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TERRA MATER AESTIVA | by Ross Edwards

  • Phillips Hall 41 Gardiner Crescent Blackheath, NSW, 2785 Australia (map)

Full Festival Gold Pass - $465 (on sale 12th Dec 2025)

Individual Tickets (on sale Jan 2026)
A Reserve - $75
B Reserve - $65

Festival GOLD PASS on sale 12th December

Individual concert Tickets will go on sale mid January 2026


Not to be missed! This bespoke celebration of ROSS EDWARDS’ music brings together six exceptional singers with musicians RILEY LEE, LOUISE JOHNSON, JULIAN SMILES and TIMOTHY CONSTABLE, under the direction of NICHOLAS ROUTLEY with the works arranged especially for this curated ensemble.

This deeply moving program promises a luminous and heartfelt finale—a stunning way to draw the BCMF26 to a close.


Program

A bespoke compilation of works by Ross EDWARDS

Suite from Vespers for Mother Earth (2020)
i. To Invoke the morning
ii. Flame of the Sun: Aria
iv. Orison
vi. Canticle of the Earth
vii. O Magnum Mysterium

Ab Estatis Foribus ~ At the Gates of Summer (1980)

Dance Mantras (1992)

Artists

Nicholas Routley | conductor

Riley Lee | shakuhachi
Louise Johnson | harp
Julian Smiles | cello
Timothy Constable | percussion

CHORUS
Susannah Lawergren |
soprano
Susie Bishop |
soprano
Jessica O’Donoghue |
soprano
Geoffrey Webb |
tenor
Andrew O’ Connor | bass baritone
Philip Murray |
bass

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