Who We Are
We're a group of women 18 years and over who love music. We're passionate about choral singing, enjoy a challenge and take pleasure in performing for and entertaining others. We do not audition for the choir and while some members read music this is not a prerequisite.
We usually sing in 3 parts (SSA) and are led by our highly accomplished musical director and piano accompanist. We raise funds through membership fees, concerts and grants and we endeavour to assist a charity each year
At the end of each term we meet socially for dinner and celebrate our achievements.
A dedicated committee oversees the day-to-day management of the choir.
Musical Director - Lydia Gardiner
Bachelor of Music - Composition
The University of Western Australia
Lydia Gardiner is a composer and singer based in Perth with a bachelor’s degree with honours in Music Composition from the University of Western Australia. As a singer, she performs with the St George’s Cathedral Consort, Voyces, the Vanguard Consort and Gondwana Chorale.
In 2023 she was privileged to sing with Icelandic iconoclast Björk at the Perth Festival with Voyces. During her second year at UWA, Lydia was awarded the Dorothy Ellen Ransom prize for composition, as well as the people’s choice award at the same event. She also participated in the 2020 and 2022 WASO composition projects, both works being performed at the Perth Concert Hall.
Lydia has been commissioned by the West Australian Young Voices, The UWA Con Cantorum, the Giovanni Consort, the St George’s Cathedral Consort, the Anglican Schools Commission, Tura New Music, Perth Orchestra Project, The Choral Collective, the Perth Guitar Quartet, the University of Western Australia Choral Society and the Melbourne-based ensemble Fiore Chamber. In December 2021 Lydia’s work A New Ceremony of Carols was performed to a sold-out audience by the St George’s Cathedral Sonus Angelorum choir and was later broadcast on ABC Classic, and her piano work the five stages of grief has been recorded by Adam Pinto for release on Tall Poppies Records in 2023.
Accompanist - Cece Caddy
Bachelor of Music
The University of Western Australian
Cece is a multidisciplinary pianist in the fields of Classical and Jazz music, who has conducted and accompanied theatre productions, choirs, jazz bands and smaller ensembles.
She has accompanied and sung with the Bunbury Young Voices (2009 - 2016), and the Bunbury Catholic College Choir (2012 - 2017) as well as various instrumental ensembles at the University of Western Australia.
Cece has a particular interest in the music of Nikolai Kapustin as well as other Classical/Jazz crossover pianists, and ihas performed such repertoire over her whole life.
In 2021 she graduated with a Bachelor of Music from the University of Western Australia and now works as a Library Officer at the institution's libraries.
Cece describes herself as a science fiction fanatic, and when she isn't watching, reading, writing or listening to Doctor Who, she's probably trophy hunting in video games or creating spreadsheets.
Basically, she only leaves the house to pet other people's cats or play for the FWC, to which she was appointed as accompanist in January 2022.
