ENSEMBLES 2025

Anglican Church Grammar School Choir

Churchie’s Choral Program has a rich tradition of singing for both community service and performance. Encompassing boys in from the age of 7 to 18 as well as adults connected to our community, singers engage in events at St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane City Hall, QUT Garden’s Theatre and multiple on-campus events, such as our annual Choral Concert, Multimedia Gala, and Jazz Under the Stars. They enjoy collaborating with the Churchie Symphony Orchestra and Morris Wind Symphony for performances of large-scale works. Some members of our touring Senior Voices also serve in the demanding St John’s Cathedral Scholarship program, having the opportunity to train in liturgical singing each week in one of Australia’s premier Cathedral Choral programs. Other members also participate in our innovative auditioned jazz acapella program Viking Vocals, which tours annually to the ANZ National Vocal Awards at the Generations in Jazz Festival, Mt Gambier, and have had the privilege of collaborating with guest artists such as James Morrison, Rai Thistlethwayte, Tom Burlinson, Naomi Price and Darren Percival. Churchie choral ensembles regularly win gold awards at local competitions the Qld Youth Music Awards and Musicfest, have previously toured to the Tutti Youth Music Festival in Beijing in 2019, and undertaken tours to Longreach in 2021 and Japan in 2023, and were featured at the Pemulwuy National Male Voice Festival in Brisbane also in 2023. Churchie’s Senior Voices are known for their energy, passion and vibrant sound as a changing male voice ensemble. They are excited to make their SCL debut in 2025.

Rosemary Oxenford

Conductor

Rosemary is the Choral Coordinator at Anglican Church Grammar School.  A versatile conductor, educator, pianist, vocalist and church musician with over 25 years’ experience, her interests continue to expand with a passion for music making with young people at the heart of her work.

After completing a Bachelor of Music in piano, conducting and composition at the University of Qld, she developed her conducting practice through postgraduate study with several eminent conductors of the Hungarian school; a Postgraduate Diploma of Music in Conducting with Dr Edward Bolkovac, and summer intensives with Dr Laszlo Norbet Nemes of the Liszt Academy, Reka Csernyik, and Micheal McCarthy. Whilst working as a private piano/vocal tutor, conductor and accompanist at several Brisbane private schools, she has enjoyed conducting at Harvest Rain Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre, Imogen Children’s Chorale, Jirani Singers, Australian Youth Choir, Sola Voce Women’s Chorus, Brisbane Baroque Players, and Griffith University, as well as several studio and community-based productions. Ten years ago, after further postgraduate study in education, she became part of the Music Department team at Churchie, as both Classroom educator and as Choral Coodinator, developing a strong culture of participation across the school and directing numerous choral ensembles, combined orchestral work, and theatre productions. She has developed the innovative auditioned acapella program, Viking Vocals, which includes aural musicianship training, and competes in the vocal jazz arena and in traditional chamber work. She also enjoys composing/arranging in the orchestral sphere and loves to perform film and gaming soundtracks in a live multimedia setting, arranged and honed for the unique assembly of musicians involved in the project. She is kept on her toes by the ever-changing goalposts and joys of the changing male voice and is excited to present the unique blend of voices touring with Churchie’s Senior Voices in 2025.

Christian Gante

Accompanist

Christian plays for 9 choirs in Brisbane and is regularly contracted to play for the Qld Symphony Orchestra and University of Qld ensembles. Even though he has the pleasure of accompanying even more choirs as an occasional backup accompanist for extra rehearsals, or when their regular pianist is away for various reasons; he is so very grateful that each choir time happens to be each conductor’s highlight of their week. Indeed a wonderful place to be; everywhere you go, your co-workers together also looking forward to time spent working on music, challenging and inspiring young musicians. Having appeared on Channel 7 and 10 as a youngster for his pianistic achievements, Christian currently works with just as many high schools during a school week assisting their music departments in music tutoring, soloist accompanying, congregation singing and from time to time as an audio-visual technician. Christian has written a number of instrumental and choral works which have been performed by various high schools and in his spare time adores visiting the great outdoors and photographing Australia’s wonderful wildlife.

Competition Program

Additional Concerts Program