Featured Concerts
Halifax Camerata Singers’ Announces First Composer in Residence
Halifax Camerata Singers is thrilled to announce that composer Laura Hawley will be the choir’s first Composer-in-Residence for their 35th anniversary year (2021-22 season).
Camerata’s Artistic Director Jeff Joudrey said, “We’re so excited to kick off our 35th anniversary year by working with Laura. She is an up-and-coming star in the Canadian choral world, and we’ll premiere a major new work by her in the spring of 2022.…
Read MoreAeolian Singers Opens 45th Anniversary with Veritas: Seeking Truth, Sharing Wisdom
The Aeolian Singers under the direction of Heather Fraser, opens their 2020-21 season in a celebration of their 45th anniversary with a program of new music by three Canadian women composers. Commissioned with funding from Arts Nova Scotia, their ambitious Veritas: Seeking Truth, Sharing Wisdom program will be split across three different concerts, including a collaborative demonstration led by the composers, giving audience members a deeper connection to the new works. …
Read MoreTwilight Hour: Collected Stories for Piano – Jennifer King Releases New Recording
Twilight Hour: Collected Stories for Piano is the latest recording from Halifax pianist Jennifer King, a collection of twelve short piano works inspired by fairy tales. The album has an accompanying video by multimedia filmmaker Katrina Westin, which can be viewed on YouTube, Facebook or Instagram via @jenniferkingpiano. The recording features illustrations and design by Andrea Ledwell and was recorded at First Baptist Church in Halifax by sound engineer Rod Sneddon.…
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Aeolian Singers 2017-2018 Season Debuts New Artistic Director
(Halifax, NS) The Aeolian Singers (www.aeoliansingers.ca) have announced an exciting 2017-18 season under the new artistic leadership of rising Canadian choral conductor, Heather Fraser. With a focus on what it really means to “come from away,” and through folk, contemporary and classical music from the Maritimes, the rest of Canada and beyond, the season explores ideas surrounding home – the celebration of it, the journey we are all on to find it, and the part we can play in being a welcoming community.…
Read MoreAeolian Singers – Audition Now!
Are you a woman who loves to sing and perform with choral singing experience? The Aeolian Singers are holding auditions for committed choristers for the 2017-18 choral season, which begins at the end of August under the leadership of new Artistic Director, Heather Fraser.
Heather has an exciting season planned for the Aeolians, and you can learn more about the choir at www.aeoliansingers.ca…
Read MoreHalifax Explosion Commemorative Show Goes to Edmonton
The ECMA-nominated Halifax Camerata Singers (HCS) with special guests, Rhapsody Quintet and actor Jeremy Webb are taking Halifax 1917: From Dreams to Despair to the first Edmonton International Choral Festival, June 1-4, as invited guests of Pro Coro Canada. This original production commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion was first performed before sell-out audience at Halifax Central Library two months ago.…
Read MoreHalifax Camerata Singers Wins Music Nova Scotia Award
Halifax Camerata Singers, currently celebrating their 30th anniversary season, is proud to announce that they were the winners of Best Classical Recording at this year’s Music Nova Scotia Awards held last evening in Truro. Pictured just after accepting the award are Artistic Director and Founder, Jeff Joudrey, with Camerata Board Fundraising Chair, David McKillop.
The choir won for their 2015 release, A Time for All Things, recorded by Leaf Music’s Jeremy Van Slyke, and featuring guest artists, accompanist Lynette Wahlstrom, the Blue Engine String Quartet; Jennifer Jones, violin; Hilary Brown, cello and Jeff Reilly, bass clarinet. …
Leaf Music Signs with Naxos of America
To use an instrumental allegory, the business of Halifax-based classical label Leaf Music is about to expand from trio-sized to a chamber orchestra.
Earlier in September, the publisher of recordings by pianist Julien LeBlanc, Trio Arkaede, and the Saint John String Quartet entered a new worldwide partnership with one of the leading sources for classical music, Naxos of America, Inc.…
Read MoreHalifax Camerata Singers Celebrates its 30th Season
The award-winning Halifax Camerata Singers (HCS) celebrates its 30thanniversary year with a great season of concerts reflecting the choir’s connection with the larger artistic community in Nova Scotia and beyond. Founded by Artistic Director Jeff Joudrey in 1986, Halifax Camerata Singers has become one of Canada’s leading chamber choirs, winning the Healy Willan Grand Prize for Canadian choirs in 2010. …
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