The Australian Doctors' Orchestra is a unique national fellowship of doctors and medical students who are also classically trained musicians. Since their first concert in 1993, the orchestra has played a concert every year and in every state to raise funds for a variety of medical charities. Recently they have started to hold concerts in regional centres and this was their first visit to Port Macquarie.
In this concert they were raising money for the Australian Centre for Arts and Health to fund a creative ageing program at Port Macquarie Base Hospital, and also for the Unicorn Foundation to support vital research into neuroendocrine cancer.
Hastings Choristers Cantorus choir was delighted to perform Brahms' choral work Nänie with the ADO in the first half of this concert.