Our 2012-2013 Season
Saturday, October 20th: Israel in Egypt - G.F. Handel's oratorio tells the story of the Israelites' Exodus from Egypt, in exciting choruses and Handel's masterful word painting.
With orchestra and soloists:
sopranos Nancy Washeim and Catherine Campolin, mezzo-soprano Erin Ronningen, tenor Josh Lovell, and basses Dale Friesen and Gary Relyea.
8:00 p.m., First Metropolitan United Church
Sunday, October 28th: B minor Mass - J.S. Bach, in the Chan Centre at UBC, Vancouver, as guests of VancouverVoices. Soloists are Anne Grimm, Sarah Fryer, Benjamin Butterfield and Nathaniel Watson. If you missed our June 9, 2012 performance, here's another chance! 3:00 p.m.
Tickets:
Audience reviews:
TonightÂ’s performance of the Bach in B minor was pure magic!!! The choir was superb and the soloists were sublime.The choir seemed to sing as one, such precision, and those high soprano notes were amazing.I felt chills up and down my spine at the endÂ….Congratulations on a job very well done!
Saturday, December 15th: our popular annual Family Christmas Carol Sing-along Concert
7:00 p.m., St. Mary the Virgin, Oak Bay
Special guests: Jeremy Bowes, bass
Christopher Fenje, trumpet
Tickets: $20 regular, $10 student, children 12 & under free
Saturday, June 8th, 2013: Vespers of 1610 - Monteverdi.
Rarely (or perhaps never) performed in its entirety in Victoria, this monumental and exquisite work displays the composer's mastery of Renaissance music plus all the new musical techniques of 1610. Soloists (TBA) and orchestra, featuring lutes, sackbuts and more!
8:00 p.m., St. Andrew's Cathedral