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The mission of The Australian Voices is to commission, perform, record and promote the music of Australian composers to the highest international artistic standards.

The Australian Voices are singers selected from all over Australia. A gold-medal winning choir with several YouTube hits to their name, they continue to surprise audiences around the world with their vocal acrobatics. Directed by Gordon Hamilton, their recent hits The 9 Cutest Things That Ever Happened, The Facebook Song and We Apologise contrast with their beautiful renditions of sacred repertoire by composers like Rachmaninoff and choral-theatre works like MOON (receiving 5-stars at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012). Comfortable in a wide range of genres, their recent commissions include Kalkadunga which combines didgeridoo rhythm that are tens of thousands of years old with overtone singing (where one singer produces two notes at the same time).

Since 1993, The Australian Voices have championed an astonishing flourish of new Australian vocal music, having commissioned hundreds of new works. Much of this new music captures vividly the vibrant sound, colour, and energy of the Australian continent and its people. This vocal ensemble has been recognised by many international awards and honours as one of the finest of its type in the world.

The Australian Voices have toured internationally many times, participating in major events in the U.K, the U.S.A., Bosnia, Canada, Guatemala, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia, New Zealand, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Singapore and Korea. The Australian Voices have shared stages with some of the great musicians of the world including Jose Carreras, Bobby McFerrin and Evelyn Glennie.