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The conference program will also include some very special performances in the stunning Elisabeth Murdoch Hall. Tickets to these concerts can be booked as part of your registration. CONCERT BOOKINGS With One Voice – Opening Concert This heart-warming concert is not to be missed! Seven (or more) of Victoria's most diverse choirs including 'Melbourne Sings' led by three outstanding conductors Shaun Islip, Kym Dillon and Sonny Chua with special guest soloists. Share stories, sing-a-long, open your heart and be swept away by the voices, emotion and timeless songs including Freedom is Coming, What a Wonderful World, That's What Friends Are For, We are Australian, You'll Never Walk Alone, Hallelujah, Rhythm of Life, Imagine and many more.... Celebrating the diversity of Creativity Australia's social inclusion choir programs, With One Voice will feature choirs including Melbourne Sings, Geelong Sings, Royal Children's Hospital Sings, Orygen Youth Health Sings, Dandenong Sings, Maribyrnong Sings, Singing for Sunshine, Melbourne Singers of Gospel, Dean Frenkel, Tania de Jong and others. Choir members range from CEOs and employees of businesses to migrants and people challenged by mental or physical disability. This is an official fundraising concert supporting Creativity Australia. Funds raised through the performance will go directly to providing places for disadvantaged people in With One Voice programs. All donations are tax-deductible. www.creativityaustralia.org.au "Melbourne Sings Choir struck at the core of what it means to embrace diversity and the innate creativity in all of us, and the power of collective energy to create positive change. Their voices and enthusiasm opened hearts and inspired us all." Serious Women's Business View a video clip or listen to this interview on Life Matters re our programs Magical Musical Melbourne! – The Art of Thought Featuring some of Melbourne and Australia's world class performing artists in one of the world's most beautiful buildings this will be a spring evening not to be missed. Virtuosic pianists, ensembles and the gorgeous voices of Pot-Pourri in a program ranging from opera and classics to the world premiere of an orchestral work created by young Australian composer Stefan Cassomenos for Creative Innovation 2010. A whole new world of performance for the creative age. "Stefan's playing is something else: alive, passionate, dramatic playing that was also as near technically perfect as dammit. We in the audience were soon bonded, stirred and shaken. This was a prodigious London debut by a formidable talent." John Amis, Musical Opinion An Enchanted Spring Evening with Pot-Pourri Imagine…being taken to see your favourite Broadway shows, operas and your most-loved songs, in just one evening of entertainment… Be enchanted and entertained by the greatest hits from La Boheme, Turandot, Lakme, The Pearl Fishers, La Traviata, Don Giovanni, Madam Butterfly, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Westside Story, Cats and songs by artists including Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Ennio Morricone, Leonard Cohen and many more. Pot-Pourri is founders Tania de Jong AM and Jonathan Morton, Rebecca and Jon Bode, and talented pianist Rebecca Chambers. Named BT Publishing's Australian Event Entertainer of the Year, Pot-Pourri have enchanted audiences around the world on over 40 international tours with their inspiring and unique sound, much-loved repertoire of opera, music theatre and song and their inimitable warmth and wit. Just returned from international success in Asia, New Zealand and Europe, these talented artists hit those high C's in Opera, belt out Broadway, seduce with song, dance up a storm, create magic and stir your soul with haunting didgeridoo and ballads! "The voices are inspired, the music is sublime and the production all you could wish for…a standing ovation!" Herald Sun Creative Innovation 2010 will donate a percentage of the profits from the An Enchanted Spring Evening concert to Save the Children. |
