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Gondwana Choirs is Australia

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's most dynamic choral organisation. Founded in 1989 by Artistic Director Lyn Williams OAM

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, it is internationally renowned for artistic excellence and innovation in the development of a unique Australian choral voice for young people.

Gondwana Choirs consists of several different choirs:

Sydney Children's Choir: Gondwana Choirs' original choir, which offers young people aged 6-17 from across Sydney weekly rehearsals at the Wharf, Millers Point and Pymble Uniting Church. The Sydney Children's Choir regularly performs with ensembles such as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, on film soundtracks (including Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 romantic jukebox musical film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. Following the Red Curtain Cinema principles, the film is based on the Orphean myth, La Traviata, and La Bohème...

& Happy Feet
Happy Feet
Happy Feet is a 2006 American-Australian computer-animated family film with music, directed and co-written by George Miller. It was produced at Sydney-based visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic for Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures and Kingdom Feature Productions and was released...

) and at major cultural events, including the International Society of Music Education Conference in Beijing 2010.
Gondwana Voices: the original, truly national Australian children's choir, which includes young people aged 10–16 from right across Australia. Gondwana Voices has been invited to tour internationally, including a 2007 tour to perform at the prestigious BBC Proms, a 2011 tour to the United States and Canada, and an invitation to represent Australia at the World Choral Summit in Beijing 2012. They have also performed at major events such as the Melbourne Commonwealth Games opening and closing ceremonies and recorded several CDs with ABC Classics
ABC Classics
ABC Classics is the classical music record label within the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It is internationally recognised as Australia's premier classical music label, with a catalogue of more than 500 titles...

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Gondwana Chorale: Founded in 2006, the Gondwana Chorale is a SATB
SATB
In music, SATB is an initialism for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, defining the voices required by a chorus or choir to perform a particular musical work...

choir for singers aged 17–25. The Chorale is designed to cater for ex-Voices members and male singers with changed voices. In 2011 they will undertake their first international tour to New Zealand.
Gondwana Singers: for young people aged 13–16, on the verge of gaining entry into Gondwana Voices or Gondwana Chorale, including boys with changed/changing voices as well as treble voices.
Junior Gondwana: Gondwana Choirs' entry-level training choir which caters for children with treble voices aged 10–13 years old.

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Gondwana National Indigenous Children's Choir: Gondwana Choirs' newest choir, GNICC offers Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander young people, aged 8–16, the opportunity to join their peers from across Australia, participate in first-class musical education, and represent their culture on the world stage. All GNICC activities are made available at no cost to participating children, their schools or communities.

Gondwana Choirs also runs a Composer School and a Conducting Internship as part of its annual Gondwana National Choral School, held each January, following national auditions. National Choral School is a two-week camp of intensive rehearsals, workshops and concerts, under the guidance of Australia's best choral conductors, led by Lyn Williams OAM. The national choirs will then typically undertake one or more tours throughout the year.

Gondwana Choirs is a not-for-profit company based in Sydney, which relies on support from the public, as well as government and philanthropic organsiations to run its activities across Australia. As well as offering free musical education to young Aborginal & Torres Strait Islander people through the Gondwana National Indigenous Children's Choir, it offers bursaries to financially disadvantaged choristers in Sydney Children's Choir and the Gondwana National choirs.

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