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Ensemble ArtChoral is continuing its goal to bring grand choral tradition to life during the 2024-25 season. The opening concert features works by Yves Montand, Edith Piaf, and Fauré as the choir takes listeners on a nostalgic journey through Autumn in Paris (Nov. 8, 10). December follows with two performances of Handel’s Messiah (7, 22). The new year opens with a winter classic as Schubert’s Winterreise takes the stage on Jan. 11. The Feb. 1 show features Classical and Romantic classics for a cappella choir including works by Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Bruckner. The Austrian hillside comes to life on March 29 with Richard Rodgers’s Edelweiss alongside Bizet, Elgar, and Delibes. The closing concert presents effervescent summertime melodies by Gershwin and Bernstein on May 11.
The OSM Chorus is set to join the orchestra for several concerts in 2024-25. The chorus invites the public to participate in a musical celebration of the holidays on Dec. 17. The program includes works by Gabrieli, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Respighi, followed by sing-along winter classics. In April, the chorus joins the orchestra to address the theme of death in Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in B minor and Jesu, meine Freude alongside Mozart’s magnificent Requiem in D minor.
The OSM Chorus
Choeur OPCM begins the new season by joining l’Orchestre Philharmonique for Mozart’s Requiem in D minor. Soloists include soprano Myriam Leblanc, mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaleb, tenor Andrew Haji, and baritone Geoffrey Salvas (Nov. 15, 16). Music Director Francis Choinière returns to the podium on March 9 to conduct Holst’s The Planets and Karl Jenkins’s powerful Gloria, displaying the full powers of the choir. Finally, the choir returns on May 24 for Mahler’s second “Resurrection” symphony.
The combined forces of La Chapelle de Québec, Choeur de Chambre and Les Violons du Roy start with a special 40th-anniversary rendition of Handel’s Messiah. Bernard Labadie conducts the ensemble’s 18th presentation of the work on Dec. 12, 13, and 14. The choir returns in March for a collection of Bach’s early works including cantatas Christ lag in Todesbanden, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, and Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (March 6, 7, 8).
Ontario
The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir is celebrating their 130th anniversary season with the mission “dare to discover.” The opening concert on Nov. 3 is steeped in the language of love with Brahms’s Liebeslieder Walzer and Palmeri’s Misatango alongside a new commission by Composer-in-Residence Aaron Manswell. The holiday tradition carol concert returns on Dec. 3 and 4 for sing-along holiday classics led by Maestro Jean-Sébastien Vallée. Human expression lies at the centre of the Feb. 8 concert that features Vivaldi’s Gloria and Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks set against a multimedia backdrop. The season concludes on April 4 with Jean-Sébastien Vallée returning to the podium for Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, honouring the choir’s storied history by revisiting a piece they last performed nearly a century ago.
The Amadeus Choir has three concerts prepared for the 2024-25 season. Beginning on Nov. 2, Director Lydia Adams will lead an evening of uplifting music centred around the themes of remembrance, hope, and peace. The choir will be joined by music lover, storyteller, writer, and broadcaster Tom Allen. Dec. 7 is a grand introduction to the holiday spirit with a holiday serenade. The choir is partnering with the Hannaford Street Silver Band and the Bach Children’s Chorus to capture the festive nature of the season. The final concert invites conductor Kathleen Allan and organist Jonathan Oldengarm to the stage for a stunning performance of Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Duruflé’s Requiem (May 4).
Western Canada
The Vancouver Chamber Choir’s 54th concert season opens with masterpieces by Brahms and Poulenc. This concert will also serve as a celebration to welcome the choir’s new Composer-in-Residence Laura Hawley (Sept. 27). The third-ever “choral feast” concert will bring together more than 200 singers including the Intertidal Choral Ensemble, Nabi Vocal Ensemble, UBC University Singers, and Vancouver Bach Choir (Oct. 19). Dancers then visit the stage to perform Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles—an interdisciplinary work running the full gamut of human emotions (Nov. 8). The choir presents an all-Finnish program on Nov. 29, transporting the audience to Helsinki. A series of Christmas concerts from Dec. 12-13 presents sing-along classics and stunning choral music. An East/West program on Jan. 25 invites Guest Conductor Hyejung Jun to the podium. After a two-week tour of Ontario, the choir will present their program of works by Laura Hawley, Matthew Whittall, and Nico Muhly at home in Vancouver (March 7). Trading new music for Renaissance staples, the choir will celebrate Palestrina’s 500th birthday with his music on April 11. In May, the choir will preview their recording project of new music before taking it into the studio (May 9). The season closes with a collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets sung on the coast of Granville Island with guest artist Christopher Gaze (June 6).
The Calgary Philharmonic Chorus will join their eponymous orchestra for a number of concerts this season, beginning in September with Orff’s Carmina Burana under the direction of Rune Bergmann. The Dec. 6 concert will feature the chorus singing a variety of Christmas classics alongside soprano soloist Miriam Khalil. A Mozart celebration on Jan. 25 features the magnificent Mass in C Major, originally used for the coronation of Leopold II in 1791 Prague. The season’s finale concert is just as grand, with Bergmann returning to the podium for Mahler’s monumental second symphony. Soloists include soprano Iwona Sobotka and mezzo-soprano Marianna Beate Kielland.
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