The Pulse Chamber Orchestra is an ensemble of selected School of Music string students directed by Patrick Murphy. The orchestra performs unconducted, each member contributing to the artistic vision of the works. Pulse’s eclectic repertoire ranges from masterworks of the string orchestra and string quartet genre, to transcriptions of Bartok’s Mikrokosmos and works of contemporary and past Australian composers.
Pulse also collaborates frequently with choirs and vocalists, most notably with The Choir of Temple Church in 2017, in performing liturgical repertoire including works of Bruckner, Rutter, C.P.E. Bach, J.S. Bach, and Benjamin Britten.