The vocal purity and dexterity of the Fusion Vocal Ensemble will be featured at the Cleveland Uniting Church in its Pleasant Sunday Afternoon program at 2pm on Sunday, November 13.
Fusion Vocal Ensemble is a chamber choir based in Brisbane, singing music that is harmonically diverse, textually evocative, and spiritually uplifting. Under the direction of Dr Debra Shearer-Dirié, the group brings together some of the city’s most experienced ensemble singers to perform music that challenges and nourishes both their singers and their audience. The interests and backgrounds of the group’s members range widely, though many are active as professional musicians, teachers, conductors, and advocates for music education.
Fusion’s repertoire consists primarily of choral art music, mostly unaccompanied, with a focus on contemporary works by composers from around the world. The group also performs some Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, but the group actively seeks music that is not often performed in this part of the world.
Fusion has performed at the Brisbane Contemporary Church Music Festival, at State and national conferences for the Australian National Choral Association, and in 2014 travelled to South Korea for the 10th World Symposium on Choral Music. Fusion is conducted by Dr Debra Shearer-Dirie.
The program also features organist Peter Crane, ‘cellist Davie Freisberg, the Cleveland Uniting Church choir and the Moreton Bay College Mozart Junior Quartet.
Tickets are $20/$15 including afternoon tea and can be booked on 3286 5627 (between 9am and 1pm) and at the Cleveland Bookshop, Cleveland arcade on 3286 7042 from 1pm.
