The Choral Society is a historic symphonic chorus that continues to playa vibrant role in the cultural life of the National Capital Region. With approximately 125 auditioned members, the choir's repertoire spans 6+ centuries . In addition to our annual subscription series, the choir appears regularly with both the National Arts Centre and the Ottawa Symphony Orchestras. The choir has made five international tours: to Italy (1982 & 2008), Spain (1989), Germany and the Czech Republic (1996) and the United Kingdom and Ireland (2000) during which the BBC followed the choir on tour and made a documentary film that was shown across the UK and Ireland. The Society's juried New Discoveries Auditions take place biennially and provide cash career awards and professional performance opportunities for Canada's emerging concert artists.
Sunday, May 1, 2022 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Described by Brahms as a “human” requiem, the German Requiem eschews religious judgement and instead offers consolation and solace. In honour of the many lives lost to the Covid-19 pandemic. Selig sind, die da Leid tragen Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras Herr, lehre doch mich, daß ein Ende Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen […]
Sunday, March 6, 2022 @ 3:00 pm – Ottawa Choral Society Bringing Anne Frank’s Diary to Musical Life in Ground-breaking Work for Soprano, Choir and Chamber Quartet Seventy-nine years ago next month, on March 10, 1943, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that she’d heard guns “booming away until dawn.” The guns were aimed at Allied bombers during nightly raids over Amsterdam against […]
Sunday, December 19, 2021 @ 3:00 pm –
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 @ All Day – The Ottawa Choral Society’s New Discoveries Auditions are held in alternating years to provide emerging young vocal artists with a professional platform, broad audience exposure, and career development. The Choral Society is proud to have encouraged many of Canada’s most exciting young singers to find success with audiences across the country. Our laureates, including Joseph […]
Friday, December 16, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Tenor, Ben Heppner, hosts the Choral Society’s annual Christmas concert.
Friday, March 24, 2017 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – As the 19th century opened, Beethoven committed himself to the forging of the dramatic new musical language which you will hear in tonight’s magisterial works; and then listen beyond the score for the sound of his tragic, isolated voice in the words of a long lost love letter to his Immortal Beloved. Ludwig van Beethoven […]
Saturday, May 13, 2017 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Tonight, CBC Radio’s acclaimed literary personality, Eleanor Wachtel, joins us to explore the complex and strange beauty of the ‘landscape of the soul’ – where darkness stirs and wakes the imagination; and ghostly whispers and enchanting lullabies embrace the listener in suspended time at the heart of song and poetry. The Spinners of the Spells: Johannes […]
