Welcome
to Victoria Chorale
Established in 1993, Victoria Chorale is a registered charity dedicated to providing excellent choral performances for audiences and choristers alike in Melbourne. If you're an existing member, head to our Members Section in the top right. If you'd like to learn more about us, scroll below...
Tickets on sale
for our August concert!
5pm Saturday 29 August 2026
Collingwood Town Hall
Following a highly successful European concert tour, Victoria Chorale returns home to join forces with the Ballarat Wind Orchestra for an afternoon of inspiring music in Coming Home.
This special collaborative concert celebrates the power of music to connect us with places, memories, and one another. Audiences will experience a rich and diverse program featuring music performed by the Victoria Chorale on its recent international tour, alongside exciting new works and celebrated repertoire for choir and wind orchestra.
A highlight of the concert will be two Australian premieres. The Victoria Chorale will present The Two Trees by William Schmidt, while the Ballarat Wind Orchestra will perform The Nordic Suite by William Hinde, featuring soprano saxophone soloist in a vibrant and evocative musical journey inspired by Scandinavian landscapes and culture.
The concert also welcomes one of Australia's most distinguished vocal artists, Sally-Anne Russell, whose extraordinary career has taken her to concert halls and opera stages in more than twenty-five countries. Under the direction of Dr Mario Dobernig, the Ballarat Wind Orchestra and Victoria Chorale continue a long-standing artistic partnership that has delighted audiences across Victoria and beyond.
Founded in 2009, the Ballarat Wind Orchestra has established itself as western Victoria's premier wind ensemble. Through regular performances, international tours, and a commitment to promoting Australian music, the orchestra has built a reputation for musical excellence and innovation.
Concert dates are 5pm Saturday 29 August at Collingwood Town Hall and 4pm Sunday 30 August in Ballarat at the Wendouree Centre for Performing Arts.
Tickets are on sale via this link at TryBooking for Melbourne and the Wendouree Performing Arts Centre for Ballarat.
We have three major concerts in the CBD and inner city venues each year and a number of other events. For our latest news and upcoming concerts, including links to tickets, click here.
If you are a member of the choir and looking for information about upcoming rehearsals and other useful information, click here.
Our prerequisites are that you love singing, can confidently hold a part, can sing in tune, can learn the music, will attend weekly rehearsals, will practise regularly between rehearsals and can follow the conductor! While we are a non auditioned choir, a voice placement check with the conductor is undertaken for new singers. We are currently giving priority to recruiting tenors, basses and younger singers.
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For information about joining, click here .
Donation Fund
Victoria Chorale is a registered charity dedicated to providing excellent choral music for audiences and choristers alike. Your donation will help us to continue offering concerts which engage, delight and inspire. We will be most grateful for any donation you can make. Donations over $2 are tax-deductible and you will be emailed a receipt. ​​​​
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If you prefer you can:
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use the convenient PayID function in your banking app or online banking function - use the email address treasurer@victoriachorale.org.au
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or do a bank transfer to our donations account:​
Victoria Chorale Donations Fund
BSB: 633 000
Acct: 162 507 255
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Please provide your name in the transfer details, and then send an email to victoriachorale@gmail.com with the same name to obtain a tax deductible receipt.
About
Victoria Chorale
Victoria Chorale inspires and delights choristers and audiences with wonderful choral concerts performed with great flair.
Highlights of recent performances with the vibrant Art of Sound Orchestra include the remarkable Sir Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, the Mozart vs Salieri program at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Brahms Requiem and Alto Rhapsody, Mozart’s Requiem and Great Mass, Carmina Burana and the Faure Requiem. The choir also performs music by contemporary Australian and NZ composers such as Barry Conyngham, Andrew Perkins, Andrian Pertout, Sarah Hopkins and Barry McKimm.
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The choir has developed and grown greatly under the dynamic leadership of its conductor, Dr Mario Dobernig. Victoria Chorale choristers travel from all over Melbourne to sing with the choir. The choir regularly performs at CBD venues such as St Paul’s Cathedral and Collins St Baptist Church, and a number of venues in inner Melbourne. In 2019 the choir travelled to Europe, singing in St Stephens Cathedral (Vienna), the Bratislava Cultural Summer Festival and in Graz, Kapfenberg and St Margarethen (Austria). Planning for another tour in 2026 has commenced.
Victoria Chorale was founded in 1993 by the late Val J Pyers OAM. Over the past three decades it has built a well-earned reputation for the excellence, diversity and warmth of its performances and the camaraderie amongst the choir members.
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Victoria Chorale Inc. is an incorporated association and a registered charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC). Further governance information and annual reports can be found on the ACNC website www.acnc.gov.au.
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Pictured left is our wonderful accompanist, Will Schmidt. Photo, and many throughout our website, are courtesy of Living Imagery.