Ballarat Voices

08/05/2026

Come and hear this fabulous concert, which is being conducted by our MD Lyndell! School aged children are free!

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT - LYNDELL ALLEN, CONDUCTOR

For this program, alto, Lyndell Allen has stepped out for singing role to use her significant experience in choral conducting leadership to bring FEMME to fruition.

Lyndell Allen’s lifelong commitment to choral music, both as a singer and conductor, began at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Geelong where she was a chorister from the age of 6. Her passion was encouraged by a number of choral directors throughout her education, and she directed her first choir as a high school student. Lyndell graduated with a degree in Music from the University of Melbourne in 1996 and has studied singing with Merlyn Quaife, Peter Mander and Stephen Grant. Lyndell was also a member of the Trinity College Chapel Choir and is founding member of VOX Ballarat where she currently sings 1st Alto.

Lyndell received a Churchill Fellowship in 2003 to study Choral Conducting techniques and methodologies in England, the USA and Hungary. During her travels she studied at leading institutions with leading choral exponents including Stephen Cleobury, Malcolm Archer, John Scott, James Lancelot, Richard Shephard and Simon Lole (England), James Jordan (USA) and Katalin Kiss and Peter Erdei (Hungary). Lyndell completed the Gondwana National Choral School Conductors Course in 2018, has been fortunate to work with leading choral conductors from around Australia (Graeme Morton, Carl Crossins, Paul Holley, Lyn Williams, Graham Abott, Richard Gill, Faye Dumont, Stephen Leek and around the world (Mary Goetze and Rodney Eichenberger (USA), Stephan Parkman (Sweden). Lyndell has developed choral programs in the Ballarat Community at the Anglican Cathedral, Ballarat Grammar School Ballarat CHoral Society and most recently Ballarat Voices. Her work has included conducting large scale performances of Requiem masses by Faure, Mozart, Rutter, Chilcott, Durufle and Bieber, Orchestral Masses by Schubert and Haydn, Vivaldi’s”Gloria”, Pergoles’s “Stabat Mater”, and Rutter’s “Gloria” for 100 voice choir, brass and organ which attended by the Governor General of Australia. She also conducts the Carol service of Nine Lessons at the Cathedral each year.

Lyndell is very grateful to her darling husband David and their three children Bas (commissioned composer for FEMME), Leopold and Otis for supporting her in her crazy adventures in music and life.

Join Lyndell alongside VOX Collective at ‘FEMME’ for a feast of beautiful, powerful and unique choral music!

05/05/2026

COMMISSIONED LOCAL COMPOSER - PAIGE DUGGAN

Meet PAIGE DUGGAN, a musician born, raised and based in Ballarat, and one of our featured commissioned composers for the upcoming VOX Collective performance ‘FEMME’.

Paige Duggan is a Ballarat based musician and composer whose works bend genres between jazz, the cinematic, contemporary folk and improvised art-scapes. With more than 20 years as a performing musician and composer behind her, Paige’s music has been heard across the country including on ABC’s Jazztrack, 3CR Melbourne and Australians only dedicated LGBTIQA+ station: Joy Fm and their Bent Notes Jazz program.

Witness the world premiere of “Hero” by Paige in this incredible celebration of all things ‘FEMME’!

📆 Saturday 9th of May @ 4pm
🏫 Ballarat Performing Arts Community, 501 – 503 Neill St, Soldiers Hill, 3350
🎟️ via Trybooking | $40 GA, $35 Conc, $15 Kids
https://www.trybooking.com/DLGLU

03/05/2026

Come see past tutor (and Lyndell's eldest child!!) Sebastian Allen's world premier of "All Shall Be Well" at the VOX Collective concert next weekend!

COMMISSIONED LOCAL COMPOSER - BAS ALLEN

Meet Sebastian ‘Bas’ Allen, a Hobart-based musician born and raised in Ballarat, and one of our featured commissioned composers for the upcoming VOX Collective performance ‘FEMME’.

Sebastian 'Bas' Allen is an emerging multi-field musician based in nipaluna/Hobart. Bas has worked with community, youth, and professional organisations as a clarinetist, composer, arranger, choral singer, conductor and administrator at local, state, and national levels. Bas has been named Oriana Chorale's 2026 Emerging Composer in Residence, and is a represented artist through TSO Publishing. Bas has completed a Bachelor of Music majoring in Clarinet Performance and Composition at the University of Tasmania, and in 2026 will complete a Composition honours year studying under Dr. Maria Grenfell.

Witness the world premiere of “All Shall Be Well” by Bas in this incredible celebration of all things ‘FEMME’!

📆 Saturday 9th of May @ 4pm
🏫 Ballarat Performing Arts Community, 501 – 503 Neill St, Soldiers Hill, 3350
🎟️ via Trybooking | $40 GA, $35 Conc, $15 Kids
https://www.trybooking.com/DLGLU

02/05/2026

Another amazing Australian composer being presented in this fabulous concert at Ballarat Performing Arts Centre next weekend. Bring your mum for Mothers' Day - and school aged children go free! Book your tickets soon before they are all gone!

📆 Saturday 9th of May @ 4pm
🏫 Ballarat Performing Arts Community, 501 – 503 Neill St, Soldiers Hill, 3350
🎟️ via Trybooking | $40 GA, $35 Conc, $15 Students,
School aged children free!
https://www.trybooking.com/DLGLU

FEATURED COMPOSER - SALLY WHITWELL

As part of our upcoming performance of ‘FEMME’, VOX will be performing “She Walks in Beauty” by Canberra-based composer and pianist Sally Whitwell! Here’s a bit more about Sally.

Sally Whitwell is a composer and pianist, living and working on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. Sally was for many years Principal Pianist with Gondwana Choirs with whom she toured throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia. She has been commissioned to compose for many vocal ensembles including Adelaide Chamber Singers (2020 Composer in Residence), The Song Company, Australian Vocal Ensemble (AVÉ), The Consort of Melbourne, Luminescence Chamber Singers, The Australian Voices, Divisi Chamber Singers, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Moorambilla Voices, and Brisbane Birralee. Many instrumental ensembles and philanthropists have also commissioned Sally to create new works.

Don’t miss a stellar performance of “She Walks in Beauty” in this afternoon of powerful music, ‘FEMME’!

📆 Saturday 9th of May @ 4pm
🏫 Ballarat Performing Arts Community, 501 – 503 Neill St, Soldiers Hill, 3350
🎟️ via Trybooking | $40 GA, $35 Conc, $15 Kids
https://www.trybooking.com/DLGLU

01/05/2026

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT - VOX CORE

VOX is a non-profit choral ensemble, established in 2005, with the intention of singing challenging choral works across Ballarat, Melbourne and Western Victoria. With a regular core membership of 8 Voices (SSAATTBB) this is a close-knit ensemble where members share the responsibilities of music selection, preparation and direction of each program.
HOWEVER, in 2026 VOX are exploring a VOXCollective model, to enable a wider range of singers from across the community to experience singing with the ensemble, gaining new skills and experience from VOXs shared experience that they can take back to the other choirs they perform in. The FEMME program is our first attempt at this, and will allow us to work with a large group of treble voices from across the Ballarat Region.

At the core of this program are our VOX Core treble voices and we are pleased to introduce them here today. Alison Ho (Soprano) Amber van Dreven (Alto) Lyndell Allen (Mezzo, conductor of FEMME)
Join us at ‘FEMME’ for a feast of beautiful and powerful feminine music choral music!

📆 Saturday 9th of May @ 4pm
🏫 Ballarat Performing Arts Community,
🎟️ via Trybooking | $40 GA, $35 Conc, $15 Students, Free for school-age children

28/04/2026

26/04/2026

Come hear Lyndell and Claire, along with mums Bonnie (Charlotte) and Jane (Max) and friends from Ballarat Choral Society (Helen, Susan, Sue,) and of course VOX (Alison and Amber) singing in this fabulous program for voices like ours! Includeing music by past tutor Sebastian and some our other favourite composers including Dan Walker (the Unicorn). And school age students are free!!! Get your tickets soon so you don't miss out - and the concert is at Ballarat Performing Arts Centre too!

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VOX Collective presents ‘FEMME’.

The VOX sopranos and altos from Ballarat-based vocal group VOX, together with past members of VOX, VOXPlus, and singers from across Ballarat collaborate to present FEMME a program which celebrates the strengths of all things feminine; not just female, but the feminine in all the earth and the whole of humanity.

Themes of strength, resilience, love, connection, nature, and truth run throughout the program. Repertoire is drawn from a broad selection of composers throughout the ages; from the 12th-century German Benedictine abbess, mystic, and polymath, Hildegard of Bingen, to Australian composers of note including Sally Whitwell, Alice Chance, Kate Miller-Heidke/Dan Walker and Juliana Kaye.

Internationally recognised Ballarat composer, Rosalie Bonighton, is represented alongside new works commissioned by VOX from diverse and emerging composers who have connections to Ballarat, and VOX at their core, Paige Duggan and Sebastian ‘Bas’ Allen. There are also pieces from around the world that celebrate all things FEMME.

Join us at ‘FEMME’ for a feast of beautiful and powerful feminine music choral music!

📆 Saturday 9th of May @ 4pm
🏫 Ballarat Performing Arts Community,
🎟️ via Trybooking | $40 GA, $35 Conc, $15 Students, Free for school-age children

07/04/2026

Is your child singing around the house these holidays? perhaps it is a sign that you need to send them along to Ballarat Voices for Term 2 and beyond! Loads of great repertoire and performances coming up for 2026. Email us at 👉🏻 [email protected] to find out more or to sign up now! 🎶🙂

06/04/2026

Check out this amazing piece from Gondwana Choirs. You might even see one of our former tutors singing here!!

19/12/2025

Come see us at carols!!