Musicata chamber choir will current a program titled Music & Thriller on December 7. This system consists of quite a lot of seasonal works that span centuries of music.
The Hamilton-based chamber choir was based in 1982 as The John Laing Singers, altering their title for the 2016/17 season. The choir has been led by Roger Bergs since 2011. Bergs, a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier College (BMus), The Juilliard College (MMus in composition), and the College of Toronto (DMA), has led the choir in adventurous instructions, together with a number of items that obtained their world premiere beneath his baton.
The choir presents a 3 live performance season every year.
The Music
This system consists of quite a lot of seasonal music from quite a lot of composers, and from numerous eras of music historical past,
- Johannes Schultz: Ein Kindelein so löbelich (1645)
- Ruth Watson Henderson: Music Comes (2007)
- Z. Randall Stroope: Psalm 23 (2003)
- Stephen Chatman: Thou Whose Concord is the Music of the Spheres (2005)
- Conventional: Toddler Holy (W Zlobie Lezy) Polish Carol, organized by David H. Williams
- Conventional: Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine German Carol; organized by Walter Ehret
- Dale Warland: Nativity Suite: II. O Magnum Mysterium (2009)
- Dale Warland: Nativity Suite: III. A Boy was Born (2009)
- Felix Mendelssohn: Ehre Sei Gott in der Höhe (1846)
- Conventional: Quelle est cette odeur agréable? French Carol; organized by Kevin Riehle
- Roger Bergs: The Christ Little one
- Conventional: The Coventry Carol English Carol; organized by John Leavitt
- Donald Patriquin: A Little one’s Carol (1998)
- John Rutter: Shepherd’s Pipe Carol (1990)
- Conventional: Sleep, Little Jesus Polish Carol; organized by Robert Preston
- Conventional: Evening of Silence Daniel Kantor; organized by John Ferguson
Visitor Performers
Stephen Boda, organ
Stephen Boda earned a Bachelor of Music diploma from the College of Toronto. He continued his research at Yale College, the place he earned a Grasp of Music diploma, and a diploma from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, the place he studied organ and improvisation. He additionally obtained an Artist Diploma in organ from McGill College. Boda can also be an completed pianist.
Amongst his many accolades, he was the winner of the 2015 Royal Canadian School of Organists’ Nationwide Organ Competitors, the 2016 Howard Fairclough Organ Competitors hosted by the Hamilton RCCO and the 2014 Osborne Organ Competitors.
Stephen is at the moment the Principal Organist at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, and a frequent performer as a live performance organist all through North America. He was beforehand the organist at t Grace Church on-the-Hill and St. Paul’s Bloor Road, St. John the Evangelist in Hamilton, Ontario, and Noroton Presbyterian Church in Darien, Connecticut.
Isla-Might Renwick, oboe
Isla-Might is a graduate of Yale College. She is at the moment principal oboist of the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, a place she has held for a number of years. She additionally performs because the principal oboe and English Horn with the Southern Ontario Lyric Opera and the Hamilton Live performance Band.
The multi-instrumentalist was the pianist at Hamilton’s Grace Lutheran Church for 11 years, and recorded greater than 150 hymns for the church. She steadily performs as each oboist and on the English Horn for the McMaster Chamber Orchestra and different regional ensembles.
Madison Deppe, flute
Madison studied the flute on the College of Western Ontario, the place she earned a Bachelor of Music with Honours and Distinction. She has carried out as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician with quite a lot of ensembles, together with the Niagara Symphony, the Guelph Symphony, the Oakville Chamber Orchestra, the Nationwide Academy Orchestra, and the Hamilton Ballet.
She is the principal flute and coach for Sinfonia Ancaster, and steadily collaborates with numerous choruses in Georgetown, Woodstock, and Brantford. As a devoted chamber musician, she co-leads Duo Petrichor (flute & guitar). The Duo performs at libraries, galleries, faculties, and home live shows, and in chamber music collection. Along with her fashionable instrument, a custom-made gold, silver, and platinum Haynes flute, she enjoys taking part in early music on a baroque flute.
Madison teaches flute at Redeemer College, together with working elementary music at Laureate School. She additionally steadily works as a visitor clinician at faculties, camps, and youth orchestras throughout Ontario, along with sustaining a personal flute and piano studio.
The Live performance
The live performance takes place on December 7 on the historic Church of the Ascension.
- Discover tickets and present particulars [HERE].
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