sun may 1 | 3:00 pm

$20 | $15 Student/Senior | eyeGO

DaCapo Chamber Choir

St. John the Evangelist
23 Water Street North

A co-presentation with DaCapo Chamber Choir, the area's leading chamber choir for contemporary music, "A World of Colour" explores and explodes the colour palette offered by the human voice in a concert where tradition meets the present. Included in the programme are works by Ligeti, Arvo Pärt, and a new work featuring overtone singing by local composer Gerard Yun.

Program

Ivo Antognini: My Song

Imant Raminsh: Come my light

Jeffrey Ryan: Paint the Light instead

Gerard Yun: The Silence (DaCapo commission, premiere)

Bruce Sled: Shimmering Water; Ice; Reflections

Jonathan Dove: The passing of the year
(choir & piano; Catherine Robertson, pianist)

Arvo Pärt: Bogoroditse Dyevo

Gyorgy Ligeti: Lux Aeterna

 

DaCapo Chamber Choir has worked with numerous choral groups, musicians, and composers since their inaugral season, including the Elora Festival Singers, Kingston Cantabile Choirs, Guelph Chamber Choir, Penderecki Quartet, Lachan Chamber Choir, Willem Moolenbeek, Eric Friesen, Bruce Dow, and Eric Whitacre, to name just a few. DaCapo has been a finalist in several CBC radio choral competitions (semi-finalist in two separate categories in the CBC Competition for Amateur Choirs, and finalist with Honorable Mention in 2004).

Conductor and composer Leonard Enns is the founding director of the DaCapo Chamber Choir. Also active as composer, Enns has been honoured with a 2010 JUNO nomination for his Nocturne, as Classical Composition of the Year. His works are recorded by a number of Canadian choirs, including the Elora Festival Singers, the Winnipeg Singers, the Toronto Children’s Chorus, and others, including, of course, the DaCapo Chamber Choir. Enns is an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre, which is also a library for many of his works.