Australian Bahá'í Choral Festival

20/12/2024

Do you all remember dear Philippe Giraud who sang with us in 2018? He had the immense bounty to work on the stone work renovation of Notre Dame de Paris! 🥳
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8p2hKnu-C0

12/11/2024

For everyone interested in skills related to choral singing, here's a quick summary! :)

Choral singing is a fantastic activity that brings much elation and joy. It also builds strong community bonds. The more we develop our choral skills, the better we sound as a choir and the deeper our enjoyment and sense of fulfillment of contributing to a beautiful whole. Abdu'l-Baha emphasises how...

20/10/2024

If you love choral singing/conducting and live in regional QLD or NT, please let me know. Since yesterday (!) I'm the President of the QLD-NT Chapter of the Australian National Choral Association and we'd love to hear what ANCA QLD-NT can do for you. Excited to be on a great team and to work towards spreading more and more love of choral singing and conducting. https://www.anca.org.au/

19/10/2024

Yesterday, exactly eleven months after we arrived in our new home in Queensland, my amazing wife, Lorraine, became President of the Australian National Choral Association's (ANCA) Queensland chapter! Congratulations, sweetie!

21/09/2024

For , here is a song against war that I wrote. Hope it brings home the horror of war as well as hope that peace is indeed possible: we all need to embrace the oneness of humanity and abandon all forms of prejudice.

Choral song, A Ca****la music, sacred music. This song of peace is dedicated to victims and refugees of war from all over the world. May we all learn to love...

16/09/2024

Did I ever mention the positives of singing together? :)

15/09/2024

The cheapest way to find joy at the same time as you develop teamwork, commitment, passion, accuracy, focus, patience, respect, self-discipline, community involvement, compassion, perseverance, courage, self-confidence, gratitude and thankfulness.

01/03/2024

We are so excited to share this beautiful documentary created by Dusk Media Sydney covering the beauty of singing together at the Australian Bahá'í Choral Festival of 2023.
Thanks to all of you who joined us to sing and made all this possible. 🥰🙏🌼

The Baha'i Choral Festival attracts singers from across Australia to sing in the acoustically spectacular Baha'i Temple, an Ingleside icon looking down on th...

20/02/2024

We hope you enjoy Lorraine Manifold's inspiring composition, "Fleeting Moment", as performed at the 2023 Australian Bahá'í Choral Festival. Thanks to Dusk Media for filming and creating the video.

Fleeting Moment was performed by the mass choir at the 2023 Australian Baha'i Choral Festival on 1 October 2023 at the Baha'i House of Worship in Sydney. Con...

16/02/2024

Our videos from the 2023 Choral Festival are live! Check out this beautiful song in French with soloists Jovannah Forrest and Valentine Outhemek.
We'll post each song individually so watch this space :)
https://youtu.be/uRy7l7wmazA

Thanks so much to Dusk Media Sydney for their beautiful footage!

"Tu es ma lampe" was performed by the mass choir at the 2023 Australian Baha'i Choral Festival on 1 October 2023 at the Baha'i House of Worship in Sydney. So...

11/12/2023

Sharing this song Lorraine wrote with Pierre Weber in honour of 10 women who lost their lives for upholding their basic human rights 40 years ago in Iran.
This song is dedicated to all women everywhere who are still fighting for equal rights, for the right to be free of senseless violence and for the right to be treated with respect and dignity.

Ten Baha'i women were executed for their beliefs in Shiraz, Iran, on 18 June 1983. These strong women chose their faith and principles of oneness, equality, ...