Weekly rehearsals are on Wednesday evenings with some additional rehearsals throughout the year.

If you are interested in auditioning for VOX, please click here.