Adelaide Chamber Singers

Adelaide Chamber Singers has been an energetic and innovative contributor to music making in Adelaide for over twenty years. Formed in 1985 by its Artistic Director and Conductor Carl Crossin (who was awarded an OAM in the 2007 Australia Day Honours List for his services to music), the ensemble comprises some of Adelaide's best and most experienced ensemble singers, some of whom are also soloists, emerging artists and/or conductors in their own right. Adelaide Chamber Singers has built a substantial reputation wherever it has performed and is widely regarded as one of Australia’s leading chamber choirs.

Adelaide Chamber Singers has toured within Australia on several occasions and has performed at a number of Australia's major festivals including: the Barossa International Music Festival, the Melbourne International Festival, the Perth International Festival and the Australian National Choral Association’s Choralfest. ACS has also participated in almost every Adelaide Festival of Arts since 1994, and will also take part in the 2008 Adelaide Festival. Regional festivals also feature in the ACS itinerary: the ensemble has performed at most of the Coriole Festivals and, in 2004, performed at the Coonawarra Festival.

Adelaide Chamber Singers has also undertaken six international tours: Britain and Norway (1996), Britain (1999), Singapore (2001), the USA (2002), Japan (2004), and Canada, the USA and England (2006). On previous international tours, Adelaide Chamber Singers has given highly acclaimed performances at the 2004 Tokyo International Performing Arts Festival, 1999 Norfolk and Norwich Festival; the 10th Annual National Convention of the Association of British Choral Directors in 1996; and was Australia’s representatives at both the Asia South Pacific Symposium on Choral Music in Singapore in 2001 and at the 6th World Symposium on Choral Music in the USA in 2002.