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The Choir Serendipity: the choir welcomes you to its web presence. We are a sub-committee of the Bundanoon Community Association. (http://www.bundanoon.nsw.au/) We hope you enjoy exploring the wesite and learning more about Serendipity .....
Repertoire Our repertoire is consistently varied, offering musical challenges to the singers as they have to move from one style to another throughout a programme, but also constantly giving our listeners new sound experiences.
Performances Serendipity: the choir aims to present two major performances with the full choir each year, repeating the programme at least twice in different venues.
Praise for Serendipity Serendipity: the choir has continued to enjoy performing at venues for near capacity audiences since its formation in February 2008.

About Serendipity: the choir

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According to the Oxford dictionary, the definition of 'serendipity' is 'the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.'

The word 'serendipity' originated from Serendip, a Persian name for Sri Lanka. It was coined by the English politican and writer Horace Walpole (1717-1797) after 'The Three Princes of Serendip', a Persian fairy tale in which the heroes were 'always making fortunate discoveries by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of'.

Serendipity: the choir is a Southern Highlands community choir, founded in February 2008. We are based in the beautiful village of Bundanoon, from where two-thirds of our singers come. Others travel from various locations - Exeter, Moss Vale, Werrai, Robertson, Burradoo, Mittagong, Goulburn, Tallong and Bowral - to be part of this dynamic ensemble.

Serendipity: the choir has enjoyment as its prime reason for existence, Enjoyment by the singers of the repertoire selected for each 'themed' concert, and listening enjoyment for our audiences. To achieve this seemingly simple goal requires much hard work and dedication by the choristers as we aim for choral excellence. The overwhelming response to our music-making since we began has vindicated the decision to form a choir which aims to provide choral pleasure for the wider community. We now have Serendipity 'groupies' who travel regularly from Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne to attend our concerts.

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The choir of some thirty voices is not auditioned in the traditional sense. New singers are offered the chance to join as 'potential' choristers, and their position in the choir is determined after several weeks of actual participation in rehearsals.

The greatest strength of Serendipity: the choir lies in its singers, the choristers themselves, and their dedication, enthusiasm and involvement in the life of the choir. We are now a closely knit group in which each singer receives support and encouragement from others, and all feel a strong sense of ownership of the choir.

Members of the general community also support us in website development, administration, library organisation, photography and ticket sales. Our status as a sub-committee of the Bundanoon Community Association (www.bundanoon.nsw.au) provides insurance cover as well as an excellent rehearsal and performance venue.

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Music Quote to Ponder

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

~ Kahil Gibran

Chorister of the Month

Hugh Vanderfield

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Since coming to Bundanoon in 2001, Hugh Vanderfield has found four other alumnae of his old school, North Sydney Technical High, where his love of choral singing began. He well remembers the thrill of being part of the choir of 350 voices in the Sydney Town Hall, and was pleased to join Michael Flint, another ex-student, in the bass line when the Bundanoon Voices was formed. From there it was an easy transition to Serendipity for the boy who had formal piano training as a child ‘but was more interested in playing football’.

In his position of Australia Post franchisee in our town, with his mild, friendly manner so that no request seems a trouble to him, Hugh is probably more recognisable than many other of our choristers. Prior to his decade with AP he has co-owned and operated businesses in fields as varied as timber manufacturing, retail stationery and liquor stores.

Hugh is a football fan, both league and union, and his interests are as varied as his business experience: reading, music, metaphysics/spirituality, cinema, particularly Australian films, the Australian stock market and exploring – ‘we shall not cease from exploration’. He works on his own, 60 or 70 hours a week, so one can only wonder how he fits in everything else.

A proud father of his ‘wonderful children’, Hugh enjoys driving to visit his son and three daughters to celebrate family occasions with them. No doubt his psychology degree from UTS and his financial management studies at New England have played an integral part in raising his family. (writer: I could certainly have done with a psychology degree!)

Hugh really values singing in our community-based choir where friendships are forged and there is a real esprit de corps.

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Contact Information+61 (02) 4883 6515
+61 (02) 4883 6515
serendipity@bundanoon.nsw.au

serendipity.bundanoon.nsw.au
Location Soldiers' Memorial Hall
Railway Parade
Bundanoon NSW 2578
Australia

Choir Details Music Director: Kerith Fowles
Accompanist: Ann Clipsham
Webmaestro: Beverley Bennett