New era for the Sydney Male Choir 

With almost 100 years of singing experience in male singing, a new era has commenced for the Sydney Male Choir.  

Dean Southwood of Baulkham Hills, at 14 years of age, has passed his singing audition and last Tuesday night was accepted as a performing member of the Sydney Male Choir becoming the youngest member ever. Here Dean is accepting his choir tie from Alan Thrift, Musical Director and Tom Coghlan, Vice President 

Dean, a Year 9 student at Hills Grammar School in North West Sydney has a very musical bias. He has his Grade 6 in piano, plays clarinet, is in the School Choir, Concert Band and Orchestra and has been a member of the Australian Youth Choir for the past seven years.  

With some concern that he had outgrown the Youth Choir, the recent “Battle of the Choirs” television program brought to the surface Dean’s need to seek out a mature male voice choir after watching two of the competitors perform – The Barrilee Blokes and The Blenders.

He went to the Internet and found The Sydney Male Choir. 

Dean is now learning the Choir’s repertoire for their upcoming 9^th Annual Sydney City Concert titled “Some Enchanted Afternoon” of Song and Harmony to take place at the Angel Place Recital Hall on Sunday September 14^th at 2 p.m. 

For the very first time, the sound of the Seventy Voices of the Sydney Male Choir, under the influential conducting skills of Alan Thrift, will be heard harmonising in the superior acoustic atmosphere of the Angel Place venue, an experience not to be missed.

As always, the wide selection of songs, from romantic melodies, soaring spirituals to syncopated tunes, will seek to entertain and appeal to the Choir’s audience as it has done over the Choir’s long history of performing since 1913, now enhanced by the younger voice of Dean Southwood.  

Press release about Dean joining The Sydney Male Choir.