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Psalm 150 heard three different ways, from Forrest, Boswell and Rutter, with Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Holst, Karl Jenkins and Rene Clausen alongside. Orchestra, Choir and Youth together for the first time. Tickets from $45.40, booking fee included. Formal dress.
10% off every ticket with code PROMS
Saturday 29 August 2026. Doors 7.00pm, concert begins 7.30pm. Formal dress, and the bar is open from doors. The code PROMS takes 10% off every ticket, and the button below carries it for you.
Plus booking fee. Concession and child pricing is $5 off B and C Reserve. One discount per ticket.
What You'll Hear
You do not need to know anything about classical music to love this night. Here is every piece on the program and why it will get you — including four completely different settings of Psalm 150, from hand-clapping joy to a finale you will feel through the floor.
Rachmaninoff — Natalia Raspopova, piano
A dark, towering storm from a composer whose whole life was shaped by his Orthodox faith.
Rachmaninoff was raised in a devout Russian Orthodox household, studied Byzantine chant, and went on to write two of the great masterworks of Orthodox sacred choral music, the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom and the All-Night Vigil. This étude itself is not liturgical, a dark, elegiac showpiece written in 1916 partly in tribute to his friend and colleague Alexander Scriabin after his death, but it comes from the same hands and the same faith that gave the world that sacred music.
Beethoven — Natalia Raspopova, piano
You already know this one. You have just never heard it played properly, in a room built for it.
Beethoven never called it the Moonlight. He wrote it in 1801 and marked the opening movement to be played as though from a great distance, delicately and without pedalling off the sound, and a critic later said it reminded him of moonlight on a lake. The name stuck for two hundred years. It is quiet, it is slow, and it does not try to impress you for a second, which is exactly why it has outlasted almost everything written around it.
Dan Forrest
Think choirs are quiet and polite? Give us three minutes.
A choir with percussion behind it and joy in front of it, singing the oldest party word in the world: hallelujah. Written by a composer who is alive right now, and it moves like something you would actually dance to.
Gustav Holst
The greatest tune Holst ever wrote, with the words it was always heading towards.
Holst wrote The Planets before film scores existed, and the melody at the heart of Jupiter is so good that it walked out of the orchestra and became a hymn, sung at weddings and funerals for a century. This is that hymn: orchestra, full choir, and a tune you will recognise inside four notes. If you have ever had goosebumps in a cinema, this is the melody that taught everyone else how.
Chris Tomlin
The song you sing in church, the size it always deserved to be.
Maybe you have sung this chorus a hundred Sundays with a band and a projector. Now picture it with a full choir and symphony orchestra behind it, strings and brass lifting the roof. Familiar words, enormous sound.
René Clausen
No instruments. No microphones. No tricks. Just human voices.
If you have ever fallen down a rabbit hole of a cappella videos, this is that, live, metres away from you. Voices whispering, snapping into rhythm, then opening into a wall of sound with nothing behind it but breath.
Michael Dooley
A story about a man walking through despair, danger and doubt to get home. Sound familiar?
The Pilgrim's Progress is the original quest story: one ordinary person, an impossible journey, everything trying to stop him. Composer Michael Dooley, alive and writing right now, has turned that journey into music for full orchestra. If you have ever loved a film score, you already speak this language.
Matt Boswell
A worship song and a symphony orchestra walk into the same room.
Matt Boswell writes the kind of songs churches sing every week, and this one has been handed to a full orchestra with soloists out front. Catchy enough to hum on the drive home, big enough to fill the whole hall.
Karl Jenkins
The piece that makes grown adults cry in public. We are not exaggerating.
A single cello starts to sing, so quiet you lean forward. Written in 1999 for the victims of war in Kosovo, it is about what peace sounds like after everything has fallen apart. It builds until the whole choir and orchestra hit at once, and the entire room feels it in their chest. Bring tissues. We mean it.
Australian Christian Youth Orchestra & Choir
The moment we have been waiting two years for.
The Australian Christian Youth Orchestra and Youth Choir perform in public for the very first time. They came together in May as the first phase of our youth programs and have rehearsed every week since. On 29 August they walk onto a professional stage, play Holst and Rutter's A Clare Benediction, then stand shoulder to shoulder with the adults for the rest of the night.
John Rutter — sung by the Youth Choir
A blessing spoken over the whole room, sung by our newest voices.
A benediction is the church's oldest goodbye: a blessing spoken over people before they walk back into the world. Rutter's setting, may the Lord show his mercy upon you, is carried entirely by our Youth Choir. Three minutes of pure warmth, and one of those simple, beautiful moments where the whole room breathes a blessing together.
Matt Gibb
The person who wrote this piece will be standing on the stage when you hear it.
Classical music has a reputation: written centuries ago, by people in wigs, somewhere far away. Not this. This eight-part setting comes from Matt Gibb, our own Choir Director, and he will be right there with the singers on the night. Music does not get more alive than that.
Stephen Adams & Frederic E. Weatherly — sung by Alexey of our Youth Choir
Before radio, before streaming, this was one of the biggest hit songs in the world.
Written in 1892 by the same lyricist who gave us Danny Boy, The Holy City is a dream in three acts: children singing in the streets of ancient Jerusalem, a shadow falling over a distant hill, then a blazing vision of a city where the gates stand wide open and night never comes. When the brass and choir hit the refrain, Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Lift up your gates and sing!, you will understand why it is still filling halls 130 years on.
John Rutter — the finale
The ending is choir, orchestra and brass all at once. The floor moves. So do you.
The last psalm in the Bible has one instruction: let everything that has breath praise the Lord. So for the final piece of the night, everything does. Brass and voices you feel through your shoes. Nobody leaves quietly.
Wear what makes you feel great — it is a formal-dress occasion, and half the fun. Clap whenever something moves you. And if the Benedictus gets you, you will be in good company.
Recent Concerts
6,600+ people have gathered at AChA concerts since 2022 — including 330 who reaffirmed their faith, 208 helped toward finding a church, and 19 new believers. Read more about our growing community.
Our flagship Easter concert — Orchestra, Choir, and Youth together, uniting 20+ denominations in an evening of orchestral worship.
Our first 1,000-seat concert hall — a milestone for the AChA community.
650+ in attendance — the largest AChA gathering to that point. Orchestra, Choir, and Youth combined.
150 people gathered for an intimate evening with a selection of the Orchestra — a quieter sacred-music program on Sydney's northern beaches.
200 people at Scots Church heard the Australian Christian Choir tell its story through song — the Choir's first standalone concert since launching in September 2024.
550 people joined the Australian Christian Orchestra for an unforgettable evening of orchestral worship at Scots Church.
An extraordinary 2,500 people experienced worship at Australia's largest gathering of Christian churches. AChA's first interstate tour — and our largest audience to date.
550 people gathered at St Barnabas to celebrate Easter through orchestral and choral worship.
800 people gathered for AChA's first combined Orchestra + Choir concert — a milestone performance of Handel's Messiah at the Salvation Army Congress Hall.
Our Story in Concerts
Every concert is a step toward the vision — gathering thousands under one roof, seeing lives changed, denominations united, and the arts reclaimed for Christ in this nation.
More Than a Concert
At every AChA concert, we intentionally create space for spiritual response. It isn't a sermon, not an altar call with high-pressure tactics — it's a quiet, genuine invitation.
The arts create a soft landing for the spiritually curious. People encounter beauty, meaning, and the presence of God — and they're often moved to tears. Many have prayed the sinner's prayer for the first time. Others have returned to faith after years away. Others have simply found a sense of belonging they couldn't explain.
We never prescribe how your faith journey must unfold. When you ask, we'll send church options in your area across 20+ Christian traditions — Anglican, Catholic, Pentecostal, Orthodox, Baptist and more.
Learn more about the Doorway, or take the Church Finder quiz to get personalised church recommendations.
2026 Dates
All rehearsals at **UTS Building 5, 1 Quay Street, Haymarket NSW 2000**.
Aug
Nov
Behind The Scenes
Every AChA concert and rehearsal night is held together by a quiet, hospitable team that almost no audience sees — the Home Team. Welcome team. Check-in. Name tags. Section ushers. Setup crew. Pack-down crew. Hospitality.
We believe the experience of arriving at an AChA event matters as much as the music itself. Walking through the door, being greeted by name, being walked to your seat, knowing where the bathrooms are — these are not small things. They're the difference between a stranger and a guest.
Want to serve at the next concert? No experience required. Just a warm heart and a willingness to help.
What to Expect
Orchestra and Choir performing sacred and classical repertoire alongside contemporary Christian music — all at the highest standard of excellence.
Every concert includes a quiet, genuine moment of invitation — no pressure, no hard sell. Just an open door for anyone who wants to take a next step with Jesus.
In the audience you'll find Catholics, Pentecostals, Anglicans, Orthodox, Baptists, and many more — gathered as one body. It's a vision of the Church that most people haven't seen before.
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