The Tudor Choristers was founded in 1962 and, over the years, has performed music from many periods, but especially from the Golden Age of a cappella music, the 16th and 17th centuries. Fittingly, the choir opens its 50th anniversary subscription season with music of some of the masters of this period—William Byrd, Henry Purcell, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Thomas Tallis. Gloria Deo, at Xavier College Chapel, Kew, will be the first performance under the baton of the choir's new Musical Director, Alexandra Cameron.

The concert year continues at Christ Church South Yarra in June with music reminiscent of the choir's early years in the '60s, years of change and struggle—Hymns to Freedom focuses on dreams of freedom, including spirituals of the African Americans, protest songs of the 60’s, Oscar Petersen’s Hymn to Freedom and Herbert Howells’ motet on the death of J.F. Kennedy, Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing.

It Began in '62 returns to the place, St George's Anglican Church, East Ivanhoe, which was the first home of The Tudor Choristers, and celebrates music composed in the year '62 and composers born in the year '62. Featured will be John Bull (born 1562), Claude Debussy (born 1862) and Australian composer Malcolm Williamson’s Symphony for Voices (written in 1962). The program will also include a selection from the music performed by the choir in its first year, 1962.

The year concludes, as it has for over thirty years, with Sing Nowell!, Christmas carols from many times and places.