About us

The Sydney University Madrigal Society is a small, a cappella choir of around 25 people, singing - as the name suggests - mostly Madrigals, as well as more recent works. We meet weekly for a rehearsal of two hours.

We are a very active society, performing all around the University and outside it. Since our foundation in 1999 we have sung regularly at Union events such as the Chancellor's Medieval Banquet and O-week. Our series of free lunchtime concerts in the Main Quadrangle is always popular and we also produce a major concert on campus several times a year. In addition, we enter eisteddfods including the Sydney Performing Arts Challenge, in which we were awarded first prize in 2000.

We have performed Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in the Great Hall as part of the University of Sydney Sesquicentenary celebrations in 2001, and Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann in the Seymour Centre during the Union’s first annual Performing Arts Festival in 2003. Both productions were enjoyed by audiences of over a thousand. In 2005 we enjoyed a successful collaboration with SUSO, performing Mozart's Mass in C Minor, and in 2007 again performed with SUSO in the Requiem by Faure and the Gloria by Vivaldi.